ABC News Pimping for Ratings

For insight on Nevada presidential politics, most national journalists might turn to political science profs at UNLV or perhaps some local ink-stained wretches. Not ABC World News Saturday. They sent their fearless camera crews into a whorehouse.
Robert Knight

Judging Churches for Being Judgmental

The Wall Street Journal runs a hostile, one-sided article about church discipline.
Robert Knight

Kennedy to Endorse Obama Open Thread

The New York Times is reporting (paragraph breaks removed for space):Senator Edward M. Kennedy intends to endorse the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama during a rally on Monday in Washington, associates to both men confirmed, a decision that squarely pits one American political dynasty against another. The expected endorsement, coming after Mr. Obama’s commanding victory over Senator…
NB Staff

‘Meet the Press’ Panel Marvelously Takes on Clintons’ Race Baiti

As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the mainstream media in general have shied away from truly examining the racist campaign strategy recently being employed by the Clintons in their effort to defeat Barack Obama for the Democrat presidential nomination. One huge exception is NBC's "Meet the Press," which on Sunday, with the assistance of guests Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, Chuck Todd of NBC…
Noel Sheppard

French Reporter: Arafat Donating Blood for 9/11 Was Staged Photo Op

Remember that touching picture of Yassar Arafat donating his blood to the 9/11 victims that was conveniently published after CNN ran footage of Palestinians cheering and handing out candy to celebrate the destruction in New York? Now France 2 journalist Charles Enderlin says that photo was staged; Arafat never gave blood.The photos were taken by an AP photographer with a history of biased…
Lynn Davidson

McCain: I'd Sign Amnesty Bill, But 'They' Want Borders Secured First

Takeaway exchange from John McCain's Meet The Press appearance today.TIM RUSSERT: If the Senate passed your bill, S-1433, the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, would you as president sign it?JOHN MCCAIN: Yeah, but the lesson is that it isn't going to come, it isn't going to come. The lesson is they want the borders secured first.View video here.
Mark Finkelstein

Clinton Clobbered in South Carolina, Will Media Blame Race Baiting

Have the recent race baiting antics of the Clintons left you wondering whether the former first couple has lost its collective mind, especially now that this tactic seems to be at least partially responsible for Barack Obama's landslide victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary? Or, like most conservatives, do you believe that nothing this pair ever does is spontaneous and without…
Noel Sheppard

NYT: AZ Prop 300 'Frightening' Away Illegal Alien Students

The New York Times wants you to know that legislators in Arizona are mean to illegal immigrants trying to go to the state's schools on the cheap. The Times wants you to imagine that Arizona's new anti-illegal laws are oppressing those poor, illegal immigrant students that come into Arizona expecting to get all sorts of loans and financial breaks just because... well, just because they happen to…
Warner Todd Huston

Hypocrisies Galore from Olbermann and Kurtz on ‘Reliable Sources

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was Howard Kurtz's guest on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday, and unfortunately, viewers were treated to a litany of hypocrisies from both media personalities, so much so that it seemed like a lengthy advertisement for the controversial "Countdown." Although Kurtz did present his guest as being mostly liberal and decidedly anti-Bush, he never once mentioned "Countdown's"…
Noel Sheppard

NYT’s Frank Rich: The Clintons Kick Reporters Like Dogs

Well, sports fans, as the Clintons continue to disingenuously carp and whine that they're not being treated fairly by the media, more and more press members and outlets are striking back. On Sunday, the New York Times columnist Frank Rich jumped on the anti-Clinton bandwagon actually opining that the resurrection of Bill could help the Republicans retain the White House in November. In a piece…
Noel Sheppard

Mickey Kaus Refutes Clinton's Obama-Jackson Comparison

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's 2-1 thrashing in South Carolina at the hands of the politician I typically refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama), the spin from Mrs. Clinton's husband is that it has no more significance than Jesse Jackson's Palmetto State victories in 1984 and 1988.Kausfiles blogger Mickey Kaus shows that the claim doesn't stand up to scrutiny (links…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist endorses John McCain.How will this impact Tuesday's primary, as well as the rest of the campaign?Despite conservative angst with the Arizona Senator, is the media's love affair with McCain, and all the attention he's getting, turning him into the inevitable winner? Or, does Romney or Giuliani have the political…
NB Staff

AP: Tough Immigration Laws to Blame for Infant Death

You're in a country illegally, and your infant child is very ill. Waddya do? Well, being the person that I am, I'd do anything to ensure the well-being and life of my child. Possibly being deported would be a distant concern when compared to my child. Guess I'm just weird like that: Edgar Castorena had diarrhea for 10 days(!) and counting, and the illegal immigrant parents of the 2-month-old…
D. S. Hube

WashPost Reporter Frets Taxes Off Table, 'No Matter How Sensible

“In Heat of Battle, Darman Put Taxes Back on the Table,” read the Saturday “Business” section headline over the “appreciation” piece, by veteran Washington Post reporter Steven Mufson, on the legacy of Richard Darman, the budget director who in 1990 arranged the deal which undermined George Bush's “read my lips: no new taxes” pledge. Darman passed away Friday, at age 64, after battling leukemia.…
Brent Baker