Vanity Fair Editor Calls Newt Gingrich a 'Big Baby

Now that he's frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich must feel a sense of deja vu with all the attacks he's getting from liberal media members. Keeping up his end Thursday was Vanity Fair's national editor Todd S. Purdum with a hit piece intelligently titled "Big Baby":
Noel Sheppard
November 25th, 2011 1:31 PM

Huff-Po Delights In New Yorker Cover Making Pilgrims Illegal Immigrant

The Huffington Post's Latino Voices section is thrilled with the latest controversy-stoking cover of The New Yorker: pilgrims and their bonneted wives in the moonlight crawling through a hole chain-link fence in the American desert. Who knew Miles Standish was a Mexican? The cover artist claims this is somehow not oversimplified. "Too often in politics, very complex subjects are being turned…
Tim Graham
November 25th, 2011 1:26 PM

Bachmann Disappointed NBC’s Fallon Apology Came from VP and Not Pre

As NewsBusters reported Thursday, NBC apologized to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for the offensive song that was played as she walked onto the stage to be a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Monday. Unfortunately, as Bachmann told radio’s Steve Malzberg guest-hosting for Jeff Bolton on KLIF in Texas Friday, that apology came from a vice president of programming and not NBC’s…
Noel Sheppard
November 25th, 2011 12:21 PM

Al Gore: Americans Are Yearning for 'Unvarnished Truth' Offered by Cur

In a special 80th anniversary edition of Broadcasting & Cable magazine (not online), former vice president Al Gore lays out his vision for how the American public is just desperately hungry for Current TV -- actual ratings numbers notwithstanding. To add humor on top of humor, Gore insisted that Current TV is not really leftist. "Some of our competitors may see us as being on the left…
Tim Graham
November 25th, 2011 11:26 AM

Gay Porn Movie Filmed At Occupy Oakland

You can now add the filming of gay pornography to the growing list of reprehensible things happening at Occupy encampments around the country. The New York Observer reported Tuesday:
Noel Sheppard
November 25th, 2011 9:37 AM

The Media's Tax-Hike Fixation Is Getting Old

Bored with the Penn State scandal because it didn't implicate any prominent Republicans, the mainstream media have suddenly become obsessed with Grover Norquist's "Taxpayer Protection Pledge." They are monomaniacally fixated on luring Republicans into raising taxes. If Democrats could balance the budget tomorrow and quadruple government spending, they'd refuse the deal unless they could also…
Ann Coulter
November 24th, 2011 9:50 PM

ABC's Whoopi Goldberg: 'Bonehead' Bachmann Is 'Not Presidential Materi

On Tuesday's The View on ABC, as the group discussed GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's appearance on Monday's Night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, after playing a clip of the Minnesota Congresswoman and Fallon playing a comical game of word association, ABC co-host Whoopi Goldberg declared that "bonehead" is the word she would associate with Bachmann, while co-host Barbara…
Brad Wilmouth
November 24th, 2011 8:43 PM

WaPo's Ezra Klein Briefed Senate Democrat Staffers About Super Committ

Washington Post columnist and JournoList creator Ezra Klein actually briefed a group of Senate Democrat chiefs of staff last Friday about the Super Committee. Fishbowl DC reported Wednesday:
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2011 5:14 PM

NBC's Quintanilla Wonders If Gingrich Is 'Pandering' on Illegal Immigr

As Thursday's Today show on NBC gave attention to GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's support for allowing some illegal immigrants to gain legal residency status rather than face deportation, substitute co-anchor Carl Quintanilla asked correspondent John Harwood if the former House Speaker was "pandering" to gain votes in the general election. Quintanilla:
Brad Wilmouth
November 24th, 2011 4:40 PM

UC Davis Student Admits Protesters Surrounded Cops and Wouldn't Let Th

As Occupy-loving media continue to express outrage over protesters getting pepper-sprayed by campus police officers at the University of California at Davis last week, a surprising admission by one of the attendees was uncovered in an interview Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman did Monday. One of the pepper-sprayed students told Goodman, "We had encircled them [campus police], and they were trying…
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2011 2:39 PM

CBS Highlights 'Agonizing' Plight of Illegal Immigrants in Alabama

On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid filed a report which took a sympathetic look at a family of illegal immigrants in Alabama who fear enforcement of the state's new law against illegal immigration. Reid also highlighted aspects of the law that even supporters consider to be flaws that should be fixed. The CBS correspondent began the report by focusing on the "agonizing…
Brad Wilmouth
November 24th, 2011 2:28 PM

American Idol's Lauren Alaina Muffs National Anthem at Packers-Lions G

It certainly wasn't what American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina was wishing for on Thanksgiving. As she sang the national anthem at the start of the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions NFL football game Thursday, Alaina fumbled the lyrics a bit, and stood silent for a few seconds as the crowd nervously looked on:
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2011 1:15 PM

NBC Apologizes to Michele Bachmann for Offensive Fallon Song

NBC on Wednesday issued a formal apology to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for the offensive song that was played as she walked onto the stage to be Jimmy Fallon's guest Monday evening. The issue was discussed in great detail on Thursday's Today show (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2011 11:20 AM

Thanksgiving Open Thread: Rush Limbaugh Tells the Real Story

NewsBusters wanted to wish all of its readers a Happy Thanksgiving by sharing Rush Limbaugh's depiction of what really happened centuries ago at Plymouth Rock (video courtesy Daily Rushbo):
NB Staff
November 24th, 2011 9:47 AM