Former NYT Editorialist Cohen Insists First Amendment Free Speech Pr

In his June 9 "case study" feature for Time.com, Adam Cohen, formerly of the New York Times editorial board and Time magazine, tackled the question "Are Liberal Judges Really 'Judicial Activists'?" Cohen's short answer: yes, but so are conservative judges, and it's the conservatives on the Supreme Court that have been on an activist kick lately. To bolster his argument, Cohen complained that…
Ken Shepherd

CBS's Schieffer: S.C. Politics Like 'Desperate Housewives'; Dems 'Happ

On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer provided analysis of Tuesday's primary elections across the country, describing the South Carolina gubernatorial race "where they continue to draw their political plot lines from, you know, 'Desperate Housewives' or something" and how Nevada Democrats were "very happy" with the victory of tea party candidate Sharron Angle.  …
Kyle Drennen

Unlike With Katrina, Media Stay Away from Gulf Spill Competency Questi

The mainstream media seem to have boiled down the president's reaction to the Gulf spill to two caricatures: either he has failed to satiate public appetites by feigning outrage, or he is succeeding by acting angry. Whereas journalists rightly expected President Bush to do something about Katrina--and excoriated him when he supposedly didn't do enough--the media seem content listening to Obama…
Lachlan Markay

Ex-Clinton Operative George Stephanopoulos Presses Nikki Haley: Will Y

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday again highlighted charges of adultery against Republican Nikki Haley. He pressed the South Carolina gubernatorial candidate, demanding to know if she'd embarrass the state with scandal.After reading a quote from a voter, the former operative to scandal-plagued Bill Clinton fretted, "Can you assure South Carolina voters that they're not…
Scott Whitlock

Jon Stewart Rips Obama's Oil Spill Response: 'The Ass Has Been Kicking

Jon Stewart Tuesday evening absolutely tore apart Barack Obama's pathetic response to the Gulf Coast oil spill.Early in the almost ten minute segment of "The Daily Show," the host chided the President's comments to NBC's Matt Lauer Monday, "We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick."Stewart called Obama's strategy "AssQuest 2010 - The Search…
Noel Sheppard

GOP Women Win Primaries, ABC News Thanks Hillary Clinton

All three network morning shows touted the good showing by a bevy of Republican women and Arkansas Democrat Blanche Lincoln in yesterday's primaries. NBC's Today and CBS's Early Show both headlined "Ladies Night," while ABC's Good Morning America's take was "Women Rule."But ABC fill-in anchor Elizabeth Vargas suggested credit should really go to Hillary Clinton, because she "helped by running for…
Rich Noyes

Open Thread: Big Labor Takes a Hit in Arkansas

NB Staff

Media Hype Obama's H.S. Commencement Speech -- But Ignore That Student

In the middle of a typical Full House rerun on Teen Nick this morning, the network ran a 90-second promo for their website Get Schooled.com promoting Barack Obama, and how students at Kalamazoo Central High School were overjoyed and amazed to meet him. Students hugged and yelled and held their hands out like they'd never touch anything again after meeting Obama. [embedded Vimeo video at right via…
Tim Graham

MSNBC’s Matthews Roots for Birther Candidate Taitz to ‘Bring Down

Appearing on the 10:00 p.m. edition of MSNBC’s Countdown show on Tuesday to discuss the day’s primary election results, Chris Matthews expressed his delight that Orly Taitz – a prominent member of the birther movement that pushes the bizarre theory that President Obama was not really born in America – won the Republican nomination for secretary of state in California, and expressed his hope that…
Brad Wilmouth

AP Claims FDA is 'Stretched Thin,' Needs More Authority

Institute of Medicine report finds FDA 'lacks vision necessary to protect consumers,' AP ignores funding increase.
Kyle Gillis

Stephanopoulos Cites Tea Party ‘Losing Steam,’ But Skips Obama’s

On Tuesday’s World News, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos touted how “we've got a new poll out tonight that shows the Tea Party may be losing steam nationwide” as its unfavorable rating has “gone up eleven points in the last couple of months to 50 percent. Their favorable rating has gone down.” Stephanopoulos and ABC, however, didn’t find time, in multiple stories on the oil leak, to inform viewers…
Brent Baker

Matthews On Ark. Dem Runoff: 'Gets Back to the Old Days of the Democra

The more Chris Matthews is on live television within a 24-hour period, the likelihood of him saying something completely strange increases dramatically as each moment passes. On MSNBC's June 8 special coverage of electoral primaries around the country, Matthews, the host of MSNBC's "Hardball," expressed his views on the Arkansas Democratic primary runoff, which incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln…
Jeff Poor

Media Praise Catholic-Bashing Lady Gaga Video

'Alejandro' features homoerotic, S&M, religious imagery in what some call 'blasphemy.'
Katie Bell

HuffPo Column is a Microcosm of the Liberal Mindset – EVERYTHING is

Huffington Post writer and author of poetry and fiction, Anis Shivani, demonstrated what we have seen in bits and pieces throughout the liberal MSM, though it is rarely seen in such dramatic and sweeping fashion.  Shivani harnessed all of the rational thought he could muster, gathered a bevy of intelligent rhetoric, armed himself with a cache of well-reasoned arguments and... quickly dispensed…
Rusty Weiss