Bozell Column: Obama Sinks the Markets

Brent Bozell

Like a Mama Bear, Networks Protect Obama from His Down Market

BMI Staff

ABC Enthuses Over 'Muscular Arms' of 'Rock Star' Michelle Obama

On Tuesday's "Nightline," ABC gushed over Michelle Obama with the enthusiasm and objectivity usually reserved for "Access Hollywood" reporters. Correspondent Yunji de Nies lauded the "rock star" first lady for her fashion sense and for speaking openly about balancing work and family. "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden asserted that "with her muscular arms and outfits, she's become, well, a…
Scott Whitlock

Will Ferrell: Obama Thinks So Carefully, He's 'Too Politically Savvy

Tim Graham

Pulling Heartstrings and Straining Credibility: The Media Promote Embr

Media outlets preyed upon people's emotions this week in its reporting of President Barack Obama's decision to overturn the Bush Administration ban on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research. Embryonic stem cell research is a hot topic among pro-life advocates because it involves the destruction of human embryos in order to obtain the stem cells needed. CBS' Chip Reid said of…
Colleen Raezler

Air America Begins Syndication Division With ... Newsweek, Whose Curre

"Journalistic" Cheap Shot at the CompetitionUPDATE: Below the fold. ------------------------------------------- Couldn't they have at least waited a week to make this announcement?Liberal radio uber-failure Air America is branching out, expanding their tremendously successful business model to include syndication of outside programming.  And with whom are they beginning this new venture?Why,…
Seton Motley

Brown U Prof: John Edwards Can Find Platform as Champion for the Poor

If you thought John Edwards was permanently gone from the political scene, you would be wrong. Unbelievably, Edwards is now tentatively taking steps to re-enter politics as you can read in this McClatchy report by Barbara Barrett which appeared in the Miami Herald. The idea of Edwards returning to politics might seem like an incredibly laughable notion to most of us but not to a certain Brown…
P.J. Gladnick

Former Hansen Supervisor Calls for the Global Warming Alarmist's Dismi

Retired NASA atmospheric scientist John Theon tells ICCC that Hatch Act is grounds for media darling's firing.
Jeff Poor

How Mainstream is Porn? Media Ignore Implications of Body Art Barbie

CMI's Matt Philbin discussed Tattoo Barbie in his latest column: We can be sure she's not the first of her generation to mark her 50th birthday by getting tattoos. After all, the cultivation of youth-obsessed narcissism and bad taste is a Baby Boomer hallmark (see Clinton, Bill). But "Totally Stylin' Tattoos Barbie" is no less disturbing for being a product of her generation.Mattel is celebrating…
Colleen Raezler

Rain or Shine, Environmentalists Want to Control Us

BMI's Dan Gainor has a great column on the Fox Forum about the silence around "global cooling."This is the winter of environmentalists’ discontent. They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore’s truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars for it no matter whether it’s true or not. But the weather has been inconveniently cold. Thirty-two states have…
Matt Philbin

Open Thread

NB Staff

Brits Officials Can't Get Obama Folks on Phone, U.S. Media Not Picking

If the snub of British PM Gordon Brown at the hands of President Obama and his wife weren't enough, now British Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell is saying that Downing Street is finding it "unbelievably difficult" to get hold of officials from Obama's administration. British officials can't seem to ever get past the administration's answer machines as they call here to try and coordinate plans…
Warner Todd Huston

NYT Inadvertently Confirms IBD’s Logic in Denouncing Obama’s Embry

In a scathing editorial Monday, the folks at IBDeditorials.com ripped President Barack Obama's misguided, life-destroying, science-denying Executive Order that allows federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR). Later, Nicholas Wade at the New York Times, in two paragraphs of his March 10 report ("Rethink Stem Cells? Science Already Has"), in essence confirmed the validity of IBD's…
Tom Blumer

Newsweek's Fineman Joins List of Obama Supporters Losing Faith

Throughout last year's presidential campaign, NewsBusters routinely reported that without the unprofessional and unconditional support of an adoring media, Barack Obama would never have gotten past the Iowa caucuses let alone John McCain.One of his staunchest fans was Newsweek's Howard Fineman who right after Election Day said: “Obama's changing everything as he moves. His victory speech last…
Noel Sheppard