
Candy Crowley On Lack Of Diversity In Obama White House: 'Does It Matt
It really has been amazing to watch Obama's media cover for the lack of diversity in his cabinet picks.
A fine example of this hypocrisy came on CNN's State of the Union Sunday when host Candy Crowley actually began a segment on the subject by asking her guests, "Does it matter?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
January 13th, 2013 11:12 AM

NRA President Schools Candy Crowley: Obama and Feinstein Are Driving G
CNN's Candy Crowley on Sunday floated the typical media nonsense about how the National Rifle Association is ginning up fear to sell more guns in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
Fortunately for State of the Union viewers, NRA President David Keene was on the set to correctly point out, "The two people who are selling so-called assault rifles are Senator Feinstein and…
January 13th, 2013 10:22 AM

Miss New York, the New Miss America, Espouses Liberal Conventional Wis
Minutes before being crowned Miss America on Saturday night, Miss New York, Mallory Hytes Hagan, matched the attitude toward guns espoused by her very liberal Governor, Andrew Cuomo. Asked by judge Sam Champion, the weather-reader for ABC’s Good Morning America, about putting armed guards in schools, Hagen condemned the concept, insisting: “The answer is not to fight violence with violence…
January 13th, 2013 12:31 AM

Imagine That: World Population Projected to Peak in 60 Years
Paul "The Population Bomb" Ehrlich, call your office. Oh, never mind. You've never cared about the truth anyway, or the fact that your predictions of worldwide calamity have been far off the mark, but you sure have received a lot of attention from the establishment press over the past several decades.
According to Jeff Wise at Slate.com on Wednesday, "researchers at Austria’s International…
January 12th, 2013 6:39 PM

'Girls' Star Lena Dunham Compares Republicans To Nazis
Liberals really amaze me.
In an interview with Vulture Friday, Girls star Lena Dunham actually compared Republicans to Nazis.
January 12th, 2013 5:55 PM

Jerry Springer: 'I Am the Father of the Destruction of Western Civiliz
Jerry Springer made an admission Friday that Americans on both sides of the aisle might agree with.
"I am the father of the destruction of Western civilization" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
January 12th, 2013 2:55 PM

Not News in U.S.: 60,000 on NHS's 'Liverpool Care Pathway' (to Death
A search this morning at Google News on "Liverpool Pathway" (not in quotes) returned 69 items (Google's initial indication was over 800, but it was really only 69). Roughly 60 of them related to the National Health Service's "palliative care" protocols known as the "Liverpool Care Pathway" employed in the UK's government-run health care system to place hospital patients on a path to death. The…
January 12th, 2013 12:52 PM

Some People Like Media Exposing Gun Owner Names, Addresses
Dan Joseph of MRCTV took to the streets to see if we could find anyone who supported the actions taken by the Journal News last week when it printed the names and addresses of 16 thousand legal gun owners in two New York counties.
Some liked the concept of publishing the names of legal gun owners. One lady who signed off on the idea changed her tune when asked if it'd be okay to publish the…
January 12th, 2013 12:36 PM

NPR Anchor Compares Catholic League To The Ku Klux Klan
As NewsBusters previously reported, Catholic League President Bill Donohue on Friday in response to some disgusting comments made by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell said President Obama might want to swear on Karl Marx's Das Kapital during the upcoming inaugural festivities.
NPR contributing anchor Louise Schiavone took to her Twitter account Saturday asking the disgraceful question, "What is this…
January 12th, 2013 12:07 PM

Grammy Award-Winning Rapper Big Boi: I Didn't Vote For Obama - I'm A L
Can you imagine a rapper not only not voting for Obama but also being a Libertarian?
So said Grammy Award-winning rapper Antwan Andre Patton, aka Big Boi formerly of the duo OutKast, during an interview with HuffPost Live Friday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
January 12th, 2013 11:37 AM

Catholic League's Donohue Responds to Lawrence O'Donnell: Obama Should
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Thursday went on a disgraceful tirade about how the Bible should have nothing to do with the upcoming inaugural festivities.
On Friday, Catholic League President Bill Donohue responded saying, "Given Obama’s ideology, perhaps it would make more sense for him to swear on Das Kapital."
January 12th, 2013 10:35 AM

Gallaudet Univ. Diversity Officer Who Signed Petition to Place 'Gay Ma
Angela McCaskill, Chief Diversity Officer at Gallaudet University, has been reinstated following three months of administrative leave which began after the university learned that she had signed a petition supporting the placement of an initiative to repeal recently passed legislation legalizing same-sex "marriage" on the Maryland ballot.
The headline at the Associated Press story about Ms.…
January 12th, 2013 10:33 AM

Bozell Column: No Oxygen, Please, For This Show
Television is getting a little unreal. First, the idea that Al Gore would sell out to al-Jazeera sounded like an April Fools joke. Then the Oxygen network – that supposedly uplifting women’s channel founded in 2000 by Oprah Winfrey – announced it was producing a reality show called “All My Baby’s Mamas” starring an Atlanta rapper and former drug dealer named “Shawty Lo,” alongside his 11…
January 12th, 2013 8:13 AM

Daily Kos Week in Review: Hardcore Troubadour in Newtown
Bloggers, like athletes, have hot streaks and slumps, and recently the Kossack known as Troubadour has been absolutely en fuego when it comes to maligning the right. Last week, Troubadour claimed that "murder-suicide massacres" a la Newtown were quintessentially conservative behavior; this week, he's back with a sequel (or is it a remake?) in which he claims that right-wingers, collectively,…
January 11th, 2013 10:52 PM