Weather Channel Founder's Letter to Environmentalists Re: Global Warmi

Since calling global warming "the greatest scam in history," the founder of The Weather Channel John Coleman has been an outspoken advocate for climate realism.This weekend, Coleman posted at his KUSI-San Diego blog an "Open Letter to Environmentalists" challenging them to campaign for "environmental goals on the basis of their own merit" while urging alarmists to "[l]et go of the global warming…
Noel Sheppard

Salon Editor: Most Press Members ‘Hate Hillary Clinton’ (updated w

Here's something you don't see every day: a liberal, female editor of a leading liberal online magazine stating with cameras rolling that most press members "Hate, hate Hillary Clinton." Yet, that's exactly what occurred Sunday morning when Salon's editor-in-chief Joan Walsh spoke some truths about the media's love affair with Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama, as well as their…
Noel Sheppard

Tom Hanks Endorses Barack Obama for President

Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has officially endorsed Barack Obama for president with the following video first posted last evening at the former Bosom Buddy's My Space page:
Noel Sheppard

ABC Gives Airtime to Documentary-Maker With Dubious Rep Suggesting Res

Imagine that a "documentary" film-maker—whose most notable former credit was a work advancing the notion that extra-terrestrials did indeed visit Area 51—brought forth a new work suggesting that key elements of the Prophet Mohammed's story had been fabricated. What are the odds ABC would devote a segment of Good Morning America to a respectful interview of the filmmaker and discussion of his…
Mark Finkelstein

AP Reporter Selectively Notes Calls for Sex-Scandalized Ohio AG to Res

Why does it seem that, when a Democratic politician's career is on the line, Old Media reporters find a way to make it look like it's only Republicans who want to push him or her out the door? Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who for a while was seen as the Buckeye State's version of New York's now-disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer, is fighting for his political life. In a Friday press…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

NB Staff

Excusing Wright, Part II: 'Latent Racism' Is Ruining An 'Incredible' M

Tim Graham

Excusing Wright, Part I: AIDS Conspiracy Theory a Media 'Red Herring

Tim Graham

PBS Talk: How the Patriot Act Has 'Crushed So Many People

Tim Graham

Reuters Hypes Hugo's Excellent Adventure in Marxist Farming

Leave it to Reuters in this April 29 article, to express surprise that Hugo Chavez' planned economy, complete with “land reform,” price controls and forced production, is failing. Even worse, reporter Frank Jack Daniels relied on a Marxist outlook and socialist jargon to pretend that those tired policies weren't to blam. Chavez wants to increase domestic food production; so, of course, the…
Lynn Davidson

Bush-Bashing Rapper Kanye West Tells Concert Critic 'Kill Yourself

Remember the high and mighty rapper named Kanye West who during a telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims in September 2005 had the nerve to say on national television "George Bush doesn't care about black people?"Well, the man media gushed over for weeks as a result of this disgraceful display apparently doesn't like receiving reviews of his concerts that give him anything less than an A-plus.As…
Noel Sheppard

Spike Lee Thinks Someone's Paying Wright to Bash Obama

What is it about Hollywoodans that makes so many of them believe that any time political leaders they revere get caught in a scandal, it's because of some vast conspiracy?While you ponder, consider how just days after "View" co-host Joy Behar suggested that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama's pastor "might be being paid by the Republicans," film director Spike Lee said, "It looks like…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Captionfest II

Kenny Leitner of Grafton, IL mows what little grass isn't covered by Illinois River floodwaters (Alton Telegraph photo by John Badman)
NB Staff

AP: ‘Conservative’ Christian's ‘Manifesto’ Has Few Conservativ

On May 2, the Associated Press uncritically reported that an effort to clarify where "evangelicals" stand in the culture/political war in America is soon to be released. It is to be called "An Evangelical Manifesto" and is touted by the AP as a statement by "evangelicals" that "faith is now too political." That isn't all. The AP is claiming that it isn't just Christian leaders in general that are…
Warner Todd Huston