Linda Ellerbee

TV Columnist Bashes Romney for Declining Interview With Kids on Nickelodeon
By Ryan Robertson | October 9, 2012 | 6:23 PM EDT

Citing time constraints, Mitt Romney has respectfully declined to participate in Nickelodeon's upcoming "Kids Pick the President" special that is scheduled to air on Oct. 15. In her latest column, the Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes attacked the decision, considering it a snub and quoting the reaction from the Obama campaign at length.

"First Big Bird, now Nickelodeon," she began. "What’s up with Mitt Romney and kids?" By contrast, President Obama -- who is known to skip daily intelligence briefings often -- couldn't be praised enough for taking time out of his own busy schedule to take part in the cable TV show.

NickNews Celebrates Lefty Child 'Rebels With a Cause'
By Ken Shepherd | October 31, 2007 | 5:41 PM EDT

As we've noted at NewsBusters before, it's perfectly sporting to liberal reporters to scoff at conservative activism by college-aged Republicans. Just the same, the left-wing activists of kids not old enough to drive is enough to make journalists warm and gushy inside.Take Linda Ellerbee, formerly of NBC and CNN, who has a new Nick News special on kids engaging in political activism, and yes, it's heavy on left-wing action items from protesting alleged "torture" sanctioned by the Bush administration, to decrying standardized testing in Seattle, Washington, as racist, to aiding PETA in protesting the use of circus animals. (h/t Blackfive) The 22-minute Ellerbee report, "Rebels with a Cause," can be found at the Nickelodeon Web site.Here's the condescending patter with which Ellerbee opened her program: