Open Thread

If it's Thursday, does that mean tomorrow's Friday...or is that overly optimistic?
NB Staff

Feeling the 'Love' from Jon Stewart's Liberal Fans

La Shawn Barber

Busting the News, Episode

Another episode of "NewsBusted" has arrived! Topics in this episode: Telemarketers, Al Sharpton, Tom Cruise, David Souter, and more. If you like the show, spread the word by telling your friends and favorite bloggers about it. We can always use positive comments and ratings on YouTube as well since liberals love to trash anything that isn't politically correct. Note: To be automatically notified…
Matthew Sheffield

'Bubbles' Brzezinski: SATs Were Not My Strong Suit

Regular readers of this space know that MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski is one of our favorites, serving up heaps of grist for our mill with her regular injections of liberal opinion into her newsreading on "Morning Joe," as here.We'd been searching for an apt nickname for Brzezinski, and as of this morning, Mika herself has supplied one. Meet "Bubbles" Brzezinski. Mika was reading headlines from the…
Mark Finkelstein

SF News Anchor: Dale Earnhardt Jr. 'Should Marry His Stepmother

L.N. Smithee

Wesley Clark Implies Troops ‘Bust Down’ Doors And ‘Rough Up’ W

Ian Schwartz

MRC/NB's Rich Noyes Blasts Dan Rather: 'He's the Perpetrator

In a story on Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS, Rich Noyes, Research Director at the MRC and Senior Editor of NewsBusters, got two soundbites Wednesday night on the 11pm news on WUSA-TV, channel 9 (ch 34 DT), the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. Reporter Gary Nurenberg traveled to the MRC's offices to tape Noyes at about 6:30pm. In Nurenberg's story, Noyes blasted Rather: This is a…
NB Staff

Media Juiced on Celebrity Hype

Camp O.J. has taken over Las Vegas.
Kristen Fyfe

'CBS Evening News' Gives Barely 20 Seconds to Rather's Lawsuit

Brent Baker

ABC Champions 'Straight Talk' from Gates on Iraq that Matches Media Vi

With “Straight Talk” on screen, ABC's World News led Wednesday night by touting as momentous the news that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, in a quote cited in the middle of a newspaper column, said “I don't know” when asked whether invading Iraq was a good idea. “Three little words,” a delighted Charles Gibson announced about dissension in the ranks, “three little words that you rarely hear…
Brent Baker

Matthews's 'Great American' to Get Oprah Treatment

Mike Bates

Ed Schultz Backs Down on Conservative Talk Show Debate Challenge

P.J. Gladnick

Wetlands Methane Counteracts Kyoto Emissions Cuts

A new study that will appear in Thursday's journal Nature revealed that methane being released from bogs in what is now Great Britain likely contributed to global warming 55 million years ago. Maybe more importantly, when you add up the methane being released from wetlands around the world, it could completely counteract all the carbon dioxide emissions reductions mandated by the Kyoto…
Noel Sheppard

John Roberts '80s Flashback

The Huffington Post is notable mostly for its shrill left-wing bloggers -- see Tim Graham's latest study-- but it can turn up some apolitical gems from time to time. Rachel Sklar's September 17 "Eat the Press" entry is complete with photos of CNN's yummy (at least in Sklar's opinion) John Roberts from his days as a Canadian veejay (h/t TVNewser).: Just over a week ago, we sent out the small,…
Ken Shepherd