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NB Staff

USA Today Story on White Supremacists Subtly Suggests GOP Home to Bigo

In her October 21 article, "White supremacists target middle America," USA Today's Marisol Bello took a look at how hate groups are trying to go more "mainstream" by ditching Nazi armbands, brown shirts and white sheets and going for a more "middle class" look. While there is merit in covering such a story, Bello and/or her editors unfortunately chose to color the piece in a way that reflected…
Ken Shepherd

Will Oprah Be Obama's Ambassador to Great Britain

The Financial Times of London reported a rumor Monday that if Barack Obama wins in November, Oprah Winfrey will be appointed the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain.That makes some sense, doesn't it? After all, she's about as qualified for that position as the junior senator from Illinois is to be president.The rumor was posted at FT's blog by Gideon Rachman, the paper's chief foreign affairs…
Noel Sheppard

Raleigh N&O: Complaints About ACORN Just 'Politics

P.J. Gladnick

ABC Cites Left-Leaning Tax Group to Endorse Obama's Plan

'World News' segment praises Democrat's proposal focused on lower and middle class families, but ignores wealth redistribution elements.
Jeff Poor

Guess Who Sees MSM Double-Standard on Biden's Latest Gaffe

Guess who said the following this morning about Joe Biden's latest gaffe—his statement that America would be faced with a major international crisis within the first six months of an Obama administration as foreign forces seek to test the young new president: "certainly if Sarah Palin had said this, it would be above the fold in most newspapers today."1. Brent Bozell2. Rush Limbaugh3. McCain…
Mark Finkelstein

Brokaw: Electing Obama Would Show 'Giant Steps' for America, Unless Mc

Tim Graham

Hardball Gone Mad: Congresswoman Compared to Nazi for Insisting Media

On Friday night, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota appeared on Hardball and pounded away at Barack Obama’s associations with his long-time minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and bomber Bill Ayers, suggesting that the media should be investigating these associations with very anti-American voices, and that if John McCain had these associations, the media would be all over it. Chris Matthews…
Tim Graham

After Attacks on Palin, Biden Given a Pass by Media for Not Holding Pr

The CBS News blog "From the Road" suddenly realized that Joe Biden was not giving the media any access and that he hasn't held a press conference for well over a month. Even with this report, though, the media at large has been strangely quite on this disappearing act of Biden's, especially in light of the drubbing they handed out to Sarah Palin when she was not so forthcoming with the press as…
Warner Todd Huston

AP Links Assault on Reporter to Appearance in Bush Movie... BDS Strike

An Arkansas TV reporter that had a bit part in Oliver Stone's movie "W" was found beaten unconscious in her Little Rock home on October 20 and in its report on the crime the Associated Press seemed to decide that she was beaten merely because she had appeared in the movie though this impression the AP seems to have is not supported by the police. One wonders why the AP decided to spend almost…
Warner Todd Huston

Newsweek/CNN's Zakaria Announces He's Voting for Obama

Not that it's any big surprise given his well-established liberal views and contempt for conservative policies, but in what is an unusually blatant abandonment of basic journalistic pretenses, CNN on Sunday -- and Newsweek in this week's issue -- provided time and space for Fareed Zakaria to outline why he will be voting for the “steady and reasoned” Barack Obama. Along the way, he denigrated…
Brent Baker

UPDATE: ABC's Coverage of Pay it Forward Organ Donation Program Saves

One year later donors and recipients of a life-saving kidney donation program gather to recognize one man's generosity that inspired them all.
Kristen Fyfe

Womanizer… or Man-Eater

Lyrics and racy video do not match up in Britney Spears's latest chart topper.
Erin Brown

Worshiping Obama

The cult of personality is verging on idolatry.
K. Daniel Glover