At Crunch Time, Charles 'Paulson Put a Gun to All Their Heads' Gaspari
Earlier today, NB's Lachlan Markey covered Bill O'Reilly's interview with the Fox Business Channel's Charles Gasparino.In that interview, Gasparino confirmed what the New York Post reported in April of last year, namely that "GE Execs Encouraged CNBC Staff to Go Easy on Obama."The suits at GE, including Chairman Jeff Inmelt, had a clear motivation for encouraging their reporters to lighten up,…
Ground Zero Mosque on Greg Gutfeld's Plan for Gay Islamic Bar: Respect
UPDATE - 6:45 pm: Greg Gutfeld discusses the bar on the Glenn Beck Show. Video below the fold. As we noted in this morning's Open Thread, Greg Gutfeld is planning on building the first gay bar catered to Muslim men next to the impending "Ground Zero Mosque."Gutfeld wrote at his blog, the Daily Gut, that he has "already spoken to a number of investors, who have pledged their support in this…
Ohio Dems Try to Revive Debunked Smear Against Hannity-backed Charity
The Democratic Party of Ohio has recycled a thoroughly debunked smear against Fox News host Sean Hannity and Freedom Alliance, a charity he works with regularly that raises money to educate the children of American servicemen. A release from the Ohio Dems claimed that Rep. John Kasich, Republican candidate for governor, "promote[d] Hannity's scandal-ridden 'Freedom Alliance' concerts that are…
New Black Panther Leader: Fox 'Jews' Stoking Voter Intimidation Anger
New Black Panther Party leader Samir Shabazz on Monday made an anti-Semitic remark while blaming the Fox News Channel for fanning the fires of discontent over his involvement in voter intimidation back in November 2008.As NewsBusters reported on Election Day that year, two Black Panthers were situated outside a polling station in Philadelphia (video right).This eventually led to complaints by the…
Variety Columnist Accuses FNC of Racial Motivations, Provides Zero Quo
Variety Magazine TV critic Brian Lowry - formerly a reporter for NPR and the Los Angeles Times - surely was not a member of JournoList. But he sure writes like he was. Lowry took a page directly out of the Spencer Ackerman Guide to Dubious Racism Accusations in his most recent column, claiming the Fox News Channel caters to racial fear and resentment to sell its brand.Lowry provided no examples…
Bret Baier Rebuts Rachel Maddow's Claim That Fox Tries To Scare White
Bret Baier on Thursday rebutted Rachel Maddow's claim to David Letterman that Fox News intentionally tries to show images of "scary black people" in order to frighten white folks into voting for conservatives.As NewsBusters previously reported, the MSNBC host was a guest of the CBS "Late Show" Tuesday, and made some pretty disgusting comments about a competing cable news network. Speaking with…
Rachel Maddow Edits 'Factor' Video to Make Bill O'Reilly Look Racist
Rachel Maddow on Friday highly-edited a video from the previous evening's "O'Reilly Factor" in order to make the Fox News host look racist.For some background, Bill O'Reilly wrote a syndicated column Friday in which he chastized Maddow and David Letterman for "without a shred of evidence" claiming on CBS's "Late Show" Tuesday that FNC intentionally runs stories about "scary black people" in order…
Newsday's Ellis Henican Compares Wikileaks to the Drudge Report
Newsday columnist and Fox News contributor Ellis Henican on Saturday compared the website known as Wikileaks to the popular news aggregator the Drudge Report.Discussing the recent leaks by this atrocious outlet on "Fox News Watch," Henican made the case that "most of us who work in the media will tell you honestly we live off of leaks. Give me more leaks," he said.Conservative political…
'Media Mash': Networks Celebrate Obama's Birthday, CBS's Smith Lobs So
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
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
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
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
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
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…
