No Joke: New Osbourne's Show Performs Real Marriage Ceremony

“Viewer Discretion is advised.”  That’s right. Tuesday night’s debut of Fox’s new reality show “Osbournes: Reloaded” was not suitable for anyone who believes marriage is sacred.The Osbourne family’s new variety show made light of the covenant of marriage as Ozzy Osbourne walked the real-life bride down the aisle. Ironically, the preacher warned that marriage is “not something to be entered into…
Erin R. Brown

NYT: VP Joe Biden Escapes Snark, But 'Prince of Darkness' Cheney Didn

New York Times political personality reporter Mark Leibovich, whose mission is delivering profiles with attitude, mostly laid off the jabs in his Sunday front-page profile of what would seem to be an easy target -- the garrulous, gaffe-prone Vice President Joe Biden -- in "Speaking Freely, Sometimes, Biden Finds Influential Role." Biden's history of colorful statements should have made him a…
Clay Waters

Liberals Complain, CNBC Caves In

BMI Staff

Miss Universe's 'Calm and Beautiful' Gitmo Bay Blog Removed

Last Friday, Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza posted her impressions of Guantanamo Bay -- which apparently was "such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful" that she "didn’t want to leave" -- at her official blog.Now, mysteriously, that post has been removed.Attracting shockingly little media attention, Mendoza was in Guantanamo Bay with Miss USA Crystle Stewart visiting troops as part of a U.S.O./…
Noel Sheppard

Liberals Complain, CNBC Caves In

Business network goes from inspiring anti-tax 'tea parties' to adding left-wingers like Dean, Huffington.
Jeff Poor

CBS’s Reid: Obama ‘Showered With Praise’ in Britain

On Wednesday’s CBS Early Show correspondent Chip Reid reported on President Obama’s first day in Britain: "Arriving at 10 Downing Street this morning, the President and First Lady were warmly greeted by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah. They posed for a hoard of photographers who shouted for the President, who is hugely popular here, to give them another wave...Then a short walk…
Kyle Drennen

Late Show Update: Letterman Calls O'Reilly A Goon -- To His Face

One would think it's bad host etiquette to call your guest a goon.Yet, David Letterman on Tuesday's "Late Show" did exactly that to Fox News's Bill O'Reilly.He also told the "Factor" host, "You're too smart to believe what you say."  All in all, it was a friendlier encounter than we've seen in the past with the following notable lowlights (video part I embedded right, part II below the fold):
Noel Sheppard

David Letterman Calls Bill O'Reilly a 'Goon' During Heated Interview

Whenever Bill O'Reilly appears on the David Letterman show you just know sparks are going to fly due to Letterman's inability to keep his anger managed and last night's show did not disappoint although it seems that Letterman now appreciates the ratings O'Reilly brings him. First Letterman established once again his liberal credentials in the opening monologue by slamming Republicans but, of…
P.J. Gladnick

Obama Putting Our Tax Dollars On Auto Pilot

Major media pushed for bailout billions when many knew it was throwing good money after bad.
Dan Gainor

Big Government in an Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny Bikini

The nanny state waxes huge.
Dan Kennedy

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: You tell us.
NB Staff

MRC’s Notable Quotables: Drooling Over Obama’s European Vacation

[UPDATE, 6:45PM ET: For those who only lightly skimmed or otherwise did not notice earlier, this is an April Fools Day edition of Notable Quotables. All of the quotes were made up by various MRC staffers. I hope you enjoyed the parody.] For those of you who enjoy reading MRC’s Notable Quotables newsletter, featuring the most outrageous (and sometimes humorous) quotes in the liberal media, our…
Rich Noyes

WaPo Skipped Tea Party Protests, But Gives Big Play to...Opponents of

Tim Graham

AP Scolds Republicans for 'Noncompliance' Over Stimulus $... But is Th

The Associated Press did a masterful job of portraying Republican Governors as perpetrating "noncompliance" for how they want to spend Obama's education stimulus money. But, even as the AP spends the top half of a story wagging fingers at those nasty Republicans for not spending Obama's generous gift the right way, buried in the story it is revealed that the fault is really with how the stimulus…
Warner Todd Huston