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Susan Estrich: Oops! I Commented on the Wrong Mosque
The dog ate my homework.That's not much of an excuse but at least it is better than the one Susan Estrich came up with as to one of the reasons why she changed her mind on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy. Estrich claims she thought they were talking about another mosque when Fox News asked her to comment on the mosque controversy. What other mosque? Anybody even slightly knowledgeable about…
George Stephanopoulos Ignores Attack by Jennifer Aniston That O'Reilly
Jennifer Aniston appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America and slammed Bill O'Reilly for "insulting women." The actress, promoting "The Switch," her new film about being a single mother, complained about remarks by the Fox News host. Aniston derided, "[The comments were] also saying something – insulting women that are out there doing this on their own. I was raised by – my mother was single.…
Olbermann Backs Down From 'Over the Top' O'Reilly Parental Abuse Attac
Let it never again be said that no line of attack is too low for Keith Olbermann. On Tuesday, the MSNBC libtalker distanced himself from comments made the week prior about Fox News host Bill O'Reilly. Olbermann attributed O'Reilly's condemnation of comments about motherhood by actress Jennifer Aniston to the abuse O'Reilly supposedly took as a child.OIbermann didn't actually say what he was…
CNN Continues to Promote 'Islamophobia' Accusation From Time
CNN's T. J. Holmes brought back Time's Bobby Ghosh on Friday's Newsroom for more promotion of his "Islamophobia" cover story, and added two Muslim guests who largely agreed with his thesis that anti-Islamic sentiment was "coming into the mainstream," and how this was apparently a "reason for alarm." Holmes asked softball questions, and no one with an opposing viewpoint appeared during the segment…
Muslim Scholar on MSNBC: 'Vocal Minority' Spreading Fear, 'Demonize' I
During the 10 a.m. ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Chris Jansing spoke with Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf Hanson about the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, who proclaimed: "I think there's a lot of fear....there has been a concerted effort by a certain segment. It's a very small minority, but their powerful and vocal, to demonize the Muslim community." Yusuf was on to discuss his founding of…
Top Five Outrageous Outbursts by Liberal Journalists or Celebrities
Editor's Note: For the list of NewsBusters T-shirt contest winners, skip to the end of this post. All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Five for Five. In our final installment, we look at the Top Five Outrageous Outbursts by liberal media journalists and/or celebrities over the past five years. We start with an honorable mention we just couldn't let pass without notice: Ted…
In ‘Tillman Story,’ Anti-Bush Conspiracy Just Doesn’t Add Up
There are three important things going on in "The Tillman Story" (in selected theatres today), two of which almost make the conspiracy-mongering documentary worth your time. The first and best is the opportunity to get to know better the extraordinary and extraordinarily complicated and interesting Pat Tillman. In the best sense of the word, this was a fierce and fiercely passionate man - fierce…
WaPo Publishes Puffy 25-Paragraph Story: 'When It Comes to Praying, Ob
"When it comes to praying, Obama prefers privacy." Thus reads the page A2 headline for Michael Shear's August 20 Washington Post story that reads like an extended Obama White House campaign press release. Shear opens with a story about how Obama prayed with "three Christian pastors" over the phone as he flew to Chicago to celebrate his 49th birthday. "As he celebrated his birthday, he was in a…
Andrea Mitchell Wistfully Yearns for Ted Kennedy's Presence In Passing
On Friday's edition of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, Mitchell brought on the Boston Globe's Peter Canellos to pine for the widow of Ted Kennedy, Vicki, to challenge Republican Scott Brown for the Massachusetts Senate seat, as well as imagine how effective the liberal "lion" would be in championing health care and unemployment extension legislation if he were still around today. A wistful…
MoveOn.org Uses Hot-Button Issue to Gin Up Base Against Target
Liberal organization urges gay marriage proponents to boycott Target, motivate liberal voters to participate in Minnesota election.
Nearly Half of United States Considering Arizona-Style Immigration Leg
Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona's law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of that law - a ruling that is now being appealed. Next month, two Rhode Island state lawmakers, a…
Todd: 'Anthropological' Obama Didn't Mean To Demean With Bitter-Clinge
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not."And it’s not surprising then they get…