MRC's Bozell Discusses Obama Special Olympics Gaffe
March 20th, 2009 11:16 AM
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell had already been scheduled to appear on today's "Fox & Friends" to discuss last night's MRC Gala and Media DisHonors Awards, but President Barack Obama's laid a golden egg with his joke about the Special Olympics last night on NBC's "The Tonight Show." So the latest Obama gaffe and the media's interest in it was the first topic co-hosts Steve Doocy…
On MSNBC Garofalo Paints Conservatives as Angry Racists Who Inspire Mu
March 17th, 2009 7:12 PM
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann hosted left-wing actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo to discuss FNC analyst Bernard Goldberg’s recent enumeration of the "five worst offenders" of what Bill O’Reilly called the "far-left smear machine,"and Garofalo took the opportunity to paint conservatives as angry racists who inspire violence from some of their non-intellectual followers.…
NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard Cited on FNC's 'Special Report
March 17th, 2009 2:24 PM
On Monday, Fox News's Bret Baier referred to a NewsBusters piece concerning the coverage of the nationwide Tea Parties being staged to protest the profligate spending under President Obama's economic and housing recovery plans.As NewsBusters reported Sunday, "with the exception of Fox News and CNN, no major television outlet has covered even one of these events except the original proposed by…
How Mainstream is Porn? Media Ignore Implications of Body Art Barbie
March 11th, 2009 10:48 AM
CMI's Matt Philbin discussed Tattoo Barbie in his latest column: We can be sure she's not the first of her generation to mark her 50th birthday by getting tattoos. After all, the cultivation of youth-obsessed narcissism and bad taste is a Baby Boomer hallmark (see Clinton, Bill). But "Totally Stylin' Tattoos Barbie" is no less disturbing for being a product of her generation.Mattel is celebrating…
Kirsten Powers: Obama’s Stem Cell Decision Designed to Please Anti-B
March 10th, 2009 11:18 PM
On Monday’s Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, during the Fox All Stars panel discussion, liberal FNC analyst Kirsten Powers, also a columnist for the New York Post, characterized Barack Obama's recent decision to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research as merely a political move designed to please members of his base who blame President Bush for the plight of those who suffer…
Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail in 2006 Poll, Will Media Care
March 9th, 2009 1:00 AM
CRITICAL UPDATE at end of post: former Clinton pollster wrote in depth about this in September 2006!If it's unpatriotic and supposedly treasonous for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to want Barack Obama's policies to fail in the middle of a serious recession, is it similarly so for Democrats who wished President Bush wouldn't succeed while the nation was at war?In August 2006, a Fox…
Beck Mocks Union Winter Retreat, Card Check in Show’s 'COMЯADE UPDA
March 4th, 2009 7:52 PM
As part of a continuation of his "COMЯADE UPDATE" segment he started near the beginning of his show, which became a YouTube sensation, Fox News host Glenn Beck is picking up right where he left off. Beck, on his March 4 program took on a couple new targets, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and union labor. "Comrades! Comrades, there is good news from the Western front," Beck said. "Our glorious…
Olbermann Attacks ‘Sick’ ’Liar’ Palin for ‘Gutting’ Specia
February 23rd, 2009 4:01 PM
On Thursday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann demonstrated his latest double standard in his treatment of conservatives and liberals. After attacking Sarah Palin several times during the presidential campaign with a misleading accusation that Palin had "gutted her own state's Special Olympics" – calling her "sick" and an "out of control liar" – even though she increased spending on the…
Richard Belzer Unloads a ‘Heil Hannity’ Salute on Fox News
February 20th, 2009 5:31 PM
Sean Hannity invited radical-left actor Richard Belzer to his "Great American Panel" on February 13, and Belzer was hardly returning the honor. After Belzer tried to play professor and suggest that Reaganism was Hobbesian and "antitheticallly opposed" to John Locke and Jefferson, he raised his hand to interrupt, and then decided to offer his other arm in a "Heil Hannity" salute. When will lefties…
Olbermann: Bristol Palin Pro-Choice, 'Repudiating' ‘Anti-Choice’ G
February 19th, 2009 7:32 PM
On Tuesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann seized on a portion of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol’s Monday interview from FNC’s On the Record with Greta van Susteren to portray the 18-year-old as having expressed a pro-choice view on abortion, even though Bristol Palin did not clearly state her general view on the legality of abortion. During one of the show’s before-commercial plugs…
FNC’s Hemmer: Media Ignoring Obama's Plans to Control Census
February 17th, 2009 4:43 PM
On Saturday’s Fox News Watch, FNC host Bill Hemmer brought up the media’s lack of interest in Barack Obama’s plans to exert control over the 2010 census from the White House, as the show’s panel discussed Republican Senator Judd Gregg’s decision not to accept appointment to the position of Commerce Secretary. Hemmer teased the show: "Is the White House effort to control the census a play to…
Fox's Megyn Kelly Debates Bill Press About Fairness Doctrine
February 17th, 2009 10:40 AM
Fox News's Megyn Kelly debated liberal talk radio host Bill Press on Monday's "America's Newsroom," and the sparks were flying from the opening bell.Kelly deliciously began the segment:Hi, Bill. You have a little self-interest on this one perhaps?Yah think? But that was just the beginning (video embedded below the fold):
