Will Media Report Obama Seeing Dead People in Memorial Day Audience

The gaffes continued this holiday weekend for the media's presidential candidate.Having mispronounced the name of the Florida city he was speaking in on Friday, as well as erred about what president was in the White House when Hugo Chavez took over Venezuela, Barack Obama talked about seeing dead people in the audience during a Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico.Of course, you're not…
Noel Sheppard

Why Was Parsley a Problem for McCain? Media PC

ABC can't distinguish between criticizing a religion and hating its believers.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Prince Caspian's Appeal

Pro-God Narnia films outstrip anti-God Golden Compass.
L. Brent Bozell III

Are Women Responsible For Growth in Goverment

Terry Ann Rendon

Memorial Day... A Great Time For Stories About How Bad Our Troops Are

On the weekend when America finds her citizens taking just a little time out of their cluttered and busy lives to pause and memorialize the sacrifice of those who have served and protected us all, the media always sees fit to make their observance of Memorial Day the issuance of stories about how bad our solders are, how bad they have it, or how bad they deserve to be treated. This year is no…
Warner Todd Huston

Lorain (OH) Councilman's Arrest Is a Group 'Name That Party' Failure

Also see the compare-and-contrast example in the final paragraph. A city councilman in Lorain, Ohio, a city of about 75,000 west of Cleveland, was arrested during a prostitution sting on Friday. Of the six stories I found covering the event (the Google News search is for May 22-26), only one referred to the political party of councilman Dennis Flores, who is a Democrat (scroll down to "Second…
Tom Blumer

NYT Bashes Bush on Memorial Day, White House Strikes Back

It's Memorial Day, and the good folks at the New York Times thought it appropriate to not only attack the President's position on a new G.I. Bill, but also to despicably lambaste him for "[h]aving saddled the military with a botched, unwinnable war," and "having squandered soldiers’ lives and failed them in so many ways."On Memorial Day!Thankfully, White House press secretary Dana Perino has…
Noel Sheppard

Monday Funnies: Hillary Boogies With Fox News Producer

If Woody Harrelson proved in 1992 that white men can't jump -- a premise my son lives to disprove, mind you! -- does the following video of Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton getting down with Fox News producer Aaron Bruns prove that middle-aged white women can't dance?
Noel Sheppard

Chris Wallace: Douglass Joining Obama Team Proof of Liberal Media Bias

The day after it was revealed that former ABC News Capitol Hill correspondent Linda Douglass was going to be joining Barack Obama's presidential campaign, "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said this was a perfect example of how liberal and biased the mainstream media are.As my colleague Brad Wilmouth reported Wednesday, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder wrote at his blog that Douglass was going to…
Noel Sheppard

Jessica Lange Decries Bush Era of Torture, Prison Camps, and War

Tim Graham

Bill Clinton: 'Most of the Media Aren't for Her

Terry Ann Rendon

Did Hillary's RFK Assassination Remark Deserve the Attention it Got

When is a news story really a news story?Is it when something really important happens, and media share it with the public? Or, is it when press members jump on what appears to be a juicy tidbit and broadcast it over the airwaves and in print for a solid 24 hours until every American has heard about it?Consider the media firestorm set off Friday when Democrat presidential candidate Hillary…
Noel Sheppard

Memorial Day Video: Baseball Hero Saves American Flag

One of the greatest plays in Major League Baseball history occurred on April 25, 1976, when Chicago Cubs centerfielder Rick Monday stole the flag from a couple of anti-American wackos looking to set fire to her in front of a huge crowd at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles:
Noel Sheppard

Memorial Day Open Thread

What does this day mean to you and yours?
NB Staff