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CNN's Morgan Repeatedly Raises Sorkin's Anti-America Speech with Guest
July 5th, 2012 1:53 AM
Since liberal producer Aaron Sorkin's HBO series The Newsroom made waves a couple of weeks ago with its infamous speech asserting that America is "not the greatest country in the world anymore," CNN host Piers Morgan has repeatedly brought up this charge with guests on his Piers Morgan Tonight show.
Morgan, who so far has not brought up the speech with any clearly conservative guest who…

Maher: Romney Should Pick George Zimmerman VP for 'The Black Guy’s U
June 30th, 2012 11:24 AM
Bill Maher on Friday made another in a long line of disgusting remarks about Mitt Romney and Republicans being racist.
In the concluding segment of HBO's Real Time, the host encouraged Romney to choose Trayvon Martin's assailant George Zimmerman as his vice presidential candidate to "personify [his] campaign theme of 'I Think The Black Guy’s Up To No Good'" (video follows with transcript and…

Sorkin's 'Newsroom': Angry Liberals Lecturing Americans
June 26th, 2012 12:29 PM
The media have been in a frenzy lately over the Sunday premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s latest show, The Newsroom. Some critics, such as Dan Rather, praised it as a "classic" worth of Citizen Kane. However, many have downplayed the left-wing, anti-American tone of the show's pilot, which includes one liberal lecture after another.
In the opening scene, new anchor Will MacAvoy (portrayed by actor…

Actor Jeff Daniels: Sorkin's Anti-America Speech 'Resonated with Me
June 25th, 2012 7:17 AM
Appearing as a guest on Friday's Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, actor Jeff Daniels - who stars as Will McAvoy in HBO's The Newsroom - admitted that he agrees with a now infamous speech delivered by his character - and written by liberal producer Aaron Sorkin - in which McAvoy rants that "America is not the greatest country in the world anymore."
After running a partial clip of the speech, host…

Maddow Melts Down on HBO's Real Time: 'Leave Me Alone About RomneyCare
June 23rd, 2012 3:51 PM
MSNBC's supposedly most intelligent "news" anchor almost had a total meltdown on HBO's Real Time Friday.
When repeatedly asked by host Bill Maher and guest Nick Gillespie for her opinion of Massachusetts' healthcare program, Maddow whined like a little girl, "Leave me alone about RomneyCare, all of you" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Kirk Douglas Tells Bill Maher 'F--k You
June 23rd, 2012 2:24 AM
95-year-old actor Kirk Douglas on Friday did something that virtually every conservative in America would like to do to Bill Maher albeit not as vulgarly.
In the middle of an interview on HBO's Real Time, Douglas said to his host, "F--k you!" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary, serious vulgarity warning):

Bill Maher: 'Republicans Don't Care About Dead Mexicans
June 23rd, 2012 1:32 AM
Bill Maher said Friday, "Republicans don't care about dead Mexicans."
This came moments after he admitted on HBO's Real Time he didn't know anything about the controversial White House mission known as Fast and Furious "until this week" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Reason's Nick Gillespie Schools Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher on Fast a
June 23rd, 2012 12:36 AM
One of the finest examples of how liberal media members really don't know what they're talking about occurred on HBO's Real Time Friday when Reason's Nick Gillespie gave a much-needed education to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and host Bill Maher on the issue of Fast and Furious.
In the end, Maddow and Maher embarrassed themselves in a fashion that should have both of their respective networks…

Jake Tapper Skewers Sorkin's 'The Newsroom
June 22nd, 2012 12:00 PM
The most entertaining thing about Aaron Sorkin's upcoming HBO series, "The Newsroom," could well be the scathing review of the show by ABC News senior White House correspondent, Jake Tapper, which appeared in The New Republic. As a bonus, Tapper also provides an hilarious takedown of the increasingly annoying SorkinSpeak, the bizzare shorthand manner in which his characters communicate with…

Aaron Sorkin Insists to NBC That He's Not Known For His Liberal Politi
June 22nd, 2012 11:26 AM
On Thursday's NBC Rock Center, just days after calling for more liberal media bias against conservatives, left-wing screen writer Aaron Sorkin dismissed the idea that he has a reputation as an outspoken liberal: "I don't know so much about my being known for my liberal politics.... I don't have very much political sophistication at all." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump…

Sorkin Sees Not Liberal Bias But ‘Bias Toward Fairness,’ His HBO N
June 21st, 2012 4:00 AM
Writer/producer Aaron Sorkin, whose new drama, Newsroom, about a cable news anchor -- which debuts this Sunday night on HBO -- proved in a USA Today piece he lives in a fantasy world. First, he maintained that when watching broadcast network news “I don’t see the liberal bias — and I’m trying to — that I hear about,” insisting: “What I do see is a bias toward fairness, a bias toward neutrality…
'True Blood': God Is a Vampire
June 18th, 2012 3:16 PM
If the audacious amount of gory violence and bloody sex in “True Blood” doesn’t do it for you, what about malevolent vampire “Christians?”
Apparently “True Blood” vampires have a sacred text, and HBO writers admitted it’s a slanderous take on the Bible and separation of church and state. A faction of vampires called the “Sanguinistas” functioned as a demeaning allegory for traditional…

HBO Pulls 'Game of Thrones' Episode With Bush Severed Head, Halts DVD
June 16th, 2012 10:50 AM
As NewsBusters reported Thursday, the season finale of HBO's hit series Game of Thrones included a gruesome image of former President George W. Bush's severed head impaled on a stake.
In the wake of heat from conservative critics including us, the New York Daily News reports the cable network has taken action to rectify its egregious error:

Bill Maher and Nobel Prize Winning Liberal Economist Can't Figure Out
June 16th, 2012 12:13 AM
CAUTION: Remove all food, fluids, and flammables from proximity of your computer before proceeding. You've been warned.
HBO's Bill Maher and Nobel Prize-winning liberal economist Joseph Stiglitz on Friday actually couldn't calculate between the two of them how much 87 times 5 is (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):