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Bill Maher Calls 9/11 Truthers Lunatics (updated w/video
Something truly shocking happened on Friday's "Real Time" on HBO. Host Bill Maher called 9/11 truthers "lunatics," and demanded they stop requesting him "raise this ridiculous topic on this show and start asking [their] doctor if Paxil is right for [them]." I kid you not. During Maher's "New Rules" segment, he actually stated (video available here, relevant section begins at 1:46):
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: September 8 to
We Get it: You Don’t Like FoxIn an interview with Playboy magazine, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann actually fulminated that "Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda." He then went on to compare his cable rival to the Ku Klux Klan and rail against Rudy Giuliani. And this is the guy who is hosting football coverage on NBC? Live? Live From the BathroomSpeaking of Fox News, the network proved this week that it’s…
Rivera Apologizes for Saying He'd Spit on Malkin
More than a week after Geraldo Rivera said he'd spit on Michelle Malkin if he ever saw her, the controversial Fox News anchor issued an apology on last night's "O'Reilly Factor.""I just, you're so filled with emotion," Rivera said referring to the incident. "Someone calls you a liar and a fool, you want to strike back at them. It was an unguarded moment.""I totally apologize, that's not me, I don…
Free Market System Outrages NBC's Robach
Somebody arrest the CEO of Bank of America. The knave is forcing poor Amy Robach to use his bank's ATM machines. At least, so it would seem from Amy's statement on this morning's "Today."The NBC show ran a segment this morning about the fact that BoA has raised its ATM fees for non-customers to $3. When things were kicked back to co-anchor Robach in the studio, she unloaded.View video here.
Newsweek Proclaims Woman Is 'Approved' Catholic Priest
In keeping with the MSMs constant denigration of organized religion, Newseek has published a story proclaiming a female as an "approved" Catholic priest accepting the claims of rogue Catholic offshoot organizations over that of the official cannon of the real Catholic Church. Everything is relative to the MSM and their fellow nihilists, so the fact that the actual Catholic Church still doesn't…
Gibson Implies Giuliani's Ad 'Nastier' Than MoveOn's 'Betray Us' Ad
ABC anchor Charles Gibson on Friday night suggested the Rudy Giuliani campaign's New York Times ad, not Monday's “General Betray Us” ad from MoveOn.org ad to which the Giuliani ad responded, meant “a fierce new political fight...got even nastier today.” Gibson did acknowledge: “It started with a single newspaper ad targeting General David Petraeus, as the war's top commander reported to Congress…
MRC/NB’s Graham on O'Reilly Factor Re 'Huffington's House of Horrors
Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis for the Media Research Center and Senior Editor of the MRC's NewsBusters, appeared Friday night on the Fox News Channel’s "The O’Reilly Factor" to discuss the MRC's Special Report, "Huffington’s House of Horrors: A Compendium of Far-Left Flame-Throwing, Name-Calling, and Attack-Dogging."After the jump: The full text of Alec Baldwin's fantasy about killing…
Colorado Couple Meets, and Debunks, the 'Food Stamp Challenge'; State
Back in April, social service spending advocates in Oregon orchestrated the "Food Stamp Challenge," claiming that the average program recipient's benefits of $21 per week were woefully inadequate. Those who took the Food Stamp Challenge attempted to show just how unacceptable this average benefit was by buying $21 worth of food and trying to survive on it for seven days. The entire premise of the…
Media Not Interested In American Islamists
Is the mainstream media uninterested in radical Islamists in America? Recent events would seem to indicate that that may indeed be the case. Today, according to the Dearborn, Michigan Press & Guide, a Muslim medical student named Houssein Zorkot was arrested while wearing full combat gear and carrying an AK-47 rifle. His website contained a plethora of anti-American imagery and included…
CBS Plugs Radical Leftist Group's Plea for Housing Assistance
Reporter warns if foreclosed borrowers 'don't get some help, it will be the rest of the economy that needs it.'
ABC’s John Stossel Provides Welcome Change to Usual Health Care Spin
On Friday’s "Good Morning America," token conservative reporter John Stossel told portly filmmaker Michael Moore, "Forgive me. More of us look like you" and that obesity explains why Canadians live longer than Americans, not universal health care. Stossel appeared on the morning show to promote his program debunking the myth of "free," government-run health care. His "20/20" special, which will…