Fact-Checking ‘The Woman King’ and the Absurdity of Reparations

Larry Elder
December 26th, 2022 12:46 PM

When it comes to the absurdity of American taxpayers giving “reparations” to black descendants of slaves, it’s hard to limit the number of objections. Apart from the fact that American slavery, though horrific, was legal; that it ended 157 years ago; that the government did not own slaves, the private sector did; that most Southerners did not own slaves; that nearly all slave owners were…

 

Some Final Thoughts on Reparations

Larry Elder
March 12th, 2021 11:39 PM

How would reparations be funded? Conservative writer Michael Medved estimates that only 5% of whites in America "bear any authentic sort of generational guilt for the exploitation of slave labor." Why should anyone but Democrats pay? Scholar Dinesh D'Souza notes that all but a "handful" of slave owners were Democrats. The Ku Klux Klan, at its height of power and popularity, was known by the…

 

Jewish Leaders Join Bozell’s Demand for Network Coverage of Anti-Sem

NB Staff
October 26th, 2011 10:27 AM
Within hours of NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) president Brent Bozell sending certified overnight letters to demand ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC cover the video evidence of racial bigotry at Occupy Wall Street protests, three prominent Jewish leaders joined the call for the TV networks to cover the anti-Jewish hatred. "The Left has a long history of anti-Semitism going back to…
 

ABC, NBC Highlight Huckabee Comments on Unwed Pregnancy and Natalie Po

Brad Wilmouth
March 7th, 2011 7:03 AM
 Saturday’s Good Morning America on ABC, the Today show on NBC, and the NBC Nightly News all gave attention to potential Republican presidential nominee Mike Huckabee’s recent words from the Michael Medved Show lamenting the example set by the unwed pregnancy of actress Natalie Portman. But, while Huckabee might have been better served if he had also made a point of praising her for keeping her…
 

Medved Schools Schultz and Press on Tea Party and Obama's Tax Cuts

Noel Sheppard
December 14th, 2010 11:15 AM
Liberal media members opposed to President Obama's tax cut compromise plan have been making the case that it's hypocritical of the Tea Party not to be universally against the measure given its impact on the deficit. After Ed Schultz and Bill Press not surprisingly took this view on Monday's "Ed Show," Michael Medved gave them both a much-needed education on the subject (video follows with…
 

Bozell, Other Conservative Leaders to Hold Teleconference Asking Comed

NB Staff
June 2nd, 2010 3:08 PM
NewsBusters Publisher and Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and five other members of the Citizens Against Religious Bigotry (CARB) coalition will hold a tele-news conference tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. EDT to ask advertisers on Viacom's Comedy Central to publicly pledge to not support/underwrite a show currently in pre-production.  The show is entitled "JC" - as in Jesus Christ. [More…
 

Stephanie Miller Labels Medved’s Claim of Media Bias a ‘Myth’ on

Matthew Balan
August 12th, 2008 4:59 PM
Liberal talk radio host Stephanie Miller laughed-off Michael Medved’s accusation that the John Edwards sex scandal "reinforces the conviction that a lot of Americans have that the news media aren't on the level, that they're biased" on Tuesday’s American Morning: "You know, this is the myth again... of this, you know, liberal media. It's ridiculous. You can't report something that you don't have…
 

Medved: 'Rush Acting Like a Liberal

Mark Finkelstein
January 30th, 2008 8:39 PM
Michael Medved has hurled the ultimate insult at Rush Limbaugh -- that he's acting like a liberal. According to Medved, Rush is thinking with his emotions, not his mind, when it comes to his criticism of of John McCain.McCain supporter Medved appeared on Tucker Carlson's MSNBC show this evening.View video here.
 

Medved on 'Redacted': 'It Could Be the Worst Movie I've Ever Seen

Dave Pierre
November 18th, 2007 7:38 PM
"It could be the worst movie I've ever seen" ... "[T]he out and out worst, most disgusting, most hateful, most incompetent, most revolting, most loathsome, most reprehensible cinematic work I have ever encountered." ... "It portrays the members of our Marine Corps in the most disgusting way imaginable." ... "This film is an atrocity. It is zero stars." ... "I honestly was close to vomiting when I…
 

Michael Medved Thinks MSNBC is ‘Getting Smart’ Moving to the Left

Noel Sheppard
November 11th, 2007 1:23 PM
An interesting discussion occurred on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday when host Howard Kurtz raised the issue of MSNBC intentionally moving to the left politically, as well as its failed attempt to hire Rosie O'Donnell. Maybe most shocking was conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved saying of the recent events at MSNBC, "I think it shows that they're getting smart." Coming in a close…
 

Salon Editor Bashes Katie Couric’s Reports From Iraq

Noel Sheppard
September 9th, 2007 1:47 PM
"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric couldn't possibly expect to be criticized by a fellow, female, liberal journalist when she went to Iraq last week to report firsthand what was going on in that embattled nation. Yet, on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh ripped the leading member of the media sisterhood for "lobbing kind of softball questions," and not "working…