Newsweek's Adler: 'U.S. Has Killed Another Terrorist, But There Are Mo

Leave it to the liberals at Newsweek to find a way to whine when another terrorist gets his just deserts."Does Killing Terrorists Actually Prevent Terrorism?" Ben Adler's June 1 The Gaggle blog headline asked. With the death of al Qaeda's #3 leader Mustafa Abu al-Yazid aka Sheik Saeed al-Masri, "[t]he U.S. has killed another terrorist, but there are more terrorist plots than ever," lamented the…
Ken Shepherd

Behar Defends McGinniss's 'Nazi' Attack on Palin, Palinites Are 'Very

On Wednesday’s The View on ABC, co-host Joy Behar defended author Joe McGinniss’s decision to purchase a home right next door to Sarah Palin as he plans to write an unauthorized biography of her, and his recent comments on NBC's Today show comparing her criticism of him to the behavior of Nazi troopers of the Third Reich. Behar found no agreement from the other co-hosts, and faced stiff…
Brad Wilmouth

Historically Unaccountable Old Media Complains of Unaccountable New Me

It seems that the vast majority of journalists who bemoan unaccountable, unabashedly opinionated digital reporting are the same ones who have, without challenge, pushed a liberal perspective through their own reporting.The latest such journalist, Newsweek's Howard Fineman, is concerned that "nobody is cross-examining" the "position papers" that supposedly comprise a critical mass of new media…
Lachlan Markay

Woman Living 'Life Without Plastic' Is Latest Environmental Media Darl

'No Plastic Girl' joins 'No Impact Man,' 'Compost Man' as media's green superheroes.
Kyle Gillis

Name That Party: Tax-Funded Scholarships Edition

Mike Bates

CBS Finds ‘Even [Israel’s] Friends Question’ Blockade of Gaza, I

While the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC have all failed to remind viewers that Israel allows regular aid shipments into Gaza over land from its side of the border, on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News correspondent Richard Roth highlighted complaints about the effect of the blockade on Gaza residents, used a soundbite of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to argue that "even [Israel’s] friends…
Brad Wilmouth

Open Thread: The SEIU's Sketchy Finances

NB Staff

FNC Notes Gaza-Bound Flotilla’s Links to Terrorists, Mob Chanted

On Tuesday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, FNC correspondent Dana Lewis filed a report in which he noted some of those on board the Gaza-bound ships that were boarded by Israel were from a Yemeni group that has "murky links to al-Qaeda," and others from an extreme group in Turkey believed by Israelis to have terrorist links: "But among the hundreds, these three parliamentarians from Yemen's…
Brad Wilmouth

Time's Halperin Warns of Far Right Costing GOP, But Channels His 'Inne

Tim Graham

Matthews-MSNBC Promo Implies Tea Party Seeks Violent Overthrow Of Gove

There's no other way to put it: in an MSNBC promo for an upcoming Chris Matthews special on "The Rise of The New Right," Matthews juxtaposes words and images to imply that the Tea Party seeks the violent overthrow of the government.As images roll of camo-clad men shooting automatic weapons, Matthews proclaims in the voice-over: "the Tea Party is determined to take power." [screencap after the…
Mark Finkelstein

Sick Daily Kos: Late-Term Abortionist Tiller Like the Crucified and Re

It's clear that abortionists think of themselves as saviors of women, but would anyone really dare to suggest that infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller was like.... a crucified Jesus Christ? Yes. There it was on Daily Kos on Tuesday (albeit republished from the blog RH Reality Check), plainly headlined "Dr. Tiller's Crucifixion and Resurrection," a brazen rant on how Tiller was…
Tim Graham

Olbermann Celebrates CNN's 30th Birthday By Tearing Apart Campbell Bro

No one has ever accused Keith Olbermann of having one iota of class, and what he publicly did Tuesday evening to someone he once worked with should finally explain to anyone that actually still admires this pompous buffoon exactly why!During his "Worst Persons in the World" segment, the "Countdown" host absolutely tore apart CNN's Campbell Brown.Adding insult to injury, Olbermann did this public…
Noel Sheppard

Former Dem Congresswoman Pens Anti-Israeli Piece for Arab News

It isn't just the pro-Palestinian press that is attempting to distort the reality behind the recent flotilla incident off the coast of Gaza.  Former Democratic Congresswoman, and 2008 Green Party candidate for President of the United States, Cynthia McKinney, has voiced her own version of reality through an anti-Israeli rant in Arab News.  McKinney is of course, a reliable source on the topic,…
Rusty Weiss

Helen Thomas Accuses Israel of 'Deliberate Massacre, An International

Helen Thomas was her typical, Israel-hating self Tuesday when during the White House press briefing, she called the previous day's flotilla incident a "deliberate massacre, an international crime."When she got her chance to ask White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs a question at the proceeding, Thomas was relentless in her accusations. "If any other nation in the world had done it, we would…
Noel Sheppard