Limbaugh Wedding Vicodin, Reagan Only ‘Acted’ Like a President, Ma

I watch HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher so you don’t have to. The most-noteworthy vitriol from Friday night’s show that I tweeted last night -- seven quotes, in sequence, you can read in less than a minute: ♦ Bill Maher opening monologue joke about Rush Limbaugh’s wedding: “They say, instead of throwing rice, throw Vicodin.” ♦ Maher, interviewing Paul Begala, channeling Obama’s reaction to those…
Brent Baker
June 5th, 2010 11:23 PM

Daily Kos Imagines 'Fat, Repulsive Angel of Death Cheney' Gloating Ove

Daily Kos boss Markos Moulitsas is scheduled to appear on Jake Tapper's Sunday roundtable on This Week tomorrow. It would be great -- although the odds are very slim -- if Tapper would quote some of this Daily Kos bilge and ask Moulitsas to defend it. This Saturday morning post by Karen Hedwig Backman imagined Dick Cheney as a malevolent Angel of Death. It's called "Dick Cheney's Dismal Swamp of…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2010 11:22 PM

Pacifica Radio Dedicated Memorial Day to Ripping Ronald Reagan, That

On the occasion of Memorial Day, the radical-left Pacifica radio network devoted their hour of "Democracy Now" programming to the soft-spoken radical leftist whack-a-demic Noam Chomsky, who ripped into Ronald Reagan as a singular criminal: Another stunning illustration of the success of propaganda, which has considerable import for the future, is the cult of the great killer and torturer Ronald…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2010 10:47 PM

Students in Constitution Class Are Probably Fringy Militia Types, WaPo

Saturday's Washington Post carried a story by reporter Krissah Thompson on constitution classes in Springfield, Missouri on its front page. The headline was anodyne: “For answers to today's problems, Fathers know best: Conservative group's course on Constitution touts founders' wisdom.” But Thompson is traveling halfway across the country to identify the fringes of the right wing, a Glenn Beck-…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2010 4:35 PM

CBS Feigns Concern for How Tea Party Candidates Are Detriment to Repub

“Up next, why some Republicans are starting to wish the Tea Party was over,” Katie Couric teased Friday night as CBS feigned concern over how Tea Party candidates are too “extreme” to win. CBS News political analyst John Dickerson delivered the usual media warning, just with a new entity to blame for pushing Republicans too far to the right: “The passion that was so important in primaries for Tea…
Brent Baker
June 5th, 2010 3:39 PM

Bozell Column: The 'Glee' Agenda

Bill O'Reilly recently hosted a “culture warriors” segment at Fox News where both “warriors” agreed that homosexuality is morally acceptable. That same no-debate mentality has been a regular drumbeat on the Fox television series “Glee,” a musical drama/comedy about a high school glee club in Lima, Ohio. This show is wildly popular because of the music. Songs performed on the show sell feverishly…
Brent Bozell
June 5th, 2010 12:27 PM

The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan Boasts about the Size of Al Gore's Geni

We all know former Vice President Al Gore has a sycophantic media supporting him on his pet cause of global warming. But this might be a little over the top, or it could very well explain a lot. In December 2007, when Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, The Washington Post's Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan argued the former vice president had won the Nobel Prize for "sexy." Well, apparently this is…
Jeff Poor
June 5th, 2010 11:34 AM

AP: 'Tolerant' Sweden Can't Tolerate 'Far-Right' Party

The Associated Press's Karl Ritter clearly doesn't recognize how close to parody his report ("Rightist group jolts Sweden's tolerant self-image") on the mini-rise of the right-leaning Sweden Democrats Party is (I'll use "SD" as an abbreviation in this post). Ritter is not afraid to label the SD, but won't label others. He begins by telling us that the SD is "far-right" because it is "preaching…
Tom Blumer
June 5th, 2010 10:54 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
June 5th, 2010 10:35 AM

Ari Fleischer Says Hearst Should Fire Helen Thomas

Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, who endured a lot of pointed Helen Thomas questions, told Sam Stein of The Huffington Post that Hearst Newspapers should dismiss Thomas for saying Jews need to "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Poland and Germany. "She should lose her job over this," Fleischer said in an email. "As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2010 7:42 AM

Australian ABC News Seriously Recognizes the Cause of 'International

Lest one would think liberal bias isn't an international phenomenon, the Australian Broadcasting Company (their ABC News) was showing their sympathies Saturday with a brief story titled "International Whores Day to Tackle Discrimination." Apparently, it is an injustice that prostitutes have a more difficult time in child custody cases, or getting bank loans or buying newspaper ads:   Groups…
Tim Graham
June 5th, 2010 6:46 AM

Shiny Happy Talk: NBC's Today Insisted Gore Split Was 'Brave' and Prov

NBC's Today crew tried to put a heavy spin on the Gore split on Wednesday morning. The audience was told that the Gores' 40-year marriage wasn't a failure, it was a success, several times over. Matt Lauer even insisted their divorce was "brave" -- as if all the other old married people would do the same if they weren't cowards. It's fine if the liberals at NBC don't want to think less of the…
Tim Graham
June 4th, 2010 11:36 PM

MSNBC’s Todd: Is Oil Spill 'Wasted Disaster' If Congress Doesn’t I

Chuck Todd “hated” to say it but just had to get it out anyway–would the BP oil spill, arguably the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, be a “missed opportunity” for Congress to capitalize on “disaster” to enact energy legislation should it fail to do anything in its wake?Discussing what the reaction of Congress and the Obama administration should be to the spill during an interview…
Matt Hadro
June 4th, 2010 6:09 PM

Jack Bauer, '24' Go Out On Final High Note

Editor's Note: The following was originally posted at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Before the series finale of “24” began, Kiefer Sutherland (a.k.a Jack Bauer) appeared on the Fox network and thanked the show’s audience for their support of the long-running program. After eight seasons (eight days in the show’s life), “24” was cancelled earlier this year, although the show will likely…
John P. Hanlon
June 4th, 2010 4:46 PM