Maher Buys Into Claim Sarah Palin's Baby Son Really Her Grandson

Declaring “I'm not that convinced that that's her baby,” far-left comedian Bill Maher, Friday night on his HBO show Real Time, forwarded left-wing blog rumors about how Trig Palin, born in April, is really the son of Sarah Palin's 17-year-old daughter Bristol who is now pregnant. Maher raised his theory during a one-on-one interview with CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, who didn't accept Maher's belief in…
Brent Baker

'90210' Oral Sex Episode: The 'Sarah Palin of TV Shows

Tim Graham

Slate Editor Debate Tip for Joe Biden: Imitate Campbell Brown

P.J. Gladnick

Oprah Refuses To Interview Sarah Palin

When I saw this headline at the Drudge Report, I thought it had to be a mistake:OPRAH REFUSES: PALIN WON'T BE ON Are you kidding me? The strongest and most popular voice for women in this country is refusing to interview the first woman nominated to be vice president in 24 years?WHAT? According to ABCNews.com, in an article stunningly titled, "Is Oprah Biased? Host Won't Interview Palin," such…
Noel Sheppard

Chgo Sun-Times: Palin 'Shook Up Every Registered Voter in the 'Hood

Mike Bates

Convention Reminded NYT of 'Belligerent' Buchanan Speech from

In his Friday "Political Memo," "Firing Up the Faithful With Echoes of Culture War Rhetoric," the New York Times's conservative-beat reporter David Kirkpatrick, watching the Republican Convention, uniquely managed to hear echoes of the GOP's 1992 convention -- specifically what Kirkpatrick called the "belligerence" of Pat Buchanan's "cultural war" speech, widely cited in the media (though not…
Clay Waters

Matthews: 'Foul Play' Behind Balloon Drop on Mitchell

Were those evil Republicans attempting to carpet-bomb Andrea Mitchell with balloons at the RNC last night?  Chris Matthews mused about the possibility on Hardball this afternoon.  The footage of Andrea gamely batting away the balloons has received a lot of play.  This morning, the Today show had fun with it.  But Matthews seemed to conceive a more sinister scenario:CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you were…
Mark Finkelstein

GOP Senate Leader: Greens Have 'Just Gotten More Nutty

McConnell pushes pro-energy agenda, remarks liberal media bias not as bad as it once was.
Jeff Poor

Weekend Captionfest

Piper Palin, preparing to groom brother Trig's hair.
NB Staff

Does Obama Regularly Say Surge Succeeded 'Beyond Our Wildest Dreams

Tim Graham

Time Rejects Climate Change as Cause of Storm Intensity

Magazine reports disasters worse due to population, not global warming
Julia A. Seymour

Convention Acknowledgments From NB's Managing Editor

ATLANTA, Georgia-- As I wait for my plane back to Washington, D.C., I thought I'd take the time to thank those who made our NewsBusters trip to cover the Republican National Convention successful.First off to you, the readers of NewsBusters, for loyally coming back day after day, and many of you hour after hour, to catch our in-depth coverage of the media's liberal bias, thank you. It was an…
Ken Shepherd

'American Morning' Fact Checks Palin But Not Obama or Biden

Friday's "American Morning" featured a segment dedicated to fact checking Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's speech to the Republican National Convention. In introducing the reporter who did the fact checking, co-host Kiran Chetry claimed, "CNN's Deborah Feyerick is here to fact check Palin's speech and I'm sure whenever politics is involved we have to fact check these."…
Lyndsi Thomas

CBS Squeezes in Bad Economic News before McCain Speech

Julia A. Seymour