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

Tim Graham

ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson Still Touting Universal Health Care

"Good Morning America" medical expert Dr. Tim Johnson on Friday gave ex-Health and Human Services nominee Tom Daschle a forum to promote his calls for a government run health care system. Co-host Robin Roberts made it clear in an introduction to the segment that there would be no discussion of the tax problems that forced Daschle to withdraw his nomination. Johnson, however, did offer softballs…
Scott Whitlock

Fireworks: Kudlow, Santelli Rail Against the Corruption of TARP and Go

If CNBC on-air talent has really had their hands tied by General Electric and NBC management on criticizing the current administration's economic policy, you couldn't tell it from watching Rick Santelli and Larry Kudlow.  On CNBC's April 24 "The Call," Santelli expressed his frustration with an overreaction by the government to solve the financial crisis when Kudlow asked him about the expansion…
Jeff Poor

CBS ‘Early Show’ Links Terror Interrogations to Abu Ghraib...Again

In a news brief on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Russ Mitchell implied a link between the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and Bush administration approval of tough interrogation tactics on suspected terrorists: "Soon we will see more pictures of U.S. personnel allegedly abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photos, like these from Abu Ghraib, are being released next month, following…
Kyle Drennen

Santelli, Kudlow Rail against 'Criminal' Aspects of TARP Bailout

CNBC reporter reminds viewers it's OK for capitalism to fail sometimes.
Jeff Poor

Weekend Captionfest

CIA Director Leon Panetta and Pres. Obama at the Central Intelligence Agency, April 20, 2009.
NB Staff

Soldier-slandering, Radical Left-wing Cartoonist Rall Laid Off

Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" -- was recently laid off. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article:NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.“I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American…
Ken Shepherd

Chris Dodd Thanks CBS For Biased Coverage

On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked Democratic Senator Chris Dodd about efforts by Congress to pass legislation that would punish credit card companies for charging higher fees and interest rates: "Senator, yesterday President Obama says that he wants legislation to stop credit card abuses. This is something that you have been pushing for, for years. And I don't have to…
Kyle Drennen

MSM Ignore Obama DOJ Urging Court to Drop Iran Hostage Lawsuit That Im

While President Obama was extoling the virtues of wind power in an Earth Day speech, his Justice Department lawyers were attempting to scuttle a lawsuit filed in federal court against Iran by former U.S. embassy hostages. The lawsuit alleges that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage-takers who interrogated the captives. Two days after the story broke on the Associated…
Ken Shepherd

Did CNN's Paul Begala Mangle the Facts on Waterboarding History

Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

NBC's Brian Williams on '30 Rock':The Eliot Spitzer of TV News

"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams appeared in a brief cameo for Thursday night's edition of the sitcom "30 Rock" and spoofed himself as someone interested in trolling for anonymous sexual hook-ups. The scene revolved around characters "Jack Donaghy" (Alec Baldwin) and "Tracy Jordan" (Tracy Morgan), an actor on the show within the show. (The episode involved Baldwin's character, a network…
Scott Whitlock

'Conservative' David Brooks: Obama Running a 'Professional, Smoothly F

Let us give the Barack Obama administration credit. They have run a "professional, smoothly running operation" in setting David Brooks' mind right. Back in early March, Brooks demonstrated a bit of independence from the liberal party line in his role as "house conservative" for the New York Times with this outburst:Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case…
P.J. Gladnick

Dennis Miller Quips: Impeach Prez If Chooses Losing L.A. Over Waterboa

On Wednesday’s The O’Reilly Factor, comedian and FNC contributor Dennis Miller quipped that any President who chose to let Los Angeles get attacked by terrorists instead of using information obtained from waterboarding should be "impeached because you’re crazy at that point." He also optimistically theorized that "I don't think Barack Obama is anywhere near crazy." Miller: "But if you're telling…
Brad Wilmouth