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Jihad: The Musical
Following in the footsteps of "Springtime for Hitler," the hilarious musical-within-a-musical of "The Producers," comes "Jihad: The Musical." Here's a video of one of the theme songs, "I Wanna Be Like Osama."
Former Rep. Mark Foley Unlikely to be Charged, Media Mum
It goes without saying that one of the defining moments in the 2006 elections was when former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Florida) resigned in September over electronic messages sent to male House pages. The press firestorm was extraordinary, with all media outlets focusing huge amounts of air and print space on Foley on a daily basis as Election Day neared. Yet, eleven months later, when it was…
Weekend Captionfest II
Original caption: Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., speaks to media in the spin room after the ABC News Democratic debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.
Saturday Cartoons, Hamas Style
From the same jolly Hamas folks who brought Palestinian children Farfur, the murderous mouse, comes another delightful production, this time aimed at indoctrinating Palestinian children against rival political group Fatah.After having ripped off Mickey Mouse, Hamas has chosen a different Disney character for its children's propaganda, "The Lion King," creating a story in which a lion portraying…
AP Spins Record Low Unemployment as Problem That Could Get Worse
Most Americans understand that unemployment declining is a good thing. Yet, the folks at the Associated Press seem confused about this economic statistic as evidenced by an article published Saturday entitled "Help Wanted Ads Go Unanswered in West." In fact, contrary to a media fixated on bashing corporations and business owners as greedy little devils, Matt Gouras' piece actually elicited…
Bill Maher Can’t Get NYT Baghdad Correspondent to Bash Bush
As the new season of HBO's "Real Time" began Friday night, I watched with great trepidation, especially given host Bill Maher's disgraceful special on that network back in July wherein he spent virtually two-thirds of the program bashing President Bush and anyone with an "R" next to his/her name. With that in mind, my stomach started turning during his opening monologue as he made joke after…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: August 18 to
A ‘Beautiful’ AlarmistNBC’s "Today" show continued its global warming alarmism this week. Reporter Bob Dotson profiled a polar explorer who is teaching, or indoctrinating, today’s youths about global warming. The "Today" crew couldn’t refrain from gushing over this "sobering," "beautiful" message from an "impressive guy." However, NBC doesn’t want viewers to get excited over every issue.…
Open Thread
For general debate and discussion.Question: How offended are you by the Michael Vick dog-fighting issue? Has this been over-hyped given all the other horrible things athletes and Hollywoodans do that incites less outrage, or is their not enough media disgust?
Kristol Astounds Lauer: Rejects Media Touting of Warner, Negative NIE
Matching the theme of NBC Nightly News from the evening before, the Today show on Friday morning portrayed Republican Senator John Warner's call for 5,000 troops to return home by Christmas as “a major defection” and “sharp rebuke” to President Bush, but to the astonishment of co-host Matt Lauer, who described Warner as “a pretty heavy domino” falling against Bush, guest Bill Kristol rejected the…