Dana Perino Lampoons White House Press Corps in Final Briefing

White House press secretary Dana Perino's last briefing was delicious beyond words...especially her tribute to Tony Snow. Do yourself a favor and click on the embedded video below:
Noel Sheppard

CBS's Parting Shot at Bush: Lowest-Ever Approval Rating

Brent Baker

MSNBC Smears Cuban-Americans in Weekend At Bernie's/Fidel Report

Is the Cuban government pulling off a Weekend At Bernie's scenario with a deceased Fidel Castro in the role of Bernie? That is the rumor floating around South Florida. MSNBC has reported on this possibility but in doing so they have smeared Cuban Americans with a complete lie which WBPF-TV where they got the report eventually corrected (emphasis mine). WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Fidel Castro hasn't…
P.J. Gladnick

Spike Lee: DC is ‘Chocolate City

Discussing “post-racial” inauguration, CNN doesn’t call Lee on outdated racial term.We’ve heard ad nauseam from a hopeful media -- Daniel Schorr of NPR, commentator Juan Williams and The New Republic among them -- that Obama will be a “post-racial” president. At least some of his supporters haven’t gotten the message.Popular filmmaker and Obama supporter Spike Lee used a passé racial term for…
Matt Philbin

Dennis Miller: Waterboarding Terrorists is ‘Heaven-Sent,’ Feels

On Wednesday’s The O’Reilly Factor, during the show’s regular "Miller Time" segment, Dennis Miller defended the practice of waterboarding terrorists to save the lives of Americans, calling the technique "heaven-sent." Miller: "Something that takes somebody who's willing to strap a bomb on and yet freaks them out to the point where they'll tell you where the next bomb is by pouring water down…
Brad Wilmouth

NYT's Inauguration Hypocrisy: Bush Chided in 2005, but Obama Free to P

At a time when the United States is fighting two wars and faces a severe recession and huge budget deficits, the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation's 44th president is estimated to cost $45 million. Bush's 2004 inauguration cost roughly $40 million. But though the figures are similar, there's been a major shift in the tone of coverage at the New York Times. While the Times spent much of…
Clay Waters

Weekend Captionfest

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Pres.-elect Barack Obama and VP-elect Joe Biden meet in Washington January 14, 2009, after Biden and Graham's recent trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
NB Staff

Rosie O'Donnell Calls Ann Coulter 'Angry' and 'Full of Rage

From today's "You've Got To Be Kidding Me" department, hatemonger Rosie O'Donnell believes that conservative author Ann Coulter is angry and full of rage."When you see someone like that, you have to go back to what happened in their childhood... You don't know what went on in their household."So said O'Donnell during a recent interview on Sirius/XM's "Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer" show (…
Noel Sheppard

Mad Money's Senior Writer: America Needs a 'Nice Toke

Julia A. Seymour

O’Reilly Slams NYTimes and NBC News for 'Disgusting Display of Propa

On Wednesday’s The O’Reilly Factor, during the show’s "Talking Points Memo," FNC host Bill O’Reilly slammed the New York Times and NBC News, presumably referring to MSNBC hosts like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, accusing them of having "damaged their own country in a disgusting display of propaganda and outright lies" by "convincing the world that the USA is a nation of torture, a country…
Brad Wilmouth

WaPo Finds Expats Happy to Be American Again Since Obama's Election

"For the first time in a long time, it's cool to be an American."No, that's not First Lady-in-waiting Michelle Obama, although it sounds a lot like her infamous comment from the 2008 Democratic primary campaign. It's American expatriate Kit Maloney, as quoted by London-based Washington Post foreign service staffer Mary Jordan at the end of her January 16 article, "Americans, Feeling the Love."…
Ken Shepherd

Friday Funnies: YouTube Contest for 'Good' Videos

NB Staff

Time TV Writer (and Obama Voter) Scorns MSNBC for 'Blatantly Triumphal

Time TV writer and blogger James Poniewozik raised eyebrows when he reported that although he voted for Barack Obama, MSNBC's gleeful Obama coverage makes him sympathetic to Americans whose legs are not so thrilled. He disdained their "blatantly triumphalist" promos as worse than Fox News, and suggested MSNBC is wildly inconsistent for first suggesting that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann aren…
Tim Graham

CNN's Phillips: Obama Is All About 'Bringing Everybody Together

On yesterday's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips made no effort to curb her enthusiasm for Barack Obama.  She spoke with feminist author and Democratic activist Naomi Wolf about a recent cover of Ms. Magazine featuring Obama in a Superman pose.  Some feminists took exception to the cover; others, like Wolf, did not.  As the segment ended, Kyra Phillips summed up as follows:PHILLIPS: Well, if…
Mike Bates