Behar on Anti-Palin Family Guy Scene: ‘I Agree With Sarah on This On

February 19th, 2010 10:43 PM
On Friday’s Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News, the normally anti-Palin Behar and most panel members – all left-leaning – sided with the former Alaska governor in the aftermath of Family Guy producer Seth MacFarlane's controversial depiction of a character with Down's Syndrome on his Fox television show, intended as a swipe at Palin whose son has Down's Syndrome. Behar declared that "I agree…

Family Guy's Down Syndrome Actress Responds To Sarah Palin

February 19th, 2010 10:09 AM
The actress that did the voiceover for Ellen, the Down Syndrome Girl on Sunday's "Family Guy," has responded to her critics including Sarah and Bristol Palin.As NewsBusters previously reported, the hit Fox cartoon series took a swipe at the Palins by making a joke involving Down Syndrome and the former Alaskan governor. On Tuesday, Sarah and Bristol posted their feelings about this segment at…

Maher: Palin’s Job at Fox Equivalent to Talking to Her Down Syndrom

February 18th, 2010 12:01 AM
How does one prepare for an upcoming appearance by Seth MacFarlane of Family Guy fame?  If you're Bill Maher, you follow up the Family Guy/Sarah Palin/Down Syndrome attack by doing an 'exclusive rant' for the Huffington Post which includes - you guessed it - a joke about Sarah Palin's son, Trig. Maher appeals to his lower-intellect audience by stating:"...while we were off, Sarah Palin agreed to…

Sarah and Bristol Palin Respond to Sunday's 'Family Guy

February 16th, 2010 4:00 PM
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Palin discusses this matter with Fox's Bill O'Reilly.Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol have responded to Sunday's disgusting episode of "Family Guy."As NewsBusters reported that night, Fox's cartoon comedy hit disparaged the Palins with a joke involving a girl with Down Syndrome. Tuesday morning, Sarah and Bristol took to Facebook to share their thoughts. Not…

WaPo’s Parker Channels Palin Son: 'Might Trig Someday Read His Mothe

February 16th, 2010 12:22 AM
It's no surprise that elitism and a pretentious point of view have a place on The Washington Post editorial page, but even this is a little much. Pseudo-conservative columnist Kathleen Parker asserted that Trig Palin, the Down syndrome son of the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might one day find his mother's abortion comments "hurtful." A Feb 14…

'Family Guy' Attacks Sarah and Trig Palin With Down Syndrome Joke

February 14th, 2010 11:51 PM
The media attacks on Sarah Palin continued Sunday as Fox's hit cartoon comedy "Family Guy" made a joke about Down Syndrome involving the former governor of Alaska.In the most recent episode, Chris Griffin, the overweight and largely unintelligent son of the family, took a very rude girl with Down Syndrome out on a date.With a little prompting, Chris asked her, "So what do your parents do?"She…

NBC Revives Barbara Walters' 'Disturbing' Label of Palin

January 15th, 2009 5:34 PM
During a report on Thursday’s Today show, NBC News correspondent Norah O’Donnell replayed Barbara Walters’ characterization of Sarah Palin’s recent interview as “disturbing” from Tuesday’s The View. O’Donnell highlighted how the Alaska governor’s comments about how the media treated her versus how it treated Caroline Kennedy “drew a reaction” from the ABC host, and that it was “one more sign that…

Wonkette Suggests Trig Wishes He'd Been Aborted

November 1st, 2008 7:05 AM
There really are no words, though I suppose we'll manage to find some.  Wonkette, which bills itself as "the DC Gossip," and is the creation of Ana Marie Cox, now gone on to bigger things at Time, has this photograph up of Trig Palin, dressed for Halloween as an elephant and being held in the loving embrace of one of his sisters. [H/t Damian at Conservathink.]Wonkette appends its comment,…

Suzy Shuster: Sarah's Son 'Her Favorite Prop of This Campaign Season

October 3rd, 2008 1:18 PM

‘Objectivist’ Writer: Trig Palin a Financial Burden Who Should Ha

September 17th, 2008 4:14 PM

Hume Credits NewsBusters for Exposing Fake Trig Palin eBay Listing

September 11th, 2008 5:49 PM
On Tuesday's "Special Report," Fox News's Brit Hume credited NewsBusters for exposing a fake eBay listing auctioning off Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's baby Trig.As my colleague Warner Todd Huston wrote earlier that morning: Apparently, a poster at the radical nutroot site, DemocraticUnderground, created a fake listing for someone pretending to sell baby Trig on ebay. The faux…

NYT: 'Journalists Wrinkled Their Nose in Disgust' at Piper's Touching

September 7th, 2008 10:55 PM
When NewsBusters posted the screencap shown here as its Weekend Captionfest on Friday, the result was an outpouring of affectionate reader responses. Typical was this one, from "iveseenitall":The ladies in my house instantly fell for this kid.  "Oh" and "Oooh" and "Ah". The giggles, the pointing at the t.v. Love all around that night. The MSM lives in a different house.  Check out this candid…

Weekend Captionfest

September 5th, 2008 4:00 PM
Piper Palin, preparing to groom brother Trig's hair.