Paul Begala Calls WaPo's Liberal Broder a 'Venomous' 'Gasbag

One of the most marvelous aspects of today’s liberal media is how members of “the club” better not say or write anything bad about another member or risk excommunication.Such is clearly the mantra of CNN’s Paul Begala, who published a scathing rebuke of the Washington Post’s David Broder on Thursday. In it, he referred to the clearly left-of-center columnist as “a gasbag,” “the Hindenburg of…
Noel Sheppard

20 Questions, One Bias: CBS's Couric Fires Anti-Gun Slant In Online In

Ken Shepherd

Tim Russert Oozes Enthusiasm For Entire Dem Field, Singles Out Bush As

Tim Graham

CBS's Jeff Greenfield Goofed Up Campaign History, Puffed Up Candidate

Tim Graham

Weekend Captionfest

Original caption: Rosie O'Donnell is photographed through a closed window as she is driven from the ABC television studios after the taping of 'The View,' Wednesday, April 25, 2007, in New York. O'Donnell announced at the show's start that she would be leaving.
NB Staff

Open Thread Friday

Ken Shepherd

Toledo Blade Columnist: 'Special Squads of Police' Should Disarm Ameri

Since the VT shootings in Blacksburg, Virginia, we have seen all manner of wild-eyed, anti-gunners come out of the woodwork to cynically use this crime as a chance to beat their gun grabbing drums. But, proposing that we send government Stormtroopers to smash down the doors of every home with a gun in it to confiscate their Constitutionally legal firearms is a step I haven't seen in a purportedly…
Warner Todd Huston

'Dilbert' Storyline Brings to Mind Couric's Ghostwritten Vlog

Does "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams keep tabs on Katie Couric?The mini-scandal got buried by the Imus flap, but a few weeks ago CBS fired a Couric producer for plagiarizing from a Wall Street Journal column. The offending item was the vlog script she wrote for Couric's April 4 "Notebook," wherein Couric waxed nostalgic for childhood and worried that today's kids aren't as enamored with the…
Ken Shepherd

Will Hillary Clinton’s Post at Lieberman-Blackfacing Blog Backfire

Assume for a moment that you were the frontrunner for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2008, and that one of your competitors had recently created a bit of a brouhaha for having hired a couple of liberal bloggers with "tainted" records. Would you want to post an article at a website that got itself in some trouble of its own last year when it featured an offensive, Photoshopped picture of…
Noel Sheppard

NBC Producer Gets Himself on Spector Jury

Matthew Sheffield

WashPost Debate Puffery: 'Democratic Hopefuls Show Political Heft

Tim Graham

How to Learn about Events in Iraq If You're a Regular LA Times Reader

Tom Blumer

NRO Blog: Chris Matthews Wasn't Playing 'Hardball' With Mrs. Edwards B

Tim Graham

Reuters Played Blame-the-Victim and Minimized Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Childh

Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali immigrated to the US from Holland in 2006 after her controversial views of Islam (she called it “backwards”) resulted in serious death threats and the eventual murder of a friend. An April 24 Reuters article by Alexandra Hudson (picked up by the Washington Post website) stressed the theme that the Muslim women of Holland were relieved that she left for America. It…
Lynn Davidson