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Megyn Kelly Strikes Back At Playboy
As NewsBusters' Stephen Gutowski has been reporting, Playboy.com earlier this week published an astonishingly vile piece advocating hate sex against prominent conservative women. One of those on the list, Fox News's Megyn Kelly, responded to this disgusting attack on air Friday.Readers are advised to fasten their seatbelts tightly, for Megyn was loaded for vitriolic misogynist bear, and she wasn'…
June 5th, 2009 4:34 PM
Sex-Crazed Cosmo Highlights Virgins
It seems like abstaining from sex is now the only thing that shocks in our sexualized culture. Cosmopolitan magazine, best known for its "75 Ways to Drive Your Man Wild"-type articles, turned its spotlight on virgins in its July issue. Editors splashed "Virgins in Cosmo! (We Thought This Day Would Never Come)" across the cover to advertise Molly Triffin's article about why some women in their…
June 5th, 2009 4:28 PM
Outrageous: Brokaw Wonders What Israel Can 'Learn' From Buchenwald And
**Video Below The Fold** The folks at Powerline realized the implications of an outrageous news clip featuring NBC's Tom Brokaw conducting an interview with the Obammessiah. Apparently, this hard news journalist thought he'd get deep and ask a pertinent question about Israel, the Palestinians, and just what it might be that the Jews can learn from Obama's visit to Buchenwald and how they should…
June 5th, 2009 4:06 PM
Weekend Captionfest
David Adickes works on his sculpture of President Barack Obama at his studio in Houston, June 2, 2009. AP Photo/David J. Phillip
June 5th, 2009 4:00 PM
NYT Critic Can't Abide 'Right-Wing Ranter' Glenn Beck Mocking Democrat
Given the paper's unfair treatment of his Fox News show, it comes as no surprise the New York Times didn't much approve of talk show host and provocateur Glenn Beck's recent simulcast comedy show, which aired from Kansas City and over 400 theatres around the country. The criticism came in an Arts Beat blog post (hat tip Hot Air) by Times critic Mike Hale, "Glenn Beck, Simulcasting Discontent."…
June 5th, 2009 3:54 PM
Joe Klein Notes a Terrorist with a 'Good Question
Time magazine's Joe "Anonymous" Klein is at it again. Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb yesterday picked up on how the journalist -- who as we've documented is harsher on Israel than Iran -- credited a terrorist with having a "good question" about what pressure the Obama administration will place on the Netanyahu government regarding settlements in Palestinian territories:Joe Klein, who has in…
June 5th, 2009 3:52 PM
NYT Praises Sotomayor 'Focus on Diversity and Struggle,' Downplays 'Wi
The New York Times has responded to revelations that Sonia Sotomayor’s quote about “a wise Latina woman” was repeated often between 1994 and 2003 by publishing an article titled “Speeches show judge’s steady focus on diversity and struggle.” The article, written by Peter Baker and Jo Becker, does mention in passing the fact that she has used the quote on multiple occasions, but it did so in the…
June 5th, 2009 2:23 PM
Limbaugh: Obama's Control of Banks a 'Stealth Way' to Impose Fairness
Some in the liberal media establishment have decried discussion of the Fairness Doctrine, claiming the Obama administration's publicly saying it wouldn't pursue it removed the threat. However, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh theorized that President Obama may have another method to restrict content over the airwaves in mind. In an interview on Sean Hannity's June 4 Fox News…
June 5th, 2009 1:59 PM
CNNMoney's Hour-Later Employment Report Reax: 'Better Than Expected
It doesn't seem like it would be too much to ask CNNMoney's headline e-mailers to read past the first sentence of a government announcement. But, maybe it is. Here are the first two sentences of the Employment Situation Report from Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics released this morning: Nonfarm payroll employment fell by 345,000 in May, about half the average monthly decline for the prior 6…
June 5th, 2009 1:56 PM
CNN's King: Williams Asking Obama to Plug Tonight Show 'Way Over the L
On Tuesday evening, the new host of the "Tonight" show, Conan O'Brien, got a great plug from President Obama all made possible by "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams (video embedded right).On Thursday, CNN's John King told WOR radio's Steve Malzberg that Williams asking the President to do such a promo wasn't from his school of journalism and was "way over the line." What follows is a partial…
June 5th, 2009 1:53 PM
ABC's Cokie Roberts Agrees With Sotomayor: Women Are Better
Cokie Roberts appeared on Friday's "Good Morning America" and agreed with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's 1994 comment that a wise woman would come to a better conclusion than a man. Roberts, cheered, "Of course, I would agree with her that they're better." Fellow ABC journalist Sam Donaldson empathized that if the judge made a mistake, "it was a Joe Biden problem. She blurted out the…
June 5th, 2009 12:25 PM
Tamron Hall Justifies MSNBC Obsession With Rush Limbaugh
MSNBC’s Tamron Hall attempted to justify multiple stories on Rush Limbaugh supposedly comparing Barack Obama to Al Qaeda: "We have a right to cover people who are speaking out...Many people listen to this man, and we have a responsibility to report all sides and you can't try to duck and hide, throw the rock and then hide in the bush."Hall was responding to criticism by Republican strategist Alex…
June 5th, 2009 12:15 PM