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NB Staff

Dobbs Mocks Gore for Likening Global Warming Alarmism to Civil Rights

One of the latest tactics some global warming alarmists have employed is to compare their activism to struggles of the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. Actor Edward Norton compared the "symbolic" Earth Hour of March 29 to infamous Selma's "Bloody Sunday" in an appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live," and again on NBC's "Today." But this time, one of the movement's leaders, former Vice President Al…
Jeff Poor

Obama Worship Goes Into Overdrive as 100-Day Mark Approaches

(Note: The Wednesday unveiling of this painting has been cancelled. Check the update at the bottom of this blog for more information.)"The Truth" is stranger than fiction.This is not a spoof picture from The Onion or any other satirical website. The image you see to the right (larger version below the fold) is a painting by artist Michael D'Antuono called "The Truth" that will be officially…
P.J. Gladnick

Media Jumping 100-Days Gun, Praising His Popularity

Tim Graham

AP Barf Alert: Obama Has No 'Rookie Jitters,' Is 'Extraordinarily at E

I am not a doctor, but I play one on the Internet. So, take the following as a prescription for what ails you. Now, if for some unexplainable reason you have been feeling queasy since November of last year, if you have felt like you want to throw up but just can't seem to get that bile to overflow, well I have a little something here that will surely cause that gag reflex to result in a healthy…
Warner Todd Huston

'Ethicist' for NY Times: 'Great to Have President Who's Competent and

Appearing on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Randy Cohen, the “The Ethicist” columnist for the New York Times Magazine, blurted: “I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.” Cohen's praise for President Barack Obama, combined with the cheap insult of former President George Bush, came just before a “but” as he…
Brent Baker

About Dick Cheney: How the Old Media Creates a False Attack

The newest false meme invented by the Old Media is this claim that ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents have some sort of "tradition of silence" where it concerns commenting on those that take residence in the White House after they leave. The reason the Old Media is pushing this false claim is because Dick Cheney has been commenting on Obama's security mistakes and the Old Media wants to scold…
Warner Todd Huston

Bozell Column: Beauty Pageants Get Ugly

Brent Bozell

Politico: 'For Obama, Hipness Is What It Is

Politico today reveals what those in the fawning mainstream media have known all along: "For Obama, hipness is what it is."  It begins:During his first 100 days as president of the United States, Barack Obama revealed how different he is from all the white men who preceded him in the Oval Office, and the differences run deeper — in substance and style — than the color of his skin.Barack Hussein…
Mike Bates

Shuster Gets Emotionally Animated Over Credit Card Interest Rates

Separating personal feelings from straight-up journalism is something MSNBC anchors have had trouble with in the past, and David Shuster is no exception. During MSNBC's daytime news coverage on April 24, Shuster interviewed Bill Himpler of the American Financial Services Association. The discussion was nominally about the legislation sponsored by Sens. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N…
Jeff Poor

CNN's Cafferty: 'Hardliners' in GOP Mistaken to Label Democrats 'Socia

CNN’s resident curmudgeon Jack Cafferty blamed Republican losses in the 2008 election, in part, on their use of the “socialist” label against Democrats during his regular commentary on Friday’s Situation Room. After reporting on a “conservative faction of the Republican National Committee” wanting to use this label against their opponents, and how they petitioned RNC Chairman Michael Steele to…
Matthew Balan

KC Star Writer Decries 'The (Mis)Labeling of Kathleen Sebelius

Kansas City Star editorial page columnist Barb Shelly is miffed.  In today's "The (mis)labeling of Kathleen Sebelius," she explains why:In other words, this image that's being projected of Sebelius as some radical defender of the abortion industry is very much overstated. She's a pragmatic executive and it's ludicrous that her confirmation process has become so politicized.Sebelius is, of course…
Mike Bates

Sebelius’ Controversial Veto Takes Back Seat to Stories About Bo Oba

News editors need to retake Journalism 101 or move to features when stories about the White House dog take precedence over a controversial veto by the President's unconfirmed appointment to Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill, House Substitute for SB 218, April 23 which would have placed additional restrictions on third trimester abortions and…
Iris Somberg

Gorbachev on PBS: Reagan Asked Me About an Attack from Outer Space

Tim Graham