Don't Blame Us For Berkeley/Toledo Attacks Against Marines Say Busines

You're all aware, I'm sure, of the several attacks against our fighting men and women perpetrated by city governments of late. The Berkeley City Council, who intended to try and kick Marine recruiting offices out of the city, and Toledo, where Mayor Finkbeiner refused to allow the Marines to exit a bus in his city when they arrived to start planned upon exercises, are all over the news. It is…
Warner Todd Huston

Weekend Sports Open Thread

For those NBers not in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to watch Brandon Sheppard compete at the Tyson Invitational (men's high jump to begin just minutes from now, GO BIG RED!), here's your chance to discuss all things sports.For instance: who's lying -- Clemens or McNamee? Will someone be charged with perjury and/or obstructing justice? Real baseball fans can start getting ready for the season at ESPN's…
NB Staff

ABC's Obamacan: 'Lashing Out' Hillary 'Brazenly' Attacks Barack

This is too perfect! Barely an hour after Pat Buchanan proclaimed on NBC that the MSM is full of "out-of-the-closet Obamacans," ABC's David Wright provided a perfect illustration of the genre. In fact, I'm nominating the GMA segment Wright narrated this morning as the single most slanted episode of the MSM primary season. The screen graphic "On the Attack," set the theme: Hillary is unfairly…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

NB Staff

A Tale of Two Parties for the AP (Again

Remember the former governor of New Jersey, Jim McGreevey? What political party did he belong to? Can't remember? Well, don't rely on the Associated Press to assist you in its article yesterday about him and his continuing marital woes:They've bickered over whether she knew he was gay, whose tell-all book would sell better, whether a poster of a nude man hanging over his new lover's bed had to…
D. S. Hube

Buchanan: MSM Full of 'Out-of-the-Closet Obamacans

Ask an obvious question . . . Amy Robach this morning asked the most rhetorical question in contemporary media: does the MSM have a thing for Barack Obama?The weekend Today co-anchor didn't need guests Pat Buchanan or Rachel Maddow for the answer. She could have kept things in-house with NBC's own Lee Cowan, who has acknowledged “it's almost hard to remain objective” about Obama.But pose the…
Mark Finkelstein

Hillary-Barack Gridlock? Newsweek Ponders 'Al Gore to the Rescue

Tim Graham

Bozell on Disney, the Company of Silly Lawyering

Tim Graham

Silly Ray Nagin Gun Photos and 80-Year-Old Armed Citizens

Tim Graham

AP Maximizes Negativity in Covering Realtors' Housing Report

Granted, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is a trade organization which will, as trade organizations do, try to put the best face on a bad situation. And granted, part of the press's job is to filter through hype and false sunniness to report the truth of what's really going on. But that is most emphatically not what the Associated Press did with yesterday's NAR report on the state of…
Tom Blumer

Decline HillaryCare? Suffer An 'Outcome

You vill obey update . . . The domestic policy differences between Hillary and Obama are negligible. But the Clinton camp likes to claim that his national health care plan would leave 15 million people out, whereas hers covers everyone. Let's put aside for the moment the fact that former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich says the Obama plan would actually wind up covering more people. The key…
Mark Finkelstein

McCain's Top Adviser Won't Campaign Against Obama Open Thread

NB Staff

Charles Barkley Calls Conservatives 'Fake Christians,' Likes Obamanomi

Former NBA star appears on CNN's 'The Situation Room' and says he is supporting Obama for economic reasons.
Jeff Poor

ABC's Greenburg: 2nd Amendment Not for Individuals Is Legal Orthodoxy

Noting Sen. Barack Obama's recent statement that he considers the Second Amendment an individual right -- setting aside for a moment his pro-gun control record and defense of the D.C. handgun ban -- ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg dismissed private gun ownership as constitutionally protected, holding instead that the "orthodox" view defends only a state's right.Here's the relevant portion from a…
Ken Shepherd