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On 'Morning Joe', Sharpton Upbraids Santorum for Saying 'Despicable and Ugly Things' About Obama

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2011, 5:48 PM EST

Is there anything more ridiculous than being accused of saying “despicable and ugly things” by...Al Sharpton? On Thursday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC brought in Sharpton as part of a tag-team interview with presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Isn't Sharpt ...

Media Ignore Obama Hawaii Golfing Buddy Who Was Arrested in Prostitution Sting

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2011, 7:18 PM EST

Mediaite's Nando Di Fino reports President Obama has played at least two rounds of golf in Hawaii with a high school buddy, Robert “Bobby” Titcomb, was arrested as part of a prostitution sting, after he allegedly approached an undercover police offic ...

AP Wrongly Claims Palin's Figurative 'Death Panels' Contention 'Now Widely Debunked'

By Tom Blumer | January 1, 2012, 10:03 AM EST

There are quite a few problems with Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar's December 28 coverage ("New fee coming for medical effectiveness research") concerning a new fee (i.e., tax) which will imposed on health insurance companies for each person they ...

New Times Watch Quotes of Note: 2011 Worst Quotes of the Year

By Clay Waters | January 1, 2012, 7:23 AM EST

Times Watch’s end-of-year awards issue celebrates the best of the worst quotes that appeared in the paper or were uttered by Times reporters and columnists during 2011. The New York Times spent much of the year in pro-Obama defense mode, excoriating the T ...

Bozell Column: Profanity and Pop Music

By Brent Bozell | December 31, 2011, 9:13 PM EST

Profanity and pop music go hand in hand these days. The pop star Rihanna recently appeared on the British version of Simon Cowell’s singing competition “The X Factor” dressed in a demure plaid jumper with a prim white collar. It seemed like a bow to young ...

New Year's Weekend Open Thread

By NB Staff | December 31, 2011, 7:58 AM EST

As 2011 draws to a close, let's look back on the year while we make some predictions for the coming one. What was the most important event of 2011? What was the event most over-hyped by media? Who will be the GOP presidential nominee? Who will win th ...

New Year's Weekend Sports Open Thread

By NB Staff | December 31, 2011, 7:52 AM EST

Between Bowl games, the end of the NFL regular season, basketball, and hockey, there's got to be something on your mind. As 2011 draws to a close, what was the finest sports moment of the year? ...

Team Obama Cries 'Bull(bleep)' Against Billion-Dollar Campaign Estimates

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2011, 8:42 AM EST

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air put it best on the latest Obama campaign video: "You know, nothing says classy in a presidential campaign like having to bleep out a word from the national campaign manager in a prepared video." Campaign manager Jim Messi ...

AP Writer Marvels at Omnipresence of Kim Jong Il Images, Never Notes Country's Communist Tyranny

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2011, 12:50 AM EST

Jean H. Lee's Friday afternoon report at the Associated Press on the omnipresence of images of the late Kim Jong Il throughout North Korea reads more like an audition to be the communist nation's next propaganda minister than a wire service repo ...

AP's Pace Perpetuates Pathetic Claim That National Debt's Rise Is Due to Wars and Bush Tax Cuts

By Tom Blumer | December 31, 2011, 7:23 AM EST

There are press memes which won't go away no matter what, and no matter how often disproven. One, repeated in an Associated Press report a couple of weeks ago as our troops were about to leave Iraq, claimed that "No WMD were ever found" the ...

'Tis the Season for An 'Extremely Low Carbon Footprint'

By Clay Waters | December 30, 2011, 11:12 PM EST

The New York Times disguised a left-wing political appeal under its Christmas Day editorial, “ The Miracle and the Means.” "Some years it would be nice if there really were a Santa Claus," they wrote. "Imagine it. No lists, no shopping, no ...

Chris Matthews Goes Al Campanis: Perry Doesn't Have 'Necessaries' To Be President

By Mark Finkelstein | December 30, 2011, 6:35 PM EST

Twenty-four years ago, Los Angeles Dodgers VP Al Campanis was forced to resign his position for saying on national TV that blacks lack "the necessities" to be baseball managers and executives.   On today's Hardball, Chris Matthews was so en ...

USAT's Woodyard Incorrectly IDs 1976 Lincolns Used in Kim Jong Il Funeral as 'Nixon Era'

By Tom Blumer | December 30, 2011, 4:56 PM EST

It's certainly not the most egregious media bias or error story you'll every see. But hey, it's the end of the year and almost GOP primary time, so take a break, lighten up a bit, and enjoy this one. On Wednesday, as shown here and based on ...

Chris Matthews on Hate in America: All Against Obama, No Haters On His Behalf

By Tim Graham | December 31, 2011, 7:37 AM EST

Chris Matthews showed up from Java Joe's in Des Moines in the 11 am hour on MSNBC Friday to underline the liberal arrogance that in the Obama era, all the country's hatred is against Obama, and apparently liberals are utterly incapable of adding ...

New Deal Apologist Mike Papantonio Praises FDR Scheme to Pack Supreme Court

By Jack Coleman | December 30, 2011, 2:41 PM EST

Leave it to a fringe leftist to tout a rarely-defended plan proposed by Franklin Roosevelt. Angered by Supreme Court rulings that blocked many New Deal initiatives, Roosevelt in 1937 came up with what he considered an ingenious scheme to get around the co ...