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Veteran Journalist Likens U.S. Border Fence to Berlin Wall
Appearing on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, longtime CNN correspondent Charles Bierbauer, who’s now the senior contributing editor to SCHotline.com, a South Carolina political news site, equated a proposed fence to deter illegal immigration from Mexico with the Berlin Wall that prevented Germans from fleeing East Germany’s communist dictatorship during the Cold War.Oddly, Bierbauer…
'Nightly News' Uses Anecdotal Evidence to Condemn Reverse Mortgages
Report contends elderly Hispanic woman who 'trusts people' was duped into agreeing to reverse mortgage's terms.
MRC/NB's Bozell on Media's Softness on Obama, Hillary Clinton
The morning after appearing with NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham at the National Press Club (pictures and audio from that event posted below) to discuss the media's lack of interest in Hillary Clinton's role in Clinton administration scandals, MRC president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the January 11 "Fox & Friends" to discuss NBC's gauzy treatment of Barack Obama.…
Jon Alter on Monday: Hillary Not Sexy, Obama Had It Sewed Up
Newsweek columnist and pundit Jonathan Alter managed to double-embarrass himself on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. He should win the award for Most Embarrassed Pundit. Appearing on Monday night's Charlie Rose show on PBS (video at CharlieRose.com), Alter repeatedly threw dirt on Hillary's political grave, suggesting she would never become president and would have to settle for becoming "…
The Audacity of the Media’s Coverage of Obama’s Church
Or lack thereofPuckering Up for the PressIllinois Democrat Senator Barrack Hussein Obama is, of course, the Media Darling for President this next go ‘round, at least du jour and for the moment.After six months (years?) of their extended coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton, they chose to depose her after but one loss -- in Iowa, the Ethanol State.The Queen is dead, long live the King.Having won…
F-words: Feminism and Falsehoods
What does it mean to be a feminist? According to CosmoGirl magazine, it means perpetuating the myths that women cannot think for themselves, that they are simply victims, and that women who stay home to raise their children are "playing Russian roulette with their future." Leslie Bennetts, author of The Feminine Mistake, believes "feminism is suffering from a major image crisis." Her column in…
Climate Change Blamed for First Baghdad Snows in 100 Years
Add another item to the growing list of things caused by the liberal bogeyman known as global warming: SNOW!!!I kid you not. For those thinking NewsBusters has fallen prey to a satire, think again, as the following was hysterically logged by Agence France-Presse moments ago (emphasis added throughout, h/t NBer Popular Tech):
NewsBusted
It's Friday which means another episode of our comedy show "NewsBusted!" Topics in this show: Dennis Kucinich's campaign strategies, a new pill for women's libidos, and political division in Jesse Jackson's family. Click the "Play" icon to the right on the video to watch.If you like the show, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new…
Onion Editor Leaves for Left-wing MoveOn
As a long-time occasional reader of the satirical newspaper The Onion, I couldn't help but notice a leftward drift to its humor. Now I see why: Lots of people on the right think that the liberal group MoveOn.org is a joke. Well, now they’ll have a bit more ammo in their argument.The powerful liberal activist group has wooed Peter Koechley away from the satirical newspaper The Onion, where he was…
Erin Burnett's Shopping List for Suitors
We have seen Chris Matthews drool over her on live television but he might have second thoughts after reading the extensive shopping list of CNBC's Street Signs anchor, Erin Burnett. Her expensive list of things she wants from suitors was published in Men's Health as 8 Ways to Impress Me. None of the ways in which one can impress Erin has anything to do with personality. It all comes down to…
Scarborough: 'Pathetic Lapdog Freddie Boy, Hatchet Man for McCain
See updates for Huckabee, Thompson responses to this story at bottom.Scratch Joe Scarborough from the list of those praising the performance of Fred Thompson at last night's South Carolina debate hosted by Fox News. With panelists Willie Geist and Mika Brzezinski in supporting roles, the Morning Joe host went off on Thompson today with stunning vitriol, deriding him as "Freddie boy" "pathetic,"…