Rahm Emanuel: Fox Isn't a News Organization Because it Has a Perspecti

October 18th, 2009 10:42 AM
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Sunday made one of the most absurd comments to date about the Administration's fight with the Fox News Channel.In his "State of the Union" interview with CNN's John King, Emanuel said, "It's not a news organization so much as it has a perspective."Maybe more importantly, Emanuel told King that the White House doesn't want other news outlets to emulate Fox…

New York Times Declares Fox News Winner in Fight With Obama

October 17th, 2009 11:44 PM
Here's something virtually every American likely thought they'd never see: the New York Times declaring Fox News the winner in a fight with Barack Obama.Yet, that's what David Carr declared in "The Battle Between the White House and Fox News." In his piece published at the Times website Saturday evening, Carr almost seemed disgusted with all the attention the White House is giving to a cable…

Slate’s Weisberg: Fox News 'Un-American'; Blames FNC for Left-Wing

October 17th, 2009 3:01 PM
Can you say "bitter"? That's the vibe Slate.com Editor-in-Chief Jacob Weisberg gave off in an Oct. 17 column, which will appear in the Oct. 26 issue of Newsweek, about Fox News headlined "The O'Garbage Factor." Weisberg, who once diagnosed former President George W. Bush with a learning disability, contends the Fox News Channel goes beyond just making liberal media elitist like himself cringe -…

Media Hyped ‘War Crime’ Accusations Against Israel, But Ignored Re

October 17th, 2009 9:31 AM
After months of investigation, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a report addressing accusations from some humanitarian groups that its use of white phosphorus (WP) munitions in the Gaza War was a violation of international law, as the report distinguishes between the use of WP as a weapon and the more common non-weapon purposes such as providing smoke screens to conceal troop movements.…

MRC/NB's Graham: Media Aimed at Smearing Limbaugh As 'Vituperative' Ra

October 16th, 2009 12:06 PM
Yesterday evening, Fox News Channel's Molly Henneberg filed a story on how some media outlets fell for unsubstantiated quotes attributed to radio talk show legend Rush Limbaugh.NewsBusters's own Tim Graham was featured briefly in Henneberg's "Special Report" story.We've included a transcribed portion below:

O'Reilly Guest To Juan Williams: 'Go Back To the Porch

October 16th, 2009 12:05 AM
The debate over Rush Limbaugh's NFL bid is roiling the racial landscape. This evening, after Juan Williams explained that Rush's "Barack the Magic Negro" parody was based on a column by an African-American author, a black radio talk show host told Williams to "go back to the porch." [H/t NB readers Tracy B. and Ken T.]Warren Ballantine uttered the insult on this evening's O'Reilly Factor:

Beck Strikes Back: Uncovers Video of Obama Communications Director Cla

October 15th, 2009 7:02 PM
The feud between the White House and the Fox News Channel took another, thanks to one of Glenn Beck's viewers. On Beck's Oct. 15 program, the Fox News host played a video sent to him of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who had previously slammed Fox News and called it an organ of the Republican Party. In the video, Dunn reveals her two favorite political philosophers -…

After Apology, Letterman's Quickly Back To Attacking Sarah Palin

October 15th, 2009 5:56 PM
Within days of David Letterman's high-profile apology to Sarah Palin, the CBS "Late Show" host went back to bashing the former Alaska governor.I guess all those who felt his October 5 mea culpa -- which also included apologies to his wife and the staffers he had an affair with -- was all a gag were quite right.His newest attack is an ongoing routine where he shows graphically "Things More Fun…

Beck Rips on Olbermann, Matthews; Says Letterman 'Practically Made Out

October 14th, 2009 7:37 PM
This ought to get the folks at the left-wing noise machine all wound up. Fox News host Glenn Beck on his Oct. 14 show, after being a regular recipient of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's "Worst Persons in the World" on his "Countdown" program, decided to have a little fun by mocking Olbermann and his MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews. Beck mocked Olbermann's "Shakespearean" performance he puts on…

Olbermann: Rush Spawning Beck 'Like Spreading Syphillis

October 13th, 2009 8:33 PM
Just when you thought Keith Olbermann couldn't get any more vile or vulgar . . . Opening this evening's Countdown, Olbermann said that Rush Limbaugh's observation that Glenn Beck was the result of his success "is like congratulating yourself for spreading syphyllis."Olbermann made his crude comment in teasing a segment on Rush's interview with NBC's Jamie Gangel. 

Lynyrd Skynyrd Members Talk 'God and Guns' with Hannity on FNC

October 13th, 2009 7:49 AM
On Friday’s Hannity show on FNC, host Sean Hannity showed a pre-recorded interview in which he was joined by members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd – Johnny Van Zandt, Rickey Medlocke and Gary Rossington – as the group talked about their latest CD, titled "God and Guns," and the three expressed their support for such conservative values as belief in God and the Second Amendment right of gun…

Fox’s Wallace Sees ‘Idiocy’ in CNN Fact-Checking Anti-Obama SNL

October 13th, 2009 5:56 AM
On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, as host Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace discussed recent comedy directed at President Obama and the First Lady – including a re-dubbed clip of Sesame Street’s Big Bird grilling Michelle Obama from the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Wallace opined that he hopes that there would be more such comedy and that the Obama’s should be…

Brit Hume Fires Back at White House Attacks on Fox News: Calls It 'Ris

October 13th, 2009 1:28 AM
It's obvious the Obama administration has a low regard for Fox News as a media outlet - whether it has been President Barack Obama hinting at what he has thought about Fox News, the administration passing over Fox News in a recent round of Sunday morning interviews or as White House communications director Anita Dunn recently has done - just declare open season on the network. However Brit Hume…

Neil Cavuto Slams Anita Dunn: Let's Pretend You Work for the President

October 12th, 2009 10:55 PM
If White House communications director Anita Dunn thought she was going to get away with attacking the Fox News Channel without a response from the objects of her disaffection, she was sadly mistaken.As NewsBusters previously reported, Dunn told CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday that Fox is "a wing of the Republican Party" and "not a news network at this point." On Monday, FNC's Neil Cavuto answered…