'Early Show' Expert Blasts Obama Economic Proposals

Peter Morici advises Obama to use markets as a 'sounding ground.'
Jeff Poor

White House Press Briefing Live Blog [March

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Ken Shepherd

A Challenge for Sen. Arlen Specter

On Thursday I interviewed Sen. John Cornyn, head of the National Republican Sentorial Committee. When I asked him about the NRSC running someone against Sen. Arlen Specter in 2010, given the anger many Republicans feel about Specter's vote on the stimulus bill, Cornyn's answer was basically that he would rather have someone voting with him 80% of the time, rather than a liberal Democrat who would…
Kathleen McKinley

Tribute to Paul Harvey from ABC Radio

Brent Baker

A Dittohead Profile the MSM Would Never Report

Blogger and former Washington Times staffer Robert Stacy McCain has an article over at The American Spectator's Web site that blows away the stereotype many in the MSM seem to have about Rush Limbaugh's audience being nothing more than "angry white men."In "Taxi Driver Dittos, Rush", McCain relays a brief story of his interaction with a D.C. cabbie originally from Nigeria who loves Limbaugh. Here…
Ken Shepherd

Self-Dealing Omitted: Rep. Grace Napolitano Pays Herself $200,000 In I

Tim Graham

Physician Declares Global Warming Will Cause Sharp Rise in Kidney Ston

Urology professor says climate change will create a billion-dollar 'kidney stone belt.'
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

NBC’s Chuck Todd Knocks Rush; ‘Backward,’ ‘Dying Medium’ of

NBC White House political director Chuck Todd appeared on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" on Monday to dismiss Rush Limbaugh as "looking backward" and deride the radio industry as a "dying medium." Todd (see file photo above), who was talking with co-host Mika Brzezinski about Limbaugh’s role as a leader in the Republican Party, also suggested a linkage between the radio host and far left bomb thrower…
Scott Whitlock

ABC's Jake Tapper Laments Some Producers 'Root' for Obama in News Cove

Tim Graham

WaPo: Hey, Bailout Snivelers: Hush. You Don't Need It

Hush all you sniveling bailout hating troublemakers. Just shut up, you don't need the money. That is the message from Washington Post personal finance commentator Michelle Singletary. In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama declared that he was going to "speak frankly and directly." That's what I want to do as well. I want to speak frankly and directly to the many…
Terry Trippany

Obama WH Secret Phone Conferences Bear Fruit With TV Media's Limbaugh

Back on January 29, we discussed the daily strategy phone call engineered by Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for friendly TV commentators and "reporters." Politico reported that Emanuel has a daily phone conference call with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, and CNN's James Carville and Paul Begala. With Rush Limbaugh's raucous CPAC address, as he termed it his "first address to the nation," we…
Warner Todd Huston

'National Shame' Will Propel Obama's 'Universal' Health to Victory

Brent Baker

CNN Contributor: 'Listening to Obama Give a Speech is Like Sex

Did you think listening to President Obama give his address before Congress on Tuesday evening was "like sex?"Republican strategist and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos did, or at least that's what he admitted to John King on Sunday's "State of the Union" a friend said:I think, as a friend told me once, that -- listening to Barack Obama give a speech is like sex. The worse there ever was, was…
Noel Sheppard