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NB Staff

Dear Wash. Times: Mile High Hypocrisy

There's something 'sick' about the President scolding Citigroup for private jets.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

Network News Embraces Obama's Wall Street-Bashing

After years of agitation over what they saw as President George W. Bush's self-righteous moral certitude, journalists on Thursday night embraced President Barack Obama's vilification of those working for Wall Street firms who got a bonus last year. “Shameful,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams teased his newscast, “that's how President Obama labels those Wall Street types paying themselves…
Brent Baker

Rachel Maddow Says Chris Matthews Isn't Liberal, 'He'd Get Torn Apart

Long-time CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed radical MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for the website Wow-o-wow.com and Maddow demonstrated her ultraliberalism by denying Chris Matthews was a liberal (just a "Democrat"), and insisting "If Chris Matthews had an Air America radio show, he’d get torn apart by our listeners...I wouldn’t put Chris and my politics in the same canoe. " While Stahl…
Tim Graham

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift Compares Hillary's Senate Replacement to (Gas

Tim Graham

A How-To Lesson For Left-Wing, Old Media Bias

**UPDATE** Once in a while there is a short piece spewed forth by some Old Media outlet or another that is so perfect as a primer of left-wing bias 101 that I just have to share it. In this case we have the Telegraph writing on the story, covered here a few days ago, where Barack Obama found himself confused by an outside glass panel he mistook for a door at the White House. Michael M. Bates…
Warner Todd Huston

LAT Minimizes School Sex Scandals But Trumpets Flimsy Story on Cardina

When a veteran middle-school teacher in nearby Santa Monica pleaded guilty last month to "multiple counts of illegal sex acts" and molesting nine young girls, the Los Angeles Times didn't feel the story warranted their newspaper. Although the Times had reported the teacher's original arrest and some follow-up last May and June, the news of teacher's guilty plea only went as far as the paper's…
Dave Pierre

ABC7 News Chicago: 'Quinn Comes in With a Squeaky Clean Reputation

On its Web site this evening, ABC7 News Chicago reports on the new Illinois Democratic governor in "Who Is Pat Quinn?"  General assignment reporter John Garcia tells readers about the man who replaced former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich :Quinn comes in with a squeaky clean reputation at a time when the past two governors have faced serious federal charges. An Illinois Democrat with a squeaky…
Mike Bates

Rachel Maddow Cites Snow in Dubai as Example of 'Global Warming

Once again, inconvenient weather tosses a monkey wrench at enviro-hysteric claims of looming apocalypse, an alleged threat now entering its third decade. Most recent example: Rachel Maddow's reporting on her MSNBC show Monday night --Some big global warming news today. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named a special envoy today for climate change. His name is Todd Stern, he was the United…
Jack Coleman

Global Warming Event Leaving Las Vegas in the Dark

Environmental group, governments partner for latest 'Earth Hour' public relations stunt.
Jeff Poor

New Anti-Limbaugh Radio Attack Ad to Air Beginning Tomorrow

Brent Baker

CNN's Zain Verjee: 'The World Wants Obama, the Road Show

During Thursday’s Situation Room, CNN’s Zain Verjee exclaimed about how much “the world is waiting” for President Obama to begin his international travels: “The world wants Obama, the road show.” She also gushed over how his “rock star vibe will make his personal diplomacy a much more potent tool” and how he will be in “really big demand overseas.”The correspondent made her “road show” comment…
Matthew Balan

MSNBC’s O’Donnell: Sarah Palin Called Obama a Terrorist

During the 3PM hour on MSNBC, anchor Norah O’Donnell derided Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for attending the annual Alfalfa dinner in Washington, D.C., declaring: "Sarah Palin is coming to D.C. she ran as a maverick this whole campaign, wanted nothing to do with people in Washington, the anti-establishment candidate, and now she's coming to the most exclusive dinner in Washington, to hobnob with…
Kyle Drennen

Chris Cuomo Again Whines About Lack of GOP Support for Spending Bill

[See update below] Appearing on a panel for Wednesday's edition of "Hannity," "Good Morning America" news anchor Chris Cuomo once again fretted about a lack of support for Barack Obama's massive new spending bill. After mentioning an earlier interview he conducted with House Minority Leader John Boener, Cuomo complained, "He [Boehner] said that he was impressed by President Obama, that they…
Scott Whitlock