Nearly five years ago, when journalists were touting then-vice presidential candidate John Edwards and admiring his idyllic marriage to Elizabeth Edwards, Katie Couric celebrated the couple's annual wedding anniversary “romantic ritual” of eating at Wendy's, wondering as the three laughed: “What do you say, 'One Frosty, two straws?'” Pretty ridiculous in retrospect.
ABC led Wednesday night with the Senate's overwhelming 90 to 6 bi-partisan vote to withhold funding for the closing of Guantanamo and block any detainees from being moved to the U.S., but ABC anchor Charles Gibson was flummoxed: “What's the problem here?...We have terrorists in U.S. prisons, so why not the guys from Guantanamo?”
Four weeks after FX's Rescue Me featured a New York City firefighter telling a French journalist how the 9/11 terrorist attacks were part of “a massive neo-conservative government effort” to enable “American global domination,” the program gave the French character a platform to rail against how the U.S. failed to heed France's advice in starting “two new wars” in the name of “revenge."
Reacting to the questions posed during Wednesday's presidential news conference, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed disappointment with the White House press corps, telling FNC's Greta Van Susteren the journalists have “taken such a pathetic dive with this President that they ought to be part of his PR firm. I mean it's embarrassing to watch.”
Left-wing actress Janeane Garofalo went on a wild rant on MSNBC's Countdown, impugning those who attended the tea parties as “racists” and denigrating the brain power of anyone who watches the Fox News Channel. Here is an edited video, just over two-minutes in length, of her most-outrageous smears uttered on the April 16 program. Check the “source/commentary” link for a transcript.
ABC's Charles Gibson, Jan Crawford Greenburg and George Stephanopoulos all stressed Thursday night how, Bush administration Justice Department memos clarifying what techniques interrogators could use with suspected terrorists, included what Stephanopoulos described as “torture with an insect.”
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were part of “a massive neo-conservative government effort” to enable “American global domination,” a character on FX's 'Rescue Me' argued on Tuesday night's (April 14) episode.
Chris Matthews became the punch line of a joke on Saturday Night Live. During the Weekend Update segment on the April 11 show, SNL's news anchor, Seth Myers, delivered this item, illustrated by a creative matching graphic: "A new comic is being published this summer called 'Barack the Barbarian' which features the President in a loin cloth. Also featuring the President in a loin cloth: Chris…
Film director Ron Howard is “very optimistic” about the future of America, so long as the nation makes an “adjustment,” to fulfill his hope a “more progressive” nation will mean “at a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy.”
The MRC's “DisHonors Awards” furnished Keith Olbermann with comments to ridicule, but his rants exposed his own hypocrisy. Brit Hume had thanked the MRC for providing information he could use, leading Olbermann to denounce Hume: “Brit Hume's dumbfounding admission. He was fed a buffet of daily talking points by an ultra-conservative media site and quote 'we certainly made tremendous use of it.'”
