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NOW Bashes Limbaugh While Putting Letterman in Hall of Shame
In a fine example of liberal hypocrisy, the National Organization for Women placed "Late Show" host David Letterman in its Media Hall of Shame Thursday, and took the opportunity to bash conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.In its admonishment of Letterman's now infamous jokes about Sarah Palin and one of her daughters, NOW oddly felt the need to balance their indignation with a reference to an…
Mark Morford: 'Age of Obama' Brings Global Decline of Tangible Evil
Last year columnist Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle turned himself into a national laughingstock with his comical claim that Barack Obama was some sort of "enlightened being," a messianic Lightworker. Here is an excerpt from Morford's "Lightworker" column that gives you a taste of his worshipful unintentional humor:Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious,…
AP Alarmism:'Some Say' an 'Increase in Violence from Whites' on the Wa
Earlier, Brent Baker reported that ABC's Pierre Thomas went off the deep end with a story claiming that America's white population was increasingly prone to a "wave of domestic terror." Now the Associated Press also wades into the same murky waters with a June 11 piece claiming that the "potential for an increase in violence from whites who feel they are slipping from power is high." Naturally,…
Flashbacks: Letterman Has Derided Sarah Palin Before (with videos
With Sarah Palin condemning David Letterman's joke about her daughter, a look back at some of Letterman's previous hostility toward Palin after she emerged as the GOP's VP nominee -- as documented, with video, in previous NewsBusters posts. Last September, Letterman sarcastically complained that if a President McCain “drops dead...don't you want your President to have had the presence of mind to…
Today Show Defends Letterman's 'Joke
Host Matt Lauer grills Palin on her response to sexual joke about daughter.
NPR: Young Adults in Search of Sex, Not Love
Reports defend hook ups, barely examine larger issues of casual sex.
ABC: 'Potential Wave of Domestic Terror' vs NBC: 'No Spike' in Hate Gr
Which way is it? Highlighting three murders this year, ABC's Pierre Thomas on Thursday night delivered an ominous and speculative story on how “radicals of the ultra-fringe, filled with rage about illegal immigration, fear of losing their guns, abortion and race making law enforcement increasingly nervous about a potential wave of domestic terror.” In contrast, on the NBC Nightly News, Pete…
CNN's Sanchez Again Teams Up With Media Matters To Slam Conservatives
Anchor Rick Sanchez used another crazed gunman’s rampage to blast conservative media during CNN’s Newsroom program on Thursday, and brought on Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert as his aide to bash talk radio and Fox News. He hinted that the white supremacist who killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, might have been “motivated to move by right-wing pronouncements...on some TV and radio outlets.”…
Matthews: Is Palin Talking the Language of Far Right Nuts
Yesterday Chris Matthews invited on Salon.com's Editor in Chief Joan Walsh to link the Holocaust Museum shooter to Rush Limbaugh but it was the "Hardball" host himself, on Thursday's show, who connected Sarah Palin to James von Brunn as he wondered if the Alaska Governor was "getting very close to the edge," of the same "attitude" of the "far right," and questioned "Is she talking their language…
Behar Suggests Waterboarding Alleged Holocaust Shooter
Joy Behar apparently has a thing for waterboarding and conservatives. ABC’s “View” co-host interrupted a serious June 11 discussion about hate crimes in America, with talk of, well, more waterboarding. In this case, the suspect in the Holocaust museum shooting. “You know they say he’s the lone gun man he’s acted alone and everything…but do you think that Cheney should have him waterboarded to…
