Al Gore: He Speaks for Us All
It would be quite the understatement to say that members of the media approved of Al Gore's Nobel Prize win. Sam Donaldson lauded Gore for doing something "very…
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October 20th, 2007 10:21 AM | Scott Whitlock
October 19th, 2007 6:51 PM | Mark Finkelstein
A few days after 9-11, President Bush, in an impromptu moment on the White House lawn, referred to the war on terrorism as a crusade. What does that have to do with the vile claim Rep. Pete Stark…
October 19th, 2007 7:42 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Did I miss the joke? Was there something funny about what Pete Stark (D-Calif.) said on the floor of the House, claiming that President Bush sends our soldiers to Iraq to get their heads blown off…
October 19th, 2007 5:17 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC host Keith Olbermann suggested that President Bush "hates" kids because of the President's veto of the SCHIP funding bill, as the "Countdown" host teased the show…
October 18th, 2007 10:37 AM | Scott Whitlock
On Wednesday, nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin picked up and expanded on the story of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough lauding Al Gore, first reported in NewsBusters. Levin described "…
October 18th, 2007 3:32 AM | Brent Baker
Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President at a Tuesday night rally in New Hampshire, former ABC News anchor/reporter Carole Simpson exclaimed, an NBC News blog reported, that “it's very freeing now…
October 17th, 2007 3:38 PM | Scott Whitlock
On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough declared, "Al Gore wins." Referencing a story in the New York Times on how global warming is dividing the 2008 GOP field, the…
October 17th, 2007 1:31 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It took 15 years to become official, but Carole Simpson has now confirmed what we always suspected: she's a Clinton backer. Readers will recall that during the 1992 campaign, the then ABC News…
October 16th, 2007 10:06 PM | Brent Baker
The NBC Nightly News on Tuesday night became the first broadcast network evening newscast to highlight the first Medal of Honor award since Vietnam for a member of the Navy, announced last week, to…
October 16th, 2007 4:58 PM | Justin McCarthy
The October 16 edition of "Fox and Friends" featured conservative talk trailblazer Rush Limbaugh to discuss Harry Reid’s and 40 other Senate Democrats’ smear of Limbaugh. The radio talk show host…
October 15th, 2007 3:01 PM | Ken Shepherd
Time's Joe Klein (file photo at right) has a bit of a hypocrisy problem. After earlier saying he wanted to "throw up" after seeing President Bush showcase "snowflake babies," children adopted as…
October 15th, 2007 12:58 PM | Noel Sheppard
As media do a victory lap over Friday's Nobel Peace Prize announcement, it seems a metaphysical certitude that few Americans are aware of the other 180 nominees for the award besides the…
October 15th, 2007 6:53 AM | Mark Finkelstein
This could be a first: someone accusing Paul Krugman of being insufficiently insulting to conservatives.That someone is, unsurprisingly, David Shuster, the rabidly anti-conservative MSNBC "…
October 13th, 2007 4:12 PM | Noel Sheppard
In reality, there were a lot of disgraceful moments during Friday's "Real Time" on HBO, like "The View's" Joy Behar saying "the Republican [presidential] candidates are a bunch of pussies…
October 13th, 2007 7:35 AM | Tim Graham
Yahoo! users found a Democratic gaffe at the top of the page on Saturday: "Fans are angry after a congressman instructs aides to get inoculated before a trip to a NASCAR race." Rep. Bennie…
October 13th, 2007 12:01 AM | Tom Blumer
Is Associated Press economics writer Martin Crutsinger quietly converting to supply-side economics?
This is noteworthy, because Crutsinger has usually been the go-to reporter for uncalled-…
October 12th, 2007 11:17 AM | Richard Newcomb
On this day in the year 2000, the guided missile destroyer USS Cole was attacked by Islamic terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Quaeda group. Today is the seventh anniversary of that…
October 12th, 2007 8:29 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Sure, we know when we're being used. The folks at "Morning Joe" are well aware that if baring some liberal leg is likely to cause us to cover them, mentioning NewsBusters by name virtually…
October 11th, 2007 10:46 PM | Noel Sheppard
As media in America fall all over themselves with glee at the thought of the Global Warmingist-in-Chief winning a Nobel Peace Prize,…
October 11th, 2007 9:31 PM | Brent Baker
Three months after NBC promoted Al Gore's agenda by broadcasting more than 75 hours of his “Live Earth” concerts, Thursday's NBC Nightly News got the jump on the inevitable media excitement -- if…
October 11th, 2007 9:20 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Surprise! Mika Brzezinski, far from criticizing Jimmy Carter's excoriation of the Bush adminstration, applauds it . . .View video here.
In a free-swinging democracy such as ours, rare are…
October 11th, 2007 8:56 AM | Brent Baker
“Jimmy Carter is back in the news tonight,” NBC anchor Brian Williams declared Wednesday night in making true what he, but not the ABC or CBS evening newscasts found newsworthy, “this time because of…
October 10th, 2007 7:08 PM | Jason Aslinger
Ann Coulter did her best to drop a bomb on the October 10 episode of "Tucker" on MSNBC. At the conclusion of her interview, Ann Coulter announced (video) that the National Enquirer was just…
October 10th, 2007 9:55 AM | Noel Sheppard
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your radio again, a major media advocate has issued a strong warning to companies thinking about hiring Don Imus: Don't you dare!
For…
October 9th, 2007 10:19 PM | Brent Baker
The news media have hardly been admirers of Richard Nixon, but ABC News found new respect Tuesday for Nixon's assessments now that old tapes show how during Watergate he ridiculed furure GOP…