Bozell Column: Tony Blankley's Untimely Cry

Authors often try to release their books at an absolutely perfect moment for stoking sales. Exhibit A is PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who scheduled her liberal "era of Obama" thrill-fest about hot-shot black Democrats for Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day. Tony Blankley did almost exactly the opposite. To paraphrase the famous Bill Buckley slogan for National Review, Blankley’s new book stands athwart…
Brent Bozell
 

Gore to Turn Up Heat as Snow, Ice Hit Washington

Jeff Poor
 

Gore to Turn Up Heat as Snow, Ice Hit Washington

BMI Staff
 

Congresswoman Claims to Have Asked Gore About Global Warming on 19-Deg

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., warns about forthcoming cap-and-trade legislation and says earth is entering into a long-term global cooling stage.
Jeff Poor
 

It's Winter, So That Must Be Gore Talking about 'Warming

The left's own Punxsutawney Phil brings more hot air to a chilly Washington.
Dan Gainor
 

CBS Reporter Calls Environmentalists ‘Long-Suffering

Matt Philbin
 

Talking About the Economy, Couric Drops the ‘D-Bomb

Matt Philbin
 

Pool Reports Page Gone, Still No Press Briefings on WhiteHouse.gov

Checking out the official Web page for the Obama administration today, I noticed that the White House has removed the  "pool reports" entry from the "Briefing Room" lineup roughly six days after the White House press corps made clear it would not fork over the pool reports to the White House. The page itself, which of course lacks any pool reports, is still accessible here.As of noon this 27th…
Ken Shepherd
 

NBC Avoids Nipplegate, Nixes PETA's Sexy Super Bowl Ad

The good folks at NBC, clearly wanting to avoid a "Nipplegate" replay, will not air animal rights group PETA's hyper-sexual television ad during Sunday's Super Bowl.When you see it, you'll know why. For those that have forgotten, on February 1, 2004, during the halftime festivities of Super Bowl XXXVIII, singer Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction" revealing her naked breast to a startled…
Noel Sheppard
 

CNN’s Jack Cafferty Compares Speaker Pelosi to Chinese Dictator Mao

During his regular “Question of the Hour” segment on Monday’s Situation Room, CNN commentator Jack Cafferty compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s idea to spend hundred of millions of dollars on contraception as a cost-reducing measure to the oppressive birth control policies of the Chinese Communists under Mao: “What exactly did she mean? Are the millions of dollars for contraception supposed to…
Matthew Balan
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Economic Solution 'May Just Be Throwing More M

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, a former Washington bureau chief at the magazine, was typically blunt as he warmly assessed Obama’s first few days in office on the Saturday Early Show. "He's moving right along, he's not wasting any time. He still seems cool. I think the American public's still with him," he announced. But what about the crisis atmosphere in the economy and the banking sector? Said Thomas…
Tim Graham
 

Liberal Cartoonists Complain: Obama Too Cool & Handsome to Satirize

For 8 years, life was good and easy for the liberal political cartoon community--they had George W. Bush & Dick Cheney to kick around. With hardly a care in the world, they boldly spoke truth to power, at immense personal risk to themselves, and quietly stacked their Pulitzers for being so bold and courageous and funny. Then along came Barack Obama--the cool, handsome, African-American…
Jacob S. Lybbert
 

PBS: 'Obama Is Our First Truly American President

Did you know that Barack Obama is our first truly American president?You didn't?Well, according to Emmy Award winning commentator John Ridley he is.The following insulting segment was aired January 22 on Los Angeles's PBS station KCET (video embedded below the fold, h/t Hot Air via NB reader Thomas Stewart):
Noel Sheppard