Sexually Oriented Programs on 'ABC Family' Rile Viewers

The formerly family friendly cable network "ABC Family" has been airing sexually oriented programs of late that are riling parents of young children.In particular, the hit series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" is so racy that viewer discretion is advised.Such seems to go against the concept of a "family" channel, wouldn't you think?On Sunday, The Los Angeles Times addressed the…
Noel Sheppard

Kossacks Desperately Seek Satire to 'Take Limbaugh Down

Comedy is not pretty, especially if it is wielded as a clumsy hatchet by the Left to do their dirty work for them. Such is the case with the suggestion on the Daily Kos that satire could be used as a weapon to "take Limbaugh down." This is the comedy weapon post on this topic by the ironically named Kossack, FreeSociety: Like it or not, Rush Limbaugh's elevation to icon status, by the right-wing-…
P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread

NB Staff

Super Bowl Sunday Open Thread

It's Super Bowl Sunday, and we've got Joe Concha below the fold. Also, those following the track career of Brandon Sheppard get an early season update:
NB Staff

N.Y. Times Urges Springsteen to 'Go Rogue' at Super Bowl and Denounce

A liberal New York Times sports columnist begged Bruce Springsteen on Friday to make a political statement during his halftime Super Bowl concert. Harvey Araton suggested: "maybe we'll get lucky and there will be at least one bold moment Sunday night when Springsteen goes rogue and rails against -- oh, I don't know -- offensive Wall Street bonuses, $18.4 billion worth. Go ahead, Bruce, make those…
Clay Waters

Jon Stewart Loves White-Mocking Preacher: 'Most Adorable Man I've Ever

Tim Graham

Saturday Night Comedy Video Open Thread

Last Saturday's comedy video open thread was the most popular yet with almost 6,500 reads. Sweet.Tonight, as we're hours away from our nation's most highly-watched sporting event, it seems appropriate to focus on comedy in sports. As Archie Bunker used to say, can you folly that?Readers are encouraged to submit suggestions to Noel and Warner via PM or EM (nsheppard@newsbusters.org, igcolonel@…
NB Staff

Newsweek's Clift Bemoans Media Sexism Against Hillary, and Even Palin

Tim Graham

More Disparate Coverage From LAT in Coverage of Priest and Teacher Sex

As we reported a couple days ago, when a veteran middle-school teacher in nearby Santa Monica pleaded guilty last month to "multiple counts of illegal sex acts" and molesting nine young girls, the Los Angeles Times didn't print a single syllable about it in their paper. Not one. The teacher was sentenced to 14 years in state prison. Although the Times had reported the teacher's original arrest…
Dave Pierre

Bozell: No Cussing Club Kid Gets Death Threats

Tim Graham

CBS Paints Israelis as in Denial of Civilian Suffering, Ignores Aid Sh

Brad Wilmouth

Campbell Brown Calls Out Rush Limbaugh to Debate Ali Velshi

CNN's Campbell Brown isn't happy with what Rush Limbaugh said about her colleague Ali Velshi Friday, and has invited the conservative radio host to debate him on her program.As some background, Velshi was on Brown's "No Bias, No Bull" show Thursday and claimed: "This is not the economy that Ronald Reagan ever saw or anybody with the last name Bush ever saw, or Clinton. We have not seen anything…
Noel Sheppard

Google Flags NewsBusters and Other Conservative Sites 'Harmful

In the past several hours, I have received multiple e-mail messages from readers claiming that internet behemoth Google, for a brief period of time Saturday morning, flagged a number of conservative websites including NewsBusters, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Fox News as possibly harmful to computers.UPDATE: This is NOT a problem exclusive to conservative websites.  NewsBusters has reported…
Noel Sheppard

Begala: Leader of GOP Is 'Corpulent Drug Addict' Rush Limbaugh

CNN's Paul Begala, in response to Friday's announcement that former Maryland governor Michael Steele had been named Republican National Committee chairman, said, "The real leader of the Republican Party in America today is a corpulent drug addict with an AM radio talk show, Rush Limbaugh." He also said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is "very bitter, and divisive," "Obama is stylistically much more like…
Noel Sheppard