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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated 40 years ago today.What were you doing that day, and what do you remember feeling when you heard the awful news? Might race relations have been different today if King was still around? Why hasn't there been a viable replacement in the last 40 years which have instead produced folks like Farrakhan,…

Picking up on absurd statements CNN founder Ted Turner made on Tuesday's Charlie Rose show on PBS, comments first reported late that night on NewsBusters, FNC's Bret Baier, filling in for Brit Hume, reported on Thursday's Special Report how “Turner believes that inaction on global warming will lead to cannibalism,” that he “went on to ridicule the U.S. military” and that he described Iraqi…

It's Friday which means it's time for a new episode of NewsBusted! Topics in today's episode: a new poll says beer drinkers vote GOP while wine drinkers vote Dem, CNN's fake news show, Eliot Spitzer goes to therapy, and more! Click the "Play" icon on the video at the right to watch.

On Thursday evening, NBC Nightly News was again the first broadcast network evening newscast to highlight a Medal of Honor recipient -- only the third given for heroic action in Iraq, and the first to a sailor in that theater -- Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael A. Monsoor. Williams observed: This nation has a new Medal of Honor recipient, though he is not alive to accept the honor. Michael…

Media ignore the simple reality: Thomas Beatie is a woman.

In the past, NewsBusters has not been kind to GQ magazine.However, an interview with former White House advisor Karl Rove, published in the most recent issue, is an absolute must-read.And that's putting it mildly. Although readers are strongly encouraged to peruse the entire, lengthy piece, special attention must be given to Rove's strongly negative opinions of the media, especially CBS (h/t…

On Wednesday’s CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric did a segment on why politicians lie and suggested completely false statements made by Hillary Clinton, about sniper fire in Bosnia, and Barack Obama, about how his parents met, were really no different from this statement from John McCain: "It's called Al Qaeda in Iraq. And, my friends, they wouldn't... if we left, they wouldn't be…

"Good Morning America" reporter Nick Watt smeared Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders as a racist on Saturday's edition of the ABC program. Watt, who interviewed the director over his new movie about radical Islam's incompatibility with Dutch culture, sneered, "You believe the Western Judeo Christian culture is superior. You believe immigration should be stopped. I mean, you're a racist, no?"Wilders is…

Another Empire State Democrat appears ensnared in a juicy political scandal involving misappropriated money and political patronage.An article in the April 3 New York Post reports that New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office has been hoarding millions of dollars in taxpayer money. The money was allocated to fake organizations so that it could be saved and used later for political…

In an e-mail conversation today with Greg Gutfeld, the Fox News Channel "Red Eye" host pointed out to me that he joked about cannibalism as a solution to environmental woes, and this, mind you, months before Ted Turner came out clucking about how global warming will make us all cannibals. Some might say Gut is a voice crying in the late night wilderness, but maybe he actually is a prophet. From…

The next time another liberal complains about Fox News being conservatively biased they should be reminded that one of the network's hosts is on record as being "proud" to vote for Barack Obama. On Saturday night's "Geraldo At Large," Geraldo Rivera, during a discussion on Jeremiah Wright, made the following admission: "He is a wonderful candidate and I'd be proud to vote for him in every regard…

As economic issues move to the front of the on-going presidential campaign, the mainstream media have given an increased amount of coverage to what is happening on Wall Street. However, they have portrayed Wall Street as something completely alien to what happens on "Main Street." "Now to Wall Street, which, as you know, doesn't always like what Main Street likes, and by the end of the…

Men don't have babies. Period. Yet in covering the ‘pregnant man' story this morning both the "Early Show" and "Good Morning America" neither outlet dealt with this fact. Rather, both were completely focused on the fact that Thomas Beatie was speaking publicly for the first time and would be shown on today's "Oprah" show. Both outlets also reported that Beatie's story would appear in this…