Countrywide CEO Gives Up $37.5 Million; 'American Morning' Complains I

Anchor Kiran Chetry says CEO severance package agreed to by company's boards of directors a 'disconnect with Main Street.'
Jeff Poor

Bush Hater Behar Denounces Kennedy and Clinton 'Hatred

Joy Behar, a noted Bush hater, took the moral high ground to denounce hatred against Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. On the January 28 edition of "The View," Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama was the discussion topic. Behar then scolded those who exhibit hatred towards the Massachusetts Senator as well as Senator Clinton claiming Kennedy "is hated by a lot of Republicans just like…
Justin McCarthy

NYT: Celebrating America's Decline, 'Waving Goodbye' To The U.S.A

Through the pessimistically, penumbrous pen of Parag Khanna, the New York Times has declared that the U.S.A. is finished. Yes, we have lost our "global hegemony" and we will find that by 2016, "America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline." Boy, it looks bad the for the good 'ol U.S. of A., as far as the Times is concerned. My guess is that the news of our demise is being greatly…
Warner Todd Huston

Rush: 'We've Gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton

Leave it to Rush to nail it. Here's how Limbaugh opened today's show, speaking of the way Bill Clinton injected race into the campaign with his comparison [view video of Clinton making his statement here] of Obama's South Carolina primary victory to Jesse Jackson's twin wins in the Palmetto State in the '80s:We've gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton.
Mark Finkelstein

AP Soft-pedals McCain-Feingold's Effect on Campaigns, Free Speech

Covering the escalating battle between Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) for Florida's Republican convention delegates, AP's Glen Johnson offered a tepid description of the defining and definitely liberal magnum opus of the former's legislative career, the McCain-Feingold bill --formally titled the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002 (emphasis mine):Romney…
Ken Shepherd

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Clinton camp will try to get Bill to chill out: Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign on Sunday debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife’s presidential candidacy.“I think his harsh style hurt…
NB Staff

Author That Dubbed Clinton ‘First Black President’ Endorses Obama

The fun in the Obama camp continues. On Monday, the author who in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal back in 1998 actually dubbed Bill Clinton as "our first black president"  endorsed Barack Obama. Honestly, you really can't make this stuff up. As deliciously reported by the Associated Press moments ago:
Noel Sheppard

'Nightly News': 36 Miles a Gallon Not Quite Good Enough

Gas mileage of the Smart Car doesn't impress anchor Lester Holt, says 'it should be getting 50 to 60 miles a gallon.'
Jeff Poor

Ben Stein Documentary: Intelligent Design Scholars Muzzled By Scientif

American freedom is under assault within the scientific establishment and the academic community where the proponents of Intelligent Design (ID) theory are being silenced and marginalized at the expense of research that could potentially expand human knowledge and boost medical research, according to a new documentary that raises questions about Darwinian assumptions. A growing number of…
Kevin Mooney

MSM Ignores Leftwing Anger Over Attempted Delegate Grab by Hillary

P.J. Gladnick

Harry Smith: Did Bill Clinton Defraud African-Americans on Race

Harry Smith won't be up on the platform with Ted Kennedy today endorsing Barack Obama. But he might be there in spirit, after having absolutely unloaded on Bill Clinton's on this morning's Early Show. The CBS anchor made the stunning suggestion that when it comes to matters racial, Bill Clinton may have perpetrated a fraud on African-Americans. Smith's guest was "diversity expert" Joe Watson…
Mark Finkelstein

Prominent Yawning: Talking Down Bush's Relevance on Page

Monday morning is dreary enough, without the kind of headline that announces The Washington Post thinks the President is irrelevant. "Economy War, to Dominate State of the Union: Bush’s Challenge May Be Getting People to Listen." There is no "news analysis" tag on this piece by White House reporter Michael Abramowitz. It ought to have a tag that announces "News With Attitude."No one will argue…
Tim Graham

Schieffer Treats NYT Attack as Shaming Instead of Badge of Honor

On Sunday, for the second time in days, a network journalist presumed Rudy Giuliani should be ashamed and defensive about a Friday New York Times editorial which denigrated his character, instead of seeing it, as any conservative would, as a badge of honor. On Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer reminded Giuliani how his “home town newspaper....really took after you. They said your 'arrogance,' your '…
Brent Baker

Building Character One Boy at a Time

NBC Nightly News spotlights one man's effort to chart a new course for troubled boys.
Kristen Fyfe