Behar: 'Some Saints' Canonized Because They Were 'Psychotic

‘View’ co-host Joy Behar followed up her anti-Catholic "saints are crazy" line, noting she "got in trouble with the Catholic Church." Though she emphasized it was "not all but some," she still called them "nuts" and "psychotic," and added that "not all of them deserved to be saints." Behar also added her opinions how crazy people in medieval Europe would be able to escape punishment by saying…
Justin McCarthy

Castro Headlines/Labeling Watch

Update 14:16 | Matthew Sheffield. The level of excusing and tip-toeing around the truth about Castro is staggering. As of 2:13 ET when you do a Google News search for "Fidel Castro" you come up with 7,520 results. Add the word dictator after it and you come back with 1,417. That's 81 percent less.Just a few headlines from major newspapers as Fidel Castro has called it quits as dictator:Castro…
Ken Shepherd

NBC’s Missed Prediction: $4 Gas by Mid-February

Early last month, when oil prices flirted with inflation-adjusted record highs, fears of sky-high gas prices were filtered through the media. CNBC's Erin Burnett gave viewers a frightening prediction of $4-a-gallon gasoline during a January 2 appearance on the NBC "Nightly News." The "Street Signs" anchor cited John Kilduff, the vice president of risk management at the MF Global Ltd.…
Jeff Poor

ABC's Sawyer Hails 'Dashing' 'Rock Star' Fidel Castro

While covering the breaking story on Tuesday of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's decision to step down from power, various "Good Morning America" anchors and reporters soft peddled the communist leader's crimes. In a profile piece that narrated a brief history of his life, co-host Diane sawyer enthused, "Castro knew life is a stage and played the part of the dashing revolutionary coming to New York…
Scott Whitlock

Google De-Lists Prominent UN Critic Blogger

Warner Todd Huston

NYT Gives 'Charismatic' Castro Credit for 'Great Social Achievements

Clay Waters

Washington Post Pimps MSNBC

Noel Sheppard

Taylor Marsh Criticism of Margaret Carlson Illustrates Larger Point

I'm in the unusual position of defending uber-liberal Margaret Carlson. Carlson, formerly of Time and CNN's old Capital Gang, now with uber-liberal Al Hunt's Bloomberg News, was unfairly ripped by Taylor Marsh over at Huffington Post Saturday. Carlson sent an e-mail to someone suggesting that, as far as Hillary Clinton's candidacy is concerned: ..... I covered the Clinton White House for 8…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

NB Staff

Lauer to Obama: Ready for Racist, Swiftboating Republicans

In MSM circles, "swiftboating" is shorthand for false attacks on Democrats, even though John O'Neill and other members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth stand adamantly behind their allegations about John Kerry's war record.In an interview of Barack Obama conducted yesterday and aired on this morning's Today, Matt Lauer employed the "swiftboating" code to ask whether the candidate is prepared for…
Mark Finkelstein

The Clintons: More Pro-Life Than Pro-Lifers

Tim Graham

Scarborough Won't Smile at Mika's Michelle Obama Defense

Update | 3:50 PM: Obama Campaign Clarification: As predicted, the Obama campaign has clarified Michelle's remark. See text at foot.I sense there's often more than a bit of theater in the arguments between Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Not to say Morning Joe's the WWF of political talk, but a little conflict never hurt the ratings.But there was evidence that this morning's dust-up between…
Mark Finkelstein

Conservatives Told they Must Throw Away Principles

Scripps Howard Editor: Conservatives Should Be Like JFK It is getting tiresome already, but we are starting to see a new kind of story on this issue of McCain and his tiff with the conservative wing of the GOP and that is the shut-up-and-take-it style of commentary, the style were conservatives are told to throw away their principles and just vote McCain anyway. I am sure that you all have…
Warner Todd Huston

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode: The Cuban flag in a volunteer Obama office, Chris Matthews and the "thrill" in his leg, will the economy head south, and Grammy grumbling from Aretha Franklin.Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, subscribe to our YouTube channel or embed today's episode on your blog. We can always use help spreading the word!
Matthew Sheffield