Obama Once Again ‘Thrust Into the Role of America's Racial Referee

Good Morning America reporter Dan Harris on Tuesday lamented the fact that Barack Obama has "repeatedly been thrust into the role of America's racial referee," this time over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s controversial "Negro" remark. Harris even spun previous racial issues involving the President, saying Obama has, "once again, [been] dragged into a race-based scandal." Harris…
Scott Whitlock

New York Times Corrects the Record on 'a Gay Man

Mike Bates

Baltimoreans Angry That Crooked Mayor Will Get Pension; BaltSun Omits

Despite being convicted of stealing gift cards intended for poor Baltimore residents and using them for her own personal shopping spree, outgoing Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) will still be able to collect a mayoral pension after she resigns from office early next month. Reported Baltimore Sun's Julie Scharper:Dixon pleaded guilty last week to one count of perjury for failing to disclose on…
Ken Shepherd

CBS ‘Early Show’ Wonders: ‘Is the Reid Story Over

On Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith followed President Obama’s lead by wondering if it was time to move on from the Harry Reid racial controversy, as he asked Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez and Democrat Dee Dee Myers: “Is the Reid story over and should it be?”Sanchez rejected the notion that the story, which just broke over weekend, was over: “I think it’s just the beginning.…
Kyle Drennen

Scott Brown to CNN's Gergen: 'It's Not the Kennedys' Seat

Update - 9:25 AM | Lachlan Markay: David Gergen commented on Brown's response. His comments below.  The death of Ted Kennedy hit the liberal media particularly hard. NBC's Andrea Mitchell caught the mood of the nation's pundits when she said the "heavens were weeping" during Kennedy's funeral. Now that Kennedy is dead, some pundits feel as if Democrats are entitled to the seat he left vacant.CNN…
Lachlan Markay

CNBC's Kilduff: $100 Oil in Next Six Months; Rips 'Hubris' of Purveyor

It hasn't been in the limelight recently, but it is coming. According to CNBC contributor John Kilduff of Round Earth Capital, we will soon see the price of reach $100 per barrel. On CNBC's Jan. 11 "The Kudlow Report," host Larry Kudlow asked Kilduff what it would take for the Obama's administration to change its energy policy to allow for more oil exploration and drilling. "Oil is hitting a…
Jeff Poor

CNBC's Kilduff: $100 Oil in Next Six Months

Network contributor says China pushing prices higher; blasts the peak oil theory as dated.
Jeff Poor

Awed Actress Meryl Streep ‘Star-Struck’ by Barack and Michelle Oba

Brent Baker

FNC's 'Special Report' Picks Up on Bozell Slam of '60 Minutes

NB Staff

Matthews: How Can Palin Be A Pundit? She Doesn`t Know Anything

NewsBusters on Monday assured readers that liberals would be enraged by the announcement that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was becoming a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews didn't disappoint.  While speaking to guests Chuck Todd of NBC and Howard Fineman of Newsweek, Matthews, during a segment specifically designed to belittle the intellectual capacity of the…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

2.5 Cheers for Andrew Breitbart's Daily Caller Op-Ed

Andrew Take-No-Prisoners Breitbart of Big Hollywood, Big Government, and Big Journalism fame has an important column that appeared yesterday at Tucker Carlson's new enterprise, the Daily Caller. In it, he clearly delineates the difference between "the news" as establishment media outlets want it dispensed and the "market for information" that technology has created. Its only shortcoming is that…
Tom Blumer

Remember Wright? Mika Says Obama 'Worked For Decades' To Transcend Rac

Does the name Jeremiah Wright ring a bell with Mika Brzezinski?The Morning Joe co-host sought today to explain the pass Pres. Obama gave Harry "negro dialect" Reid by claiming that PBO has "worked to transcend racial issues for decades." The skeptical look on Joe Scarborough's face [see still after jump] as Mika uttered her assertion was priceless. Let's take a stroll down memory lane with Rev.…
Mark Finkelstein

Joy Behar's Sex Chat on HLN: 'Sean Hannity Has Never Truly Satisfied a

Tim Graham