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"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country."—attributed to Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), British diplomat.If Sir Henry were around today, he might offer a corollary: a communications director is a man sent to meet with the media to fib for the good of his candidate. In the current campaign, the tactic's most transparent practitioner would seem to be Robert…

Topics in this episode: Fidel Castro endorses Barack Obama, a Woodstock museum, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on marijuana, an opera version of "An Inconvenient Truth, and Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood feud over Eastwood's new movie.Like the show and want more conservative comedy? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace or subscribe to our YouTube channel, or embed today's show on your blog!

“Far more Americans believe that the press coverage has favored Barack Obama than think it has favored Hillary Clinton,” a just-released survey, from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, discovered in determining 37 percent recognize a bias in favor of Obama. Even 35 percent of Democrats “see a pro-Obama bias” compared to 45 percent of Republicans and 40 percnt of independents.…

Since when do principals ask their students not to simulate anal sex in public dances?

Barack Obama, liberal? Surely you jest. Rachel Maddow found the suggestion so silly, she literally burst out laughing. The Air America host was part of this evening's panel on Race for the White House. David Gregory couldn't complete his reading of Rich Lowry's take on Obama before Maddow let loose.DAVID GREGORY: Let's go to Smart Take #2. This is Rich Lowry from National Review Online, he's…

CBS and NBC on Thursday night were as interested in highlighting the claims of torture, from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four 9/11 terrorist attack co-conspirators who were arraigned by a military commission court in Guantanamo Bay, as to informing viewers about the charges against them. ABC didn't consider the torture allegations relevant and so didn't mention the topic as Jan Crawford…

The Miami (FL) Herald let lose with another propagandistic broadside against the 2nd Amendment on Thursday featuring some more moaning and false statements about how horrible it is for America that the misnamed "assault weapons ban" has lapsed. There is much wringing of hands, waterworks, histrionics and over dramatics by the aptly named Fred Grimm here. In "What's a few dead cops to the gun…

I was tooling about the Internets looking for movie reviews and came across a hilarious example of "stupid is as stupid does" that I just couldn't resist fisking here on Newsbusters. It is on a flashy, kitchy site called ioncinema, presumably where the cool kids meet to find out about all that's new in cinema and run by bunches and bunches of 20 somethings. There we see a featured post by one…

What say you, NBers: is this the classic basketball matchup we've been dreaming about for years?How do you compare this to Celtics-Lakers finals of the past? Is this the beginning of a new stretch of finals between these two great teams?Man for man, how do you think these teams compare to the great Celtics and Lakers clubs of the past? What are your predictions for the series?

Network's senior campaign correspondent notes pro-Barack bias, says Couric's failure a product of changing media.

 Washington Post Style TV columnist Tom Shales blames the FCC because tonight's premiere of CBS's "Swingtown" doesn't show enough skin to suit him. "Swingtown," a drama set in the free-loving, drug-hazed summer of 1976, lacks the "kind of intimacy and even eroticism that is common on HBO," Shales complains.  In his June 5 review he writes:It's conceivable that ‘Swingtown' will prompt complaints…