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NB Staff

Couric to Michelle O: Should It Be Older Hillary's Turn

It's not about Katie Couric's liberal bias today; it's her sheer fatuousness. Couric has been accorded rare access for extended interviews with the women involved in the presidential race. MRC's Brent Baker has detailed how Couric squandered part of her interview of Hillary Clinton, aired on this past Sunday's 60 Minutes, on silly talk.This morning's Early Show featured excerpts from Couric's…
Mark Finkelstein

Journalists Groan As Sen. John Cornyn Mocks New York Times

Tim Graham

Mitchell: Maybe Obama Will Push Gun Control After N. Illinois Shooting

Andrea Mitchell stopped just short of donning an impromptu Obama campaign-advisor hat. But the NBC correspondent has left little doubt she personally feels the time is ripe for Barack Obama to promote gun control as a campaign issue.Guest co-anchoring today's Morning Joe, Mitchell was discussing yesterday's shootings at Northern Illinois University with Willie Geist.
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusted

Some of the topics in today's episode: Mitt Romney advising John McCain on immigration? Liberal scientists endorse McCain, Chris Matthews almost cries at the idea of Obama losing to Hillary Clinton. Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace or subscribe to our YouTube channel and do battle with hate-filled lefties who like to give bad ratings to anything that isn't…
Matthew Sheffield

Olbermann Accuses 'Fascist' Bush of Engaging in 'Terrorism

On Thursday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered his latest "Special Comment" rant against President Bush, this time attacking him for threatening to veto an extension of the Protect America Act unless it includes provisions to give immunity from lawsuits to telecom companies who have cooperated with government surveillance in the past.Calling the President a "liar" who was "…
Brad Wilmouth

Clinton Criticizes Olbermann for 'Pimping' Petraeus Remark

MSNBC just can't catch a break.After NewsBusters created a media firestorm by exposing reporter David Shuster for his remarks that Hillary Clinton was "pimping" out her daughter, the network is again finding itself in hot water as former president Bill Clinton condemned host Keith Olbermann for saying that President Bush had engaged in "pimping General David Petraeus." Clinton condemned the…
Matthew Sheffield

ABC Goes to Yale for Sex Week

Nightline co-anchor to moderate debate on porn.
Kristen Fyfe

NYT's Online Video and Text Coverage of Terrorist's Death Differ Signi

First, give the New York Times credit for doing what NewsBusters' Ken Shepherd found Newsweek unable to do. The Times, in a report (link requires free registration) by Robert F. Worth and Nada Bakri, actually called the recently slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mugniyah a terrorist: A top Hezbollah commander long sought by the United States for his role in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds…
Tom Blumer

The BBC's Cynical Snark Fest Against Catholic Holy Site, Lourdes

One could feel the disdain that Emma Jane Kirby felt toward Catholicism in a recent travel piece by BBC News. Her disgust and utter dismissal of the Catholic holy site at Lourdes, France was so thick it verged on hatred. Knocking the sentiment behind Lourdes, slamming the "fusty" feel to the place, mocking its religious sincerity and, finally, ending in condescension, Kirby was so disturbed by…
Warner Todd Huston

Romney Endorses McCain Open Thread

NB Staff

Hillary, Please Check the Oil While You're At It

It's questionable whether Herbert Hoover actually ever promised to put "a chicken in every pot." But even if Hoover did, he was a piker compared to Hillary Clinton. Check out her remarks in a campaign speech today, as aired on this afternoon's Hardball. HILLARY CLINTON: Over the years, you've heard plenty of promises, from plenty of people in plenty of speeches. And some of those speeches…
Mark Finkelstein

New Orleans: 'The Vagina of America

At least according to "Vagina Monologues" playwright Eve Ensler, and Jane Fonda. Apparently the Today show had not had enough of this dynamic duo earlier in the program, when the fabulously classy Miss Fonda used another word for "vagina" that begins with the letter "c". So they brought the pair back for the 10 o'clock hour, and America was again regaled with their brilliant and insightful…
Seton Motley

Motion Picture Association Chief Wants 'Healthier' Food in Theaters

Former Agricultural Secretary Glickman carries on fight from the Clinton administration about what we eat.
Jeff Poor