Joe Scarborough: Opponents of Obama's India Trip Are 'Idiots; ' Would

Anyone critical of President Obama being in India right now is an "idiot," MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bluntly served on his morning show, which prides itself on being a safe haven for different views. India is "exactly where [President Obama] should be" right now, he opined. With Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass on as a guest Monday morning, Scarborough clamored that…
Matt Hadro
November 8th, 2010 3:15 PM

Newsweek's Andrew Romano Falsely Claims Tea Partiers Want to 'Repeal

In an interview with Gov. Rick Perry published today, Newsweek's Andrew Romano falsely claimed that "Many Tea Partiers want to repeal the 14th Amendment, which provides for birthright citizenship." Romano then asked the recently-reelected Texas Republican, "Do you agree with them?" Perry answered that while he believed a constitutional prohibition on birthright citizenship was "probably not"…
Ken Shepherd
November 8th, 2010 2:03 PM

Daily Kos: Keith Olbermann Dem Donations 'a Stroke of Genius

The Olbermann-lovers at the far-left Daily Kos blog believe in the Vast Keith Conspiracy – that Olbermann contributed to three Democrats as part of a large-scale plan to embarrass MSNBC president Phil Griffin and underline just how important and popular the left-wing bomb-throwing is, especially with young voters. In a Monday morning post titled “The Brilliance of Keith Olbermann,” the blogger…
Tim Graham
November 8th, 2010 1:35 PM

Today Show Mourns Over No More Kennedys in Congress

For the Today show, Democratic Representative Patrick Kennedy's departure from Congress was something to mourn because it represented, as NBC's Matt Lauer lamented, "The end of an era. There's been a Kennedy in Congress since John F. Kennedy entered the House back in 1947." The nephew of the late President was invited on Monday's Today show to commemorate the occasion with he and co-host…
Geoffrey Dickens
November 8th, 2010 1:25 PM

CBS 'Early Show' Touted Softest Part of Obama '60 Minutes' Interview

On Friday, CBS's Early Show previewed President Obama's upcoming 60 Minutes interview by showing a clip of the softest moment of the exchange and skipping over a series of more challenging questions from correspondent Steve Kroft. While the preview featured Kroft sympathetically asking the President if he hadn't "sold his successes well enough," the 60 Minutes correspondent began the…
Kyle Drennen
November 8th, 2010 1:21 PM

Olbermann Restored by 'Outcry from the Progressive Wing of the MSNBC P

New York Times media columnist David Carr on Monday did the usual establishment cluck-clucking about how cable news is bringing down all the walls between news and opinion -- maintaining the strange pretense that the New York Times still separates the two with any effort. But Carr concluded by noting the very brief Olbermann exile underlined how partisan the cable networks are: MSNBC ended up…
Tim Graham
November 8th, 2010 1:14 PM

An Annoyed George Stephanopoulos Harangues GOP Rep to Recant Criticism

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Monday devoted almost an entire interview with Republican Darrell Issa to attacking a criticism the Congressman made of Barack Obama as "corrupt." Stephanopoulos attempted four times to get Issa to recant his accusation. The GMA host demanded of Issa, who next  year will chair the powerful House Oversight committee, "And just before the election…
Scott Whitlock
November 8th, 2010 12:18 PM

Voters Speak: No to Soak-the-Rich Schemes

Do Americans share President Obama's desire to impose redistributive social justice on the well off? In liberal Washington State, of all places, voters gave a definitive answer this Tuesday: No! The resounding rejection of a punitive "Robin Hood" initiative shows that it's not just red-state Republicans who oppose extreme tax hikes on the nation's wealth generators. As Capitol Hill resumes…
Michelle Malkin
November 8th, 2010 10:48 AM

A Mixed Election for Women

In the summer of 2008, Nancy Pelosi wrote a book, "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters." In it, the San Francisco congresswoman implored the country's young women to thank her for breaking the so-called "marble ceiling" in Congress and becoming the first woman speaker of the House. "The President, always gracious, welcomed me as a new member of the leadership," she wrote about…
Kathryn Jean Lopez
November 8th, 2010 10:32 AM

Democrats Will Learn Nothing From Last Week's Shellacking

The cynic in me says that Democrats will learn nothing from the midterm election. They not only took a bath, they were effectively water-boarded by voters. Democrats lost the House by a margin not seen since 1948. They lost 10 governorships while retaining two -- New York and California. Both states are insolvent and can be expected to ask for bailouts from the federal government, something a…
Cal Thomas
November 8th, 2010 10:07 AM

Open Thread: The Lame Duck

Clint Howard is back as everyone's favorite out-of-touch - and now out-of-work - Congressman. In his last couple months in office, he's got to decide what lefty legislation to ram through as a lame duck, Check out the new video from Heritage Action:
NB Staff
November 8th, 2010 9:35 AM

Lauer Hits Bush: You Were Appalled at Racism Charge, Not the 'Misery i

Football fans watching NBC on Sunday night were presented a brief commercial at halftime for Monday night's NBC interview with former president George W. Bush. Liberals might have been disgusted, since Matt Lauer's only question was to ask Bush to explain how military families supported his war policies. But on Thursday, Lisa de Moraes of The Washington Post picked up on an earlier NBC…
Tim Graham
November 8th, 2010 8:51 AM

BBC’s Katty Kay: Cheney ‘Hoodwinked the American Public’ into Be

 On Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews Show, panel member Katty Kay of the BBC claimed that Vice President Dick Cheney had convinced 70 percent of Americans to believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that he "hoodwinked the American public." Kay’s accusation came as host Matthews had turned the discussion to the topic of how President Obama might have handled the response…
Brad Wilmouth
November 8th, 2010 8:48 AM

YouTube Removes Some Al Qaeda Videos from Website

But thousands of radical sermons still remain public on YouTube.
Alana Goodman
November 8th, 2010 12:00 AM