Chris Matthews Rude Awakening: $787-Billion Stimulus 'A Big Grab Bag o

It's an odd natural occurrence when you put MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews and CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer together, but when it happens they seem to draw some obvious conclusions - albeit nearly 10 months too late.  Back in January, Cramer appeared on Matthews' show. They both expressed their concern over the $787-billion stimulus, which eventually passed and asked if it really was…
Jeff Poor

Andy Williams Backtracks from Obama 'Wants the Country to Fail

Then: Barack Obama “wants the country to fail.” Now: “He might be guiding us in the wrong direction.” Legendary singer Andy Williams has backed off the sharp edge of his criticism of President Obama. About three weeks after he told a British magazine “Obama is following Marxist theory” and “wants the country to fail,” Williams, prompted by ABC's Chris Cuomo on Tuesday's Good Morning America to…
Brent Baker

NBC's Gangel Tries to Broker Beer Summit for Rush and Obama

In the second part of her interview with Rush Limbaugh, on Tuesday's "Today" show, NBC's Jamie Gangel attempted to broker a beer summit between the radio talk show host and the President. Gangel, during the mostly friendly interview with Limbaugh, suggested a meeting between the two to promote "more unity," as seen in the following exchange:JAMIE GANGEL: Do you think the Republicans can win? RUSH…
Geoffrey Dickens

Matthews: 'Someone's Going To Jam a CO2 Pellet Into Rush's Head

What some guys won't say to get attention . . . Analogizing Rush Limbaugh to a James Bond villain, Chris Matthews today fantasized: "at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp."Hosting MSNBC's 10 AM hour today, Matthews made his remark while chatting with Politico's Jonathan Martin and Anne Kornblut of WaPo.
Mark Finkelstein

Global Warming Alarmist Appeared in 1978's 'The Coming Ice Age

Stanford University's noted global warming alarmist and Al Gore advisor Stephen Schneider appeared in a 1978 television program warning Americans of a coming Ice Age.For those that have forgotten, "In Search of..." was a televised documentary series from 1976 to 1982 that was normally narrated by Leonard Nimoy.In the May 1978 episode "The Coming Ice Age," Nimoy presented to viewers facts about…
Noel Sheppard

Chris Matthews Rude Awakening: $787-Billion Stimulus 'A Big Grab Bag o

MSNBC 'Hardball' host and CNBC 'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer criticize stimulus and realize Obama won't get credit for economy until jobs come back.
Jeff Poor

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NB Staff

NYT Blog Says PWC's Study Is 'Industry Report,' While It Omits Dem Ped

Let's see. A Big 4 independent public accounting firm vs. the Democratic Party's go-to health care economics guy. Who has more presumptive credibility? It's more than a little offensive to see the people whose party gave us entitlement programs with multitrillion-dollar unfunded liabilities (Social Security and Medicare), pension plans that are completely unsustainable (the federal government…
Tom Blumer

'Journalists' Claiming Limbaugh Praised MLK's Assassin Offer No Proof

Tim Graham

Lynyrd Skynyrd Members Talk 'God and Guns' with Hannity on FNC

On Friday’s Hannity show on FNC, host Sean Hannity showed a pre-recorded interview in which he was joined by members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd – Johnny Van Zandt, Rickey Medlocke and Gary Rossington – as the group talked about their latest CD, titled "God and Guns," and the three expressed their support for such conservative values as belief in God and the Second Amendment right of gun…
Brad Wilmouth

Fox’s Wallace Sees ‘Idiocy’ in CNN Fact-Checking Anti-Obama SNL

On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, as host Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace discussed recent comedy directed at President Obama and the First Lady – including a re-dubbed clip of Sesame Street’s Big Bird grilling Michelle Obama from the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – Wallace opined that he hopes that there would be more such comedy and that the Obama’s should be…
Brad Wilmouth

Brit Hume Fires Back at White House Attacks on Fox News: Calls It 'Ris

It's obvious the Obama administration has a low regard for Fox News as a media outlet - whether it has been President Barack Obama hinting at what he has thought about Fox News, the administration passing over Fox News in a recent round of Sunday morning interviews or as White House communications director Anita Dunn recently has done - just declare open season on the network. However Brit Hume…
Jeff Poor

Boston Globe: Serious Rationing Nearly a Reality Under MA's Commonweal

I suppose President Obama is still running around telling everyone who will listen, along with anyone else who won't, that "If you like your doctors and medical providers, you can keep them." It would also not surprise me to learn that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is still singing the praises of CommonwealthCare, the state-run system conservatives also deride as RomneyCare, so named…
Tom Blumer

Pulitzer Winner on Rush's NFL Bid: He Sees 'Visions of Plantation Gran

Hunter College professor and author of 'Pimpology' uses challenged quote to make racist charge against Limbaugh; Says NFL should refuse him as owner.
Jeff Poor