ABCNews.com Hypes Report Blaming Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin for Rise o

March 3rd, 2010 4:52 PM
An article on ABCNews.com aggressively touted fears by the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that prominent conservative are spreading hate. The headline for the March 3 piece by Anna Schecter screamed, "Dobbs, Beck, Palin, Bachmann Share Blame For Rise in Right-Wing Extremism, Says Activist Group." Schecter interviewed SPLC director Mark Potok and repeated, "Potok said he blames some…

Congressman Calls 'Fox & Friends' Liars, O'Donnell Thanks Him

March 3rd, 2010 2:19 PM
More and more it's becoming clear that when Keith Olbermann takes a night off from "Countdown," and Lawrence O'Donnell fills in for him, viewers are getting the same hyperpartisan, hate-filled Democrat talking points.Consider the reaction that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) got from O'Donnell Tuesday evening after the Congressman called the folks at "Fox & Friends" liars earlier in the day."…

Palin To Leno About Media: 'A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around The World

March 3rd, 2010 11:10 AM
Sarah Palin said Tuesday the mainstream media is quite broken.Speaking with "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno, the former Alaska governor said she joined Fox News "to build some trust back in our media."  "Those years ago that I studied journalism, it was all about the who, what, when, where and why," she continued. "It was not so much the opinion interjected in hard news stories...Americans deserve…

Warren Buffett Give Obama 'High Marks,' Mocks Palin in CNBC Interview

March 1st, 2010 2:34 PM
It's not a secret that billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) CEO Warren Buffett is a supporter of President Barack Obama - having endorsed and raised money for him. But has Buffett's approval of the president mirrored the declining marks he's getting from the rest of America?   No, according to Buffett, Obama's earned "high marks." Buffett appeared on CNBC's March 1 "Squawk…

Rich: Tea Partiers Are Terrorists, Beck and Palin Are Their Leaders

February 28th, 2010 5:35 PM
New York Times columnist Frank Rich isn't just convinced suicide pilot Joe Stack shared many views with the Tea Partiers. He also believes some of the movement's members are basically domestic terrorists whose leaders include Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin."What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a…

Obama Voters In Focus Group Like Family Guy's Attack On Palin

February 27th, 2010 3:22 PM
According to a focus group done by pollster Frank Luntz, folks that voted for Barack Obama liked the recent attack on Sarah Palin done by the cartoon series "Family Guy."As NewsBusters reported almost two weeks ago, the Valentine's Day episode of the Fox hit featured a Down Syndrome girl saying that her mother was the former governor of Alaska. This sparked a nationwide debate about whether this…

Valerie Harper: ‘Sly’ 'Snide' Palin ‘Playing to the Worst in Us

February 27th, 2010 2:25 PM
On Friday’s Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News, host Behar interviewed actress Valerie Harper, and, as the discussion turned to women in politics, the HLN host brought up Sarah Palin’s run for Vice President, prompting Harper to complain that Palin was "playing to that which is the worst in us, the divisive stuff," and to charge that "there’s a snide thing there that I don’t appreciate."After…

Maher: ‘Brain-Dead’ Palin ‘a Babbling, Barely House-Broken, Uned

February 27th, 2010 2:23 AM
Sarah Palin sends liberals into irrational frenzies of contempt and, in the case of Bill Maher, fits of condescension which drive him to denigrate anyone stupid enough to see anything good in her. Maher began and ended his Friday night HBO program, Real Time with Bill Maher, with derogatory “jokes” based on the presumption Palin and her supporters are morons. He started with how at the health…

'Family Guy' Actor Sides With Palin, Didn't Like Down Syndrome Joke

February 25th, 2010 12:18 PM
One of the actors involved in the hit cartoon series "Family Guy" has come out in support of Sarah Palin by voicing his disapproval of a Down Syndrome joke in a recent episode.As NewsBusters reported on Valentine's Day, the Fox program made what some have considered a tasteless swipe at the Palins by having a character with Down Syndrome state, "[My] mom is the former governor of Alaska."Sarah…

Norah Still Mocking Palin Hand-Notes

February 24th, 2010 8:12 AM
It's been almost three weeks since Sarah Palin addressed the Tea Party convention.  More than two weeks since Andrea Mitchell did her taunting little imitation of Palin's hand notes.  But there was Norah O'Donnell today, still milking the moment to mock Palin.O'Donnell worked her hand-note reference into a discussion on today's Morning Joe of Scott Brown's vote for the "jobs bill."  Later, on a…

FNC: Feinstein Cheated in Debate Using Palin-Like Hand Notes

February 24th, 2010 6:47 AM
Catching up on an item from the February 13, Fox and Friends Saturday on FNC, the show hosted California-based media performance coach Terry Anzur, who took part in moderating a debate in 1990 between Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein – then a mayor – as she ran for governor against former Republican Governor Pete Wilson. Anzur recounted not only that Feinstein had several words written on her…

Olbermann: Pro-Life Advocate Seems To Imply Palin Had An Abortion

February 23rd, 2010 12:02 PM
The media's Palin Derangement Syndrome hit new lows Monday when Keith Olbermann used a remark by a little-known Virginia state Delegate to suggest the former Alaskan governor had an abortion. In his "Worst Person in the World" segment, the "Countdown" host recognized Bob Marshall (R-Va.) for his comments about abortion increasing the likelihood of handicaps in children born after the procedure…

MRC’s Notable Quotables: Scolding ‘Harsh Rhetoric’ of Tea Party

February 22nd, 2010 10:42 AM
I don’t usually post the MRC’s bi-weekly Notable Quotables here on NewsBusters, but there seemed to be more than the usual number of obnoxious liberal quotes over the past two weeks — disparaging the Tea Party as “harsh” or racist; denigrating Sarah Palin as “preposterous” and “anti-intellectual,” and insisting that the voter revolt against Democrats’ big government policies is fiction: “a…

Bill Maher: Tea Party Protesters Just a Bunch of Stupid Cultists

February 21st, 2010 2:26 PM
The left's comedic mud-slingers have been working overtime lately. Bill Maher injected his latest bit of invective Friday when he labeled the Tea Party movement a "cult" and hurled epithets at major conservative figures.Angry that Americans would dare object to his particular brand of ultra-liberal politics, Maher has recieved a bit of press lately for his unending stream of hatred for anyone who…