NYT Hit Piece on Glenn Beck: Fox May Not Renew His Contract
March 6th, 2011 11:25 PM
It's certainly not surprising that the New York Times would publish a hit piece on Glenn Beck, but coming hours after CNN's Howard Kurtz spent almost ten minutes bashing the Fox News commentator makes me smell a rat.
Add to this the increased pressure Beck has come up against from MSNBC personalities since Keith Olbermann surprisingly left America's most liberal television news network in…
Palin Strikes Back at Kathy Griffin: 'Pick on Me But Leave My Kids Alo
March 6th, 2011 7:06 PM
Sarah Palin on Saturday struck back at the vulgarian comedienne that has been attacking her and her family for years.
Appearing on Fox's "Justice with Judge Jeanine," the former Alaska governor challenged Kathy Griffin, "Come up to Alaska and pick on me, but leave my kids alone" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Kurtz Bashes Beck for 10 Minutes, Spends 45 Seconds on Matthews Likeni
March 6th, 2011 1:26 PM
Howard Kurtz on Sunday spent a whopping 45 seconds scolding Chris Matthews for saying former House Speaker Newt Gingrich looks like a car bomber.
This was after the "Reliable Sources" host did an entire ten minute segment lambasting Glenn Beck (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Alan Colmes: Gov. Walker Exempted Police and Firefighters From Budget
March 5th, 2011 4:48 PM
It's approaching three weeks since the budget battle began in Wisconsin and Alan Colmes still doesn't understand some of the facts.
On Saturday's "Fox News Watch," the perilously liberal commentator claimed Gov. Scott Walker exempted policemen and firefighters from his budget repair bill as a payback for their support during last November's elections (video follows with transcript and…
Shep Sniffs At Scott Walker's 'So-Called' Reform
March 4th, 2011 7:52 PM
Shep Smith: putting the liberal balance into Fox News Channel's fair-and-balanced reporting . . .
On Fox Report this evening, Shep sneered at Gov. Walker's budget-repair bill, sniffing at it as "so-called" reform, sarcastically adding that as far as union members facing layoffs are concerned, "it's no repair to them."
Later, interviewing FNC's White House correspondent Mike Emanuel, a…
David Shuster, Fellow Lefties Let Fox Hatred Embarrass Them Once Again
March 4th, 2011 4:39 PM
The far-left Fox-haters are at it again. In just the past couple of days, we've seen multiple instances of leftist pundits dishonestly bashing the Fox News Channel in yet more attempts to slime the cable news channel.
The latest such attempts caught the attention of cable news blogger Johnny Dollar, who consistently documents the left's growing hatred of everything Fox.
The more notable…
March 3 'Media Mash': Media Celebrate Leftist Blogger, Runaway Wiscons
March 4th, 2011 11:15 AM
Leftist blogger Ian Murphy is "a liar who broke every rule of journalism," with his phone call to Gov. Scott Walker in which he pretended to be conservative donor David Koch, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told the audience of last night's "Hannity."
The Media Research Center founder was reacting to CNN having practically promoted Murphy's prank by awarding him the title "Most Intriguing…
Media Boycott of Wisconsin Assemblyman Telling Assemblywoman 'You Are
March 2nd, 2011 9:47 AM
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Laura Ingraham interviews Assemblywoman Litjens.
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, a Wisconsin Democrat Assemblyman vulgarly assaulted a Republican Assemblywoman last week disgracefully saying to her after a procedural on the state's budget, "You are f--king dead!"
Although the story was first broken by a Wisconsin radio station at 12:53 PM Monday, America's supposedly…
Fox Dominates (Again), Takes Top 11 Cable News Slots in February
March 1st, 2011 7:07 PM
The Fox News Channel absolutely dominated its cable news competition in February. In terms of overall viewers, the top 11 cable news shows were all on Fox. In the coveted 25-54 demographic - the group that advertisers pay particularly close attention to - Fox took 11 of the top 15 spots.
The Rachel Maddow Show earned the top spot for an MSNBC program. Despite her struggles with factual…
Pro-union Demonstrators Assault FNC's Mike Tobin, Attempt to Shout Dow
February 28th, 2011 6:24 PM
The campaign by pro-union demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin to silence Fox News and prevent it from reporting continued over the weekend. Protesters did their best to prevent FNC's Mike Tobin from reporting on the protests, all the while shouting - apparently oblivious to the irony - "Fox News lies!"
A few protesters even struck Tobin, though he later downplayed the assault, and said he had…
Maddow: Fox Isn't a News Channel - It's a 'McCarthyite Chamber of Horr
February 28th, 2011 10:34 AM
The presumptive face of the most biased and propagandist television news outlet in America had some harsh words for the media organization that bests hers in ratings virtually every hour of every day.
In a piece published by the Daily Beast Sunday, Rachel Maddow hypocritically told Howard Kurtz that Fox News has "become a McCarthyite chamber of horrors… You can't really call yourself a news…
Media Mash: Wis. Protest Edition; Bozell and Hannity Analyze Media's B
February 25th, 2011 10:53 AM
"It's like they have the same writer!" Fox News' Sean Hannity marveled after watching a montage of liberal journalists comparing the labor union protests in Madison, Wisconsin, with the anti-Mubarak demonstrations weeks ago in Cairo.
"Sean, this is really goofy. These reporters should be embarrassed," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell agreed on last night's "Hannity."
"If you want to find…
MSNBC’s Schultz Discovers FNC's Smith and Van Susteren are Not Conse
February 25th, 2011 9:23 AM
Twice this week on the Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz has paid attention to FNC’s Shepard Smith for not approaching the Wisconsin labor union controversy from the right, and also added in FNC’s Greta Van Susteren on Thursday. On Wednesday, the MSNBC host began his regular "Takedown" segment:
Tonight, in the "Takedown" segment, how about Shepard Smith? I’ll tell you what, he's bucking the…
TV Networks Give Scant Coverage to Democrat David Wu's Strange Antics
February 24th, 2011 1:58 PM
A sitting congressman admitted earlier this week to seeking psychiatric treatment after news broke that he had sent bizarre photos of himself in a tiger costume to staff members and taken prescription pain killers given to him by an unnamed campaign donor.
Seven of Oregon Democrat David Wu's staff members reportedly quit after the 2010 campaign due to his bizarre behavior. The second largest…