Cheney on Powell vs. Limbaugh: 'I'd Go with Rush Limbaugh

To Bob Schieffer's astonishment, when he wrapped up his Sunday interview by asking former Vice President Dick Cheney where he comes down between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell who both say the Republican Party would be “better off” without the other, Cheney declared: “I'd go with Rush Limbaugh.”  Cheney related on CBS's Face the Nation how “my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I…
Brent Baker

WSJ: Treasury's Stress Test Results 'Negotiated' -- Not To Mention Arb

It's a whole new wrinkle on the old joke about accountants (when asked what 2 + 2 is, he or she replies, "What do you want it to be?"). The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the reported results of the financial institution stress tests were negotiated: Banks Won Concessions on Tests Fed Cut Billions Off Some Initial Capital-Shortfall Estimates; Tempers Flare at Wells The Federal…
Tom Blumer

Time's Joe Klein: Rush Limbaugh Is 'Delivering Misinformation, Lies

Noel Sheppard

Former Cuban Intelligence Official: Celebrities Often Blackmailed Into

It is not surprising that such far left Hollywood celebrities as Sean Pean and Danny Glover would support an outright communist dictatorship in Cuba but many other seemingly sane folks also have expressed their sympathy for Fidel Castro. I'm talking about people like Kevin Costner and Steven Spielberg. Costner is not known for any extreme leftwing politics and Spielberg, while liberal, has…
P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread

NB Staff

Lost in Translation: Biz Press Reports Dollar Amounts of Toyota's Loss

Here are the first two paragraphs of Toyota Motor Corporation's press release announcing its financial results for the year ended March 31, 2009 (most Japanese companies end their fiscal years on March 31; bolds are mine): Tokyo - TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) today announced operating results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. On a consolidated basis, net revenues for the fiscal year…
Tom Blumer

What Isn't History? CBS Hypes 'Unprecedented Presidential Burger Run

Tim Graham

Sykes Hopes Limbaugh's Kidneys Fail and Olbermann Waterboards Hannity

NewsBuster Tim Graham asked Saturday if comedienne Wanda Sykes, appearing at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, would really make fun of President Barack Obama or go all gentle.Well, the answer is likely worse than any of us could have imagined, for Sykes used this platform to attack conservatives rather than the person who is historically roasted at this event.In fact,…
Noel Sheppard

ABC Radio News Break: Sykes Slams Oba... Oh, I Mean Cheney

As Tim Graham reported earlier, comedian Wanda Sykes was given the spotlight for the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. We wondered if she'd throw a barb or two Obama's way as is customary. All past hosts have spared no opportunity to skewer the current commander in chief and his administration. That is what the thing is for, after all. Well, even if comedian Sykes did give a…
Warner Todd Huston

Bozell Column: The Obscenity Blackout

When the late Playboy centerfold and tabloid-media celebrity Anna Nicole Smith graced the white marble steps of the Supreme Court in 2006, the network news operations couldn’t get enough of the story. The blonde floozy had married a fabulously wealthy Texas oilman who happened to be 62 years her senior, and now she wanted to collect his estate. It was a serious legal challenge, and a salacious…
Brent Bozell

FNC: Drought-Stricken Farmers Lose Fight for Water to Endangered Fish

On Friday’s Hannity show on FNC, correspondent Ainsley Earhardt filed an in depth report on the plight of farmers in California who are starving for water, exacerbated by a federal court which ordered that one of their sources of water be shut down due to fears that irrigation would harm an endangered species of fish, the delta smelt. Earhardt began: "California's Central Valley is considered by…
Brad Wilmouth

Time Mag on GOP: 'Extremely Conservative Ideas' for 'Extremely Conserv

Brent Baker

'Fox News Watch' Covers NewsBusters' CNN/Oprah.com Story

On Monday, NewsBuster Warner Todd Huston revealed Oprah.com and CNN's statistically unsupported theory that women are leaving men for other women.On Saturday, "Fox News Watch" shared this bizarre story with its viewers, giving NewsBusters credit for the revelation.Host Jon Scott stated (video embedded right, h/t Jeff Poor): 
NB Staff

Flighty Celebs at the White House Party: Bennifer, Ashton and Demi, Wh

The White House Correspondents Dinner has become quite an occasion for Hollywood’s flightiest celebrities to bring their famous (or merely semi-famous) faces to the nation’s capital. WHC Insider has a list. For example, Fox News landed Chace Crawford – of the CW show Gossip Girl – and to balance out up and coming with down and going, they have...Matthew Modine. (Yes, the crazy liberal guy.) They…
Tim Graham