The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: September 22 to
September 29th, 2007 9:21 AM
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R-Iran) This week, Alan Colmes proved, yet again, that Fox News has its own liberals willing to say crazy things. The host asserted that right-wingers should have embraced the visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because the dictator is a "conservative" like them. Those Hateful RepublicansSpeaking of angry liberals, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has claimed that the…
Bill O’Reilly Warns Media About Smear Campaigns: ‘I’m Coming Aft
September 27th, 2007 2:24 PM
People who are sick and tired of the smear campaigns against conservatives emanating from the left take heart, for it appears that last night's "O'Reilly Factor" was a foreshadowing of things to come. Just hours after Bill O'Reilly came out strongly against media representatives parroting factually inaccurate statements promulgated by leftwing websites and organizations, the host of the "Radio…
MRC's Bozell on Rather Lawsuit on 'Fox & Friends
September 27th, 2007 11:26 AM
Appearing in the 7:00 a.m. half-hour of Thursday's "Fox & Friends," Media Research Center president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted that former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather is in utter "meltdown" over the National Guard hoax "although it's been proven documentably, no pun intended, to be false."Video (3:50): Real and Windows, plus MP3 audio.Asked by guest co-host Heather…
O’Reilly and Bruce Discuss New ‘Gestapo’ in America Smearing Con
September 27th, 2007 10:18 AM
In the wake of the recent media-created scandal concerning statements made by Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on his radio show, a rather enlightening discussion has ensued regarding the existence of a well-organized campaign to demonize every television and radio personality whose political opinions don't march in lock-step with the left. A rather frank and candid conversation concerning this…
MRC/NB's Graham: Couric Comments on Iraq War a Sop to MoveOn
September 26th, 2007 5:49 PM
Katie Couric "really sounds like... a light-headed Hillary [Clinton] and it sounds like she's trying to claw back into the good graces of MoveOn.org and maybe she's trying to rub the belly of the Buddha, Frank Rich, and everybody who attacked her for being some sort of Bush tool when she went to Iraq."That's how MRC director of media analysis and NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham described…
Juan Williams Defends Bill O’Reilly, Calls CNN Idiots
September 25th, 2007 10:42 PM
Anybody that has logged on to the Internet in the past couple of days is well aware that the far left in our nation are doing what the far left are best at: calling people racists, and hoping folks will be fired as a result. The latest conspiracy fabricated by the left - albeit in a long line of conspiracies - deals with comments made by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly on his radio program. Tuesday…
O’Reilly Slams Netrooter Who Threatened Elizabeth Edwards
September 18th, 2007 2:01 PM
NewsBusters reported Sunday that infamous netrooter Jane Hamsher lambasted Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards, for having the nerve to come down on MoveOn's disgraceful "General Betray Us" ad. On Monday, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly took issue with Hamsher's "threat," as did his guests Kirsten Powers and Tammy Bruce. After reading portions of Hamsher's…
MRC Times Watcher Clay Waters Unloads on the NYT-MoveOn Ties on Fox
September 14th, 2007 12:02 PM
MRC’s Times Watch guru Clay Waters sat on the couch in the New York studios of Fox & Friends this morning in the 8 am EST hour to discuss the New York Times offering cut-rate ad space to MoveOn.org to bash General Petraeus. FNC’s Gretchen Carlson told Waters that the Times now claims they offer this discount rate for advocacy groups and for ads that float without a scheduled publication date…
