Open Thread

NB Staff

Sean Penn's Oscar Sneer: Conservatives Put 'Great Shame in Their Gran

Tim Graham

Obama's Auto Task Force Owns Foreign Cars, Will Media Care

Imagine for a moment John McCain was President, and few of the people on the task force he created to repair the crumbling auto industry owned American cars. Would that be a public relations nightmare?Well, an article published Monday by the Detroit News revealed that most of Barack Obama's newly announced Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry don't patronize the companies they've been…
Noel Sheppard

Bitter at No Oscar Nod, Bill Maher Attacks 'Our Silly Gods' on Oscar S

Tim Graham

Kudlow, Santelli Push Back Hard at Mortgage-Mod Program, Harder at Gib

Advantage Rick Santelli -- and Larry Kudlow. CNBC reporter Santelli's Thursday morning "Shout Heard Round the World" (CNBC's term) objecting to the Obama administration's mortgage modification program on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange quickly went viral, and struck two nerves. First, it ignited a groundswell of support from the over 90% of the of the nation that pays its bills and…
Tom Blumer

Hollywood Extols National Healthcare While Closing Its OWN Actors Hosp

The self-aggrandizing denizens of Hollywood constantly scold Americans over a lack of national healthcare. It is the biggest failure of American society ever that there is no cradle to the grave program for free health care, they constantly tell us. And now, in keeping with these nearly universal Hollywood "principles," to prove how Hollywood is far more moral than we lowly citizens of flyover…
Warner Todd Huston

The 1990s are back, Glenn Greenwald is Worried About Angry White Racis

Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com seems to think that Bill Clinton's nonexistent boogie men, "the militias," are back. Why are they back? Because all white people are angry, racists that are mad that Obama got elected, of course. What else could have dredged up this fantasy from the depths of the liberal's worst nightmares of the 1990s? Somehow, though, it's a bit hard to imagine Greenwald's main…
Warner Todd Huston

Oscar Winner Tells 'Gay and Lesbian Kids Out There' That Gay Marriage

Tim Graham

Chicago Sun-Times: Michelle Obama 'Embraces an Activist Agenda

We all know that Barack Obama, if he isn't actually divine, at least qualifies as a Superman.  So I guess it's fitting that he's married to a Superwoman.  Or at least that's the impression we get in today's Chicago Sun-Times article "Michelle: Her first month as first lady  THE EAST WING | In just a month, Michelle Obama has put her mark on her new domain, as she embraces an activist agenda." …
Mike Bates

Academy Panic: 'Not Even Hollywood Wants to Participate in Oscars

If you thought you couldn't care less about tonight's Academy Awards you're not alone for many of Hollywood's top stars are refusing to participate in Sunday's festivities other than just being in the audience.Yikes!So wrote Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke Saturday:
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

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

Bill Moyers Sought Info From FBI on Sexual Preferences of LBJ's White

Tim Graham

Toledo Blade: Return of Fairness Doctrine Just Silly Conspiracy Theory

The Toledo Blade has published an editorial with a laughable split personality. First the Blade assures its readers that fears about the possible return of the Fairness Doctrine is just some silly conspiracy theory being perpetrated by conservatives...and then the Blade itself calls for the return of the Fairness Doctrine:TALK of a liberal conspiracy to "hush Rush" by resurrecting broadcasting's…
P.J. Gladnick

Ari Fleischer: If You Want the Press To Look Bad, Let Them Scream for

Tim Graham