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MRC/NB's Motley on FNC to Discuss NYT Hit Job on Cindy McCain
The Media Research Center's Director of Communications and NewsBusters.org Contributing Editor Seton Motley appeared on the Fox News Channel's Fox News Live yesterday to discuss another New York Times hit job on the McCains, this one on wife Cindy.Included in the Times outrages was co-author Jodi Kantor contacting friends of the McCains's youngest daughter Bridgette via Facebook email "trying to…
Obama-backing Former Bradley Aide: Enough with the Bradley Effect Alre
With Sen. Barack Obama's present lead in the polls, there's been hand-wringing in the media that he could possibly lose the race due to the so-called Bradley Effect, wherein racist white voters lie to pollsters on the telephone about their voting preferences in order to, well, not sound racist.But as a former Bradley campaign staffer writes in an October 19 op-ed for the New York Times, it was…
Biden Guarantees an International Crisis in Six Months if Obama Wins
Democrat vice presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday guaranteed that if Barack Obama is elected president, there will be an international crisis within six months.It's certainly going to be interesting to see how the Obama-loving media report this potentially huge gaffe by the Delaware senator.UPDATE AT END OF POST: Is Biden basing this on national security information the Obama campaign…
Jon Stewart Tells Sarah Palin 'F**k You
You can officially add "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart to the list of unabashed Sarah Palin haters, for while speaking in front of a crowd at Northeastern University on Friday, the comedian told the Alaska governor "F**k you!"Unfortunately, as reported by Mary Katherine Ham at the Weekly Standard Sunday evening, there was more to Stewart's invective-filled rant.Here are some of the lowlights (…
Daily Kos And Other Lefties Will No Longer Call Powell 'Uncle Tom
When a black republican like General Colin Powell endorses a major liberal figure like Barack Obama, it is amazing to see racial vitriol stop at a lefty website like Daily Kos: Powell didn't just decimate the McCain campaign rationale, however. Powell also offered up an endorsement of Barack Obama in the strongest possible terms, saying that Obama would be an "exceptional president" and that he…
Of the MRC's Sweet-On-Obama Sixteen, Only the Infatuated Four Remain
And then there were four -- the Infatuated Four.Of the sixteen most pro-Obama journalists, you have determined the four that have been the sweetest on him. Your righteous indignation, and your votes, have solidified the Sweet-On-Obama Sixteen's Infatuated Four. So check the results, and vote again to pare the four down to two. All on the way to determining the Media's Most Valuable Partisan (…
Early Show: Rodriguez Laments Laws of Supply and Demand
Prices shouldn't be set by supply and demand. They should be determined by, well, what prices "should" be. That's the innovative theory Maggie Rodriguez propounded on today's Early Show.The Early Show anchor's unique take on economics came in the course of a segment on the falling price of gasoline. Rodriguez lamented to co-anchor Chris Wragge that grocery prices weren't falling along with gas…
AP Again Calls Gov. Palin A Racist
The Associated Press has once again called Governor Sarah Palin a racist. This time Rachel D’Oro for the AP bases her claim on the fact that Palin appointed minorities to her Alaska administration -- but not enough of them to suit the AP -- and because at an Alaska rally when she was running for governor one attendee once spoke to a black cameraman in an unkind manner. Yep, that's a mountain of…
Entertainment Weekly: Stone's 'W' Flick Disappoints... Because of 'Tou
Entertainment Weekly's Joshua Rich reported on the weekend's box office returns for the latest releases on October 19 to let us all in on Hollywood's successes and failures, because, you know, Hollywood is important and all. We find that the Chihuahua movie is still going like gangbusters ($70 million in three weeks) and the horrid movie "Max Payne" led the weekend's receipts with $18 million.…
Awful: LAT Op-Ed Claims Obama a 'Bridge Builder' on Abortion
In an error-ridden op-ed in Friday's Los Angeles Times (10/17/08), Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec makes the outrageous claim that Barack Obama "has held himself out as a bridge builder" on the issue of abortion. Kmiec then advances a fallacious case that a faithful Catholic can vote in clear conscience for Barack Obama.A "bridge builder" on abortion? Is Kmiec kidding?? Consider:Obama has…
'Family Guy' Character Wears Nazi Uniform With McCain-Palin Button
Fox's animated comedy "Family Guy" on Sunday showed one of its main characters, Stewie Griffin, dressed up in a Nazi uniform with a McCain-Palin button on it.I kid you not.The premise of the episode setting up this disgraceful political statement weeks before an important election was described by IGN TV (video of segment embedded right, h/t NB reader David M):