Matt Lauer invited on two Senate supporters and no opponents of Barack Obama's stimulus bill, on Monday's "Today" show and asked pro-stimulus bill questions to his guests, even chiding those who…
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President Bush may have retired to Texas, but The Huffington Post indulges Alec Baldwin as he makes completely imaginary points about how the whole world bent to Dubya’s will for eight years:…
On Friday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez dazzled viewers with his profound grasp of economics. His guest was CNN chief business correspondent Ali Velshi, whose most recent achievement was being…
With the turndown in the economy and the crisis in the financial services industry, capitalism bashing has become all the rage at mainstream media outlets.
From making fun of corporate jets…
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Floyd Norris takes a shot at explaining "The Upside to Resisting Globalization" (Feb. 6…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Happy Republicans.
They took a beating in November, but now, in the stimulus fight, Republicans are smiling again. You see it all…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos was puzzled on Sunday's This Week when new Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele saw a difference between government-created temporary “make work” jobs and…
Monday’s Washington Post has a story on the resurgent Republicans by Alec MacGillis and Perry Bacon Jr. The home-page headline was "GOP as an Insurgent Opposition." It puts an off-putting GOP…
The L.A. Times published a story on February 9 that states that "the GOP" is "uneasy" about Rush's "self-coronation" as the voice of Republicans. But, after reading the story one realizes that it…
Hollywood filmmakers are ruminating about taking on the 2008 political season. Towering personalities, scintillating stories, and epic clashes abound. The stories of the 2008 political campaign…
Now that America has a liberal President, it is apparently no longer acceptable for a private citizen to express disagreement with the White House in Keith Olbermann’s world. On Thursday’s…
For years NewsBusters has addressed the declining quality of movies currently available at theaters, and has normally pointed fingers at the amount of sex, violence, and vulgarity that has become…
Your humble correspondent has always been somewhat uneasy about newspapers publishing the names and photos of clients of prostitutes. For committing what is at worst a misdemeanor, those clients have…
So the pulchritudinous actress Ashley Judd is starring in a new advertising campaign by the group Defenders of Wildlife against Gov. Sarah Palin for promoting "the brutal aerial killing of wolves…
Former Sen. Tom Daschle might have been forced to withdraw his name as President Obama's Health and Human Services secretary last week, but his tax problems were far less egregious than Timothy…
Last August, America’s own Michael Phelps amazed the world with eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, by far the biggest swimming star since Mark Spitz won seven golds in 1972. Sadly, three…
In the early 1980s, Don Henley hit the charts with the song "Dirty Laundry," a sarcastic view of television news. It begins:I make my living off the Evening NewsJust give me something-something I…
As the financial crisis hit last September, NewsBusters regularly informed readers of the truth behind the matter, and that media assertions the Bush administration was to blame were politically…
Salon.com blogger and author Glenn Greenwald is unlikely to become a fan of former Vice President Dick Cheney, safe to say.But Greenwald's loathing for Cheney occasionally gets the better of him,…
While the Obama administration and its media minions castigate financial industry executives for their so-called greedy ways, a couple of inconvenient truths are going largely un- or under-…
Who cares if we're like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, careening in his pickup toward the brink of the rock quarry? At least we're moving fast!That seemed to be Claire Shipman's logic in urging…
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: It's approaching a trillion dollars!
Look at the smiles on Reid and Schumer's faces. Is this something to be…
It seems that New York Times writer Patrick Healy has a big fascination with the word "penis." He uses it over and over and over again in his article about how actor Will Ferrell exposes a projected…
Newsweek's Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas are tired of all this talk of socialism. We need to stop talking about yesterday's news, they say, and embrace the great new fact that America is already a…
Have you heard about a graphic novel called "Joey the Seminarian?" It is about young Joseph Djugashvili and his adventures in a Tiflis seminary. Joey is quite an excellent student who writes…