George Will and Entire This Week Panel Smack Down Donna Brazile's Call

An amazing thing happened on the set of ABC's "This Week" Sunday: a liberal tried to extol the benefits of President Obama's unrestrained federal spending only to get completely smacked down by the entire panel.Host Christiane Amanpour began the Roundtable segment of the program by showing some of last week's horrendous economic numbers, and opened the debate about what can be done to improve the…
Noel Sheppard

Joe Klein & Matthews Link Anti-Muslim ‘Attitude’ to ‘Deranged Mu

On Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews show, during a discussion of a poll reporting that a majority of self-described Republicans expressed a negative view of Islam, as Time magazine’s Joe Klein recounted incidents of recent violence in America by Muslim extremists, host Matthews asked if "this [anti-Muslim] attitude against them" was to blame for "stirring them up," leading Klein to agree that…
Brad Wilmouth

Will Media Notice How Clean Beck Rally Participants Left National Mall

There was a huge "Restoring Honor" rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, but you couldn't tell hours later given how clean the National Mall was: Compare that to how this area looked after Inauguration Day on January 20, 2009:
Noel Sheppard

A Revealing AP Slip? A Strange Stray Question Mark Appears in Report o

An interesting character made an appearance in a Saturday evening Associated Press report by Cristian Salazar on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf: It's not a one-time accident. The same paragraph carried at Google's version of the story has the same extra character: The question mark is actually well-placed, as the following paragraphs from Salazar's report demonstrate (bolds are mine throughout this…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread: Hurricane Katrina Five Years Later

NB Staff

Amanpour Offers Bitter-Clinger Variation To Explain Beck Rally Success

Christiane Amanpour just sealed her victory as recipient of my Obama Parrot of the Week Award . .  That's the dubious prize I give out to on my local TV show to the media member most ardently echoing the Obama party line.  The moderator of This Week sewed up the win with her remarks on GMA this morning, as she sought to explain the big turnout at Glenn Beck's rally yesterday.Readers will…
Mark Finkelstein

Sharpton To Beck: Come On Fox News and Debate Ground Zero Mosque

Just moments after the conclusion of the Aug. 28 "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C., an olive branch, albeit a potentially double-edged one, was tossed between an unlikely couple very much on opposite sides of the political aisle.   To the surprise of those in attendance, the Rev. Al Sharpton has challenged Glenn Beck to come on Geraldo Rivera's Fox News program and support the…
Noel Sheppard and Jeff Poor

CBS to Black Beck Rally Attendees: ‘I'm Noticing that There Aren't a

CBS and the rest of the MSM have decided the Tea Party movement is racist and hostile to non-whites, and it’s a mantra they’re going to illustrate whenever they see an opportunity. Reporter Nancy Cordes saw a “nearly all-white crowd” at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington, DC, as she (at least an off-camera female voice) demanded of two black women who weren't afraid to attend: “I…
Brent Baker

Amateur Hour at CNN: Error-Filled Chyron During Beck Rally

Jeff Poor

Glenn Beck Rally Picture Guaranteed to Drive Media Crazy

This picture of the crowd that attended Saturday's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C., is guaranteed to drive liberal media members crazy (h/t NBer BKeyser): Fuller size photo follows along with more from other media outlets and link to Sarah Palin's remarks: 
Noel Sheppard

Judith Miller Smacks Down Time and Ellis Henican Over American Islamop

Judith Miller on Saturday marvelously smacked down Time magazine and Ellis Henican over the contention that America is Islamophobic.As the discussion on "Fox News Watch" turned to Time's cover story about the nation's view of Muslims, Henican said that he attended the protests in New York last week and "there were some views expressed that I think everyone at this table would find a little…
Noel Sheppard

Columnist Mark Shields Despairs George W. Bush Too Honorable to Use as

It will be “very difficult for Democrats to demonize” George W. Bush “again” during this campaign season, liberal nationally syndicated columnist Mark Shields despaired on Friday’s Inside Washington, because he’s “a circumspect and discreet former President.” Quite unlike, he didn’t say, the often boorish Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.Reacting to Vice President Joe Biden’s indictment of the…
Brent Baker

Chris Matthews' 'Nightmare': 'Right-wing Boys and Girls Singing Praise

The hatred for Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Americans that don't agree with the current direction of this nation was dripping from Chris Matthews' lips Friday evening.In a show filled with falsehoods and anti-Conservative rants that should even embarrass folks at MSNBC, the "Hardball" host concluded by once again attacking one of the most popular radio and television personalities in the country…
Noel Sheppard

Chris Matthews Blatantly Misrepresents Bush's Social Security Reform P

Chris Matthews on Friday blatantly misrepresented former President George W. Bush's plan to reform Social Security in 2005."If George W. Bush had gotten his way and privatized Social Security and tied it to the stock market, your constituents would be 100 percent Democrats now -- 100 percent! -- because they`d be looking at their Social Security checks shrivel to nothing because they`d be based…
Noel Sheppard