CNBC's Santelli Explains His Anti-Obamanomics Call for Revolt

It's been called "the rant heard around the world," after The Drudge Report linked to the video with a screaming red headline. However Rick Santelli may have given CNBC viewers a preview of what effects Obamanomics will have on the populace. On CNBC's "Squawk Box" Feb. 19, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor reporter, along with several traders, expressed his outrage about President Barack…
Jeff Poor

MRC's Free Speech Alliance to Obama: Oppose All Govt. Radio Censorship

President Barack Obama's recent statement about his opposition to resurrecting the so-called Fairness Doctrine is a good first step, but shouldn't be the only step his administration takes to burying political censorship by the FCC for good, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) President Grover Norquist argued in a joint statement released today. [click…
NB Staff

Dear Wash. Post: 'Lord of Finance' Review Ignores Fact

British return to gold standard caused hardship because the price was set too low.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

CNN Talking Heads Unanimously Praise Holder's 'Coward' Remarks

Anchor Campbell Brown’s show on CNN is subtitled “No Bias, No Bull,” but the show displayed plenty of bias during a Wednesday night segment about Attorney General Eric Holder calling America “a nation of cowards” on race issues. Brown praised Holder for “cutting through the bull,” and a panel discussion was utterly unanimous: Gloria Borger, Soledad O’Brien, and Roland Martin all toed the liberal…
Matthew Balan

CBS Criticizes GOP Governors for Opposing Stimulus

On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith opened the show by declaring: "As President Obama heads on his first foreign trip, some state governors are saying 'thanks, but no thanks' to the stimulus money, even in these desperate times. We'll ask one of them why." Later, co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and asked: "Even if it takes a while…
Kyle Drennen

Katie Couric Paints Gov. Jindal, State of Louisiana As Foes of 'Scient

"Well, the saints might go marching into New Orleans, but the scientists are marching right on out. A group of more than two thousand biologists have decided NOT to hold their 2011 annual meeting in the Big Easy," "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric noted at the open of her  February 18 video blog entry. Couric proceeded to turn a biologists convention's PR stunt into evidence that Gov. Bobby…
Ken Shepherd

Journalists Insist Media-Obama Revolving Door Due to Economy, Not Bias

In one of the most comical Politico stories I have ever encountered, several prominent journalists insisted that the revolving door between the media and liberal Democrats, especially Team Obama, is not a symptom of bias. Instead, they blamed the trend on the economy:In three months since Election Day, at least a half-dozen prominent journalists have taken jobs working for the federal government…
Stephen Gutowski

CNN/HLN Anchor A.J. Hammer 'Dares to Ask' If Bristol Palin's 'Glamoriz

Tim Graham

ABC Frets That NY Post Comic Could Harm 'Post-racial Glow' of Obama

"Good Morning America" reporter David Wright on Thursday worried that a comic strip appearing in yesterday's New York Post could harm the "post racial glow" that America has been enjoying since Barack Obama's inauguration. Wright recounted the outrage expressed by the Reverend Al Sharpton and others over an editorial cartoon depicting a chimp shot by police and connecting it to the just passed…
Scott Whitlock

Open Thread

NB Staff

Bozell Column: We're Not All Socialists

Brent Bozell

Kmiec in Chicago Trib: GOP Shows 'No Interest in Family, Work or Neigh

For the Chicago Tribune, Romney supporter turned Obama man Douglas Kmiec indulged in quite a litany of name-calling, finger pointing and demagoguery against the GOP that would have been amazing from the same man only one year ago. Hopefully questioning "The Death of the GOP," Kmiec has shown that he no longer cares much how he is viewed, going full Democrat Partisan at this point.In his Tribune…
Warner Todd Huston

Matthews Suggests Water-Boarding Libby to Get Truth About Cheney's Mis

In a Wednesday segment on worries President Obama, in not ruling out renditions and water-boarding, may be “slipping back into the dirty old ways” of “torture” supposedly employed by the Bush administration, Hardball host Chris Matthews blurted out: “Do you think if we water-boarded Lewis 'Scooter' Libby he'd tell us the role that the Vice President played in the outing of Joseph Wilson's wife?”…
Brent Baker

Cleveland Plain Dealer's 'Housing Experts': Two Community Organizers a

So where did the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Sabrina Eaton go for opinions on what Michelle Malkin earlier today called "the massive mortgage entitlement campaign launched by President Barack Obama"? Why, they went to "housing experts," of course. But the people she quoted aren't builders, realtors, mortgage lenders, mortgage brokers, or economists. Nor, based on the area's results, are they experts…
Tom Blumer