ABC News producer Zach Wolf said he was given the middle finger by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), when a fellow reporter asked why the senator had put a hold on a federal highway bill that has furloughed more than 2,000 federal workers. Wolf didn’t elaborate, but Tweeted, “Jim Bunning…
Sarah Palin’s popularity among conservatives may be strong, but even some of them seem to think she ought to learn a little bit more. That includes Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly. Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday, O’Reilly told George Stephanopoulos that if Palin wants to be a…
Joe Stack — a 53-year-old accordion player from Austin, Texas, who smashed his single engine aircraft into an IRS office killing one and injuring 15 others — is a “hero” in the eyes of his daughter. Or, maybe he isn’t. In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Samantha Bell,…
Conservative radio host Stephen Baldwin offered President Obama some tough love at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington Thursday. “I am not happy about the way things are,” Baldwin told ABC’s Jonathan Karl. “I pray for President Obama every single day. But tell you what. Homey made his…
The Sunday morning talk shows heated up this morning with Vice President Joe Biden firing back at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticisms. Earlier, Cheney told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Biden was “dead wrong” in his recent assertion that a 9/11-style attack wasn’t likely in the near future. Biden responded…
Former VP says ‘I was a big supporter’ of waterboarding, other torture techniques Waterboarding should have been an option for the failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, former Vice President Dick Cheney says. “I think you ought to have all of those capabilities on the table,” Cheney told ABC’s…
Young people ‘turned off’ by Tea Party movement’s racist undertones, McCain says The daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain has sharply criticized the Tea Party movement, accusing it of “innate racism.” In an appearance on ABC’s The View, Meghan McCain also took issue with a number of recent statements…
Is it money laundering to take donations from your political action committee and convert them into a royalties check through your publisher? Not if you are Alaska’s favorite half-term governor. Sarah Palin, the former politician turned Fox News contributor, spent $63,000 of SarahPAC’s money on copies of her book, “Going…
Colleagues of ten American Baptist missionaries arrested for child trafficking in Haiti say it’s all a big misunderstanding, but the Haitian government isn’t mincing words on the issue. “For me, it’s not Americans that were arrested, it was kidnappers,” said Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Ten Americans, five men and…
Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes defended his network Sunday morning on ABC, saying he is in the ratings business not the politics business. He was criticized for, among other comments, Fox host Glenn Beck’s reference to a “killing spree” conducted by Joseph Stalin while talking about President Barack…