Dick Cavett Declares on Imus 'It's Worse to Murder Animals' Than Human

Tim Graham
August 22nd, 2009 4:43 PM

Garofalo: Tea Party Protesters 'Functionally Retarded'; 'I Want My Cou

Comic devotes portion of stand-up routine to attacking conservative activists, insists 2004 Bush/Kerry election was stolen.
Jeff Poor
August 22nd, 2009 4:34 PM

Bill O'Reilly Takes On Jon Stewart's Critique of Fox News

Is there a new cable battle brewing between Fox News's Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart?Such appeared to be the case last week when Stewart on Wednesday's "Daily Show" harshly criticized O'Reilly and FNC for suddenly coming out in support of protesters, and O'Reilly struck back on Thursday's "Factor."Who's right?We report, you decide (videos embedded below the fold, Stewart first…
Noel Sheppard
August 22nd, 2009 2:39 PM

Specter Only Mocks Republicans At Pittsburgh Comedy Club

Most Republicans likely already think Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) is a joke, and Thursday evening he proved it when he took the stage at a Pittsburgh comedy club.Appearing at the Improv in a benefit for Allegheny county's Music Festival Fund for children, Specter poked fun exclusively at Republicans including Bob Dole, Dan Quayle, Trent Lott, Alfonse D'Amato, and Howard Baker.Proving just how…
Noel Sheppard
August 22nd, 2009 12:48 PM

Is Sean Hannity Considering Presidential Run In

Here's something that'll surely drive liberal media members over the brink: President Sean Hannity.Sound crazy?Well, according to World Net Daily, the conservative talk show host would consider a run in 2012 if he's instructed by a higher power to do so (h/t Terri Green):
Noel Sheppard
August 22nd, 2009 11:26 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
August 22nd, 2009 10:11 AM

Wanda Sykes Has Zero Regrets for Calling Limbaugh a Terrorist, Wishing

Tim Graham
August 22nd, 2009 8:11 AM

Bozell Column: A Porn-Pop Summer

Brent Bozell
August 22nd, 2009 7:18 AM

N.Y. Times Reporter Piles On Support of Britain's 'Free' Health Servic

Tim Graham
August 21st, 2009 11:14 PM

CNN: Conservatives Have Upper Hand on Twitter

There is no big mystery about Twitter. Anybody with access to the Web can use it. In fact, just to keep things in perspective about this CNN Political Ticker story on how conservatives somehow have the upper hand on Twitter, be sure to watch this video of Ben Stiller explaining  the "glories" of Twitter to a skeptical Mickey Rooney. Here are some of Rooney's classic remarks about Twitter in…
P.J. Gladnick
August 21st, 2009 9:18 PM

ABC Manages to Find 'Glass Half Full' for Obama on Health as His Polls

With “Losing Support” as the on-screen heading, ABC's World News on Friday night certainly made clear how President Obama is losing favor with the American people as his approval level and attitudes toward his health care efforts continue steadily downward so now more are opposed (50 percent) than in favor (45 percent) and he's suffered a 29-point drop in agreement with enacting a “public option…
Brent Baker
August 21st, 2009 8:17 PM

True or False: ObamaCare Could Fund Abortions

If you've been keeping up with the health care debate, opponents of President Barack Obama's health care plan have been accused of spreading misinformation to thwart the administration's efforts. Even Obama himself said recently that those who raised the abortion concern were "bearing false witness." But the same sorts of claims have come up in the media. For example, on August 18 left-wing…
Jeff Poor
August 21st, 2009 6:25 PM

CNN's Sanchez: Conservative Lying About True UK Health Care Horror Sto

On Friday’s Newsroom, CNN’s Rick Sanchez implied that the president of Conservatives for Patients Rights was lying about how “under the British health care system...health care has become so scarce that mothers are now forced to give birth to babies on sidewalks.” A woman in the UK did deliver on a sidewalk recently, but Sanchez complained, “As...you might expect, that statement went unchallenged…
Matthew Balan
August 21st, 2009 6:07 PM

CBS Claims ‘Hollywood Ending’ for Failed Cash for Clunkers Program

On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Ben Tracy reported on the ending of the problem-ridden Cash for Clunkers car buying program, but spun it this way: "Thanks to Cash for Clunkers, what could have been a dismal summer for car sales now has a Hollywood ending....But now, the wildly successful program that provided up to $4500 per clunker is being scrapped."Tracy visited a Los Angeles…
Kyle Drennen
August 21st, 2009 4:56 PM