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Rabbi Recalls His Shock at the Helen Thomas Answer
Rabbi David Nesenoff, the rabbi who stumbled into Helen Thomas's rant that Jews should "get the Hell out of Palestine," recalled his thoughts in Sunday's Washington Post: The gentle give and take has now been broadcast, transcribed and thoroughly dissected. However, a strict transcription misses the accuracy of the audiovisual. Only in the director's cut, the video, are the nonwords, the sound,…
Daily Show's Samantha Bee: Mocking Catholics 'Joyful for Me, Pure Plea
This is a little old, but it fits a pattern: Comedy Central's hostility to Christianity (and Catholics in particular). Daily Show joke-correspondent Samantha Bee was interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross on June 2, as she and Gross giggled over The Daily Show's pro-abortion joke at the last GOP convention, what Gross said was "interviewing people, trying to get them to say the word '…
Her Sinister Minister: Lesbian Country Singer Chely Wright Says Sister
Newly declared lesbian country singer Chely Wright, so supportively interviewed by NBC a few weeks back, performed at Washington's Capital Pride Festival last weekend. In an interview in the D.C. gay magazine Metro Weekly, Wright claimed her sister's minister equated gays with murderers: Here's one of the most disturbing things that happened. My sister and I are very, very close, and she lives…
Humorous Flashback: Hitchens Gives the Finger to Maher's Audience for
With author Christopher Hitchens out promoting his new book, ‘Hitch 22: A Memoir,’ I was reminded of four summers ago when the British-born foreign policy hawk gave the finger to Bill Maher’s audience for derisively applauding put-downs of then-President George W. Bush’s approach to Iran. From an August 26, 2006 NewsBusters posting:Writer/author Christopher Hitchens on Friday night gave the…
Still a Shill Baby: 'Fake President' Maddow Whitewashes Obama's Refusa
Imagine waking from a years-long coma this past Wednesday evening, with a television in the room tuned to MSNBC. You slowly open your eyes and see ... President Rachel Maddow speaking from the Oval Office.Whereupon you lapse back into a coma.Actually, it was "Fake President" Maddow, as she called herself, delivering a mock speech on the BP spill she wished Obama had given the night before.Among…
'End of The Day' For Sestak
Someone—please!!—buy the man another stock phrase . . . Teasing his upcoming interview with Joe Sestak on last evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews admitted that Democrats are worried that Dem PA senatorial candidate Joe Sestak isn't "ready for prime time."When Sestak later appeared, he demonstrated just why Dems are distraught. The leaden, formulaic Sestak used the trite "at the end of the day"…
The Real Detroit Three Stories in JD Power’s Latest Initial Quality
When it comes to the performance of the U.S.-headquartered Detroit automakers once known as the Big Three, the real news in the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Initial Quality Study (IQS) is not what the Associated Press's Stephen Manning wrote in his Thursday coverage ("US cars top foreign brands on quality survey") of Power's pronouncement. While barely true and in a sense historic, it's not…
Media Outraged BP CEO At Yacht Race Saturday, Don't Care Obama Golfed
Saturday demonstrated a staggering disparity in how media view those involved in the Gulf Coast oil spill cleanup.While news outlets heaped scorn upon beleaguered BP CEO Tony Hayward for attending a yacht race in England Saturday, there was no such anger shown towards President Obama and Vice President Biden for going golfing.In fact, as this Reuters piece illustrated, despite what our Commander-…
CNN Pits Eliot Spitzer Against 'Conservative' Kathleen Parker In New
With all the conservative columnists out there, if you were looking for an author to represent the right-wing view in a new Crossfire-like program, would you choose Kathleen Parker who lately has largely presented herself as a Republican In Name Only? According to the New York Post, that's exactly what CNN is considering.Not only that, but her liberal opponent is rumored to be -- wait for it! --…
Chris Matthews Ends Show by Hinting Palin, Limbaugh Could Lead to New
Anyone wishing to sum up the point of the Chris Matthews MSNBC special "Rise of the New Right" should just consider the closing commentary: Throughout our history, we have disagreed passionately over the role of the federal government and of our country`s role in the world, but we are generally a pragmatic people, not given to ideological extremes. What`s scary today is the language being thrown…
Magazine Photoshops Vulgar Acronym On Lance Armstrong's Shirt For Cove
The most-recent cover of "Outside" magazine features a picture of famed cyclist Lance Armstrong wearing a t-shirt with the phrase "38. BFD." Photoshopped on it.Although the magazine did note on the cover the shirt wasn't Armstrong's -- albeit in print so small most likely won't see it! -- the seven-time Tour de France winner is not pleased, and voiced his objection to his Twitter followers…