'A-Team' Movie Will Involve 'Oil Tycoons' and Iraq Vets

What is it with Hollywood liberals and their penchant for messing with my childhood heroes by making them shills for liberal storylines. First "GI Joe." Then "Knight Rider." What's next, "The A-Team"? Maybe. (h/t Perez Hilton)Variety reported yesterday that John Singleton is on board to direct a silver screen adaptation of the 1980s TV action drama "The A-Team." This time it sounds like oil…
Ken Shepherd

Dumpster Divers Against Bush: 'World News' Showcases Freeganism

ABC goes into peculiar nature of subculture called freeganism, but ignores business side as well as health risks and dangers of the practice.
Jeff Poor

CBS ‘Early Show’: Clinton is ‘Braving the Ice Storm’ to Campai

Teasing an upcoming interview with Hillary Clinton on Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Julie Chen exclaimed: "The coveted Iowa newspaper endorsement goes to Senators John McCain and Hillary Clinton, who is locked in a tight race and is braving the ice storm to go county to county. She joins us this morning." This discussion of Hillary’s bravery joined the rest of the television morning shows as…
Kyle Drennen

WaPo Reports on D.C. Gun Buyback, Fails to Raise Critical Questions

Any time a major newspaper reports on gun buyback gimmicks, the reporter penning the story would do well to explore practical as well as ideological criticisms of such a program. After all, gun buybacks do virtually nothing to prevent criminals from gaining access to weapons, and absolutely nothing to cause criminals to part company with their weapons. As such, the money spent on these programs…
Ken Shepherd

Clinton Front Group Cherry-picks a Fight with NewsBusters

Not that this will come as any great surprise, but the folks at the Hillary Clinton front organization Think Progress are at it again bashing conservatives by employing the disgraceful art of cherry-picking. For those unfamiliar with the term, this is when you take a sentence or two out of a report or article divining a meaning or intent clearly different than that the author or speaker…
Noel Sheppard

Cackles & Evasions

Is Hillary Clinton's campaign still communicating with Billy Shaheen? And does Hillary still consider Obama's youthful drug use a relevant campaign issue? Clinton wouldn't say this morning. Hillary sandwiched her evasions between two moments of mirth and hilarity on today's Morning Joe.View video here.Earlier in the morning, Hillary began her Today interview with David Gregory with a smile.…
Mark Finkelstein

Will 'Superb' Al Gore Win Time's Person of the Year

Time magazine's managing editor hinted on Monday's "Today" show that Al Gore would be a "superb choice" for recipient of the publication's 2007 Person of the Year award. Richard Stengel agreed with co-host Meredith Vieira that the former vice president was on the "short list" and extolled, "He's had an extraordinary year. He's had an extraordinary influence. There was a real tipping point this…
Scott Whitlock

$15M Anchor Asks if A-Rod's Worth $28 Million

'60 Minutes'' Couric wonders if fans can trust the market of Major League Baseball to compensate its players fairly.
Nathan Burchfiel

Two Morning Shows, Same Lame Question to Clinton

Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" at 7:25 a.m. to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.): "Senator, we've been talking about this all morning. Mitt Romney teared up on 'Meet the Press' over the weekend. I don't know if you saw it, what you thought of it. Do you ever tear up? When was the last time?"Kiran Chetry, co-anchor of CNN's "American Morning" at 7:36 a.m.: "We saw Mitt Romney tear up on one…
Ken Shepherd

ABC's Kate Snow: Lieberman a 'Conservative Democrat

Justin McCarthy

Gregory Grilling Gets to Hillary: 'No, Wait a Minute

Is the MSM turning on Hillary?Clinton began her Today interview with David Gregory with the radiant smile on display here. But it wasn't long before an irate Hillary was demanding "no, wait a minute" when things didn't go to her liking.That's what a few minutes of serious Gregory grilling did to Clinton this morning. It was by far the most intense -- dare-I-say aggressive -- examination of…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

NB Staff

Congrats NewsBusters

Well, the results are in for the 6th Annual Right Wing News Conservative Blog Awards and NewsBusters did quite well this year! Here is where Newsbusters placed and in what categories: Best Original Reporting By A Blog 4) NewsBusters
Warner Todd Huston

Washington Post 'Wisdom'? Jesus Was A Marxist

Tim Graham