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Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread
Sorry for the lateness. We were making merry.Here are the rules: suggested videos should be tasteful, unoffensive, and sent this evening to both Noel and Warner via PM or EM (nsheppard@newsbusters.org, igcolonel@hotmail.com). Please don't link videos in the comments section, for we want all content to be filtered.The phone lines are open!Our first two contributions come from the comedy website…
Huffington Post Stealing Others' Writing
The humor site The Onion, the offbeat weekly The Chicago Reader, and Time Out Chicago have discovered that some of their articles have appeared in total on Arianna Huffington's mega web outlet The Huffington Post. And they are none too happy about the wholesale lifting of their material, either.
Wired.com has the full story about the Huffington Post's unwelcome lifting saying that Huffington…
Pro-Lifers Upset With Rick Warren Over Obama Invocation
There has been a wealth of media coverage regarding liberal outrage over Obama picking Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. However, the MSM has predictably ignored the other side of the story. Many Pro-life activists are upset with Rick Warren for accepting Obama's invitation.David Brody of CBN News reports on this:Liberals and gay activists aren’t happy with Barack Obama for…
Lib Radio Host: Record Snows and Cold Caused By Global Warming
The liberal mind never ceases to amaze me.Our nation is experiencing record snows and cold spells, and Air America host Thom Hartmann actually told his audience Friday:What we are seeing in this cold, that has me trapped in my house here today, is that, what we are seeing is a symptom of global warming. But you wouldn't know that from the crazies on the right.Speaking of lunacy, Hartmann was so…
Error on WaPo Front Page, Top Left: Obama's 'Team of Moderates
The top-left corner of the Saturday Washington Post carried the decidedly inaccurate headline "For Obama Cabinet, A Team of Moderates." Reporter Alec MacGillis asserted that Obama finished assembling "a team full of outsize personalities with overlapping jurisdictions and nominees who are known more for pragmatism than for strong leanings on the issues they will oversee." Hillary Clinton and Tom…
Was Harry Smith Hitting On Jennifer Aniston
The suddenly all over the newstands Jennifer Aniston -- not that there's anything wrong with that! -- was Harry Smith's guest on Friday's "Early Show," and the CBS host seemed to have a hard time hiding the little crush he has on the former "Friends" star.In fact, the 57-year-old Smith seemed to be hitting on the 39-year-old Aniston.Not that there's anything wrong with that (video embedded below…
BDS Media Meme Destroyed: Weak Dollar Doesn't Mean Higher Oil
As oil and gasoline prices rose throughout much of this decade, a popular media meme was that a lower dollar was largely to blame.By making this dubious connection, press outlets could point fingers at Bush economic policies thereby distracting the public from the reality that decades of liberal environmental constraints on oil exploration and refinery construction led to an inevitable and…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Jerry Brown wants California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8: State Attorney General Jerry Brown, in a surprise turnabout, asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to overturn Proposition 8, saying the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violates basic rights guaranteed in the state Constitution...[I]n a lengthy filing…
Weekend Captionfest II
Joe Biden and John Kerry talk before a special convocation ceremony to confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Ted Kennedy at Harvard University, December 1, 2008. Photo Reuters/Brian Snyder.
Angry New England Liberal Rags Start 'Take Back Barack' Campaign
Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer reports that New England liberals in the Phoenix chain of "alternative" newspapers are launching a "Take Back Barack" campaign (complete with ahem, a white hand holding a little black Obama doll. Where’s the PC police?) Boston-based Maloney adds: "Considering how vehemently these publications supported the former Illinois senator, this represents an abrupt turn of…
Name That Party: MA Speaker's 'Pal' Indicted
Associated Press writer Glen Johnson's story on the indictment of a close friend of Salvatore DiMasi, Massachusetts's Democratic Speaker of the House, is the latest in a long line of fairly long stories about Democratic politicians in trouble that fails to identify their party affiliation.The story names a half-dozen politicians, all of whom are Democrats, without identifying the party of any of…
