Laughably Lame WaPo Hit Piece on 'First Dude

Does anybody remember Bill Clinton boasting in 1992 that a vote for him means "buy one, get one free?" Of course, he was referring to the fact that  by electing him, you would also get Hillary as a virtual co-president. No big outrage in the liberal media back then about a spouse being too involved in the political affairs of her husband. However, the Washington Post has now taken the involvement…
P.J. Gladnick

Frank Rich: Joy Behar Is The New Edward R. Murrow

Tim Graham

Bozell on the Palin Book-Burning Myth

Brent Bozell's latest culture column explored how liberal nitpickers landed in Alaska and quickly jumped to conclusions that any right-wing, Jesus-loving politician must be a book-burner. But Brent wonders if many librarians and "civil libertarians" aren't a lot like the liberal media elite, wanting to insure a serious bias in "acceptable information" without any troublesome conservative activism…
Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

Sex Ed for Kindergartners a 'Hot Topic' on The View

Walters, Goldberg and Behar peck away at Hasselbeck's defense of McCain ad
Kristen Fyfe

Jack Cafferty: 'Is Sarah Palin's 15 Minutes of Fame Over

On Friday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty asked, "Is Sarah Palin's 15 minutes of fame over?" As you can see, Jack seems very anxious for Palin to become a has been of little consequence in this election:Funny how a stock market crash, the failure of a few big investment banks will distract Americans from the flavor of the day. There doesn't seem to be the burning interest in who makes Sarah…
P.J. Gladnick

Pelley Can't See Palin as President, Kroft Insists It's 'Fact' Being B

Three Sundays ago, in a 60 Minutes interview CBS's Steve Kroft cued up Barack Obama with Sarah Palin's presumed lack of qualifications compared to him: “Does the fact that he chose as his Vice President someone who has less experience than you take that weapon out of his arsenal?” But on Sunday night, in a 60 Minutes devoted to new interviews with both Obama and John McCain, Scott Pelley also hit…
Brent Baker

WaPo Columnist Bashes Obama While Defending Rush Limbaugh

When I saw the headline at WashingtonPost.com "Closing the Whopper Gap" with columnist Ruth Marcus's name next to it, I naturally assumed this had to be another hit piece on John McCain akin to what my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported last week.  Yet, upon closer examination, it turned out Marcus's target of disaffection this time was -- wait for it! -- Barack Obama.And, she even defended Rush…
Noel Sheppard

Sunday NFL and Ryder Cup Open Thread

With a great day of football on tap, as well as America actually leading in the Ryder Cup for a change, I have the great pleasure of introducing a new feature to NewsBusters.Joe Concha is a freelance writer who's contributed to FoxSports.com, NBCSports.com, as well as the New York Sun.Every Sunday, Joe will get us ready for some football with his own unique style of mixing sports with politics…
Noel Sheppard

WaPo Cartoon Features A Cursing God, Ridicules Palin's Religion

**Full Size Image Below Fold** Well, leave it to Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist of the Washington Post, to make fun of both God and Sarah Palin at the same time, eh? Back on September 9, with his Tuesday comic, Oliphant featured a God that curses and portrays Sarah Palin speaking in gibberish as if she were "speaking in tongues" because she is supposedly a crazy Pentecostal. Oliphant…
Warner Todd Huston

'SNL' Does McCain-Bashing Skit Written by Al Franken

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" opened its most recent installment with a John McCain-bashing skit believed to be the idea of Senate Democrat candidate Al Franken.In the segment, McCain, played by Darrell Hammond, approved numerous campaign ads making absolutely absurd claims about Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. One accused the junior senator from Illinois of wanting to provide health…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Hitting Obama for 'Whopper' and 'False' Statements on Soc. Sec

NewsBusters is, of course, a site dedicated to exposing liberal bias in the press. But, once in a while the liberal press gets something right and this is one of those cases. On Spetember 20, Newsweek hosted an article by FactCheck.org that exposed the outright lies contained in the claims Barack Obama made against John McCain's record on Social Security in order to scare as many elder citizens…
Warner Todd Huston

Dems Threaten Anti-Iran Rally Organizers With IRS Attack if They Let P

News has emerged that the organizers of that anti-Iran rally that famously got snarled up in Senator Hillary Clinton's ire at Governor Sarah Palin last week were threatened by New York Democrats with IRS action against their tax-exempt status if they allowed Palin to speak. CBS local NY news reported this little fact and so did NBC but most of the national news has ignored this outrageous threat…
Warner Todd Huston