George Stephanopoulos Links Obama's Islamo Dictatorship Metaphor to GO

On Friday's "Good Morning America," George Stephanopoulos turned a statement that Barack Obama made about corrupt Islamic dictatorships and made it into a metaphor on congressional Republican opposition to the President's stimulus bill. Speaking of the difficulty Obama has had with passing his multi-billion dollar spending bill, Stephanopoulos instructed, "And to borrow a metaphor from the…
Scott Whitlock

Over Half the Nation Thinks Media Are Exaggerating Global Warming

For years NewsBusters has claimed media -- largely led by Nobel Laureate Al Gore for his own financial benefit -- are tremendously exaggerating man's impact on global warming as well as the dangers.A new study by Rasmussen Reports found most Americans agree with this premise.Color me unsurprised.As Rasmussen reported Friday:
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

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

Bos. Herald: Conservative That Prevents a Suicide, 'Does Indeed Have a

How do you turn a hearwarming tale into just another excuse to call conservatives heartless, mean ol' hatemongers? Just ask Jessica Heslam from the Boston Herald who, right in the first sentence of her story, decided it would be fun to take a slap shot at a conservative that helped save a woman's life, this week. Boston's conservative radio host, Howie Carr, helped a women decide against…
Warner Todd Huston

'Today Show' Suggests Single Moms Only Need Dad's Money

The morning show hosts reduce role of octuplets' father to monetary supplier.
Erin Brown

Newsweek Film Critic Turns Chick Flick Into an Out-With-Bush Metaphor

Tim Graham

Irate Matthews Defends Obama's White House Attire, Bashes Bush

Former White House chief-of-staff Andrew Card's suggestion to Barack Obama that his administration should continue the Bush fashion code of wearing a jacket and tie in the Oval Office, out of respect, ignited Chris Matthews, on Thursday night's "Hardball," to unleash an angry litany against Bush's foreign and domestic policies and then condemned, "If that's dressing for success I prefer shirt-…
Geoffrey Dickens

Chris Matthews to Obama: Don't 'Let Us Down

Chris Matthews is rooting for Barack Obama to get his so-called stimulus package passed so much, he offered him advice on how to sell it, on Thursday night's "Hardball," and cautioned him if he doesn’t succeed in that sales job he'll "let us down." Matthews, the former Jimmy Carter speechwriter, offered the following piece of advice to Obama on the February 5 edition of "Hardball":
Geoffrey Dickens

CBS’s Kroft Denies ‘Cheerleading’ for Obama in Fawning Documenta

Appearing on Wednesday’s O’Reilly Factor on FNC, CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft discussed his campaign interviews with Barack Obama that have been spliced together to create a CBS News DVD, ‘Obama: All Access,’: "Well, they were dying to have somebody come out, especially '60 Minutes,' very early on to kind of explain their campaign...we developed a nice rapport." Host Bill O’Reilly…
Kyle Drennen

ABC's Diane Sawyer Offers One Sided Take on Assisted Suicide

"Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer on Wednesday interviewed a man who helped both his parents kill themselves. While talking to John West, the author of "The Last Goodnights," the GMA co-host mostly ignored the right to life angle of assisted suicide, instead focusing on West's actions in aiding, on seperate occasions, the deaths of his cancer-ridden father and Alzheimer's-suffering mother.…
Scott Whitlock

AP Headline: Florida Infanticide Just a 'Badly Botched Abortion

Update (Feb. 9; 11:15 EST): Apparently the Buffalo News updated the story and the link I gave in my lede goes to a follow-up story. I wasn't able to find the exact article I was writing about, but here is a link to an updated story from Feb. 6 by Armario, entitled: "Botched abortion outrages pro-life, pro-choice factions." "Fla. doctor investigated in badly botched abortion," reads the headline…
Ken Shepherd

Obama Worship Not Just For Barack

Erin R. Brown

Dear WSJ: No More New Deal Ideas

Like other New Deal plans, subsidizing mortgages will only encourage folly.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

White House Power Consolidation Continues with 2010 Census Takeover; W

On January 25, as noted by yours truly here at NewsBusters ("Obama 'Shifting Power From Traditional Cabinet Posts"), Jonathan Martin at Politico.com reported that President Obama "is moving to create perhaps the most powerful staff in modern history – a sort of West Wing on steroids that places no less than a half-dozen of his top initiatives into the hands of advisers outside the Cabinet." (The…
Tom Blumer