'Media Mash': Networks Celebrate Obama's Birthday, CBS's Smith Lobs So
August 6th, 2010 11:59 AM
After watching a highlight reel of network news reporters lamenting how President Obama was spending his 49th birthday alone and that the office is discernibly graying his hair, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News viewers last night that the same media outlets ignored how, the day before Obama's birthday, "The voters of Missouri absolutely crushed, clobbered, masaquered his ObamaCare…
Beck and O'Reilly Strike Back At Stephen King: We Should Go Visit Him
August 6th, 2010 10:46 AM
Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly on Thursday had some fun at author Stephen King's expense.As NewsBusters reported Monday, King in an Entertainment Weekly column called Beck "crazy" and a "nutcase."When O'Reilly asked his guest if he knew who King was, Beck marvelously responded, "He's the guy that usually when I release my books at the same time, he's No. 2."After the "O'Reilly Factor" host read the…
CNN's Rick Sanchez: Obsessed With Fox News, Beck, and Limbaugh
August 5th, 2010 10:28 PM
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez revisited his vendetta against Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh on Thursday's Rick's List. Sanchez brought on outgoing Representative Bob Inglis, who lost a primary challenge to a Tea Party-backed Republican candidate, and when he harped about "flamethrowers" on TV and radio, the anchor pressed him on whether he meant the two radio hosts and his network's competitor…
Apparently Keith Olbermann Is a Fan of NB Publisher Brent Bozell
August 5th, 2010 12:40 PM
Lefty blogs have been having a field day with a tweet that showed up on Glenn Beck's "favorites" list - a list of tweets bookmarked, in a sense, by the user - directing followers to a white supremacist message board.Keith Olbermann picked up on the line of attack last night, crediting a website called "Stop Beck," which he says noticed the tweet. Stop Beck came as close to stating that Beck was…
Maddow Tells Letterman 'Scaring White People Is Good Politics' For Con
August 4th, 2010 7:18 PM
Rachel Maddow on Tuesday told David Letterman that scaring white people is good politics for conservatives.After the host of CBS's "Late Show" asked his perilously biased guest about the Andrew Breitbart-Shirley Sherrod affair, the MSNBCer predictably pointed her accusatory finger at Fox News and everybody on the right. "The idea is you sort of rile up the white base to be afraid of an other, to…
O'Reilly Calls Sanchez a Pinhead for Suggesting Fox Isn't a News Organ
August 4th, 2010 11:22 AM
Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday called CNN's addle-minded host Rick Sanchez a "pinhead" for once again suggesting that Fox isn't a real news organization.As NewsBusters reported Monday, Sanchez on the program bearing his name took issue with the announcement that FNC had won a coveted front row seat in the White House briefing room."Well, I understand the Associated Press," said Sanchez. "I even…
Sharron Angle’s Media Strategy a Lot Like Democratic Media Strategy
August 3rd, 2010 9:01 AM
Carl Cameron thinks Sharron Angle is naive. I think Sharron Angle thinks like a Democrat: Expect good media coverage, tell the media what you want to talk about, and by golly! expect friendly coverage! Elizabeth Crum, of the National Review Online, reports from Las Vegas the exchange between Carl Cameron and Nevada Senate hopeful Sharron Angle (she’d be replacing Harry Reid): Angle: “We needed…
O'Reilly on Fox's Front Row Seat: He, Beck and Hannity Might All Sit T
August 3rd, 2010 1:33 AM
Bill O'Reilly was certainly pleased with the announcement that Fox News has won a coveted seat position in the White House briefing room.On Monday's "O'Reilly Factor," the host told guests James Rosen of FNC and Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times that he "might be able to sneak down in there" and "sit in the front row." O'Reilly continued with a devilish grin on his face, "Believe me when I tell…
'Media Mash': Bozell and Hannity Address MRC Study on Anti-Arizona Bia
August 2nd, 2010 1:20 PM
"You're talking about brainwashing, when by a 10-to-1 margin, they [the broadcast media] attack Arizona," Media Research Center (MRC) founder Brent Bozell told Sean Hannity on the "Media Mash" segment on the July 30 "Hannity" program. The NewsBusters publisher was commenting on an MRC study that found in a 3-month survey [April 23 - July 25] of the three broacast networks, that of 120 stories…
Unrepentant Weiner: People at Fox News 'Make Millions Acting Angry Whe
August 2nd, 2010 8:43 AM
Of all networks to go on to accuse Fox News hosts of faux anger, Anthony Weiner chose MSNBC. You know, MSNBC--home to Ed Schultz, who into his mid-40s was a Republican, and who described himself as a "fresh conservative voice" in seeking a GOP congressional nomination. MSNBC. Keith Olbermann's hang-out, the man whose stagey histrionics have made him a laughingstock even at his sister network'…
David Zurawik Makes Fools Out Of Chip Reid and Frank Sesno on Reliable
August 1st, 2010 6:55 PM
The Baltimore Sun's David Zurawik on Sunday made fools out of CBS White House Correspondent Chip Reid and former CNNer Frank Sesno.Ironically, this happened during a "Reliable Sources" segment on CNN dealing with today's "Poisonous Press."With host Howard Kurtz leading a discussion about how news outlets today are spending a great deal of time bashing each other, the conversation predictably led…
JournoList: Pinkerton Challenges WaPo To Answer Bozell Questions
August 1st, 2010 8:21 AM
On this weekend's Fox News Watch, panelist Jim Pinkerton proposed a simple way to clear up much of the murk surrounding JournoList. Let the Washington Post respond to the 20 questions about the matter that MRC head Brent Bozell has posed to the Post's executive editor, Marcus Brauchli, in an open letter.JournoList was created by lefty blogger Ezra Klein in 2007, who continued to run it after…
Only Fox News Hits Gibbs With Questions on Possible Plans to Bypass Co
July 30th, 2010 12:57 PM
Robert Gibbs on Friday appeared on all three network morning shows, as well as Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, but only FNC quizzed the White House press secretary about whether the White House would try and force immigration reform without Congress. Co-host Steve Doocy challenged, "There are some memos circulating...up on Capitol Hill, and probably at the White House as well, about how the…
Shirley Sherrod to Sue Andrew Breitbart; Brent Bozell Reacts
July 29th, 2010 12:57 PM
Managing Editor's Note: What follows is a statement from NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell regarding Shirley Sherrod's announcement that she will sue conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart.Andrew Breitbart is going to be fine. He's done nothing wrong. I wonder if Ms. Sherrod, who is such a champion of transparency, will publicly disclose who is putting her up to this. And I also hope this…