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Karl Rove, NewsBusters Fan
Living in DC has its interesting moments. Coming into town from Atlanta Sunday night, I happened to bump into former White House adviser Karl Rove. In the process I learned two things: Karl Rove flies coach class now that he's left the White House and that he also is a fan of NewsBusters.The story:My girlfriend and I had gone down to Atlanta to visit some friends for the weekend. On our way back…
MRC's Bozell Discusses Gen. Sanchez Slam on Media That NYT Ignored
MRC president and NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell appeared on the October 15 "Hannity & Colmes" to discuss the New York Times ignoring retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez's recent complaints about shoddy, biased, and inaccurate media coverage of the war in Iraq. Video (3:36): Real (2.64) and Windows (2.20 MB), plus MP3 audio (1.64 MB). Among other complaints, Sanchez hit the media for its "…
Air America Radio Host Mugged, Liberals Blame Conservatives
If something bad happens to a liberal anywhere on the face of the planet, should it be assumed a conservative is responsible? Such appears to be the case according to the blog Talking Radio, which on Tuesday reported the unfortunate mugging of Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes in New York City Sunday evening.*****Update: The Daily News is reporting that Rhodes wasn't mugged (details at end…
Wisc. Paper: U.S. Army Ads in High School ‘Extremely Inappropriate
In another swipe at the U.S. Military, the website of the Isthmus, a weekly alternative paper from Madison, Wisconsin, published a short piece called, “Army Aims at Schoolkids,” in which the paper quotes an anti-military activist as saying that the ad banners for the U.S. Army posted in Madison’s High Schools is “extremely inappropriate.” Of course, we should expect one of these anti-military…
NBC Plays Up Hillary's Chicago 'Home,' Even Her Ersatz Cub-Fandom
As NBC’s Today reported from Chicago on Monday, they went a little overboard in playing up Hillary’s Chicago credentials – especially her Chicago Cub fan credentials. It’s a little odd for NBC to tout her as a Cub fan just a few weeks after NBC’s Tim Russert asked her in a September 26 debate who she would root for in a potential Cubs-Yankees World Series and she straddled: "I would probably have…
Apocalypse Now: Globe's Global Warmist Makes Even Gore Look Cool
When it comes to global-warming alarmism, it takes a lot to make Al Gore look moderate. Even the IPCC, the UN group that shared the Nobel with him, predicts on average a sea-level rise only 1/12th as high as the 20 feet by 2100 that Gore has forecast.But when it comes to sky-is-burning scaremongering, the former Veep has met his match in the person of Paul Epstein. The scenario he sketches in…
NewsBusted Comedy Webcast, Episode
It's Tuesday which means another episode of "NewsBusted!" Watch the show over at the top of the sidebar of this page. We're continuing to change the pace this week as we feature Frazer Smith as the comedian. Click here to see the show archive, you can also subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new episodes.
CBS's Logan on Iraq: 'We're Doing Extremely Badly,' Don't See Dead Sol
Asked by Jay Leno on Monday's Tonight Show “how are we doing” in Iraq?, CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan asserted that “we're doing extremely badly” and proceeded to fret, that since images of dead American soldiers are “hidden,” the public does not realize the situation is “much worse than the picture, the image we even have of Iraq.” As for the impact of the “surge,” Logan, who…