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Former NYT Bureau Chief: I Won't Pay Taxes If U.S. Battles Iran
Considering how many hyperventilating media leftists broke their promises to leave the country if George W. Bush won reelection in 2004, I'm not exactly holding out hope we'll see the IRS arrest former New York Times bigwig Chris Hedges (file photo at right) anytime soon.Hedges, if you recall, was the paper's former Middle Eastern bureau chief who became more famous (infamous rather) for his…
Philadelphia Bulletin on MRC Book: Bozell and Limbaugh are Right
In the Philadelphia Bulletin, long-time Philly TV consumer reporter Herb Denenberg reviewed our book Whitewash, and easily found how its thesis of paving Hillary's path to the presdiency applied to the here and now. Hillary Clinton is being favored by the liberals at CNN during the current campaign: I happened to be reading the book when the CNN debate with the Democrat presidential candidates…
Glamour's Liberal 'Women of the Year
Nearing the end of 2007 can only mean one thing: it’s time for lists. The Most Inspirational, The Sexiest, and The Most Fascinating. Lists of Fill-In-The-Blank People of the Year are starting to hit airwaves and newsstands. Glamour magazine is out of the gate with its “Women of the Year” profiles featured in the December issue. It’s not a surprise that not one strong conservative woman is…
St. Patrick's, Catholics Getting Raw Deal In 'Sweatshop' Claim
The New York Times reports that the man behind the claim that crosses and crucifixes are made under "horrific sweatshop conditions" in China admits that his information is "sketchy" and "anecdotal." Charles Kernaghan is the head of the National Labor Committee (NLC), a well-known organization that has challenged the working conditions under which companies like GAP have manufactured their clothes…
Joe and Valerie Wilson Think They’re Not Getting Enough Press
This might actually be the most absurd thing I've seen in months. On Thanksgiving Day, Joe and Valerie Plame Wilson, the couple that likely has gotten more media attention in the past few years than any in America besides the Clintons and Brangelina, actually took the time to write an article whining about the press not going gaga enough about recent revelations from Scott McClellan's not yet…
Robert Redford Bashes Al Gore as Greedy Opportunist
As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore's climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the world wonder when the former vice president's house of cards will collapse. Without question, if Gore were to lose the support of almost universally adoring Hollywoodans, the scam would…
Gore’s Inconvenient Tax Hypocrisy
As NewsBusters has been reporting, Nobel Laureate Al Gore's recent employment by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm puts him in a fabulous position to turn his estimated $100 million net worth into billions. Upon further examination of the particulars, Gore's fortunes might rest on the defeat of tax law changes currently proposed by Democrats. Maybe more delicious, as a former congressman…
LAT Does Not Identify 'The Man'; Can You
How about a fun one for Thanksgiving?Yesterday's Los Angeles Times (Wed. 11/22/07) published this photo to accompany a story about the writers' strike. But the Times did not identify the central figure in the photo. Do you know who it is? If you've been a regular reader of NewsBusters, you should know!
Premature Emasculation: McClellan Doesn’t Believe Bush Lied
In the past couple of days, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting an hysterical press report concerning an excerpt of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's soon to be released book seemingly implicating President George W. Bush in lying about the Valerie Plame Wilson affair. Those guilty of premature emasculation will likely be distraught over statements by the book's…
NewsBusted Thanksgiving All-Hillary Edition
It's Thanksgiving, a time when we get together with friends and family to celebrate and be thankful for the many things we enjoy.With that in mind as well as to celebrate the successful launch of MRC's new book Whitewash, we're presenting a special "NewsBusted" episode dedicated to making fun of the media's favorite politician, Hillary Clinton. We're grateful it's still legal to do so!Click the "…
Rosie O’Donnell Calls President Bush a War Criminal
After hearing Rosie O'Donnell's most recent despicable rant about the President, MSNBC should consider reopening discussions with the outspoken comedienne to get her on the cable network following Keith Olbermann's "Countdown."In fact, it seems a slam dunk! Consider comments O'Donnell made Monday at the 10th annual fundraiser for her charitable For All Kids Foundation. As reported by Fox…