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CNN's Sanchez Wishes Rush Well, Then Bashes Him With Viewer Comments

By Mike Bates | December 31, 2009, 5:36 PM EST

On this afternoon's CNN Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez briefly updated his audience on Rush Limbaugh's medical condition.  He completed his comments with "We wish him well."  Sanchez's good wishes didn't square with the Twitte ...

Kathy Griffin Insists Carrie Prejean's a 'Moron,' Then Confuses the CIA and FBI

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2009, 5:18 PM EST

Despite last year's oral-sex-insult fiasco, left-wing comedienne Kathy Griffin is co-hosting CNN's New Year's Eve coverage with Anderson Cooper again in 2009. On Wednesday night's Anderson Cooper 360, Griffin joked to CNN anchor Erica ...

MRC's Worsts of the Year Compilations and Expositions

By NB Staff | December 31, 2009, 4:08 PM EST

On this last day of 2009, a quick rundown of the Media Research Center's quote compilations and assessments, issued over the past couple of weeks, on the worst of the media during the year: ♦ From the MRC's News Analysis Division: “ Best Notable ...

Bozell Column: Cultural Winners and Losers, 2009

By Brent Bozell | December 31, 2009, 2:27 PM EST

It was a year in which the dominant cultural story was the sad, but eerily almost predictable drug-addled death of Michael Jackson. But there were a few good moments sprinkled in with the outrageous and the tawdry in 2009. My choices for cultural winners ...

Eugene Robinson Defends Obama by Attacking Dick Cheney

By Jason Aslinger | December 31, 2009, 1:29 PM EST

On Wednesday, former vice president Dick Cheney made the following brief statement to Politico: [W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe. Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of ...

Tina Brown: Limbaugh 'Like the Bad Fairy at Sleeping Beauty's Christening'

By Matthew Balan | December 31, 2009, 12:21 PM EST

The Daily Beast’s Tina Brown targeted Rush Limbaugh for ruining 2009, particularly after Obama’s inauguration, on Thursday’s Today show on NBC, blaming him for the “big discord and toxic atmosphere in politics,” and likened him to the “the bad fairy at Sl ...

Kossacks Display Hate by Rejoicing in Rush Limbaugh Hospitalization

By P.J. Gladnick | December 31, 2009, 11:55 AM EST

For some strange reason, the Daily Kos has gained the reputation in the mainstream media for somehow being composed of "reasonable progressives" in stark contrast to their Democratic Underground cousins whom even many in the MSM will admit are f ...

Politico's Calderone Compiles a Quality 2009 Media Blunder List-- And Politico Messes Up the Photo Composite

By Seton Motley | January 1, 2010, 6:51 PM EST

Michael Calderone, Doing it Right UPDATE #2- ALSO BELOW THE FOLD. UPDATE BELOW THE FOLD- THE ESTEEMED MR. CALDERONE RESPONDS.------------- CORRECTION: I said the Washington Post was on the hook twice on Calderone's list.  H/t to NBer Dean who pointed ...

Fodentoons of 2009 Thursday Post

By Glenn Foden | December 31, 2009, 8:30 AM EST

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WaPo's Liberal Decade: 'We' Went from 'Hell' to 'Hope,' Cheered 'Tantalizing Evolution' Into Obama Era

By Tim Graham | February 15, 2010, 7:47 AM EST

On the last day of 2009, The Washington Post revisited the decade from its own narrow liberal persective. Style section writer Dan Zak found "we cheered the inauguration of a black man" and suggested the "we" was appropriate because 93 ...

Open Thread

By NB Staff | December 31, 2009, 2:08 AM EST

Do you think journalists should be banned from purchasing photos and interviews, so-called "checkbook journalism" (a la Jasper Schuringa)? Why or why not? ...

WaPo's Liberal Decade: 'We' Went from 'Hell' to 'Hope'

By Tim Graham | December 7, 2011, 2:48 PM EST

On the last day of 2009, The Washington Post revisited the decade from its own narrow liberal persective. Style section writer Dan Zak found "we cheered the inauguration of a black man" and suggested the "we" was appropriate because 93 ...

WaPo's Liberal Decade: 'We' Went from 'Hell' to 'Hope'

By Tim Graham | December 7, 2011, 2:48 PM EST

On the last day of 2009, The Washington Post revisited the decade from its own narrow liberal persective. Style section writer Dan Zak found "we cheered the inauguration of a black man" and suggested the "we" was appropriate because 93 ...

Ouch! Putin Answer About Terrorism Stuns Press Conference to Silence

By P.J. Gladnick | December 31, 2009, 7:28 AM EST

Ouch! This video of Russian ex-President (now Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin's response to a question about terrorism at a G-8 summit press conference was posted in early 2008. However, his answer is worth noting now in light of  Barack Obama's ...

Honolulu TV: Rush Limbaugh Hospitalized After Chest Pains

By Brent Baker | December 31, 2009, 11:06 AM EST

From KITV, the ABC affiliate on channel 4 in Honolulu. UPDATED with 6:53 PM HST posting (11:53 PM EST) Wednesday: Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh [Limbaugh's site] was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, ...