Sarah Palin
MSNBC's Matthews Cheers Jon Stewart Linking Donald Sterling to Sarah P
May 1st, 2014 4:30 PM
On the Wedneday, April 30, Hardball, during the show's regular "Side Show" segment, MSNBC host Chris Matthews highlighted Comedy Central's Jon Stewart using Donald Sterling's racist talk to make a crack about alleged "crazy talk" from Sarah Palin. Matthews began:
Daily Kos: Palin, LaPierre Made NRA Convention Sound Like an American
April 29th, 2014 7:06 AM
Lawyer-writer Mike Godwin says he came up with Godwin's Law to discourage facile comparisons to Hitler and Nazism, but sometimes facile happens anyway: Daily Kos featured blogger Hunter declared Monday that "Wayne LaPierre and Sarah Palin at the National Rifle Association [convention] is what an American Nazi Party rally would sound like if Germany had won the war."
From Hunter's post on…
CBS Replaces One Liberal Comic (Letterman) with Another (Colbert
April 10th, 2014 4:11 PM
Today CBS officially announced that Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert will be replacing David Letterman when he leaves the Late Show hosting chair in 2015. The move guarantees that Letterman’s legacy of bashing conservatives and Republicans on late night will continue, as the host of The Colbert Report has routinely trashed those on the right side of the political spectrum.
From calling…
Sarah Palin Makes Tonight Show Cameo; Tells Vladimir Putin He's 'No Ma
April 3rd, 2014 12:18 AM
Sarah Palin made a surprise visit to NBC's Tonight on Wednesday. She conducted a mock interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin, played by host Jimmy Fallon.
Palin mocked Putin as "no match for a mama grizzly" and told him to get out of the Ukraine. Both enjoyed a laugh at Obama's NSA spying program, as well. Below is a video of the highlights:
Limbaugh, Palin Defend Drudge's Payment of ObamaCare 'Liberty Tax
March 26th, 2014 3:19 PM
Ever since Friday afternoon, when Matt Drudge tweeted that he had just paid the “ObamaCare penalty for not getting covered” and called it a “Liberty Tax,” that post by the editor of the Drudge Report website has been slammed as a “flat lie” and “bad press” for the approaching March 31 enrollment deadline of the Affordable Care Act.
However, during Monday's edition of Rush Limbaugh's weekday…
Daily Beast Writer Demonstrates Poor Reading Comprehension in His Swip
March 14th, 2014 6:57 PM
In his March 13 Daily Beast piece lamenting that "the GOP can't take a joke," comedian Dean Obeidallah demonstrated he doesn't read NewsBusters closely and/or that he lacks proper reading comprehension skills.
Here's how Obeidallah described a March 12 story by my colleague Jeffrey Meyer:
NPR, WashPost Celebrate Anti-Palin Author in Obits -- Although His Pal
March 12th, 2014 7:55 PM
Leftist author Joe McGinniss drew several more warm obituaries from the national media. In Wednesday’s Washington Post, on the front of the Style section Gene Weingarten began with a gush: “Joe McGinniss, author of one of the best nonfiction books ever written, died yesterday.”
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik filed an entire story on McGinniss (and it was no Harold Simmons hatchet job on…
Jimmy Fallon Mocks Sarah Palin For Invoking Dr. Seuss During CPAC Spee
March 12th, 2014 8:56 AM
Jimmy Fallon is now the newly minted host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show”, replacing long-time host Jay Leno as the network’s newest late night comedian. Unfortunately for Fallon, the NBC host took an unnecessary swipe at former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) this week.
During his monologue on Monday March 10, Fallon mocked Palin’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech, specifically…
NBC Punts on Joe McGinniss Obit; Hyped Palin-Bashing Book in
March 11th, 2014 3:37 PM
CNN's New Day on Tuesday devoted a 23-second news brief to the death of author Joe McGinniss on Monday, noting that "McGinniss made headlines again in 2010, when he moved next door to Sarah Palin's Alaska home in order to research his book, 'The Rogue.' Palin threatened to sue him, but never did."
However, Tuesday's Today on NBC, which touted their interview of McGinnis in September 2011 by…
Mike Barnicle Calls Palin a 'Moron
March 10th, 2014 8:11 AM
Here was the Morning Joe panel bemoaning Ted Cruz's supposed incivility at CPAC in allegedly insulting war hero Bob Dole, when up pops Mike Barnicle to ask "what does it say about CPAC, where the most popular speaker they had, the one who received the most rousing reception is a moron, Sarah Palin?"
A bit later, Mika Brzezinski piled on, calling Palin a "multi-million dollar moron." When…
Palin's CPAC Speech Brings Out the Liberal Haters
March 10th, 2014 7:20 AM
The organizers of CPAC let left-wing crazy man Charles Pierce of Esquire wander the halls and “report” his findings.
Pierce poured out an entire bucket of contempt on Sarah Palin: “McCain should pay a heavy price for unleashing this ignorant, two-wheeled bilewagon on the country's politics. If you think she's a legitimate political leader, you're an idiot and a sucker and I feel sorry for…
Politico Hack Who Ridiculed Palin in '08 Whines and Moans at Her Ukrai
March 1st, 2014 7:04 PM
During the 2008 presidential campaign, GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin made what has turned out to be a prescient remark about the relevance of a U.S. president's resolve and its potential impact on Russia's posture with the old Soviet Union's satellite states. She observed: "After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and…
Cheap Shot: ABC Invokes Sarah Palin in Story on Violent Little League
February 6th, 2014 4:22 PM
ABC's David Wright is obsessed with Sarah Palin. The Nightline correspondent on Wednesday gratuitously attacked the former vice presidential candidate in a segment that has nothing to do with politics. Wright investigated angry, violent coaches of youth sports.
After featuring clips of men encouraging third grade football players to hit each other in the head, Wright made an abrupt left turn…
MSNBC's Hayes Compares Using Oil to Drug Addiction, Opposes Keystone P
February 3rd, 2014 12:06 PM
On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave a commentary opposing the Keystone pipeline as he compared America's use of oil to "drug addiction," and pushed the far left idea of leaving 80 percent of the world's oil reserves untapped to supposedly prevent the world's temperature from increasing.
The MSNBC host suggested that conservatives are like addicts who are in denial, with…