Bill Cosby: 'Brother Lite' Clarence Thomas 'Doesn't Want to Help Anybo

Brad Wilmouth

Brian Williams on SNL: Solid, Not Hilarious, But TV Critics Swoon

Tim Graham

NYT’s Love Letter to Hugo Chavez and Oil Socialism – Or Is It

New York Times Magazine published a rather fascinating article Sunday about the rise of nationalized oil throughout the world. Predictably, it initially came off as a love letter to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and his new brand of oil socialism. Yet, if you dig deeper - unfortunately offshore deeper in a very lengthy piece - author Tina Rosenberg ended up rather dissatisfied with "petrocracy," and,…
Noel Sheppard

Global Warming Tutorial Media Should be Required to Watch

While media members fawn over Hollywood productions about manmade global warming such as Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and Leonardo DiCaprio's box office disaster "The Eleventh Hour," they should take time out of their busy propagandist schedules to view a lecture that Australian research professor Bob Carter recently gave. In fact, it should be required viewing for any…
Noel Sheppard

Chris Matthews Panel Stocked With Liberals Piles on Hillary

Hillary's horrible Halloween week from hell got worse Sunday when Chris Matthews and his liberal-stocked panel piled on the Junior Senator from New York fortifying the recent media meme that the Clinton in 2008 inevitability has suddenly become a tad less inevitable. Adding insult to injury, when you're a Democrat candidate, and press members like Norah O'Donnell of MSNBC, Richard Stengel of…
Noel Sheppard

Middle School Cancels ‘Cross-Dressing’ Day, Media Surprisingly Mum

If a middle school in Northern California had on its events schedule a cross-dressing, gender-shift day encouraging children to attire themselves as a member of the opposite sex, wouldn't you expect liberal media members across the fruited plain to be all over the story? Yet, according to Google News and LexisNexis searches, not one press outlet, including those near the situation in California…
Noel Sheppard

NYT Blames Pakistani State of Emergency on Bush

One of the truly great ironies emanating from secular media members is the power they increasingly bestow upon George W. Bush to the point of making him Godlike. After all, in the past couple of years, the press have depicted this President as being responsible for hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, droughts, floods, global warming, and peace - or lack thereof - anywhere on the face of the planet…
Noel Sheppard

A Transcendent Transterrestrial Musing on Who Really Makes the World B

Tom Blumer

Open Thread

For general debate and discussion. Possible talking point: Did you set your clock back this morning, and, maybe more important, is it time to get rid of this silly, semi-annual time shift?
NB Staff

Biden's Verbal Gaffes 'OK' Because of His 'Civil Record

In an article that is otherwise fairly balanced, Delaware's biggest daily, the Wilmington News Journal, proclaims in a headline today that senior Senator Joe Biden has a "Tangled tongue, but a civil record," with the sub-header "Biden's bloopers don't jibe with his votes." Sen. Joe Biden sees black supporters as his base and maintains a stellar voting record with the NAACP. But he's also gotten…
D. S. Hube

Bibles Banned at Beijing Olympics: Will Media Notice

Tim Graham

Son of Cuban Political Prisoner Forgets the Free Health Care

The United States is not the only country turning out spoiled children, ungrateful for the blessings of life in their land. Cuba is suffering from the same affliction, to judge by "My father's 'crime'" by Yan Valdes Morejon, which appears in today's Boston Globe. Morejon's column turns out to be just one long complaint. Rather than giving proper thanks for all the wonders of the workers'…
Mark Finkelstein

Tulsa, OK TV 8: Immigrants 'Afraid' in The USA

Apparently, TV 8 (KTUL) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, wants us to know that illegal immigrants are all cowering in fear or streaming out of the USA today because of the crackdown on illegal immigration in the Sooner state. The Tulsa TV folks are trying to make it seem as if there is a climate of fear for illeglas even as our government is bending over backwards to comfort illegal immigrants not to mention…
Warner Todd Huston

Seattle P-I Newsroom Welcomes Helen Thomas, Editor Admires 'Candor

Helen Thomas is a "stalwart of the White House press corps who wields candor like a weapon of mass instruction," gushed Seattle Post-Intelligencer managing editor David McCumber in a November 2 post at his paper's Big Blog.In a short video of her Friday appearance, Thomas regales the P-I newsroom audience with her tired left-wing ravings about how the Bush administration lied to get the United…
Ken Shepherd