Radio
Giving Credit Where Credit Isn't Due: Media Matters' Eric Boehlert Fal
October 2nd, 2010 9:45 PM
At least Eric Boehlert of the liberal media watchdog group Media Matters isn't opposed to all tax cuts. He's just hazy on when it's actually happened.Appearing on Stephanie Miller's radio show this past Monday, Boehlert praised former president Bill Clinton for cutting taxes on top earners in this country -- when Clinton did just the opposite.Here's the relevant exchange between Boehlert and…
CNN's Sanchez Lashes Out at All His Perceived Enemies in Radio Intervi
October 1st, 2010 3:20 PM
CNN's Rick Sanchez lashed out at multiple groups left and right during an interview on satellite radio with comedian Pete Dominick. During the interview, Sanchez slammed Jon Stewart, who has regularly made fun of the anchor, as a "bigot," and stated that the media is run by Jews. But the anchor also went into detail about his hatred of Fox News and falsely claimed that he doesn't smear people…
Mark Levin Grills Gloria Allred On Illegal Immigrant Client, Allegatio
September 30th, 2010 9:59 PM
Earlier this evening, conservative radio host and friend of NewsBusters Mark Levin conducted a nearly 20-minute interview with Gloria Allred, a celebrity attorney who's also known for her liberal politics. [The interview is definitely worth a listen. For the full segment, click here to access the audio.] Allred is representing one Nicky Diaz, an illegal immigrant who worked as a housekeeper for…
Ed Schultz: Hate Speech to Call Me Fat, Fair Game When I Malign Chris
September 28th, 2010 4:55 PM
Liberal radio host and aspiring MSNBC flamethrower Ed Schultz remains unrivalled as a bottomless pit of buffoonery.It's not just the most recent example, as described by NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein, of a hefty Schultz maligning New Jersey governor Chris Christie as a "cold-hearted fat slob."Weeks earlier, back on Sept. 1, Schultz said this on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" about criticism he'd received…
Rep. Weiner's Anti-Goldline/Beckophobia Crusade Falls Flat
September 24th, 2010 4:32 PM
An organization once headed by former Obama administration official Van Jones tried it. Other so-called grassroots organizations have given it a shot. Now Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., with the power of Congress in tow, has taken his best shot to shut Glenn Beck down. But so far it isn’t really working. On Sept. 23, Weiner called a representative from Santa Monica, Calif.-based Goldline to…
CNN: Vatican Conducting 'Inquisition' Against Dissenting Nuns
September 17th, 2010 6:01 PM
On Friday's American Morning, CNN's Carol Costello followed up on her biased report from the previous day, which promoted Catholic women posing as priests, with a second report on dissenting Catholics, focusing on heterodox nuns inside the U.S. Costello promoted the claim of the nuns, who accuse the Vatican of conducting an "inquisition," or wanting to "silence nuns when they disagree with the…
Ed Schultz as Historian: Invents Speech JFK Never Gave About First Gle
September 17th, 2010 4:39 PM
Achtung, Sgt. Schultz -- you're making it up again.The liberal radio host and MSNBC flamethrower got carried away in his indignation Monday over controversy about whether Obama's speech on education should be shown in classrooms.My how things have changed, Schultz pontificated (audio here) --I don't know, when I was a kid, and I was a little dude when John Glenn was flying around the, in outer…
Noted Palin-Trig Conspiracy Loon Andrew Sullivan Piles on Anti-Levin B
September 15th, 2010 4:34 PM
Want to make friends in "elite" political blogosphere? Don't dare be outspoken on behalf of Delaware Republican U.S. Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell. In a Sept. 15 post on his The Atlantic blog, "The Daily Dish," Sullivan takes a break from gossiping about political figures' genitalia to take on conservative talker Mark Levin's response to those who were seemingly hell-bent on O'Donnell not…
Memo to Slate's Weigel: Those Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw
September 15th, 2010 11:27 AM
Anxiety was pretty high in the heat of battle with the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. However, a lot of that tension exists beyond the state of Delaware and there have been self-proclaimed conventional wisdom wizards critical of how the electoral process in Delaware has worked itself out. One of those has been former embattled Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, who in a…
Taxpayer-Funded Pacifica Radio Planning to Air Al-Jazeera Audio
September 9th, 2010 10:06 AM
It might seem impossible, but the radical-left taxpayer-funded Pacifica Radio network is in negotiations to get even more anti-American in its orientation. It's negotiating with Al-Jazeera for its five stations to broadcast audio from the Al-Jazeera English cable TV channel, which is only marginally available in the United States. Those five stations (KPFA/Los Angeles, KPFK/Berkley, KPFT/Houston…
Ed Schultz to Speak at Hastily Arranged DC Rally He Claims Not in Resp
September 8th, 2010 1:39 PM
Remember the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza pretended to be an architect? Seinfeld thought it was a bad idea, suggesting Constanza would do better as a fake marine biologist, leading Constanza to complain, "You know I've always wanted to pretend that I was an architect."Ed Schultz, liberal radio host and MSNBC flamethrower, is done pretending to be an architect.Schultz garnered plenty of…
Alleged Comedian Lizz Winstead Fantasizes It Would Be 'Awesome!' to El
September 3rd, 2010 6:02 PM
Give the woman credit -- liberals are seldom this candid about their impulse toward totalitarianism. Usually it takes a bit of prodding before you'll hear that voice of the guard in the gulag.Lizz Winstead, co-founder of The Daily Show and alumna of the late, hardly lamented Air America Radio, revealed her pathological side while appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, as described by…
Boorish Ed Schultz Decries Republican 'Orgasm' Over Tax Cuts
September 3rd, 2010 1:39 PM
Doing his best in a desperate bid to become relevant, the ever-classy Ed Schultz said this on his radio show yesterday about Republicans and taxes (link here to audio) --They have nothing on the table for the middle class. They have no development whatsoever for the country other than they orgasm over these tax cuts that they just have to have! That's their whole thing! That's their whole…
Ebert: To Not Publicly Declare Obama Is Not a Muslim Is a 'Crime Again
September 1st, 2010 6:23 PM
When you think of crimes against America, crimes so dangerous they strike out against the very existence of the country, what comes to mind? Espionage, terrorism, and treason perhaps top the list. But what about not publicly declaring that Barack Obama is in fact not a Muslim?Liberal Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger "Save the Republic from Palin" Ebert made a federal case out of the latter in…