Charles Krauthammer Rips Liberal Media for Being Obsessed with Sarah P

November 27th, 2010 10:08 AM
Charles Krauthammer on Friday tore into the liberal media for being obsessed with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. After Krauthammer scolded the "editorial judgment" of the producers of PBS's "Inside Washington" for week after week prominently displaying her as the "only representative of conservatism of any importance" in this nation, the Washington Post's Colby King proved his point (…

Sarah Palin Sends 'Message to All 57 States' Bashing Media Focus on No

November 26th, 2010 10:09 AM
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on Thursday struck back at media members that bothered reporting the slip of the tongue she made the previous day concerning North Korea being America's ally. In a Facebook posting entitled "A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States," Palin mocked news outlets for not giving similar coverage to gaffes made by Barack Obama:

Sandra Bernhard Calls Bristol Palin a Hooker on 'Joy Behar Show

November 25th, 2010 1:16 PM
Comedienne Sandra Bernhard called Bristol Palin a hooker on Wednesday's "The Joy Behar Show." This was just a part of a televised hatefest reminiscent of the Lindsay Lohan film "Mean Girls" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

ABC Finds Palin Korea Mix-up Newsworthy

November 25th, 2010 8:01 AM
When candidate Obama bragged of campaigning in 57 states, or Pres. Obama suggested that the national language of Austria is "Austrian," we all remember how ABC flaunted those embarrassing flubs.  Or not. But let Sarah Palin momentarily mention North rather than South Korea as our ally, and ABC finds it newsworthy.  Check out the video after the jump, containing the news scroll from today'…

CNN's Cafferty Replays Two Year Old Commentary to Bash Palin

November 23rd, 2010 9:32 PM
On Tuesday's Situation Roon, CNN's Jack Cafferty revisited his longstanding Palin Derangement syndrome by rebroadcasting one of his commentaries from September 2008 where he played an excerpt from the infamous Katie Couric interview and disparaged the then-vice presidential candidate. Most of the viewer responses to his 'Question of the Hour' bashed the former Alaska governor. The…

Schultz's Strange Mind-Melt: Confuses Palin With . . . Michelle Obama

November 23rd, 2010 8:34 PM
With the Thanksgiving weekend coming on, today somehow feels like Friday.  So let's kick back and have some fun, courtesy Ed Schultz. Check out the video as Ed goes into protracted brain-cramp, somehow confusing Sarah Palin with, of all people, Michelle Obama, as he describes the author of a forthcoming book.

NBC's O'Donnell: Palin 'Rips the Heart Out of Her Opponents' in New Bo

November 23rd, 2010 3:44 PM
NBC correspondent Norah O'Donnell hyped Sarah Palin's criticism of her liberal opponents on Tuesday's Today show, stating that the former governor "rips the heart out of some of her opponents" in her new book. O'Donnell stated that Palin, "in very personal terms, also questions the President's [Obama's] patriotism, concluding he has 'a stark lack of faith in the American people.'" The…

Is Bristol Palin's 'Dancing with the Stars' Vote a 2012 Precursor

November 23rd, 2010 11:30 AM
Is the voting for who wins this year's "Dancing with the Stars" a foreshadowing of the presidential elections in 2012? Before answering that question, readers are advised to watch Bristol Palin's dance routines from Monday night:

WaPo's Richard Cohen: 'Palin Couldn't Be President of Black America or

November 23rd, 2010 9:52 AM
If you thought the media attacks on Sarah Palin and her family were deplorable in 2008, it's clear with the 2012 presidential campaign starting and her name being bandied about, you ain't seen nuttin' yet. Take the Washington Post's Richard Cohen for example who penned a column Tuesday concluding, "She could not be the president of black America nor of Hispanic America":

WaPo, ABC Pay for Poll Question on Bristol Palin's Dancing Skills

November 23rd, 2010 8:04 AM
It's fair game to discuss whether Bristol Palin arrived at the finals of ABC's Dancing with the Stars on talent alone (instead of being judged with telephone voting). But ABC and The Washington Post were Palin-obsessed enough to actually pay for a poll question on the matter. The headline in Tuesday's paper was "Poll numbers suggest Bristol doesn't have 'Dancing' legs to stand on."  (On the…

Networks Hype GOP Division Over Palin, Claim She's 'On the Verge of Ov

November 22nd, 2010 1:20 PM
On Monday, all three network morning show's eagerly highlighted former First Lady Barbara Bush voicing opposition to a Sarah Palin presidential run while suggesting the former Alaska governor has spent too much time in the public eye. As Harry Smith proclaimed at the top of CBS's Early Show: "It's all Palin all the time. But could the most famous family from Alaska be on the verge of…

NB Interview: John Ziegler Discusses 'Media Malpractice' Re-release, P

November 22nd, 2010 12:06 AM
NewsBusters readers should be quite familiar with John Ziegler, the independent filmmaker that produced the spectacular documentary about the 2008 presidential campaign "Media Malpractice: How Obama Got Elected and Palin was Targeted." In the past few weeks the film has been re-released using a different marketing format, and Ziegler was kind enough to answer some questions about this and…

Amanpour Panelist Regrets ‘Abysmal’ White House PR Means Lack of A

November 21st, 2010 3:21 PM
ABC’s Christiane Amanpour on Sunday again gave national U.S. television exposure to a liberal reporter with the London-based Financial Times as she brought Ed Luce, the newspaper’s Washington Bureau Chief and former Clinton administration operative, aboard her This Week roundtable. Luce declared the world would react “with deep horror, I think, but also some amusement,” to a presidential bid by…

Robert Reich: Palin's a 'Realistic Candidate' for President, Not Clear

November 21st, 2010 1:33 PM
Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich made a couple of rather startling comments on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. During the Roundtable segment, the devout liberal not only defended former governor Sarah Palin as a "realistic candidate" for president, but also questioned whether or not the government bailout of GM was necessary (video follows with transcript and commentary):