Pelosi Media Frenzy Took Seventeen Months to Materialize

Jason Aslinger

Thomas & Totenberg Excuse Pelosi; Thomas Hopes 'Moderate' Will Save GO

Asked “why does it matter” what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “knew or did not know” about the “enhanced interrogation” of terror suspects, Newsweek's Evan Thomas and NPR's Nina Totenberg failed to address Pelosi's hypocrisy in now condemning others for what she knew about years go, as both dismissed the relevance of her evolving memory. On Friday's Inside Washington, Thomas insisted “it doesn't”…
Brent Baker

Ed Schultz, Jihadist, Invokes Almighty in Wishing Cheney Dead

How about that, alleged comedian Wanda Sykes wasn't entirely off the mark in deriding a person from the media as the proverbial 20th hijacker. She just cited the wrong person.During one of his daily fulminations about former vice president Dick Cheney this week, radio and MSNBC host Ed Schultz appropriated the language of jihad.Here's what Schultz said on his radio show Monday, expressing a view…
Jack Coleman

Actress Angie Harmon's Favorite Website Is NewsBusters

How's this for a celebrity endorsement?Model and actress Angie Harmon, who was part of a group of Hollywood celebrities that supported John McCain last year, loves NewsBusters.In fact, she told In Style magazine that NB's her favorite website (from June 2009 edition via LexisNexis, no link available, h/t NBer Stacy Bergfeld):
Noel Sheppard

Girlfriends' Guides Author Discovers Oprah's Sudden Lesbian Syndrome

Noel Sheppard

Candice Bergen Doesn't Like John Edwards, and Hates the Other Woman

Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

Bozell Column: Country Music, Too Freedom-Loving

Brent Bozell

Obama's And Admin's Blatant Chrysler Plant-Closing Fibs to Four States

Imagine if in December George W. Bush and his administration had: Decided to issue the initial bailout billions to General Motors but not Chrysler, thereby forcing Chrysler into bankruptcy.Had his advisers get on the phone with elected officials in towns and states where Chrysler has plants and told them that the bankruptcy was about to happen.Said that the Chrysler bankruptcy "will not disrupt…
Tom Blumer

Speaker Pelosi Lied? N.Y. Times Puts It On Page A

Tim Graham

CBS and NBC Spike Panetta's Rejection of Pelosi's Smear of the CIA

After ignoring for three weeks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's denial she was briefed by the CIA about how water-boarding was being used, only to decide it was news on Thursday when Pelosi at a press conference accused the CIA of “lying” and of “misleading” the Congress, on Friday the CBS and NBC evening newscasts fell silent again despite the backlash from CIA Director Leon Panetta, a former…
Brent Baker

After Three Weeks, Pelosi’s Anti-CIA Rant Finally Pushes Nets to Act

After three weeks of virtual silence, all three broadcast networks provided full reports last night (Thursday) about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s shifting story about what she knew about the interrogation methods used against al Qaeda terrorists, methods that liberals have decried as criminal torture. This morning (Friday), NBC and CBS also provided full reports, but ABC’s Good Morning America…
Rich Noyes

CBS’s Smith ‘Regrets’ Not Speaking Out Against Iraq War

On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen read some viewer email, including a question from one woman who asked: "Would you be willing to jeopardize your job to report something your bosses or the government wanted to keep hidden?" Co-host Harry Smith used the question as an opportunity to voice his opposition to the Iraq war:You know, I remember being in Iraq before the war started, we were…
Kyle Drennen

Gingrich Calls Pelosi 'Despicable,' 'Dishonest' and 'Vicious

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Friday accused current Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) of lying about what she was told concerning the enhanced interrogation techniques used on terrorist detainees after 9/11.In an interview with ABC News radio, Gingrich said, "I think this is the most despicable, dishonest and vicious political effort I've seen in my lifetime."Given the sharpness of the…
Noel Sheppard