MSN Trashes Palin Show: 'Killing Dozens of Living Things and Millions

People clicking through MSN.com for a list of Best and Worst TV of 2010 found mostly rave reviews, but near the end of the list came the "Worst," and critic Chris Larkin really blasted Sarah Palin's Alaska with the usual disdain that anyone would kill animals (but wishes a bear would harm Palin): See Sarah fish. She Sarah hunt. See Sarah log. All eight parts of this shameless ad for the…
Tim Graham

Chris Matthews Mocks Republicans Who Believe In Creation, Leaves Out

A new Gallup poll is out showing that 40 percent of Americans believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so" while 38 percent believe "God guided [the] process" of evolution and only 16 percent believe evolution happened without any help from God. Among the poll's findings was that a full 37 percent with a college…
Ken Shepherd

CBS 'Early Show' Touts Obama's 'Big Win;' Claims He's 'The Comeback Ki

On Saturday's Early Show fill-in co-host Russ Mitchell saw passage of the tax deal as a possible "turning point for Mr. Obama's presidency" and speculated that it was "perhaps setting the stage for another victory as the Senate takes up the repeal of the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law." In the report that followed, correspondent Whit Johnson declared that with the deal "President Obama could…
Kyle Drennen

Barney Frank Counters Claim Gays Are Girlie: 'I Left My Purse At Home

Chris Matthews called it "the quote of the night," so let's see how our NewsBusters readers respond.  Here was Barney Frank, reacting to the assertion by a young Marine that they are a macho bunch whereas gays are "girlie": "I will confess that I left my purse at home." Later, MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, in a stunning non sequitur, was incapable of understanding how John…
Mark Finkelstein

Andrea Mitchell Hails 'Really Moral' Defense of Gays, DREAM Act Vote t

When liberals count heads in a Meet the Press roundtable, they’d look at Sunday’s panel and classify it this way: two Republicans (Joe Scarborough and Mark McKinnon) one Democrat (Newark Mayor Cory Booker) and a nonpartisan reporter (Andrea Mitchell). The conservatives, on the other hand, see two centrists pandering to liberals, a liberal mayor, and a liberal reporter. Mitchell dropped two…
Tim Graham

Joe Scarborough Lobbies Dick Durbin From the Left to End Wasteful Afgh

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough left no doubts on where he stands on the conflict in Afghanistan Monday – but he also pressed liberal Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to stand up to President Obama on the issue of troop withdrawal. "It's distressing to me to see how this war continues," Scarborough complained, noting that the deadline for troop withdrawal has been pushed back to 2014 and possibly even further…
Matt Hadro

'Study' Claiming Fox News Viewers 'Misinformed' Is Fraught With Errors

For the past few days, the far-left Fox haters have been using a study by the University of Maryland's World Public Opinion project to claim that FNC "mis-informs" its viewers. There's nothing particularly novel about the claims, but some lefties are apparently under the impression that this study lends academic weight to their deranged hatred of everything Fox. It does not. Let's start with…
Lachlan Markay

Time's Joe Klein Rips John McCain After DREAM Act Defeat

Update (17:23): Monkey see, monkey do: MSNBC's Chris Matthews quoted extensively from this post on today's "Hardball" in a segment entitled "Whatever Happened to John McCain?" Matthews and his guests lamented McCain's swing to the right in 2010. Hell hath no fury like Joe Klein disillusioned. The Time magazine writer apparently had a bit of a liberal journalist man-crush on Sen. John McCain…
Ken Shepherd

CBS: Gay Community 'Celebrated The End of An Era' With DADT Repeal

At the top of a report on CBS's Sunday Morning, correspondent Whit Johnson proclaimed: "In San Francisco yesterday, they celebrated the end of an era. After nearly two decades, the policy of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, is all but history." The one-sided segment focused almost exclusively on supporters of repeal. Of the ten sound…
Kyle Drennen

Paul Krugman Says GOP 'Zombies' Are Going to Eat Obama's Brain

Let's hope the editorial page editors at the New York Times aren't too fond of the "No Labels" movement to soften the tone of our national debates. Because columnist Paul Krugman is comparing his conservative opponents to...brain-eating zombies. The column's title is "When Zombies Win." It concludes: Yes, politics is the art of the possible. We all understand the need to deal with one’s…
Tim Graham

Stay-at-Home Moms Are the Real World

Momma, don't let your babies grow up to be stay-at-home mommas. That seemed to be the underlying bias from a popular daytime TV show. It's not a new message, but it's one that may be changing. "She almost made it," is how Barbara Walters introduced Rachel Campos-Duffy and her husband, Sean Duffy, a congressman-elect, to the set of ABC's "The View." Campos-Duffy, a former reality-TV cast…
Kathryn Jean Lopez

Poll Suggests Even 'Moderate' Muslims Have Extreme Beliefs

In his seminal book "America Alone", Mark Steyn offered this definition of a "moderate Muslim": He's a Muslim who wants stoning for adultery to be introduced in Liverpool, but he's a "moderate" because he can't be bothered flying a plane into a skyscraper to get it.
Lachlan Markay

Stephanopoulos to Schumer: Do You Buy That There's Billions in Governm

On Monday's Good Morning America, ABC's George Stephanopoulos took a skeptical tone during an interview of liberal Senator Chuck Schumer concerning a new report from Senator Tom Coburn, which pointed out the 100 most wasteful federal government projects of 2010: "He [Coburn] says there are hundreds of billions of dollars of waste. Do you buy that?" Stephanopoulos turned to Senator Schumer…
Matthew Balan

Bozell Appears on 'Fox & Friends' to Unveil Best of Notable Quotables

NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) founder Brent Bozell appeared via satellite on "Fox & Friends" this morning to unveil the MRC's Best of Notable Quotables 2010. [See related press release here; Video of Bozell appearance is embedded below the page break]
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