CBS Body Language Expert: Obama Speech ‘Democracy At Its Best

On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez talked to former FBI agent and body language expert, Joe Navarro about some of the controversial scenery at the Obama speech: "What did you think about the open stadium? Was it too much? Too over the top? Or was it effective?" Navarro responded: "Absolutely not. You know, months ago they were talking about decisions were going to be made behind…
Kyle Drennen

CBN's David Brody Fails The Integrity Test

originally posted at RedState at 12:55 p.m. EDT CBN's David Brody is on the phone with CNN right now getting himself drummed out of the conservative movement.Why?Well, he's on peddling what happened at a private meeting at the Council For National Policy with regards to Palin. This is a huge no-no, guests are invited under the condition that meetings remain private to keep conversations candid…
Erick Erickson

MRC/NB's Graham on ABC Producer Arrested in Denver

MRC Director of Media Analysis and NewsBusters Senior Editor Tim Graham appeared on Fox News at 5:50 p.m. EDT to discuss the ABC News producer arrested in Denver as he was photographing Democratic donors from a public sidewalk.TIM GRAHAM: Here's one of these times where ABC is actually trying to get a story that's not all puffy happy, and they're getting shoved into the street.[...]GRAHAM: There…
NB Staff

Gun Control: Signs of Desperation

Howard Nemerov

Dem Boykin: Palin 'Affirmative Action' Pick

Of all the criticisms an apparently panicky Dem party has heaped on Sarah Palin in the hours since her selection was announced, Keith Boykin [bio] has come up with perhaps the unseemliest.  The former aide to President Clinton has accused Palin of being an "affirmative action" pick.Boykin, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard Law, was debating the selection with Republican Joe Watkins at the end…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ Revs Up Criticism of Car Rental Gas

If you break the terms of a contract, you should be expected to pay a penalty, right? Not according to ABC's "Good Morning America." "Good Morning America" criticized fees charged to customers who return rental cars without a full tank of gas - part of a standard car rental agreement. "The only thing more expensive than gassing up your car these days is not gassing up your rental car,"…
Paul Detrick

CNN's Roberts Questions Palin's Commitment to Alaska But Talked Up Hil

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson appeared on CNN's "Newsroom" on Friday to discuss the selection of Governor Sarah Palin as Senator John McCain's vice presidential running. During her interview, "American Morning" co-host John King played a clip of Palin from Glenn Beck's Headline News show from June in which Palin said that she would not accept an offer to be McCain's running mate because she felt…
Lyndsi Thomas

Time to Palin: GOP's in Trouble, How Would You Change Platform

Over on the magazine's Web site, Time's Jay Newton-Small published a brief phone interview she conducted on August 14 with Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), a full 15 days before being chosen by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) as his running mate.The agenda of questions were overall devoid of a political slant and did include one softball about how her youth and gender affect her approach. But Newton-Small…
Ken Shepherd

Networks Skip Liberal Labels For Dem Convention

While NBC's Matt Lauer took pains to label John McCain's vice presidential nominee a "staunch" and "stalwart" conservative on Friday, all three network morning shows almost entirely avoided any ideological descriptors for Senators Obama, Biden and the major liberal speakers during the just completed August 25 to 28 Democratic National Convention. Some of the individuals at the convention included…
Scott Whitlock

ABC Revs Up Criticism of Car Rental Gasoline Fees

'Good Morning America' criticizes penalty for drivers who break rental rules.
Paul Detrick

Bartiromo on Palin: ‘Terrific Choice’; Kudlow: ‘A Fascinating, F

While a lot of the members of the mainstream media were scratching their heads, trying to figure out just who Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was, CNBC actually came through with an almost immediate positive response. The August 29 broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" featured two of the network's prominent personalities analyzing Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's choice of a…
Jeff Poor

Weekend Captionfest

On August 27th, during MSNBC's Dem convention coverage, Keith Olbermann makes a hand gesture to Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) mocking Chris Matthews "go[ing] off at the mouth."
NB Staff

Barack Who

What kind of impact has the Palin pick had on MSM coverage? We've gone from wall-to-wall adoration of last night's speech, to—literally within hours—Andrea Mitchell having to remind viewers of some guy named Barack Obama.  Mitchell was kibitzing the choice of Palin with Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson and Time editor Rick Stengel. Not merely did the liberal [see here and here] Stengel praise Palin,…
Mark Finkelstein

Bartiromo Calls Palin a 'Terrific Choice

CNBC anchor says Republican vice presidential pick is strong on energy.
Jeff Poor