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ABC: Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped By Global Warming
Global warming is helping America's sworn enemies al Qaeda as well as the Taliban in Afghanistan.So claimed ABCNews.com's "World News Webcast" Friday in a segment not only designed to increase America's fear of Al Gore's money-making bogeyman, but also give cover to President Obama as things in Afghanistan continue to spiral out of control.Talk about your amazingly convenient, two-fisted, win-…
Same Old Song and Dance: As Fan and Fred Losses Balloon, Here Comes th
As if the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Fan and Fred) crackups weren't bad enough, IBDeditorials.com noted on Thursday evening that another bad-mortgage shoe is about to drop. This time it's at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). First, let's revisit Fan and Fred to remind readers just how complete the disaster has been at these decades in the making Democratic crony-controlled entities. A…
Saturday Sports Open Thread
Big day for college football as well as MLB playoffs, NHL, President's Cup, etc., etc.
So Far, Media Quiet on D.C. Gay-Left Activism/Protest Weekend
President Obama speaks tonight at a fundraising banquet for the gay-left Human Rights Campaign, the same group Ted Kennedy joked before last year about Jesse Helms being in Hell. The dinner will also feature entertainment by pop star Lady Gaga and the cast of the Fox prime-time show "Glee," made by infamously raunchy gay producer Ryan Murphy.The dinner and Sunday's National Equality March on…
NYT’s Brooks: Obama Nobel Prize Award a 'Joke' and 'Travesty'; WaPo
Remember just a week ago when New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the likes Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck? Naturally, that led to the left-wing noise machine, and the media which uses that message for show prep, to suggest there was a split in the conservative movement and therefore attempt to marginalize the conservative message. However, will they be so eager to echo the sentiment of…
Obama a 'Figure of Hope' to World in Winning 'One of the Last Towering
ABC, CBS and NBC all led Friday night with the “surprise” pick of President Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize after less than a year in office and acknowledged the choice was meant as a slap at former President George W. Bush, but that didn't prevent the network journalists from touting the honor of the selection and, in one case, worrying about how critics will use the award against him. “…
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter Slams Limbaugh as 'Mullah Rush
Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter grouped conservative talk radio with Islamic radicals, specifically singling out Rush Limbaugh for attack, on Friday’s MSNBC Live. While acknowledging that “everybody agrees it was premature” to award the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, Alter singled out the two groups that, in his view, were actually voicing criticism: “You’ve got the mullahs in the…
Of All People: Lara Logan Supports McChrystal, Warns of Grave Dangers
That there has been little love lost between posters and commenters here at NewsBusters and CBS correspondent Lara Logan over the years is not exactly a secret (see previous NB posts by yours truly, Brent Baker, Kyle Drennen, and just warming up). I don't know what has happened in past couple of years (or is it months?) to knock some sense into Logan ("good war" Afghanistan vs. "bad war" Iraq?…
MSNBC's Matthews Favorably Compares Obama to Fellow Nobel Winner Gorba
No wonder why Chris Matthews is always positively tingly over Obama. It's just a neverending Gorbasm with a different leftist object of lust.Today on "Hardball," Matthews favorably compared the president to former Soviet dictator and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mikhail Gorbachev (MP3 audio available here):CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: When Gorbachev became chairman of the [Communist] Party and ran, took…
Newsweek: Lay Off, America -- President Obama Deserves The Nobel Peace
Newsweek has a blog called “The Gaggle.” I’ll skip the tired jokes about how I didn’t know either, and just get to the main point: Ben Adler and Daniel Stone, writers for this blog, are defending the Nobel Prize Committee’s choice of President Barack Obama as the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.As you can see, not much is needed in the way of extra humor.Here are the reasons they give…
MSNBC’s Shuster Slams: Obama Nobel Speech Makes Limbaugh Look ‘Un
MSNBC’s David Shuster on Friday slammed conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and RNC Chairman Michael Steele as "un-American" and "extreme" for criticizing Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win. The liberal co-host of News Live applauded the President’s speech on the award and asserted, "...It makes the harsh comments from Michael Steele, from Rush Limbaugh, the rest, seem even more extreme and, as…
