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MSNBC’s Wolffe Repeats Debunked Newsweek Claim of Koran Flushed Down
Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe – formerly of Newsweek – referred to the debunked story that was retracted by Newsweek in May 2005 which had incorrectly claimed that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Koran down a toilet to intimidate Muslim prisoners. But Wolffe did not inform viewers that the story was untrue as he…
September 13th, 2010 3:20 AM
FNC’s Colmes Claims ‘Very Similar Reaction’ from Christians to M
On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, after host Jon Scott displayed a political cartoon that depicted the aggressive overreaction of many Muslims to Pastor Terry Jones’s threat to burn a Koran on September 11, liberal FNC analyst Alan Colmes suggested that a "very similar reaction" from Christians would result if a Muslim announced the intent to burn a Bible. Despite the reported riots and death in…
September 13th, 2010 1:40 AM
Jon Voight Slams Time Magazine as Anti-Semitic for Its ‘Why Israel D
Appearing as a guest on Saturday’s Huckabee show on FNC, actor Jon Voight condemned Time magazine for the cover on its September 13 issue which provocatively displays the words "Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace" in the middle of a Star of David made from daisies. Voight charged that there must be anti-Semitism at Time magazine if such a cover could be devised. Voight:Listen, if Israel falls we…
September 13th, 2010 12:26 AM
Dan Rather Smacks Down Entire Matthews Panel Over Media Hyping Koran B
Dan Rather this weekend smacked down the entire panel of the syndicated "Chris Matthews Show" over the press hyping Pastor Terry Jones's threats to burn Korans on the ninth anniversary of 9/11."Media in general bear some responsibility here by running so hard with this story so early and putting such comments as you just said not only on the air, but high on the air, giving it play," Rather said.…
September 12th, 2010 11:34 PM
Mark Shields: Obama Created More Jobs In 2010 Than Bush Did In Eight Y
Mark Shields on Friday demonstrated just how far a liberal media member is willing to go to support President Obama and the Democrat Party.Appearing on PBS's "Inside Washington," Shields actually made the case that despite a 9.6 percent unemployment rate, and growing fears of a double dip recession, Americans should be uplifted by the fact that more private sector jobs have been created this year…
September 12th, 2010 10:28 PM
GLAAD Gets CNN Poll Spiked, Finds It 'Troubling' That an Opponent from
The gay left hates debate – especially the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. They're furious that CNN Headline News offered balance and came to the Media Research Center's Culture and Media Institute for a negative opinion on homosexuality. That's apparently beyond the pale.Mediaite reported that GLAAD succeeded in pressuring CNN into spiking an online poll that asked the question “Is…
September 12th, 2010 6:08 PM
Conservative Funders Furious Over New Yorker Hit Piece
Conservative businessman David Koch told Elaine Lafferty of The Daily Beast that a recent hit piece in The New Yorker has him steaming. “It's hateful. It's ludicrous. And it's plain wrong.” The object of his ire is a 9,963 word story in The New Yorker magazine, published last week which accuses David, his brother Charles, and Koch Industries of…well, just about everything: Secretly funding the…
September 12th, 2010 5:22 PM
Bob Schieffer Bashes Boehner for Smoking and Taking Tobacco Money
CBS's Bob Schieffer made it crystal clear Sunday that he is going to do his part to prevent House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Oh.) from replacing Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker this January.In a hard-hitting interview about a variety of subjects on "Face the Nation," Schieffer actually hammered his guest for smoking cigarettes and taking campaign contributions from the tobacco industry."…
September 12th, 2010 4:49 PM
Amanpour Uses ABC’s This Week to Continue Her Crusade to Smear Ameri
ABC’s Christiane Amanpour used Sunday’s This Week to again shame Americans for their presumed irrational intolerance and Islamophobia as she railed against the ignorance of too many Americans, provided a friendly forum to Iman Faisal Abdul Rauf, whom she prompted to ridicule Sarah Palin, and then brought aboard a group of three “leading thinkers on faith” to “discuss religious tolerance and…
September 12th, 2010 4:00 PM
George Will Helps Arianna Huffington Make a Fool of Herself on This We
As NewsBusters has previously reported, liberal Internet publisher Arianna Huffington is breathtakingly ignorant when it comes to basic economic theory.On Sunday, she proved it again by making an absolute fool of herself on ABC's "This Week." With the "Roundtable" segment beginning on the subject of the economy, Huffington noted how the failure of the banking bailout to stimulate growth was "…
September 12th, 2010 1:53 PM
Chris Matthews Panel Sees Name ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ as ‘Net Pl
On Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews Show, after host Matthews asked if electing a President whose middle name was "Hussein" had "opened a door to better relations with the Arab and Islamic world. Or has it opened a door to more xenophobic American negativity?" the panel mostly agreed that Obama’s election was more of a "net plus" for America’s relations with the world's Muslim population. The…
September 12th, 2010 11:33 AM
Obama Press Secretary Gibbs Uses Twitter to Push NYT Hit Piece About B
The midterm election campaign is now in full swing, and with Democrats looking at historic losses in Congress, the folks at the New York Times did their job by publishing a front page hit piece on House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Oh.) Sunday:He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation's biggest businesses, including Goldman…
September 12th, 2010 11:31 AM
NYT Tees Up DNC Talking Points With Ethically Questionable Piece on Bo
The New York Times's lobbyist double standard lives on. Since Barack Obama became president, the paper has routinely overlooked the vast disconnect between his rhetoric on lobbying's role on the political process - there really isn't one, if you believe Barack - and his actions on the issue.But while the Gray Lady all but ignores Obama's deep ties with lobbyists and the industry groups they…
September 12th, 2010 11:27 AM