CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: Obama Wins 'Comfortably,' and 'Absolutely,' Hurr

November 6th, 2012 6:50 AM
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared on the public-radio talk show Smiley & West over the weekend and gave his election pick: "You know, I don’t think this election is going to be all that close. I’m sorry, you know,, in my newsman hat, you know, we always want drama, we always want chaos and good stories. I think Obama is going to win this election narrowly, but comfortably. I don’t…

NPR Stations Air Poison: Pro-GOP Women are 'Battered,' Romney's 'White

October 29th, 2012 12:42 PM
When conservative tax dollars support public radio stations across America, what kind of programming gets aired? One radical show is “Smiley and West,” which is distributed by Public Radio International. This weekend, PBS star Tavis Smiley was too busy, so they replaced him with Julianne Malveaux – the loud-mouthed wacko who infamously announced on the PBS show To The Contrary that someone…

Romney Got Off Easy - Bush Was Accused of the "Niggerization of the Am

August 18th, 2012 9:46 AM
There was, understandably, plenty of outrage this week upon hearing MSNBC host Touré accuse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney of what he called the "niggerization" of President Obama.   On Thursday's The Cycle, Touré responded to Romney's charge that the President can "take [his] campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago” in the following unhinged manner:

Roseanne Barr Loses Green Party Nomination, Along With Her Mind

July 18th, 2012 9:11 PM
Roseanne Barr made me laugh. Alas, it was 20 years ago. It was while she was a guest on Arsenio Hall's late night show and decided to rib the host. It's not often you meet a black nerd, Barr told Hall. Most nerds are white -- like you. If Barr has said anything as piercing since, it's passed my attention. And what she said on the most recent Smiley & West radio show demonstrated how Barr…

James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Loves MSNBC And Knows the Tea

July 10th, 2012 11:24 PM
Actor James Earl Jones appeared on the public-radio show Smiley & West last weekend and discussed how he stuttered as a teenager. “There’s a certain terror I still have about confronting people.  I can’t debate, I can’t argue, I fall apart...I cannot be an activist, for instance, because of that.” But as Brian Maloney reported, host Tavis Smiley wanted to draw his politics out. Jones…

Lefty Comic David Cross Declares He 'Would Like to See Bill O’Reilly

October 2nd, 2010 8:44 PM
What – was Janeane Garofalo busy this week? If not, she has some real competition in the "lefty comic making outrageous statements" category. On HBO’s Oct. 1 “Real Time with Bill Maher,” during the “Overtime” segment available on HBO.com, left-wing comedian David Cross of “Arrested Development” fame appeared to offer his view on issues of the day. This segment of the program is produced…