MRC's Bozell Slams NYT's MoveOn.org 'Betray Us' Ad Discount

NB Staff

Senator Hatch Lashes Out at MoveOn and ‘Nutroots

While Democrats, media, and far-left groups like MoveOn did their level best to smear the good name of Gen. David Petraeus this week, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) stood up on the Senate floor to state what most right-thinking Americans have been feeling. Speaking specifically about the disgraceful advertisement published Monday in the New York Times referring to General "Betray Us," Hatch called…
Noel Sheppard

Brian Williams Derides Petraeus as No Eisenhower

Interviewing General David Petraeus for Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams insisted he admit “al Qaeda in Iraq wasn't around” on 9/11, demanded to know “how are we so sure all of these insurgents can be labeled al-Qaeda?” and derided Petraeus's admission that he's not sure if the war has made Americans safer: “I heard a commentator on television say, 'Can you imagine Eisenhower saying…
Brent Baker

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NB Staff

The Sport of Self Deprecating Jew Bashing at Gawker Media

I should have known that elite Manhattan gossip site Gawker was a piece of crap the minute I saw the New York Times endorsement on the Gawker Media advertising page."…the national go-to spot for keeping up with the rich and scandalous, the media elite and the pop-culture trends of the moment." -New York TimesLet’s add self deprecating Jew bashing as another go-to category for Nick Denton’s…
Terry Trippany

WashPost Helps Far-Left Protesters Say They're Not Fringy, Bush Is

Tim Graham

Flip-Flop: Matthews Now Says Discussing National Security Not Petraeus

It's a flip-flop that would be the envy of John Kerry in good windsurfing weather off Nantucket. For the last two days, Chris Matthews had been excoriating General David Petraeus for his reluctance to opine on the effect of the Iraq war on America's safety at home. Suddenly this morning, Matthews has decided that -- guess what? -- it's not Petraeus's job to make pronouncements of that sort.View…
Mark Finkelstein

NYT Annoyed: Not Enough New Yorkers on Welfare

Mark Finkelstein

CBS TV News: Housing Slump 'Forces' Pair to Open Whorehouse

We have seen it time and again; the MSM taking these relatively good economic times in which we live and spinning them into some sort of Depression era disaster as if things are really all bad. Well, the CBS station in New Rochelle, New York has decided that the so-called housing slump is now somehow "forcing" people to turn their homes into whorehouses! No kidding. Now, as far as this news…
Warner Todd Huston

9/11 Shelf Life: What Happened

Six years after the fact, the attacks of September 11th seem to have lost their cultural relevancy for much of America. In a thought-provoking essay Jonah Goldberg wonders how we got to this point. In his view, it is largely a communication issue, something for which the media shares a significant amount of blame (h/t Ace):[I]t’s important to remember that from the outset, the media took it as…
Matthew Sheffield

MSNBC's Olbermann Condemns Lieberman for Speaking at Pro-Troops Concer

TV host expresses disdain for flag-waving American patriots.
Colleen Raezler

CNN's Cafferty on Huffington Post: Bashing Bush, Boosting Kucinich

Crusty CNN commentator Jack Cafferty had a "Live Chat" on The Huffington Post on Wednesday, and he sounded like a regular HuffPost blogger, charging that Bush lied us into war to enrich his friends, and never wants America to leave: "I don't think President Bush ever had any intention of leaving Iraq. I think we have been lied to about that the same way we were lied to about WMD. Military bases…
Tim Graham

Now About That ABC/BBC Iraq Poll

Robin Boyd

LAT Also Omits Griffin's 'Suck It' Remark In Reporting Story

Dave Pierre