
Current TV Staffers Blast ‘Bulls---ter’ Al Gore for Selling Out to
Former vice president Al Gore, newly flush with cash from his sale of his Current TV to Al Qaeda's favorite TV channel, Al Jazeera, did not even bother to show up for the first meeting between the Current staff and the new ownership.
New York Post TV critic Linda Stasi has the story:
January 8th, 2013 2:27 PM
NYTimes Passionately Defends Obama Nominee, 'War Hero' Chuck Hagel Des
Former Republican senator Chuck Hagel was hailed as a brave Republican maverick and became a liberal media favorite during the George W. Bush years, for comparing the Iraq War to Vietnam and serving as a general thorn in the Republican president's side. Journalist Dave Weigel likened this 2006 Hagel profile in the New York Times Magazine by former Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld to "a…
January 8th, 2013 2:06 PM

WashPost Airs Criticism of Obama, from the Left: 'Choice of White Men
The good news: President Obama is finally getting some scrutiny in the liberal media. The bad news: The scrutiny is usually from Obama's left and on absurd matters such as the diversity of the president's Cabinet, as judged by skin color and sex organs.
Take today's Washington Post, which devoted 21 paragraphs on page A7 to "Obama's bypassing of women for Defense, CIA posts." The "[c]hoice of…
January 8th, 2013 12:34 PM

ABC Uses Gabby Giffords for Massive Push to Fight 'Gun Warfare in Amer
ABC on Tuesday began a multi-show push to promote the gun control crusade of Gabby Giffords and her husband. Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos kicked off the program by trumpeting, " The most famous face affected by gun violence fights back. Gabby Giffords announcing direct action against gun warfare in America." (Gun warfare? As of 2012, crime is at a 20 year low in America. The…
January 8th, 2013 12:19 PM

Networks Celebrate Hillary Clinton's Return to Work and 'Prank Gift
All three network evening newscasts on Monday found time to tout Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's return to work after hospitalization for a blood clot, "clearly enjoying a prank gift" from her staff and being greeted by a "standing ovation."
NBC's Nightly News devoted a full report to the development, with anchor Brian Williams declaring: "...we got our first official look at Secretary…
January 8th, 2013 11:39 AM

JWoww on Tonight Show: ‘I Like To Masturbate’ While Watching ‘Da
Jennifer ‘JWoww’ Farley of Jersey Shore fame sure is one classy gal.
After bragging to NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno about her engagement to Roger Mathews, Farley discussed how she’s “a little obsessed” with the Bane character in the film “The Dark Knight Rises” and likes to masturbate to the video (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
January 8th, 2013 11:10 AM
Ten Outrageous Anti-Gun ’Journalists
The media agenda against guns is nothing new. But recent mass shootings have encouraged supposedly neutral journalists to push for gun regulation instead of reporting the facts surrounding the tragedies.
One thing the media seldom mention is that both the Newtown and Aurora shootings occurred in gun free zones. In the Clackamas Town Center Shooting in Oregon, however, a gunman was…
January 8th, 2013 11:01 AM
Des Moines Register Editor Backs Columnist's Absurd Claim That His Wis
The first rule for those who have dug themselves into rhetorical holes is: Stop digging. As noted yesterday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul ignored that rule on January 5 by claiming that his December 30 column -- which, among other things, advocated "(tying) Mitch McConnell and John Boehner ... to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag(ging) them…
January 8th, 2013 10:49 AM

Maher Offers Trump $5 Million To Prove He Isn't 'Spawn of His Mother H
Bill Maher on Monday offered $5 Million to the charity of Donald Trump’s choosing if the billionaire could prove that he wasn’t “the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.”
Such happened on NBC’s Tonight Show which clearly was in on the gag (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
January 8th, 2013 10:17 AM
Fox News Channel Ends 2012 With Top Ratings for 11th Straight Year
While the arrival of 2013 rang in a happy new year, it also brought in happy ratings for the Fox News Channel, which continued to dominate the cable news channel race in total viewers and the Adult 24-54 demographic for the 11th consecutive year.
According to a news release from FNC, Nielsen Media Research found that the network completed the previous 12 months with the top 11 programs in…
January 8th, 2013 9:45 AM
The Media Circle: Liberal Filmmaker George Lucas to Marry Liberal ABC
Liberal ABC News contributor Mellody Hobson will marry liberal Hollywood mogul George Lucas, announced a spokesperson for Lucasfilm. Hobson, a financial contributor on Good Morning America, was a bundler for Barack Obama in 2012, putting together $131,200 for the Democrat.
The man behind Star Wars is even more left-wing, having previously compared Dick Cheney to the emperor in his films: "…
January 8th, 2013 9:24 AM

Gun Laws in Chicago 'Don't Even Exist,' Sputters Clueless Ed Schultz
This isn't the self-imposed idiocy commonly exhibited by liberals, but a rarefied strain found in left-wing radio and MSNBC. Ed Schultz, standing astride both, embodies it.
Bad enough that Schultz insisted on his radio show Friday that heck no, gosh darn it, Bill Clinton was absotively, posalutely never tried in the Senate after he was impeached during the Lewinsky scandal. This from a man…
January 7th, 2013 8:54 PM

Showtime Hails Gorbachev as the ‘Real Democrat,’ Despairs Reagan E
Tonight, viewers of CBS-owned Showtime will be treated to the ninth of ten installments of Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States, which has attacked U.S. leaders – from FDR to Ronald Reagan – from the far-left while hailing the virtues of communists.
Last Monday’s installment, on Carter and Reagan, offered a representative sampling of Stone’s worldview, an hour which included…
January 7th, 2013 7:45 PM

Rush Limbaugh: Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson Try To Convince Blacks
As NewsBusters readers know, actors Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson have made some rather inflammatory comments of late.
On Monday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said of the two stars currently featured in Quentin Tarantino's controversial film "Django Unchained," "[They] try to make the case that there's still slavery in this country" (video follows with transcript):
January 7th, 2013 6:28 PM