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The actress that did the voiceover for Ellen, the Down Syndrome Girl on Sunday's "Family Guy," has responded to her critics including Sarah and Bristol Palin.As NewsBusters previously reported, the hit Fox cartoon series took a swipe at the Palins by making a joke involving Down Syndrome and the former Alaskan governor. On Tuesday, Sarah and Bristol posted their feelings about this segment at…

On the one-year anniversary of Santelli's famous rant, BMI looks back on his free market advocacy on CNBC.

Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann contnued to indict the racial makeup of Tea Party event partipants as evidence of an "unfortunate undertone" of racism as he compared the movement's members to "homogenized milk." He also asserted that "there’s nobody from any kind of minority group" at the events, in spite of a CBS News/New York…

It is still pretty much under the radar but the leftwing nutroots now want to replace the Senate version of ObamaCare with a public option bill to be passed via reconciliation. The completely unrealistic push for public option, currently opposed by President Obama, is now all the rage in the leftwing blogosphere as you can see in yesterday's Daily Kos thread. So before we find out the hard…

CPAC made the front page of Friday’s Washington Post, but reporter Philip Rucker wrongly insisted the convention was "once a venue for the right fringe" of the GOP, but now it hosts presidential aspirants. Below that, there was a promotional blurb in bold type for Dana Milbank’s column inside: "Rubio is the far right’s anti-Crist." Here’s Rucker’s sneering introduction: Emboldened by a belief…

On Thursday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann mixed up NewsBusters parent organization the Media Research Center with the group Accuracy in Media, as he linked MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell to an article written by AIM’s Roger Aronoff. In the article, titled "Olbermann’s Fuzzy Math on Race," Aronoff had responded to Olbermann’s Monday "Special Comment" in which he asserted…

The New York Times suggests racist appeals were afoot at the Conservative Political Action Conference that kicked off Thursday morning in Washington. Reporter Kate Zernike filed on the paper's "Caucus" blog Thursday to chide as offensive "some" CPAC speakers, by which she evidently meant one in particular, young conservative author Jason Mattera: "CPAC Speaker Bashes Obama, in Racial Tones." The…

A trend is beginning to develop in the media reports concerning Joe Stack, the man who allegedly smashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas: his disgust for capitalism and support of communism must be ignored at all cost.As NewsBusters previously reported, both Time.com and a blog posting at the Washington Post have conveniently skipped two crucial sentences at the end of Stack's…

Though polls and recent election results illustrate public antipathy to big government deficit spending and a preference for right-leaning Republicans, Thursday’s CBS Evening News foresaw an “incumbent backlash” in which Democrats are only more vulnerable because more of them hold national office. Katie Couric asserted “a lot of incumbents are in trouble” before reporter Chip Reid declared it’s “…

A second MSNBC host on Thursday commented about the NewsBusters doormats featuring the faces of America's most disgraceful cable news network.As NewsBusters reported moments ago, Rachel Maddow did a segment on her show Thursday evening about her visit to our booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.Not to be outdone, her partner in disinformation, Keith Olbermann,…

As NewsBusters reported Thursday, Rachel Maddow visited our booth at the Conservative Political Action Conference taking place in Washington, D.C.Showing herself to be a really good sport, Maddow discussed her CPAC visit on the MSNBC program bearing her name.In particular, she was very pleased with our Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann doormats, although she was offended we didn't have one for…

Web entrepreneur and publisher of BigGovernment.com blasts Times' Kate Zernike for alleging racism at conservative event and explains the 'social justice' mentality.