Chris Matthews Attacks Michele Bachmann as 'Zombie-Like' and 'Moonie-L

MSNBC host Chris Matthews cannot understand how conservatives could think that free enterprise is somehow American, and that being anti-free enterprise seems anti-American. On Tuesday night's Hardball, Matthews boosted a new effort by Democrats like David Brock and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to organize their own independent-expenditure campaign to beat Republicans. Matthews brought on Townsend…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2010 11:08 AM

Husband Says Abortion Internet Vote a Hoax, Wife Says No; She Was Fire

Read my previous post here. Well, no wonder the true intentions of the couple putting their preborn baby's life up for a vote were difficult to decipher. Turns out Pete Arnold is pro-life and his wife Alisha is pro-abortion. (Baby boy "Wiggles" is pictured above, waving at the camera at his 17-wk check-up earlier this week.) First, his side of the story. CNN reported yesterday Pete…
Jill Stanek
November 24th, 2010 10:51 AM

Ed Schultz Falsely Accuses Fox Biz Analyst of Recommending Cannibalism

Ed Schultz on Tuesday falsely accused Fox Business Network contributor Charles Payne of recommending people on unemployment lines eat each other to survive. Such ironically occurred on the "Psycho Talk" segment of the "Ed Show" (videos follow with partial transcripts and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 24th, 2010 10:05 AM

Daily Kos: Tea Parties Much Like Texans Who Cheered JFK's Assassinatio

The Daily Kos could not let the anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination pass without making comparisons between the "far right" greeting JFK received in Dallas in 1963 and the greeting President Obama receives from the Tea Parties today. The blogger with the handle "Devtob" claimed some Texans cheered the death of Kennedy in the "nut country," and presumes today's Texans would cheer…
Tim Graham
November 24th, 2010 8:34 AM

Open Thread: Tea Party Group Aims to Punish Pro-Obama Corporations

FreedomWorks, the Tea Party group run by former House GOP leader Dick Armey, is weighing a campaign to boycott businesses that actively supported key parts of the Obama agenda. Those companies include mammoths like General Electric and Johnson & Johnson, U.S. News reports: In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says: "Tea Party activists are…
NB Staff
November 24th, 2010 8:31 AM

Health Tyrants

Do federal, state and local governments have a right to intervene in our lives when it comes to choices affecting our health? Recently, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to forbid restaurants from giving gifts with meals that contain too much fat and sugar, a measure aimed at McDonald's Happy Meals. The reasoning of these tyrants is to prevent McDonald's from using toys to lure…
Walter E. Williams
November 24th, 2010 12:01 AM

NBC Names Ground Zero Mosque Developer a 'Person of the Year

Network says Sharif el-Gamal will sit down for Matt Lauer interview.
Alana Goodman
November 24th, 2010 12:00 AM

Bush's 'Gulag' Now Acceptable

Our liberal scribes and pundits savaged the Bush administration as being a privacy-shredding, terrorist-suspect-abusing tyranny on the march. Now that President Obama is in charge, they lamely suggest that “the government” has failed, but with no president’s name attached in the blame game. For years, the media insisted that the terrorist holding pen at Guantanamo was a horrific stain on our…
Brent Bozell
November 23rd, 2010 9:41 PM

CNN's Cafferty Replays Two Year Old Commentary to Bash Palin

On Tuesday's Situation Roon, CNN's Jack Cafferty revisited his longstanding Palin Derangement syndrome by rebroadcasting one of his commentaries from September 2008 where he played an excerpt from the infamous Katie Couric interview and disparaged the then-vice presidential candidate. Most of the viewer responses to his 'Question of the Hour' bashed the former Alaska governor. The…
Matthew Balan
November 23rd, 2010 9:32 PM

Schultz's Strange Mind-Melt: Confuses Palin With . . . Michelle Obama

With the Thanksgiving weekend coming on, today somehow feels like Friday.  So let's kick back and have some fun, courtesy Ed Schultz. Check out the video as Ed goes into protracted brain-cramp, somehow confusing Sarah Palin with, of all people, Michelle Obama, as he describes the author of a forthcoming book.
Mark Finkelstein
November 23rd, 2010 8:34 PM

Pity the Prez: NYT Blog Hauls Out the 'Distraction' Meme Again (Update

I heard Rush mention this Caucus Blog item at the New York Times on his program today. It seems that the Times's Michael Shear is disappointed that Dear Leader is yet again caught up in a "distraction" ("Pat-Downs Ensnare White House in New Distraction"). It's headlined in the item's browser window as "Pat-Downs Ensnare White House in New Controversy." Interesting edit, don't you think? If it…
Tom Blumer
November 23rd, 2010 7:22 PM

Dem Ed Rendell on PA Losses: 'Voters Don’t Always Vote On Logical Re

Governor Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) said that Pennsylvania Democrats lost key House and Senate races in the midterm election because “voters don’t always vote on logical reasons,” adding that Democrats “understand” the reason for voters’ “anger” and “it’s pretty hard to quarrel with.” His comments were made while participating in a conference call sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP)…
Nicholas Ballasy
November 23rd, 2010 6:51 PM

Five Reasons Obama Will Likely Win in 2012, and Five Reasons He Might

Everyone is talking about how badly President Obama is doing in the polls. Remember Harry Reid? Remember how badly he was doing in the polls? Yeah. He got re-elected. Why will Obama win? 1. People want to like President Obama. Yes, the independents have left him, but they’re fickle pickles. If President Obama starts to make even a lick of sense on a minor issue, they’ll turn back his…
Melissa Clouthier
November 23rd, 2010 5:18 PM

Searching for Christmas, and the Missing Layoff Stories

This is the sixth year I have looked into how the media treats these two topics: The use of "Christmas shopping season" vs. "holiday shopping season," and the frequency of Christmas and holiday layoff references. I have done three sets of simple Google News searches each year -- the first in late November, followed by identical searches roughly two and four weeks later. A graphic containing…
Tom Blumer
November 23rd, 2010 5:17 PM