O’Reilly Debates ‘24’ Being Anti-Muslim With CAIR Legal Director

January 20th, 2007 3:36 PM
Here’s a shocker: The Council on American-Islamic Relations is unhappy about the hit television series “24”. Imagine that.With that in mind, CAIR’s legal director, Arsalan Iftikhar, went on the “O’Reilly Factor” Friday to discuss his organization’s views on this subject (video available here). O’Reilly marvelously set the discussion up:Isn't this political correctness gone crazy? I mean, let's…

O’Reilly Meets Colbert Creates Huge Ratings Spikes

January 20th, 2007 1:38 PM
As reported by NewsBusters, Bill O’Reilly and Stephen Colbert squared off Thursday evening in well-publicized meetings on each other’s popular programs. According to the Los Angeles Times, this was a ratings bonanza for both:Colbert helped O'Reilly draw more than 2.9 million viewers, a boost of 46% over last quarter and a hike of 67% among 25- to 54-year-old viewers. With O'Reilly on his show,…

John Gibson and Danny Bonaduce Slam Alec Baldwin and Robert Redford

January 20th, 2007 10:57 AM
NewsBusters fans are certainly aware that former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce is a highly outspoken conservative that doesn’t mince words as reported here and here. On Friday, Bonaduce was John Gibson’s guest on Fox News’s “The Big Story,” and the pair took issue with the following statements recently made by Robert Redford (video available here courtesy of our friend at Ms…

The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: January 13 to

January 19th, 2007 12:27 PM

Bill O’Reilly Meets Stephen Colbert

January 19th, 2007 11:34 AM
As many folks are aware, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly and Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert decided to finally meet one another and be interviewed on each other shows Thursday night. Strangely, the segment on the “O’Reilly Factor” was actually much funnier than “The Colbert Report,” as Stephen began: "I want you to know that I spend so much time in the world that is spinning all the time, that to be…

Former Carter Center Member Says Jimmy Carter Condones Palestinian Ter

January 16th, 2007 10:29 AM
As NewsBusters reported last Thursday, people are resigning from the Carter Center due to the former president’s controversial book about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. One such member was on “Hannity & Colmes” Monday, and he stated that Carter has “abandoned his traditional position of honest broker and mediator,” and “goes so far as to condone terrorism until such a time a Palestinian state…

Fox & Friends Exposes More On NBC's Liberal Bias

January 15th, 2007 5:28 PM

What August Segment? Scarborough Says He Never Said Bush Was An Idiot

January 15th, 2007 2:13 PM
In retracing the early steps of the O'Reilly vs. Scarborough battle, it's funny to see that when O'Reilly attacked NBC and MSNBC on January 4, he probably hadn't left the parking lot at Fox when attack dog Joe Scarborough was already protesting his complaints on MSNBC, and running audio from O'Reilly's radio show earlier in the day. This exchange shows that Scarborough is either (a) making fun of…

Dennis Miller Takes on Sickening Media Mantra Regarding WMD and Bin La

January 14th, 2007 1:59 PM

Friday Night Fights: Bill O’Reilly Takes on Liberal Extremists Over

January 14th, 2007 12:28 PM

Cal Nails It: Spoiled By Desert Storm Success, America Awaits Jack Bau

January 13th, 2007 7:11 PM
Cal Thomas had the line of the night on this evening's Fox News Watch. Here's how the conservative commentator explained Americans' dissatisfaction with progress in Iraq:"Part of the problem here is we have Desert Storm with the 100-hour war. Everybody came home. There were victory marches, General Schwarzkopf leading. The press was full of stories: 'we finally got the Vietnam monkey off our…

Fox News Website Posts Chris Matthews ‘Bias Alert

January 13th, 2007 11:32 AM
On Thursday, NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein wrote about “Hardball’s” Chris Matthews stating “Cheney, of course, who always wants to kill” on Don Imus’s radio program. On Friday, the Fox News website featured this exchange in a “Bias Alert.”As reported by TVNewser:Fox News is taking Bill O'Reilly's campaign against "NBC's turn to the far left" to FOXNews.com. The number three story on the home page…

FNC Reports Speaker Pelosi's Star-Kist Gap in the Minimum Wage Hike

January 12th, 2007 10:36 AM

Condoleezza Rice Loves Fox News

January 11th, 2007 11:15 AM
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was accidentally caught Thursday morning making some very positive statements about Fox News. As reported by Reuters (emphasis mine throughout, hat tip to NRO’s Media Blog):In comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews, including one with Fox, the top U.S. diplomat said: "My Fox guys, I love every single one of them."For…