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HuffPo Blog: Religion to Blame for Overpopulation, Environmental Ruin
June 19th, 2013 10:34 AM
A Muslim, a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew walk into a bar … this could be the set-up for a good joke, but you better not tell it at the Huffington Post. Those four thirsty monotheists and others like them are destroying the human race by fostering overpopulation according to HuffPo, and there’s nothing funny about that.
In a piece titled “Don’t Be Fruitful and Multiply,” contributor Roy…
HuffPo High-Schooler with Lesbian Moms Feels Left Out of Father's Day
June 17th, 2013 4:46 PM
Abby Bergman has an ax to grind. An LGBT activist “all her life,” according to her bio, the high school junior is also the daughter of a lesbian couple, and as a result … thinks we should chuck Father’s Day out the window.
Bergman just wrote a Father’s Day piece (read, an anti-Father’s Day piece) for the Huffington Post called “Celebrating Father’s Day With Two Moms,” in which she whined…
Billionaires Want to End Capitalism As We Know It
June 17th, 2013 2:46 PM
Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington and a group of other CEOs and former world leaders have formed a group whose goal is to end capitalism as we know it. The nonprofit, known as “The B Team,” was created to help promote a “better version of capitalism, one that prioritizes people and planet over profit.” This ignores the fact that capitalism is, by definition, motivated by profit.
The team,…
HuffPo’s Lament: More States Have Wait Periods for Abortion than Gun
June 14th, 2013 4:10 PM
You should wait at least as long before buying a gun as before killing a baby – if HuffPo contributors Jan Diehm and Katy Hall had their way, that is. It’s an outrage to them that there are more waiting periods for abortions than there are for guns.
Diehm and Hall posted a piece today complaining that more states require you to wait before having an abortion than before buying a gun. Using…
MSNBC’s Wagner Positively Gleeful Over Denial of FEMA Funds to West
June 13th, 2013 5:40 PM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Wednesday it would not provide additional funds to help the town of West, Texas rebuild after a fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 and injured 160. MSNBC’s Alex Wagner seemed positively gleeful over the news.
The daytime host treated the development as a political defeat for Texas Governor Rick Perry (R), implying on Thursday’s Now…
TMI: John Stamos to Host Entire Show About ‘Losing Your Virginity
June 13th, 2013 3:25 PM
Uncle Jesse isn’t quite so family-friendly as he used to be. John Stamos, who played “Uncle Jesse” in the family-oriented hit TV show “Full House,” is set to host a new show in which he prompts friends and celebrities to open up about their first sexual experience.
Entitled “Losing Your Virginity,” the new show is launching as a Yahoo! webseries in which Stamos interviews mostly-celebrity…
Russell Brand: Conservatives are ‘Perverts
June 11th, 2013 4:00 PM
Russell Brand is living up to his raunchy reputation of cracking sex jokes about conservatives. The crass British comedian today announced that he thinks conservative republicans with traditional views on sexuality are “perverts.”
Interviewing with HuffPo Live’s Josh Zepps, Brand said that he doesn’t know anyone who isn’t interested in sexuality. When host Zepps replied that he knew “a few…
Imus Tells Alter ‘Shove it,’ Calls Fineman ‘Sniveling Little Wea
June 6th, 2013 5:56 PM
Fox Business’s Don Imus had a delicious trifecta Thursday trashing three perilously liberal journalists in less than 90 seconds.
After telling Jonathan Alter to “shove” his request to come on the program and hawk his new book, Imus called Howard Fineman a “sniveling little weasel” and Jon Meacham a “phony bastard” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Kirk Douglas Wants Gun Control
June 6th, 2013 12:01 PM
Yet another famous Hollywood face is pushing for gun control. “I cannot understand the people who are against some form of gun control,” insisted legendary actor Kirk Douglas on the Huffington Post yesterday.
“America’s cowboy days are over,” wrote the 96-year-old Douglas. Mentioning that “some crazy fan” had given him an engraved gun, Douglas, who often played cowboys, announced unhappily…
Huff Post Reports That Fox Business Would Not Run Ads Calling for Firi
June 4th, 2013 5:03 PM
Laura Bassett at The Huffington Post reported Tuesday that Fox Business would not air a TV advertisement by the feminist group Ultraviolet that called for the termination of Fox contributors Lou Dobbs, Erick Erickson, and Juan Williams.
"Lou Dobbs has a problem," an announcer declares in the ad, over tiny out-of-context clips of the men speaking. "Women are winning the bread. Even his own…
HuffPo Helps Woman Scapegoat Abstinence for Bad Marriage
June 4th, 2013 11:53 AM
“Just do it” before you say I do, HuffPo Live suggested when interviewing Jessica Ciencin Henriquez last week. Bashing programs that promote abstinence until marriage, author Henriquez attempted to blame her bad marriage on the fact that she stayed a virgin until the wedding.
HuffPo Live host Marc Lamont Hill was all support for Henriquez’ blame-game: “As the saying goes, you wouldn’t buy a…
Howard Fineman Should Apologize for Saying McConnell's Staff Might Hav
June 3rd, 2013 4:13 PM
With Friday's admission by liberal activist Curtis Morrison for having bugged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) office in April, there are some liberal media members that owe the Senator an apology.
One is certainly Howard Fineman, the editorial director of the Huffington Post, who on April 10 wrote the following (emphasis added):
Karl Rove Smacks Down Arianna Huffington for Tying IRS Scandal to His
June 2nd, 2013 1:09 PM
Arianna Huffington got a much-needed education about 501(c)(4)s Sunday.
When she claimed during an ABC This Week discussion about the Internal Revenue Service scandal that Crossroads GPS shouldn't have qualified because "it was all about politics," former George W. Bush senior advisor Karl Rove struck back (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MSNBC Panel Uses Bush Bike Ride With Wounded Veterans to Blast Former
June 1st, 2013 10:34 AM
Former President George W. Bush has kept a low profile in his years after office, preferring to focus on personal reflection and veterans' causes since leaving the presidency in 2009. But that didn't keep a left-wing panel on MSNBC from using Bush's recent bike ride with wounded veterans to blast his presidency, though.
Alex Wagner, who anchors the noontime Now program on the Lean Forward…