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Rachel Maddow Plays Gay Card: Defends Her Own Lies By Calling Critics Homophobes

Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Noel Sheppard - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - The folks at MSNBC should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed of their prime time commentator Rachel Maddow. Having been exposed by Politifact for lying last week about Wisconsin having a budget surplus, Maddow on Thursday hypocritically defended herself by playing nine cherry-picked words from the broadcast in question while disgracefully calling her critics homophobes (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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Rachel Maddow Exposed for Lying About Wisconsin Having a Budget Surplus

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Noel Sheppard - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - Contrary to what Maddow and many in the media including on MSNBC have been claiming, Wisconsin does indeed have a budget deficit.

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Maddow Recycles Absurd Claim That FNC 'Never Criticized George W. Bush for Anything'

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Lachlan Markay - Nov. 15 (News Analysis) - MSNBC talker Rachel Maddow whined about "Fox News's water-carrying for the Bush Administration" during her interview with Jon Stewart last week. She also claimed that Fox "never criticized George W. Bush for anything. Even when he was doing things that were sort of not conservative. They never criticized him." Unfortunately for Maddow and the legions of like-minded Fox haters making similar claims, the meme is patently false.

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Obama Demagogues Social Security in Radio/Net Address; AP and Erica Werner Take It Further

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:59:23 -0700

NewsBusters - Aug. 14 (Opinion) - Don't they usually wait until after Labor Day to do this? Ten days ago, I asserted that that the administration's cynical use of Andy Griffith for a patently political promo on behalf of Medicare ("This year, as always, we’ll have our guaranteed

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Petraeus Uses a Word the President Avoids to Describe Goal in Afghanistan

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By Tom Blumer - Jul. 04 (Opinion) - It would have been even more refreshing if the AP's Riechmann, who obviously felt compelled to tick off as many of the reasons Petraeus and the troops he leads may not meet the goal as quickly as possible, would have reminded readers that Petraeus's boss, President Barack Obama, has been decidedly allergic to using the words "win" and "victory" in Afghanistan since his inauguration. One of her later paragraphs presented a perfect opportunity to remind readers of the president's aversion. She passed; she shouldn't have

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Time’s Klein: Beck, Palin committing treason with dissent

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By Jeff Poor - Apr. 18 (Opinion) - Liberals are all too often eager to charge conservative personalities of using hyperbole to gain a political advantage, especially when it contradicts their world view - whether it's suggesting the Obama administration is taking the country down the path of socialism, fascism or any other -ism. However, it could be argued there's a different set of standards for those same people when they want to make strong charges.

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WaPo Page One: 'Professor Obama' Schools 'Undisciplined Pupils' of GOP

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:46:58 -0800

NewsBusters - By Tim Graham - Feb. 26 (News Analysis) - Republicans had been hesitant to accept President Obama's invitation to participate in Thursday's White House health-care summit. Their hesitance turned out to be justified. An equal number of Democratic and Republican legislators assembled around the

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WaPo's Ezra Klein Kisses Up to Keith, Agrees Limbaugh Is a 'Loathsome Racist'

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Tim Graham - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - Ezra Klein is the utility infielder of the Washington Post, popping up all over the paper offering his liberal opinions.

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NPR: Global Warming Skepticism Due to Narrow 'Worldview'

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By P.J. Gladnick - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - It's like Christoper Joyce of National Public Radio is completely unaware of ClimateGate. Phil Jones? Never heard of him. Oh, he is the former head of Britain's Climatic Research Unit who now admits manipulating data? No matter. You see, we have our minds made up and the reason people are becoming increasingly skeptical about "climate change" aka global warming is that they have a narrow worldview.

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N.Y. Times Laments Media Mistreatment of Voodoo, Including 'Voodoo Economics'

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Tim Graham - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - The New York Times is pro-voodoo, or perhaps they are just an informal Voodoo Anti-Defamation League. On Saturday, religion writer Samuel G. Freedman wrote a story headlined "Voodoo, a Source of Comfort in Haiti, Remains Misunderstood."

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Reid After Trent Lott's Resignation In 2002: 'He Had No Alternative'

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Noel Sheppard - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in 2002 agreed with former Sen. Trent Lott's (R-Miss.) decision to resign his leadership role after Lott made what some felt were racist remarks at former Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party. "He had no alternative,"

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ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Noel Sheppard - Nov. 24 (Opinion) - The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal. Despite last Friday morning's bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists -- many with direct ties to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- to manipulate temperature data, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC through Monday evening have completely ignored the subject. LexisNexis searches indicate that NPR appears to also be part of this news boycott.

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Olbermann Bashed Bush Administration for Criticizing NBC in 2008

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By Noel Sheppard - Oct. 22 (News Analysis) - Keith Olbermann's recent cheerleading for the Obama adminstration's attacks on Fox News is in stark contrast to how the "Countdown" host felt about the Bush White House criticizing NBC last year for questionable editing done in a "Today" show report.

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MSNBC Goes Into Astroturf Mode

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By Jeff Poor - Oct. 08 (News Analysis) - Remember back just a few short months ago - when thousands, if not millions, of Americans were protesting out-of-control government spending and other policies favored by President Barack Obama's administration? Surprised by the resounding turnout, the usual lefty talking heads on MSNBC, specifically on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" and "The Rachel Maddow Show," explained the protests away as being fake grassroots aka AstroTurf.

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Will MSM Report on 2008 Arctic Ice Increase?

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By P.J. Gladnick - Jul. 21 (Opinion) - Good news! Despite the recent global warming alarmism in the media that Arctic ice might melt away completely from the North Pole this summer, the latest scientific observations show that Arctic ice has actually increased by nearly a half million square miles over this time last year. This is in stark contrast to the Chicken Little hysteria that was being promoted less than a month ago on the CBS Early Show as reported by Kyle Drennen on June 27 here in NewsBusters:

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It's OK to Discuss Pickens' Windmill Investments but Not Gore's

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By Noel Sheppard - Jul. 20 (News Analysis) - On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Gore gave host Tom Brokaw the perfect setup to ask him about his investments in renewable fuel technology when the former Vice President mentioned how much money T. Boone Pickens has put into windmill farms. Predictably, Brokaw missed this opportunity to be the first major, mainstream media member to ask the Global Warmingist-in-Chief about his own investments, and just how much he stands to make if America does indeed shift all of its electricity production to renewable sources of energy.

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Boston Globe Uses Sarcastic Column to Attack McCain, Romney

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:15:50 -0700

NewsBusters - By Lyndsi Thomas - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - Local politics writer Yvonne Abraham, in a June 4 article titled "McMitt Picking," sought to discuss the potential pairing of McCain and Romney for the presidential and vice presidential spots on the Republican ticket. However, her column was a little ...

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Esquire: Republican Voters Are Accessories to America's Murder

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

NewsBusters - By Tim Graham - May. 10 (Opinion) - Charles Pierce is the infamous Boston Globe writer who tried to insist in 2003 that if Mary Jo Kopechne had survived Chappaquiddick, she would enjoy all the senior citizen benefits provided by Ted Kennedy's beneficent policies. In the June edition of Esquire magazine, Pierce turns his love goggles on Barack Obama, "a dark blade of a man, loose-limbed and jangly, with small ears and an imperious tilt to his chin, as though something is wrong in a distant part of the world that only he can sense."

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MRC's Brent Bozell Warns McCain In Sunday's Washington Post

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Tim Graham - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - Sleepy-eyed people inside the Beltway may see L. Brent Bozell at the top of the Sunday Outlook section in today's Washington Post and think the world's turned upside down. But the Post asked Brent to write a message to John McCain from conservatives. Message: "Think real conservatives will vote for John McCain? Don't count on it." It means don't take us for granted. But on the Post website today, a slightly different version emerges on the home page, as if Brent said McCain was toast: "If you think real conservatives will vote for John McCain, think again." H

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Fox Focuses on MRC Study of Declining MSM Iraq Coverage

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

NewsBusters - By Mark Finkelstein - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - A recent study, "Good News = Less News on Iraq War," by Media Research Center, NB's parent organization, revealed that coverage of Iraq by the big three evening newscasts has declined as the news from Iraq has improved. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace highlighted the MRC study during his interview of General David Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force - Iraq .

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CNN Fails to mention retired gay general's endorsement of Hillary

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:14:26 -0800

NewsBusters - By Matthew Balan - Nov. 29 (News Report) - CNN, as part of its Republican debate with YouTube, failed to mention that retired general Keith Kerr, who announced he was gay after his retirement from the Army, is a member of Hillary Clinton's "LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee." Not only did General Kerr ask the question via a YouTube video, but he was also present in the audience, and got to ask the candidates for a "straight answer" (pardon the pun). General Kerr's, whose question came 47 minutes into the 9 pm Eastern hour the debate, is also part of the Servicemembers' Legal Defense Network's advisory council, an organization "dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and related forms of intolerance" [See updates below: Bill Bennett mentioned Kerr's possible Hillary connection on CNN 30 minutes after the debate, and Anderson Cooper confirms this at the close of the 10 pm Eastern hour.]

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Joe Trippi More Newsworthy Than Posthumous Medal of Honor Recipient?

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:31:23 -0700

NewsBusters - By Ken Shepherd - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - Army Captain Mark L. Stoneman took issue with the Washington Post placing an article regarding the Medal of Honor ceremony for the late Lt. Michael P. Murphy, a Navy Seal killed in action in Afghanistan, on page A4, when the Post devoted prime real estate on the front page to a profile of Democratic strategist Joe Trippi

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Valerie Plame Hates The Washington Post, Compares It to Pravda

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:17:23 -0700

NewsBusters - By Tim Graham - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - In her interview tour of left-wing, Bush-hating Web sites, Valerie Plame threw a bone to Firedoglake (the one that refers to Joe Lieberman as "Rape Gurney Joe" for not forcing Catholic hospitals to provide "emergency contraception" for rape victims). She also granted one to BuzzFlash.com, which just this week awarded its "Wings of Justice" Award to Pete "Bush Is Amused by Soldiers Dying" Stark. She amused them with lines like "I want a t-shirt that says, 'I was slimed by the Republican administration.' You can make a lot of money on that." But the really interesting section of the interview is her continuing hatred for The Washington Post. (On NBC and elsewhere, she compared the Post editorialists to Pravda, the hoary state propaganda newspaper of the Soviet Union.) Here, the BuzzFlash guru and Plame take turns bashing the Post:

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Ted Turner: Fox News to Blame for Iraq

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:14:27 -0700

NewsBusters - By Brad Wilmouth - Oct. 14 (Opinion) - During an interview by GQ's Wil Hylton posted on the magazine's blog on September 20, CNN founder Ted Turner blamed Fox News for pushing America into the Iraq war, tagging the conflict as "Rupert's war," and contended that he is more afraid of America's possession of nuclear weapons than he is of the prospect of rogue states like Iran obtaining such weapons. Turner: "I'm much more worried about our nuclear arsenal than theirs. Iran, at best, can get a few nuclear weapons. We have tens of thousands. We have to get rid of them." The CNN founder even repeated complimentary words toward North Korea, as he rationalized the country's problem with starvation. Turner: "They were nice to me. There weren't a lot of fat people walking around. They were all thin. And being thin is healthier than being fat." (Transcript follows)

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Juan Williams Sets Record Straight on O'Reilly Row on Time.com

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:07:02 -0700

NewsBusters - By Ken Shepherd - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - In a September 28 article on Time.com entitled, "What Bill O'Reilly Really Told Me," Fox News contributor Juan Williams explained the context of his conversation with O'Reilly that found itself fodder for context-mangling by liberal interest groups and O'Reilly's perpetual ratings victim, Keith Olbermann:

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