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ABC Goes to Bat for Obama: GOP 'Falsely' Peddles President's 'You Didn
ABC on Tuesday dropped any pretense of objectivity and defended the President over his "you didn't build that" attack on business. In an online article, ABCNews.com writers Amy Walter, Elizabeth Hartfield and Chris Good dropped this spin into a supposedly straight news report: "Republicans have seized on the line 'you didn't build that' to falsely claim that Obama was speaking directly to…
July 24th, 2012 11:31 AM
MSNBC Host Asks Brother of Colorado Shooting Victim How His Dead Siste
NewsBusters has been for years exposing the breathtaking ignorance, incompetence, and unprofessionalism of the on air personalities associated with the so-called cable "news network" MSNBC.
On Monday, Michael Eric Dyson, filling in for Ed Schultz, actually asked the brother of one of the victims of Friday's shootings in Aurora, Colorado, how his dead sister is doing (video follows with…
July 24th, 2012 10:18 AM
Mika Loves Nanny Mayor Mike, Calls Don't Tread On Me-ers 'Idiots
The way to Mika Brzezinski's heart is through her stomach. Or better put, through using the power of the state to limit what we can put into our stomachs.
On Morning Joe today, Brzezinski declared her love for NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Why? Because of the Nanny-in-Chief's various food prohibitions, the latest being his limit on the size of soft drinks. Mika's view of those who support a "…
July 24th, 2012 9:58 AM
Jon Stewart Slams Brian Ross: 'What Story Does a Guy Have to Blow to G
ABC's Brian Ross, who falsely accused a Tea Party member of being the Aurora movie theater mass murderer last Friday, is even taking heat from Jon Stewart.
On Comedy Central's Daily Show Monday, the host did a segment he called, “What Story Does a Guy Have to Blow to Get in Trouble at ABC?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
July 24th, 2012 1:15 AM
Piers Morgan Badgers Conservative Guest During Gun Control Debate
As he hosted a debate on Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday, CNN's Piers Morgan repeatedly cut off conservative guest John Lott as the former University of Chicago professor tried to argue against imposing additional gun control.
At one point, as he grew impatient with Lott trying to explain that the overwhelming majority of guns - 86 percent - are "semi-automatic," and that an "assault weapon"…
July 24th, 2012 12:27 AM
Crovitz at the Wall Street Journal: Obama Was Wrong About Who Invented
While it's nice that the 2000 election cycle made a fool out of Al Gore for his outrageous claim that "I took the initiative in creating the Internet" -- which was in due course shortened by critics to a claim that he invented the Internet -- it's more than a little annoying that an accompanying myth emerged and has long persisted that the Internet was created by the government.
President…
July 24th, 2012 12:23 AM
Bloomberg Suggests Police Stop Protecting People Until Gun Control Ena
Appearing as a guest on Monday's Piers Morgan Tonight, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recommended that America's police officers should go on strike and refuse to protect people until gun control legislation which would allegedly make them safer is enacted. Bloomberg:
July 23rd, 2012 10:54 PM
Aurora Shooting: Schultz Sub Dyson Manages To Play Race Card
Of all the political angles that might be played in connection with the Aurora theater shooting, surely racism would be a card too far, right?
Wrong. Subbing for Ed Schultz on MSNBC tonight, Michael Eric Dyson managed to suggest that James Holmes would have attracted the attention of the authorities earlier had he been, yup, "a Muslim or another minority." Until he twisted her arm, it was…
July 23rd, 2012 10:08 PM
HBO's 'Newsroom' Cherry-Picks Soros-Funded Think Progress Video to Sme
As NewsBusters previously reported, HBO's The Newsroom has used information for its scripts from material provided to it by the far-left, George Soros-funded propaganda outlet Think Progress.
On Sunday, the show cherry-picked six seconds - yes, I said six seconds! - from a highly-edited TP video to smear conservative businessmen Charles and David Koch (video follows with transcript and…
July 23rd, 2012 9:35 PM
Elizabeth Warren: Some Of My Best Friends Are Small Businesses
In an unintentionally hilarious variation on the some-of-my-best-friends-are line employed by people defending themselves against accusations of prejudice, Elizabeth Warren—lefty Dem candidate for Senate from Massachusetts—has claimed that various people close to her have started small businesses.
Warren let loose her laugh line on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show this evening, responding to an ad…
July 23rd, 2012 8:47 PM
MSNBC's Harris-Perry Cites Surge in NYC 'Gun Violence', Ignores City's
Liberals like Melissa Harris-Perry savor vigorous debate about guns, provided that it excludes what they don't want to talk about.
For example, whether gun laws they hold so dear make our lives less safe. (video after page break)
July 23rd, 2012 8:45 PM
AP Headline Jumps on the Apple-Bashing Train on Taxes ('Phantom Taxes
Gosh, if Apple would only send the money it has parked overseas back to the United States and pay income taxes on it, the federal government's situation would be so much better, the budget would would balance, and ... no, not really. According to Peter Svensson at the Associated Press, the company has $74 billion in cash parked overseas, meaning that it would owe federal income taxes of about $…
July 23rd, 2012 7:52 PM
Rapper Ice-T Stands Up for Second Amendment
He's not exactly a poster child but apparently rapper and heavy metal singer Tracy Marrow (stage name Ice-T) is a supporter of gun rights.
In an interview with a British television channel, Marrow stood up for the Second Amendment saying that the right to bear arms is "the last form of defense against tyranny" and not merely for hunting. Video and transcript below.
July 23rd, 2012 6:43 PM
Ex-Newsweek Editor Fineman: Romney Appeals to 'Xenophobic,' 'Nativist
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Monday's Hardball to smear the Republican Party as "xenophobic" and "nativist." Fineman lamented that Mitt Romney doesn't have the courage to take on the base, a group he mocked as being "afraid of the world."
Fineman is now the editorial director for the liberal Huffington Post, an outlet in sync with his own left-wing views. Matthews and…
July 23rd, 2012 6:32 PM