Commenting on the new health care law, on Wednesday’s Late Show with David Letterman, comedian/actor Chris Rock cracked that ObamaCare opponents remind him of those against civil rights in the 1960s who years later had to answer, “grand daddy, is this your ‘I Hate Martin Luther King’ hat?”
In the midst of liberals condemning the tone of anti-Obama conservatives, Bill Maher pointed to a vulgar and sexually-explicit text message as representing the attitude Democrats should adopt. Maher quoted Tiger Woods: “I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you....I'm going to tell you to shut the f**k up while I slap your face and pull your hair for making noise."
Based on some mild and indiscernible shouts by people in a hallway outside the office of a House member, CBS's Chip Reid on Tuesday night tried to discredit anti-ObamaCare protesters, claiming “at times, it got ugly.”
Three weeks after the mom on ABC’s Brothers & Sisters fretted over GOP “denying global warming,” the ABC drama was centered around her daughter, a GOP Senate candidate, coming under attack from conservative rubes who think she used her influence to get the visa renewed for her sister’s French boyfriend. They chant: “America for Americans!” and hold up a sign, with a mustache added: “Hi Kitler…
In 2008, just four years after leaving NBC News, Jane Pauley gave the maximum allowed donation to Barack Obama and campaigned for him, proclaiming “I want to see the cool, steady hand of Barack Obama on that Bible on Inauguration Day” and predicted Obama will be “an exceptional” President. On March 9, 2010 Pauley reappeared on the Today show, which she co-hosted from 1976 to 1989.
In 2015, she…
Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News made time to showcase an unhinged liberal Democrat, Patrick Kennedy, screaming against the media during House floor remarks in favor of a Dennis Kucinich-backed resolution to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan, a fringe proposition which was soundly defeated 356 to 65. Anchor Brian Williams characterized Kennedy’s yelling tirade as “a gripping moment.”
On this past Tuesday’s episode of The Good Wife on CBS, viewers were treated to a scene in which a ballistics expert opens a gift, from a partner of a law firm, to find a book about Sarah Palin made up of, he discovers by thumbing through it, blank pages “satirically representing,” Amazon.com explains, “the mind and thinking of Sarah Palin.”
Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, appearing on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO to plug the DVD release of his Capitalism: A Love Story screed, cited the 250,000 killed in Haiti, which he snidely described as an unregulated “Republican’s paradise,” as an apt analogy to justify further regulation of U.S. banks.
Former President Ronald Reagan would have prosecuted Dick Cheney for war crimes, Seth MacFarlane (IMDb page), creator, writer and executive producer of the Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show animated sit-coms aired Sunday night on Fox, declared Friday night on the season premiere of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. But President Barack Obama, he rued, is too “chicken s**t” do to it.
On the eve of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy, Bryant Gumbel couldn’t resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his February 7, 2006 Real Sports magazine show on HBO as he condescendingly suggested viewers “try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a…