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How Mainstream is Porn? Just Ask Body Art Barbie
A little girls' icon gets ink. Can 'Pole Dance Barbie' be far behind?
Matthews Squish of the Week, Frum, Agrees Rush Has ‘Race Problems
Perhaps David Frum is jealous of all the media adoration Kathleen Parker now receives. Knowing he would be challenged on other media outlets, as he was previously on Mark Levin’s radio show, Frum appeared with MSNBC's Chris Matthews tonight. He talked about his recent column in Newsweek titled on the magazine's cover as "A Conservative's Case Against Rush Limbaugh." Appearing on Hardball to…
CBS's Stem Cell Expert: Doctor Who Yearned to Shape Obama's Health Pol
Four days after Sanjay Gupta, in the wake of Tom Daschle's withdrawal as HHS Secretary-designate, decided to turn down the Obama administration's offer to become Surgeon General, CBS went to the CNN medical correspondent for expert analysis on the benefits of Obama's decision to allow federal funding of research on embryonic stem cells. (Monday afternoon following Obama's announcement, CNN…
The Audacity of Truth
You come to NewsBusters for the reporting the American Media just won't do, to hold truth to power, and to point out when they look the other way as their ideological leader does things like give an easy button to Russia, or claims that cars were invented by Americans, while getting economic advice from someone who can't actually make money. And in hindsight, I almost have to admire Bill Clinton…
Matthews: Limbaugh Like a Bond Villain, a 'Human Vat of Vitriol
Over the weekend, Chris Matthews compared Rush Limbaugh to a James Bond villain and claimed the radio talk show host was a "human vat of vitriol. He relishes the attention and he sells anger as a weapon." Before playing a clip from "You Only Live Twice," in which a Bond nemesis drops a victim into a piranha tank, Matthews, on his syndicated "The Chris Matthews Show," offered up the following…
ABC Features Gayle King to Sing About, Tout 'Great Ideas' of First Lad
O Magazine editor Gayle King appeared on Monday's "Good Morning America" to rave about the "un-jaded," "not-complicated" and "so-darned normal" Obama family. The close associate of Oprah Winfrey talked with Diane Sawyer and repeatedly enthused about a Winfrey interview (see picture at right) with Mrs. Obama, at one point cooing that the first lady "only wants to be Michelle Obama, really. And…
ABC Champions President Obama's Embryo-Destroying Stem Cell Decision
Correspondent Lisa Stark’s report on ABC’s World News on Sunday almost completely slanted in favor of President Obama’s decision to overturn the ban on federal funding of stem cell research which destroys human embryos. Stark minimized the controversial nature of the research, devoting only one sound bite out of four to a critic of the president’s move.Anchor Dan Harris introduced Stark’s report…
Pile of National Media Stars Turn Up for Ted Kennedy's D.C. Birthday T
Many liberal media outlets have reported the Kennedy Center birthday party Sunday night for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Few have mentioned the media turnout. Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, the former Executive Washington Editor of the Wall Street Journal, joined Caroline Kennedy in awarding Sen. Kennedy the Kennedy Library’s "Profile in Courage" Award. Frank Mankiewicz, the former president of National…
Dear NY Times: Savings Creates Efficiencies
Both Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman Are Wrong About Oversaving
NBC Ups the Ante on Economic Woe, Profiles Sacramento 'Shanty Town
Chris Jansing continues media's Great Depression theme with images of 1930s and today.
MSNBC Attacks Limbaugh Again: 'Is Rush Toxic for GOP
MSNBC host David Shuster continued his dogged pursuit of Rush Limbaugh on Monday, hosting a segment with an onscreen graphic that screamed, "Is Rush Toxic for GOP?" After discussing a birthday celebration in honor of Senator Ted Kennedy, Shuster asserted, "About the only thing that might have put a damper on Kennedy's celebration were some jarring comments from conservative heavyweight Rush…
The AP Channels the Democrats in the Limbaugh-Kennedy ‘Scandal
***TWO UPDATES, including the response from AP's Ron Fournier, at the end of this post.***Friday evening the Associated Press (AP) issued an un-bylined story which was nothing more than a stenographic reprint of the latest dishonest Democratic attack on talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. The Friday story apparently reflected zero research into the charge levied by Brian Wolff, executive…