Fox News Host Beck Slams Connecticut AG: 'You are an Insult to George

March 30th, 2009 8:35 PM
Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck has already shown he's a rating success and is leaving a mark in cable news. However, he may have pulled one of his most successful performances yet. Beck interviewed Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on his March 30 broadcast. But, the radio and TV host took the opportunity to tell Blumenthal what he thought of his investigation into the bonuses…

Greta Responds to Politico: 'I Have Never Given Gov. Palin Advice

March 29th, 2009 9:50 PM
Greta Van Susteren is clearly sick and tired of people accusing her of advising Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.She's also fed up with what she referred to Sunday as a "hit and run":This is why I hate “sources” and where journalism can be grossly unfair — in the law you have to step up on the witness stand and identify yourself and take an oath to tell the truth.According to Van Susteren, that's not what…

Olbermann Promotes Liberal Group's Attack On Bill O'Reilly

March 28th, 2009 8:19 PM
UPDATE at end of post: ATT and Ford complain about attack campaign!In today's Tonya Harding Moment, just a week after complaining about Brit Hume's admission that he often used Media Research Center material when prepping for "Special Report" broadcasts, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann actually promoted an anti-Bill O'Reilly campaign started by the George Soros-funded ultra-liberal group ThinkProgress.It…

'Nightline' Excludes Christian Scholars from Debate on the Devil

March 27th, 2009 4:33 PM
ABC explored the existence of Satan during the March 26 "Nightline" but stacked the deck in favor of those who do not believe the devil exists.Harris invited internationally known, and in some circles, renowned, New Age guru Deepak Chopra to argue that Satan does not exist. Bishop Carlton Pearson, hailed as a "former fundamentalist preacher who says he used to cast demons out his followers,"…

FNC's Morris Contends Obama Wants Bank Package to Fail

March 26th, 2009 10:42 AM
It is one thing - as Rush Limbaugh has been vilified for - to say you have a desire for the president to fail, but what about accusing the president of wanting his own policies to fail? That's what Fox News Channel's Dick Morris said on the March 25 broadcast of "Your World with Neil Cavuto." According to Morris, those who are criticizing Obama for his spending, including Daniel Hannan, who…

Levin Declares 'No Constitutional Authority' for Expanded Obama Admini

March 25th, 2009 9:30 PM
Has the federal government exceeded, or is it on the verge of exceeding its constitutional authority with the recent series of events connected to rescuing an ailing banking system? Although Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was ridiculed for raising that question in a congressional hearing on March 24, conservative talk show host, constitutional lawyer and legal commentator Mark Levin, told Fox…

O'Reilly: Most Everybody At MSNBC Would Be Dead If Cheney Really Had S

March 22nd, 2009 12:18 PM
Fox New's Bill O'Reilly has a fabulous response to Seymour Hersh's most-recent conspiracy theory about former Vice President Dick Cheney having an executive assassination squad responsible for covertly wiping out America's enemies: If Cheney really had such a crew, Hersh would have been dead a long time ago, and so would most everybody at MSNBC. So wrote O'Reilly in a fabulously tongue-in-cheek…

Olbermann: ‘Lunatic Fringe’ MRC ‘Fed Talking Points’ to Hume

March 21st, 2009 1:03 PM
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who has a history of using distorted or even factually inaccurate information -- much of which he gets from far-left sources like Media Matters for America and Think Progress -- on Friday's Countdown show accused FNC's Brit Hume of making a "dumbfounding" admission that "he was fed a buffet of daily talking points" by the "lunatic fringe, right wing" Media Research…

Maher: Glenn Beck Increasing Chance of 'Horrible Action' on Obama

March 21st, 2009 12:38 PM
Fox New's Glenn Beck is increasing "the chance for people to take horrible action" on President Obama.So said HBO's Bill Maher Friday evening in a lengthy discussion about FNC's new primetime star.I guess Maher missed the hypocrisy concerning his disturbingly caustic views of the Bush administration while they were in power, in particular his expression of regret that the March 2007 assassination…

MRC's Bozell Discusses Obama Special Olympics Gaffe

March 20th, 2009 11:16 AM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell had already been scheduled to appear on today's "Fox & Friends" to discuss last night's MRC Gala and Media DisHonors Awards, but President Barack Obama's laid a golden egg with his joke about the Special Olympics last night on NBC's "The Tonight Show." So the latest Obama gaffe and the media's interest in it was the first topic co-hosts Steve Doocy…

On MSNBC Garofalo Paints Conservatives as Angry Racists Who Inspire Mu

March 17th, 2009 7:12 PM
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann hosted left-wing actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo to discuss FNC analyst Bernard Goldberg’s recent enumeration of the "five worst offenders" of what Bill O’Reilly called the "far-left smear machine,"and Garofalo took the opportunity to paint conservatives as angry racists who inspire violence from some of their non-intellectual followers.…

NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard Cited on FNC's 'Special Report

March 17th, 2009 2:24 PM
On Monday, Fox News's Bret Baier referred to a NewsBusters piece concerning the coverage of the nationwide Tea Parties being staged to protest the profligate spending under President Obama's economic and housing recovery plans.As NewsBusters reported Sunday, "with the exception of Fox News and CNN, no major television outlet has covered even one of these events except the original proposed by…

How Mainstream is Porn? Media Ignore Implications of Body Art Barbie

March 11th, 2009 10:48 AM
CMI's Matt Philbin discussed Tattoo Barbie in his latest column: We can be sure she's not the first of her generation to mark her 50th birthday by getting tattoos. After all, the cultivation of youth-obsessed narcissism and bad taste is a Baby Boomer hallmark (see Clinton, Bill). But "Totally Stylin' Tattoos Barbie" is no less disturbing for being a product of her generation.Mattel is celebrating…

Kirsten Powers: Obama’s Stem Cell Decision Designed to Please Anti-B

March 10th, 2009 11:18 PM
On Monday’s Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, during the Fox All Stars panel discussion, liberal FNC analyst Kirsten Powers, also a columnist for the New York Post, characterized Barack Obama's recent decision to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research as merely a political move designed to please members of his base who blame President Bush for the plight of those who suffer…