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Conservative Basher Charles Barkley on DUI Arrest: All I Really Wanted
When last seen in NewsBusters, former NBA star Charles Barkley was in the midst of a conservative bashing spree as you can see here smearing Fox News with this quote:“I watch CNN, they’re not f***ed up like Fox,” Barkley told B&C. “They are a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. I watch [Fox] a couple times when there is someone I want to see on there. But they’re corrupt."This was on the…
Kathy Griffin Abuses Heckler With Oral Sex Reference On CNN
When CNN asked liberal comedienne Kathy Griffin to participate in Anderson Cooper's New Years Eve show, it seemed a metaphysical certitude something really disgraceful would occur.Griffin didn't disappoint when she shouted a truly tasteless oral sex reference at a member of the freezing crowd.Before a commercial break, Griffin was being heckled by some Times Square revelers, and was caught by an…
NASA's Hansen to Obama: Use Global Warming to Redistribute Wealth
Climate realists around the world have contended for years that the real goal of alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his followers is to use the fear of man-made global warming to redistribute wealth.On Monday, one of Gore's leading scientific resources, Goddard Institute for Space Studies chief James Hansen, sent a letter to Barack and Michelle Obama specifically urging the president-…
Radio Host Ed Schultz's Theory for Conflict in Gaza: Fought to Get Oba
OK, so Barack Obama isn't really the political Messiah of critics' caricature, despite the fervor of his supplicants. But according to liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz, Obama qualifies for the less lofty but still impressive description of Hub of the World.Schultz offers an unlikely theory for the renewed fighting in Gaza, one more revealing of the person suggesting it than the subject at…
Global Warming? New Year Ushers in New Snowfall Records
As soon as your humble correspondent flipped on the TV set this New Year morning, he heard an MSNBC report about record levels of snowfall that just hit the Pacific Northwest. Checking around the web, it turns out that other parts of the country were also hit with record levels of snowfall. Here are a few of the reports starting with this one in the Green Bay Press Gazette (emphasis mine):…
Happy New Year! Open Thread
Happy New Year from NewsBusters. Before we look ahead to the new Congress next week or the new president in about 20 days, what about tonight's festivities on TV? Were you sickened by the Clintons pretending to be all schmaltzy and dancing? Did anyone look better than Fox's Megyn Kelly? Did you see any media bias on the networks? Do tell...
CBS’s Reid: Will Country Be ‘Better Off’ With ‘Progressive Gov
On Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, fill-in host Chip Reid discussed the economic crisis with left-wing economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, wondering: "I know you've been arguing for a more progressive government for a long time and obviously at difficult times like this, I don't want to suggest that a recession is a good thing. But if looking back at this five years, or some…
Balance AWOL in WaPo, MSNBC Coverage of Atheists’ Inauguration Suit
Well-known atheist Michael Newdow is old news. Few mainstream media outlets are covering the suit he filed Dec. 30 in U.S. District Court to strip prayer and any mention of God from the inaugural ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama. Of those that are reporting on the suit, however, the Washington Post and MSNBC gave Newdow and his fellow litigants a largely unchallenged platform to argue…
The Associated Press Chronicles 'Guerrilla Warrior' Castro's 'Push to
Associated Press writer Will Weissert apparently thought that the Communist government in Cuba wasn't doing a good enough job of white washing and glorifying Fidel Castro's legacy and decided to try his hand at it. Thus he wrote a little piece describing the humble hut that Castro used as a head quarters during his Communist rebellion:Before he was Cuba's unchallenged "Maximum Leader," Fidel…