CBS Commiserates Over Higher Bank Credit Card Fees; Ignores Gov't Take

It was either an effort to avoid blaming individuals for ill-advised borrowing or an effort to vilify the banking system, but a segment on the April 20 "CBS Evening News" took a very one-sided view of credit-card lending.  On a day bank stocks struggled and dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) down nearly 300 points, "Evening News" scrutinized the current state of the banking system's…
Jeff Poor

E! News Anchor Rancic Blasts Miss California: 'She Makes Me Sick to M

"...i know i'm a journalist, and i should be objective...but she is an ignorant discrace and she makes me sick to my stomach," E! News anchor and managing editor Giuliana Rancic wrote on her Twitter page at 10:01 a.m. EDT today. Rancic of course was referring to Carrie Prejean, who in the interview portion of the Miss USA contest on Sunday evening gave a defense of traditional marriage that riled…
Ken Shepherd

'Pec-tacular': DC Mag to Feature Shirtless Obama on Cover

The gushing and fawning over our new president will reach new heights -- or new lows depending on your point of view!!! -- when the May issue of Washingtonian magazine is released with a picture of a shirtless Obama on the cover.Even more disgraceful, the headline will read:26 Reasons To Love Living HereReason #2: Our New Neighbor Is HotNow that's respect for the office, dontcha think?ABC's Jake…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Larry King Gives Perez Hilton Pass on Vitriolic Attacks on Miss Califo

Want to appear as a champion of a cause without being held to account for the hateful name-calling you did in the name of your cause? Appear on CNN's "Larry King Live." Perez Hilton, author of the celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com, who advocates that gay marriage should be legal, got to do just that. Hilton, coming off his appearance as a judge for the Miss USA pageant on April 19, appeared…
Jeff Poor

More Useful Idiots: Cleese Hates Bush, Slams Marines, Chan Kicks Democ

Proving the old adage that instead of sitting quietly letting everyone think you are an idiot one should speak up and prove it, funnyman John Cleese and Kung Fu action star Jackie Chan recently did some talking that they should probably have avoided. Apparently unaware that they've left office, Cleese unloaded on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and seemed to say U.S. Marines weren't very…
Warner Todd Huston

NewsBusted

NB Staff

Obama Welcomes America-Bashing

Defending the United States takes a back seat to proving he is non-ideological.
L. Brent Bozell III

Gay Marriage Activist Perez Hilton Invites Miss California for Coffee

Gossip blogger gets a pass from Larry King on his vitriolic reaction.
Jeff Poor

Ted Nugent Blasts Gun Free Zones As 'Forced Victimization

Gun control policies wrought by the likes of liberal Sens. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Schumer (D-N.Y.) amount to "cruel indecency and forced victimization" argues rocker Ted Nugent in an April 20, 2009 column in U.S. News & World Report.  With the election of Barack Obama, the 10th anniversary of Columbine, the second anniversary of Virginia Tech, and the media's ongoing fixation on a faulty "90…
Ken Shepherd

Time Touts Test for 'Foolproofing Suicide

Tim Graham

CNN's Roesgen Pushed Flawed Jena 6 Narrative

Susan Roesgen, the hack who harassed tea party goers, was a driving force behind the flawed Jena 6 narrative that circulated the MSM cesspool back in 2007. The level of professionalism which made her famous on tax day has clearly been par for course in Roesgen's career. Patterico has uncovered the extent of her involvement pushing the absurd and reprehensible racially charged narrative:
Stephen Gutowski

Beck Claims Knowledge of 'Mafia Tactics' Used to Coerce Banks to Agree

Back in the fall, you would have thought from the media coverage of the TARP debate and its eventual passage that some sort of crime had been committed when the House didn't pass it the first time around. "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric demanded to know from House Minority Leader John Boehner, "What in the world are you people doing?" on her Sept. 29 broadcast. However, there was a side…
Jeff Poor

ABC Defends Obama's 'New World View,' Touts Supposed Successes

In the midst of conservative criticism that President Barack Obama, at the summit in Trinidad over the weekend joked around with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and was uncritical of a 50-minute anti-American screed from Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, ABC decided to defend Obama's foreign policy mettle -- with his only failure coming where he has followed Bush's policy. Martha Raddatz began by trying to…
Brent Baker