CNBC's Kudlow Parts Ways with Network's Green Agenda, Calls Creating

'The Call' co-host launches into attack on 'pie-in-the-sky, airy-fairy thinking' of Obama White House economic policies.
Jeff Poor

GE's Jeff Immelt: Global Warming 'Compelling'; Cap-and-Trade Most 'Eff

General Electric (NYSE:GE) is the parent company of the major media conglomerate NBC Universal, which owns media outlets NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. At times that has led to the lines between corporate advocacy and journalism being blurred. That was certainly the case when GE's CEO Jeff Immelt appeared on CNBC's "Squawk Box" May 20 to discuss the White House meeting of President Barack Obama's 16-…
Jeff Poor

Dear WSJ: Steamships Prove Gov't Can't Run Business

Collins' steamship company subsidization provides lesson about the virtues of free market over government help.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Bozell Column: Notre Dame Pacifier

Brent Bozell

Columbia Univ. President Calls for More Taxpayer-funded News Outlets

If the cheers of Columbia University's Class of 2009 are any indication, the future of journalism will be looking for a federal bailout.Washington Times correspondent Christina Bellantoni live-tweeted today's event, noting the remarks from university president Lee Bollinger appealing for more government-owned media outlets. Bollinger also received "big cheers" for his call for increased spending…
Ken Shepherd

Broadcast Networks 'Hail' Obama Auto Fuel Efficiency Standards

BMI Staff

Big 3 Nets' Evening Newscast Audiences Continue HIstoric Current-Year

Each of the Big 3 networks' evening news broadcasts is pulling an historically low audience, or close to it -- and it isn't even summertime yet. While they continue to pretend that Obamamania is as alive and well as it allegedly was in January, they have seen 25% of their viewers go elsewhere, including one-third of the 25-54 demographic. Year over year, they're down a collective 6% overall, and…
Tom Blumer

MSNBC’s O’Donnell: Steele Speech Like A ‘Bad Hallmark Card

Reacting to a speech by Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele during Tuesday’s 3:00 EST hour on MSNBC, anchor Norah O’Donnell declared: "In case you missed it, we compiled the greatest and the best of Michael Steele. Some people said that a lot of the cliches he used in his speech you could string them together and it would make a bad Hallmark card." An edited clip of Steele’s speech was…
Kyle Drennen

If it's a Smart Car, why does it look so stupid

Obama embraces California's definition of what cars we'll be allowed to drive.
Dan Gainor

Bill Clinton Fresh with 'The Nanny', WaPo Gossip Column Misses Story

Updated at bottom of post.Did the former womanizer-in-chief pat The Nanny on the fanny? Numerous blogs and newspapers are asking that question thanks to a photo of former President Bill Clinton with his hand over actress Fran Drescher's posterior. Today's  "The Reliable Source" column in the Washington Post notes Bill Clinton's global jetsetting and charity fundraising, mentioning the appearance…
Ken Shepherd

'Today' Turns to Leftist and a Moderate for Advice on GOP Comeback

When NBC's "Today" show, on Wednesday, devoted an entire segment asking the question "How Should the GOP Battle Back?" who did they turn to, to offer strategic advice? Leftist Nation editor/publisher Katrina Vanden Heuvel and self-described "moderate" radio talk show host Michael Smerconish. What? Was Meghan McCain not available? Not surprisingly neither guest suggested the Republican Party…
Geoffrey Dickens

Broadcast Networks 'Hail' Obama Auto Fuel Efficiency Standards

ABC, CBS and NBC air regulation proponents by 6-to-1 over critics and sugar-coat the downsides of the presidential policy.
Jeff Poor

Contessa Brewer: Republicans 'Think Americans Are a Bunch of Idiots

MSNBC host Contessa Brewer derided Republicans for using the word socialist in reference to Barack Obama's economic policies on Wednesday, complaining, "Well, maybe they think Americans are a bunch of idiots." Speaking of an upcoming vote by the Republican National Committee over whether or not to label the current Democratic leadership as socialist-leaning, the "MSNBC News Live Host" worried, "…
Scott Whitlock

Battlin' Joe Biden Claims He Came Under Enemy Fire in Bosnia

In a speech yesterday before lawmakers in Sarajevo, garrulous Vice President Joe Biden made yet another eyebrow-raising assertion: That he came under fire in Bosnia when visiting the country in 1993.But New York Times reporter Nicholas Kulish didn't question Biden's claim (reminiscent of Hillary Clinton's debunked claim to coming under fire in Bosnia) in his Wednesday story on the vice president'…
Clay Waters