Obama Played By a White? Papers Imply SNL Skit Was Immoral

The media’s tender loving care of and hypersensitivity in protection of Barack Obama is going to put a real crimp in attempts at Obama humor. The latest survey of late-night jokes from the Center for Media and Public Affairs found 18 Obama jokes, about a fourth of Hillary’s (68) and a tenth of President Bush’s (175). Then there’s Saturday Night Live. Chicago Tribune TV critic Maureen Ryan started…
Tim Graham

BMI’s Gainor Talks Depression Coverage on Fox Biz

BMI Vice President Dan Gainor took to the Fox Business Network Thursday to explain the difference between "depression," "recession" and "slow growth," terms the mainstream media has blurred.Economists "don't even agree that we're in a recession yet," Gainor said. "But then if you watch the network news shows, we're already up to eight times this year - that's once a week where they've made a…
Nathan Burchfiel

NBC Claimed Bush Allowed Al-Qaeda in Iraq Before War, Media Now Ignore

Brad Wilmouth

Hillary the Irrelevant 'Not Quite a Dem Huckabee

It's enough to make Hillary yearn for a tough hit piece about herself . . .If there's anything worse for a candidate than being attacked by the press, it's being ignored. Yet that is precisely the fate that's befallen Clinton, as per Charles Mahtesian's item in this morning's Politico: Clinton Seeks to Regain Spotlight.Opening lines [emphasis added]:There was a time not long ago when Hillary…
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode: Polls show Americans are more optimistic, Chelsea Clinton says she won't move back to the White House, Chicago paper devotes entire section to Barack Obama, and Ted Danson tries to stop "overfishing."Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, do battle with the leftists on our YouTube channel, or embed today's episode on your blog. Doing any of the…
Matthew Sheffield

Bozell Eulogy Column: Mi Tio

Thirty years ago I was fresh out of college, with no particular career path chosen, and decided I'd like to be a nationally-syndicated columnist. I'd learn rather quickly that before being one, one has to become one, and to qualify on that caliber one has to demonstrate a talent which this young man didn't possess.Bill Buckley told me so. I'd penned a couple of practice pieces, one having…
Brent Bozell

Network Jailbreak

NBC, ABC and CBS loose their America-bashing impulse in stories on the U.S. incarceration rate.
Brian Fitzpatrick

ABC Addresses 'Moral Hazard' of Government Bailouts

Taxpayer-funded rescues for people facing foreclosure could encourage even greater financial risk-taking.
Kristen Fyfe

NBC Focuses on Quality Family Time

Today Show highlights low-cost, low-tech ways for families to spend time together.
Colleen Raezler

GMA: Is Victoria's Secret Too Sexy

ABC un-coverage crams dozens of semi-dressed models and naked body parts into two minutes of morning television news.
Kristen Fyfe

Forty Years Later, Still Mocking Spiro Agnew's Trail Talk

Tim Graham

Did Angelina Jolie Just Call for US to 'Stay in Iraq

In a recent op-ed published in the Washington Post, an unusual call for the USA to stay in Iraq rang out with pleas for the US to commit even more money and resources to help rebuild that war torn nation. Published under the byline of Angelina Jolie, the piece said that, "we have finally reached a point where humanitarian assistance, from us and others, can have an impact." This editorial is…
Warner Todd Huston

Cramer: 'Obama Got it Right,' Bush Wrong on U.S. Economy

CNBC 'Mad Money' host compares president to Hoover; admits he likes Clinton for addressing 'housing issue.'
Jeff Poor

'60 Minutes' at It Again with Rove/Siegelman Story

Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft shares the news of another possible election year meltdown at CBS News. "60 Minutes" recently aired the claim that former Alabama governor Don Siegelman went to jail not for corruption, but because he belong to the wrong political party, and that the investigations that landed him in jail for bribery were politically motivated. One of the most explosive claims made was…
Bob Owens