Chuck Todd: Obama Can't Buy GOP Votes Because of Tea Parties

NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday said the Tea Party movement has made it impossible for President Obama to buy the Republican votes he needs to pass his agenda.Appearing on "Meet the Press," Todd told his fellow panelists, "I think the most striking thing about the minority party today...is that a Republican can't go home, and it's mostly because of this tea party crowd, cannot go home and sell a piece…
Noel Sheppard

Anti-Defamation League Blasts Limbaugh for Agreeing With Anti-Defamati

Rush Limbaugh is so reviled by the left, that even when he agrees with liberals and issues facts supporting their arguments, they criticize him and demand an apology.The latest such group to deride Limbaugh for supposedly offensive comments that they themselves have supported is the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL has called on Limbaugh to apologize for suggesting that the Obama Administration's…
Lachlan Markay

ABC's Moran Lets Dem Guests Blame Budget Deficit On Bush

Two Democrats on Sunday blamed the soaring budget deficit on George W. Bush, and ABC's Terry Moran didn't challenge either one of them.First up on "This Week" was senior White House adviser David Axelrod who told substitute host Moran, "President Clinton left a $237 billion surplus, President Obama received a $1.3 trillion deficit." Moran didn't challenge this, nor did he press Sen. Robert…
Noel Sheppard

NFL Conference Championships Open Thread

Question one: Will we actually get at least ONE good game today, or is this year's playoff season destined to be one of the most boring in decades?Question two: Is 8 1/2 points too much for the Colts to give the Cinderella Jets?Question three: Will Brett Favre have more support in New Orleans than Drew Brees?
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is the global warming myth crashing and burning?First we had ClimateGate. Now in the past few days have come numerous revelations about the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly employing junk science to further climate hysteria.Will this lead to a complete unraveling of the IPCC along with even greater public…
NB Staff

Follow-up: WWF Glacier Claim 'Regret' Statement Inaccessible at Its U

At NewsBusters last night, Noel Sheppard posted about a UK Daily Mail report that "A scientist responsible for a key 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warning Himalayan glaciers would be completely melted by 2035 has admitted that the claim was made to put political pressure on world leaders." Noel also noted that U.S. media coverage of this damning admission…
Tom Blumer

NBC Prez on Olbermann-Scarborough Tiff: Don't Publicly Criticize Colle

The president of NBC has officially responded to Joe Scarborough criticizing Keith Olbermann for his attacks on Scott Brown.In a memo obtained by the Huffington Post, Phil Griffin told his on air staff: "We do not publicly criticize our colleagues. This kind of behavior is unprofessional and will not be tolerated."Griffin was addressing comments made by MSNBC's Scarborough about Olbermann. As…
Noel Sheppard

AP Writer Worries Scott Brown Election Imperils Obama's 'Audacious Pla

Associated Press writers haven’t overcome their tendency to describe President Obama’s plans as "audacious" – like they'd just finished leafing through their well-worn copy of Obama’s campaign book The Audacity of Hope. On Friday, a Charles Babington political analysis began: President Barack Obama's bid to overhaul the U.S. health care system was in doubt Thursday as lawmakers rejected the…
Tim Graham

IPCC Scientist Admits Fake Data Used To Pressure World Leaders

A scientist responsible for a key 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warning Himalayan glaciers would be completely melted by 2035 has admitted that the claim was made to put political pressure on world leaders.Such was revealed by the British Daily Mail Sunday in an article destined to further reduce the credibility of the world's so-called leading authority on…
Noel Sheppard

Reuters Unemployment Claims Story Headlines 'Admin Issues,' But Ignore

A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the recovery this week: The U.S. Department of Labor reported on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits jumped "unexpectedly" by 36,000 to 482,000, when analysts had predicted a slight drop. What's more, it turns out that data reported in previous weeks was understated because of "administrative issues" relating to paperwork processing…
Tom Blumer

Catholic 'Womenpriests' Touted in WaPo News Story by Leftist Freelance

The top of the Metro section in Saturday’s Washington Post carried the headline "Defiantly devout" to describe women who’ve attempted to ordain themselves Catholic priests. Inside, the headline was "Faithfully, if not obediently Catholic."Would the Washington Post describe Joe Lieberman as a "defiantly devout liberal"? Or remember how the Dulles Area chapter of the National Organization for Women…
Tim Graham

Obama-Loving Spammer 'Ellie Light' Dupes 42 Newspapers

In January, an anonymous person supposedly named "Ellie Light" launched a massive PR campaign on behalf of President Barack Obama.The goal appears to have been to infiltrate as many newspapers as possible to spread pro-Obama propaganda -- as if the press needed the help. Light's plan was simple enough: write a compelling letter to the editor, pretend to be a concerned reader in the region, and…
Candance Moore

Hesse Fit: WaPo Cries Sexism That Semi-Nude Pic Didn't Sink Scott Brow

Is there anything stranger than a liberal reporter being upset that a semi-nude picture from 1982 didn’t sink a political candidate? Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse stamped on the sour grapes on Wednesday with a temper tantrum of an article on the front page of the Style section headlined "It’s okay. Scott Brown was just being a man. Ah, gender equity. That Cosmo spread might have sunk a…
Tim Graham

Leftwing Professor Writes Hilarious Essay About 'Conan Obama

It is no suprise that conservatives have been highly critical of Barack Obama. However, a new development has set in recently: leftwing disgust with The One especially since it now appears that ObamaCare is DOA. And perhaps the absolute funniest of the leftwing critiques of Obama comes from the pen of David Michael Green, a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York.Here is…
P.J. Gladnick