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Today's "NewsBusted" episode is our last of the year as the show staff are taking the final two weeks of the year off.Topics in today's year-ending show: Jesse Jackson Jr. accused of bribing to get Senate seat, Fox News reporter buys John McCain Blackberry, and Fran Drescher says she wants Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Click the play button in the orange box to your right to watch.

Rick Warren had a surprisingly candid response to Ann Curry's question as to whether he would change his views on homosexuality if it were established that people are born gay.  The pastor of the Saddleback Church, explaining why such a finding wouldn't cause him to change his position, observed that he is inclined to want to have sex with every beautiful woman he sees, but that that doesn't make…

**VIDEO below fold** CNN has a segment that they call "CNN Student News" that is supposed to highlight the news of the day for the kiddie set. Pursuant to that, in a December 15 segment, CNN floats a question asking if Michelle Obama (or any First Lady) should get a government salary just for being First Lady? But, what we really ended up with is a slight to those same students to whom CNN was…

For the second time since Election Day, CNN's Campbell Brown admonished president-elect Barack Obama for his poor press conference etiquette.During the "Cutting Through the Bull" segment of Wednesday's "No Bias, No Bull," Brown expressed  anger with Obama's treatment of a Chicago Tribune reporter the previous day saying it's "all the more surprising that you could act testy, annoyed, or…

Network's second meteorologist to challenge notion man can alter climate.

President Elect Barack Obama picked Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) as his Labor Secretary today. While groups like La Raza, N.O.W., and NARAL are likely to be pleased, Solis is also likely to please the liberal group Media Matters. In late May of this year, she teamed up with Media Matters to present a report ( titled "Fear and Loathing in Prime Time/Immigration Myths and Cable News") that said cable…

After her underwhelming—some might say disastrous—foray into my upstate New York neck of the woods, you might have expected Caroline Kennedy to put in a peppier performance when she returned to the friendly confines of New York City.But Kennedy's statement after her meeting with Al Sharpton today was as soporific as a fistful of Ambiens washed down with a slug of Stolichnaya.  How bad?  Enough…

On Thursday’s The View, co-host Joy Behar expressed her displeasure at President-Elect Barack Obama’s choice of Rick Warren for the invocation at his inauguration: “I don’t think it’s appropriate. It’s like putting, you know, Cheney in charge of gun control. It’s wrong....it’s just wrong.” The topic of Obama choosing Warren came up during the regular opening “Hot Topics” segment of the ABC…

On Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, host Bob Schieffer concluded the broadcast by sharing a recent political cartoon: "...a cartoon from the Houston Chronicle caught the flavor, a man standing in front of a burning building labeled the ‘Economy’ is shouting into a phone, ‘My house is on fire. How soon can you get here?’ A fireman who looks like Barack Obama answers, ‘January 20th.’" Schieffer…

Poor schlumps out there know how to get along with next to nothing.  But these were multi-millionaires that Bernard Madoff wiped out: show some sympathy!  That was The Donald's daffy drift in speaking to Wolf Blitzer on this afternoon's Situation Room on CNN.View video here.DONALD TRUMP: They put 100% of their money with this character, this sleazebag.  100% and they're wiped out. And you know,…

Op-ed makes it clear that even as companies 'die,' American capitalism survives and thrives.