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The MRC's Brent Bozell wrote on December 11, "Some memories that still define the warmest moments of American television are the long-running animated Christmas specials." My favorite as a child was "A Charlie Brown Christmas."To this day, Christmas isn't Christmas until I spend 30 minutes with Charlie, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang.  For many of us, the best moment is when Linus explains…

Just how far has Tiger Woods' popularity dropped?Well, the good folks at Disneyland have added a joke about the embattled golf star in their production of "Aladdin -- A Musical Spectacular."As the Genie explained the rules concerning wishes he will grant to Aladdin, he said:Rule number two: Just like Dr. Phil, I can't make somebody fall in love with you. I'm only saying that to you once. I had to…

Are we having fun yet?Perhaps the most unpopular story your humble correspondent ever wrote for NewsBusters was probably the one about Zippy the Pinhead. Most readers found it impossible to interpret Zippy into any form of reasonable thought. The main complaint being that Zippy was indecipherably confusing. Here are a few of the complaints from the previous Zippy story:Sorry, this one Zipped…

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a carol based on the poem "Christmas Bells" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.According to Wikipedia:Longfellow wrote "Christmas Bells" on Christmas Day 1863 in the midst of the American Civil War and the news of his son Charles Appleton Longfellow having suffered wounds as a soldier in the Battle of New Hope Church, VA during the Mine Run Campaign. He had…

One of the best versions of the classic Christmas song "White Christmas" has to be the Drifters' recording in the '50s. Many of you will recognize it from the Macauley Culkin film "Home Alone". This is the version he comically lip-synched in the mirror as he combed his hair.Without further ado (animated classic embedded below the fold):

Imagine the outrage if any Republican President went on vacation during a recession and spent $4,000 a night on accommodations. On ABC’s Good Morning America Wednesday, correspondent Yunji de Nies seemed to suggest that President Obama’s family will be spending such an amount renting expensive living space at an estate house in Hawaii for a two-week Christmas vacation. De Nies: "Christmas trees…

Thursday's Today show on NBC showed an excerpt from Tom Brokaw’s upcoming documentary, "American Character Along Highway 50," during which the former NBC Nightly News anchor plugged Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson – a friend of President Obama -- and delivered a puff piece on Johnson’s life and political goals, giving Johnson several soundbites to promote himself without being challenged, with…

On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent John Blackstone gave attention to the danger for small businesses if the final version of health care reform requires employers to provide health insurance for their employees as he highlighted two business owners – one who fears health care reform could close down his night club business while the other is more optimistic about how her business would…

On Thursday's World News, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer took the time to devote an entire story to 92-year-old Democratic Senator Robert Byrd’s vote for the Democratic health care bill, which the West Virginia Democrat dedicated to former Senator Ted Kennedy, whom the ABC anchor described as "health care champion Ted Kennedy." Sawyer recounted that Byrd had to be brought into the Senate chamber in a…

In keeping with the tradition of the holidays - the minds at MSNBC, the place for politics if you're of the lefty persuasion, decided rate the top 10 political stories of the decade. And leading this gang of masters of the political journalism universe was "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, who on the broadcast of his Dec. 24 program, announced that conservative activism, mainly the tea party…

Media Research Center Director of Media Analysis and NewsBusters Senior Editor Tim Graham was on FNC's The O'Reilly Factor on Wednesday to talk about Katie Couric's concern that Americans were reacting to President Obama's left-wing agenda with "disrespect" and "anger.""It reminds me a lot of 1994. I mean, when Democrats start to lose, then we have to worry about the angry American," Graham noted…

President Obama is now claiming he never campaigned on a government-run healthcare "public option," and despite abundant evidence to the contrary, MSNBC's Chris Matthews not only believes him, but is also willing to defend the clearly indefensible.When confronted by Salon's Joan Walsh, who told the "Hardball" host Wednesday, "I personally don`t believe he`s honest about it," Matthews stuck to his…

(Andrew Revkin has responded to this NewsBusters story which you can read in the Update below.)The New York Times environmental writer, Andrew Revkin, has left that newspaper this week. What made Revkin's departure interesting is that in his long farewell story published on Monday, he never once mentions global warming or climate change. First a little background on Revkin's departure from the…