Cokie Roberts Wonders: Do Republicans 'Really Want to See Jobs Increas

You don’t find many “gems” on a Saturday morning. It’s a lazy day, getting ready for football and a late breakfast---then Cokie Roberts, speaking on ABC’s Good Morning America, dropped the bomb. Roberts has apparently bought into the far-left's conspiracy theory that Republicans simply do not want to see Americans get jobs. Yep. Republicans are more interested in defeating old media’s Dear…
Ron Futrell
January 8th, 2011 1:15 PM

Video: Media Bash Repealing ObamaCare As A Waste Of Time

With Republicans taking control of Congress, those in the media suddenly feel that proposing legislation, such as repealing ObamaCare, is a waste of time. From CBS's Harry Smith referring to it as "a fool's errand" to MSNBC's Chuck Todd fretting over the GOP "relitigating health care," here is a video compilation of the slanted coverage this proposal has received. View video below   
Kyle Drennen
January 8th, 2011 12:00 PM

Saturday Open Thread

For general discussion and debate about politics, the economy, sports, and whatever else tickles your fancy.
NB Staff
January 8th, 2011 11:09 AM

Time Reporter Betrays Constitutional Ignorance in Bemoaning GOP 'Cult

As the House of Representatives read the Constitution aloud on the chamber floor Wednesday, the uproar from the left came as a bit of a surprise. Less surprising, perhaps, was that a number of the whiners don't actually understand the document they claim the GOP sullied with political stunts. No, I'm not talking about Ezra "the text is confusing" Klein. The latest lefty to demonstrate his…
Lachlan Markay
January 8th, 2011 11:08 AM

Ed Schultz Parrots Democrat Talking Points: Friday's Jobs Report Prove

Despite virtually all economists and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve finding Friday's unemployment report disappointing, MSNBC's Ed Schultz parroted President Obama's take that the numbers released by the Labor Department were good news. The "Ed Show" host crowed so gleefully about the much-maligned data that he even said it was evidence the 2009 stimulus package worked (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
January 8th, 2011 11:01 AM

WaPo: NPR Insiders Furious NPR's 'Capitulating' to Fox News and Others

On Saturday, Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi found that NPR insiders are furious at the forced resignation of Ellen Weiss, the senior vice president for news who so controversially canned Juan Williams. The liberal arrogance of NPR was on full display, that they were the future of "democracy," and Fox News was clearly the enemy of democracy and an independent press: "We have allowed…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2011 10:32 AM

'Don't Sweat' High Gas Prices -- They're a 'Good Sign

You've probably noticed that those prices at the pump have risen considerably over the last month or so. But don't worry! It's not that big a deal! Well, according to Yahoo! Finance's Daniel Gross, that is. Why? Well, Americans are consuming less gas per capita than a few years ago, cars are more fuel efficient, and people are just plain getting weary of more and more traffic (and, hence, are…
D. S. Hube
January 8th, 2011 10:11 AM

Bozell Column: Doritos and Pepsi Mock God

The Super Bowl is more than just a huge day for professional football fans. Part of the game’s massive audience is there for the chance to see how mega-corporations creatively spend millions of dollars for one Super Bowl commercial.  Some Super Bowl ads are brilliant and successful. Budweiser knows it has hit one out of the park when its ad is Monday’s water-cooler talk. But never…
Brent Bozell
January 8th, 2011 7:41 AM

NPR Reports On U.S. Liberal Bias -- Tilted to Theorist Who Laments Rep

On the morning before NPR announced its internal review of its leftist purge of Juan Williams for appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, media reporter David Folkenflik was "reporting" that the problem with the American news media is its painful lack of bias. Come again? "Mainstream news reporters don't tell you what they think enough of the time." That came from the star of the Folkenflik story,…
Tim Graham
January 8th, 2011 7:19 AM

WaPo’s Ezra Klein: Obamacare is ‘Best Thing’ Dems Have Done ‘I

 Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, Washington Post staff writer and Newsweek columnist Ezra Klein defended Obamacare and warned Republicans against attempting to repeal the law as he contended that some provisions are popular with the public. After host Keith Olbermann asked if Democrats should "relish rejoining the fight over health care reform" because it could hurt…
Brad Wilmouth
January 7th, 2011 10:59 PM

NBC Highlights Reid’s ‘Bold Prediction’ Tea Party Will ‘Disapp

Brian Williams on Friday night highlighted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s insistence “the  Tea Party was born because of the economy” and it “will disappear as soon as the economy gets better,” a forecast Williams characterized as a “bold prediction.” Williams set up the clip, from a pre-recorded interview for Sunday’s Meet the Press, by relaying how Reid “told David Gregory the Tea…
Brent Baker
January 7th, 2011 8:13 PM

Schultz Guest: Obama Will 'Come Close' To Castrating O'Reilly Pre-Supe

Guess we could get used to Bill a few octaves higher . . . Radio host Lionel has predicted that Barack Obama will "come close" to gelding [castrating] Bill O'Reilly when the president does an interview with the Fox News host on Super Bowl Sunday. Lionel, who's real last name is . . . Lebron, made his prediction of what would be news-breaking neutering on this evening's Ed Show. View…
Mark Finkelstein
January 7th, 2011 7:51 PM

CBS 'Early Show': 'Centrist' Bill Daley Means White House 'Open for Bu

Friday's CBS Early Show praised the pick of former Commerce Secretary William Daley as the new chief of staff for the Obama White House, with senior White House correspondent Bill Plante proclaiming: "While Daley has long ties to the Democratic Party, he's viewed as a centrist whose Wall Street connections should help him with the newly divided Congress." Following Plante's report, co-host…
Kyle Drennen
January 7th, 2011 4:33 PM

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter Demands Evidence of White House Corruption

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, who last year wrote a lengthy book on the first year of Barack Obama's presidency, looked very displeased on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC program earlier this week when other guests concurred with accusations of corruption against the White House. The Ratigan segment centered on a statement by Rep. Darrel Issa, R-Calif., incoming chairman of the House Oversight and…
Lachlan Markay
January 7th, 2011 3:11 PM