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NB Staff
 

NBC Rewind: How 'SNL' Hardball Satire Mocked Post-Election Democratic

As the media crow about Democrats taking the reins of power on Capitol Hill, if you need a giggle, it's worth a rewind to the "Saturday Night Live" satire of MSNBC's "Hardball" on the October 28 show -- the same one with the fake Halloween GOP ads with Witchy Hillary and Count Obama. Chris Matthews (played as usual by Darrell Hammond) and Howard Dean (played by Jason Sudeikis) are expressing…
Tim Graham
 

CNN’s Blitzer Gushes to Nancy Pelosi: “This is Going to be an Exci

"Situation Room" host Wolf Blitzer interviewed incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday and continued the fawning media coverage of the liberal Democrat. His gushing tone can best be described by how he closed the interview:Wolf Blitzer: "Let me just congratulate you and wish you the best of luck. This is going to be an exciting ride. We started off that you are going to be the first…
Scott Whitlock
 

Cartoonist Ted Rall Slams President Bush as ‘Authoritarian Despot

Most people know Ted Rall as the highly acclaimed liberal cartoonist with impeccably bad taste as reported by NewsBusters here. What you might not have known is that he is also an op-ed writer. With that in mind, on Wednesday, Rall published a rather disgraceful piece of hyperbole and vitriol that quite demonstrated just how far off the reservation this man has strayed. It was titled “Our Long…
Noel Sheppard
 

Reporting Ban on Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research Lifted

Terry Trippany
 

NPR Complains About John Kerry Coverage, Post Political Editor Boasts

Tim Graham
 

Our Missing Media: What About Atlanta's Outrageous Race-Baiting Ad

Tim Graham
 

Bill Maher: 'War Hero' Kerry Should Call out 'Draft Dodger' Bush

Brad Wilmouth
 

Olbermann Focuses on Whether Dem Congress Will Protect Habeas Corpus

Brad Wilmouth
 

NBC and CBS Champion Pelosi for 'Making American History' as First Fem

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sat for interviews Wednesday with reporters for all the networks. NBC's Brian Williams and CBS's Katie Couric put the most emphasis on her presumed “history-making” ascension to House Speaker and allowed her to offer the most-benign descriptions of the policies she will pursue. “Our conversation with Nancy Pelosi, a woman on the verge of making American history…
Brent Baker
 

Iraq Diary: Meet Corey and Dave

Mark Finkelstein
 

FNC's Hume Highlights How Hotel Owner Has Removed CNN Over Terrorist V

Brent Baker
 

Flashback: In 1991 CBS Used Innuendo to Smear Gates with Iran-Contra L

The MRC's Rich Noyes this afternoon reminded me of how the CBS Evening News smeared Robert Gates, nominated Wednesday by President George W. Bush to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, when President George H.W. Bush nominated him to become CIA Director in 1991. A short item in the June, 1991 MediaWatch, a monthly newsletter the MRC published at the time, recounted:SPOOKING CBS.…
Brent Baker
 

Open Thread

Starter topic: Have Republicans finally realized they need to stop being so complacent with the media?
NB Staff