Dan Savage Wanted Sarah Palin to Choke on Her Christmas Pastry

January 17th, 2014 7:03 PM
You’ll have to forgive the delay on this item, but perhaps it was best to get a polite distance from the Christmas season before we review how “War on Christmas” books make some liberals lose their marbles. On December 18 at his usual Internet haunt, TheStranger.com, Dan Savage posted his failed attempt to review Sarah Palin’s book “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of…

MSNBC President Dismisses Anchors' Gaffes, Says They Haven't 'Hurt Us

January 16th, 2014 7:47 PM
Phil Griffin, head of the MSNBC cable television channel, told Marisa Guthrie of the Hollywood Reporter that he accepts responsibility for recent embarrassments that led Alec Baldwin and Martin Bashir to leave the network and Melissa Harris-Perry to offer a tearful on-air apology. "These were judgment calls made by some of our people. We handled them. We were transparent. That is our…

HBO Renews 'Real Time With Bill Maher' For 13th Season

January 15th, 2014 5:15 PM
It appears that no matter what disgusting things Bill Maher says about conservatives - especially conservative women! - HBO is going to continue to reward him. On Wednesday, the cable network announced that it was renewing Real Time with Bill Maher for a 13th season (press release via TV By The Numbers):

Sarah Palin Believes Karma Has Come Around on Katie Couric

January 13th, 2014 7:33 AM
Former Gov. Sarah Palin granted an interview to Mario Lopez of the TV show “Extra” to promote her new TV series on The Sportsman Channel. Lopez asked about Katie Couric’s failed afternoon talk show. The subject turned to Katie Couric, who earned a passel of journalism awards for hammering Palin in an interview during the 2008 campaign, while she threw softballs at Joe Biden. Lopez asked: “Do…

Scarborough Takes Totally Unprovoked and Unnecessary Cheap Shot at Pal

January 6th, 2014 11:34 AM
Sometimes I think people at MSNBC have Sarah Palin on the brain. In a Morning Joe segment about Melissa Harris-Perry’s apology to the Romney family for mocking their adopted black grandson, and former Governor Mitt Romney’s classy acceptance of said apology, host Joe Scarborough for some reason decided to take a totally unprovoked and unnecessary cheap shot at Sarah Palin (video follows with…

Palin New Year's Resolution: 'Be Even More Aggressive in Calling Out M

January 4th, 2014 5:28 PM
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin published her New Year's resolutions at Facebook Saturday. Coming in at number 4 was "Be even more aggressive in calling out media for practicing lapdog laziness":

Kurtz: 'Has MSNBC Developed a Culture in Which Harsh Personal Attacks

January 3rd, 2014 5:25 PM
Following Melissa Harris-Perry's smear on Mitt Romney's adopted black grandson - the third in a series of recent high-profile faux pas by MSNBC hosts - Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz asked a question Friday whose answer appears to definitively be "Yes." "[H]as the channel developed a culture in which harsh personal attacks are encouraged, or at least tolerated?"

MRC's Brent Bozell Reviews Our Worst Media Quotes of 2013 on FNC's 'Ha

January 3rd, 2014 9:29 AM
When he revealed to Fox News Channel viewers the winner of the Media Research Center's liberal media Quote of the Year, substitute host Eric Bolling couldn't "run the actual footage" of the description of the disgusting scatalogical treatment that former MSNBC Martin Bashir wished on Sarah Palin "because it's too obscene" for television, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell noted on the…

Bristol Palin: 'Warning: You Might Lose IQ Points By Watching This MSN

December 28th, 2013 4:36 PM
As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Joy Reid on Thursday badly misinterpreted an Old Testament passage to ridicule former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for having a Christmas tree on Christmas. On Saturday, Palin's daughter Bristol took to her blog to respond to Reid in a piece she marvelously titled "Warning: You Might Lose IQ Points by Watching this MSNBC Clip":

MSNBC’s Reid Bashes Palin for Having a Christmas Tree...on Christmas

December 26th, 2013 6:51 PM
As NewsBusters has reported for years, the hatred liberal media members have for and display towards former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin knows no bounds. On MSNBC’s Ed Show Thursday, substitute host Joy Reid castigated Palin first for having the nerve to show family pictures on Fox & Friends Christmas Eve – the horror! – but also for having a Christmas tree on - wait for it! - Christmas (…

Sarah Palin Chats With NewsBusters About Her New Book, Martin Bashir

December 22nd, 2013 11:05 PM
NewsBusters had the great fortune to chat with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin last week. The topics for discussion were her new book "Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” Martin Bashir, Santa Claus, and Charlie Brown.

Piers Morgan Accuses Sarah Palin of Getting Martin Bashir Fired By MSN

December 19th, 2013 5:10 PM
Is there an anatomical limit to how many times someone can put their foot in their mouth? Consider the case of CNN's Piers Morgan who on Twitter moments ago actually accused former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin of getting Martin Bashir fired by MSNBC:

Disgraced Ex-MSNBCer Bashir Wins Biased Quote of the Year; 'Good Ridda

December 18th, 2013 11:53 AM
NewsBusters's parent company the Media Research Center (MRC) proudly announced the Best Notable Quotables of 2013: The 26th Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting earlier this morning, with former MSNBC host Martin Bashir taking home the “Quote of the Year” honor for a disgusting, misogynist rant aimed at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Not only did Bashir’s November 15 quote take the…

Bozell Column: Safeguarding Obama Throughout

December 17th, 2013 10:15 PM
Liberal journalists were glowing and full of hope after Barack Obama won a second term. As 2012 drew to a close, there was the traditional hour of ABC’s Barbara Walters fawning: “Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?” As the second inauguration neared,…