Keith Olbermann: Terrorism Expert

Keith Olbermann, the same guy that pooh-poohed the seriousness of the terror plot of the so-called Fort Dix Six, hinted on his "The News Hole" blog last night that he had a similarly dismissive attitude about the London bomb attempts of June 29. [Olbermann covered the story on his program, but I have not had a chance to review the tape]Here's the pearl of moonbattery from Olbermann's blog last…
Ken Shepherd

More Gore Hypocrisies Exposed as Live Earth Concerts Near

As the world prepares for a deluge of Live Earth concerts featuring the Global Warmingist-in-Chief himself, more and more of his inconvenient hypocrisies are being exposed by scientists and writers across the planet.The most recent exposé was written by a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute, James M. Taylor.The op-ed, published Saturday by the Chicago Sun-Times, deliciously addressed the…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Captionfest II

Original caption: White House Press Secretary Tony Snow (C) performs with his rock band Beats Workin' at the Congressional Picnic on the south lawn of the White House in Washington June 19, 2007.
NB Staff

Saturday Funnies: Paul Nowak Satirizes Liberal Paranoia of Talk Radio

Townhall's Paul Nowak has perfectly captured the absurdity inherent in liberal paranoia of talk radio (h/t Power Line and mystery NB reader):                               
Noel Sheppard

NBC's Al Gore 'Live Earth' Boosting On Air Began on Friday -- Eight Da

Tim Graham

Fairness Doctrine Loses Big in the House, Media Mum

If the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reinstate the controversial Fairness Doctrine which has not been in force since the ’80s, do you think it would have been headline news?Well, on Thursday, an amendment to the Financial Services Appropriations bill prohibiting funds to be used to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters passed in an extraordinary show of…
Noel Sheppard

Wandering Around the Spin Room

As I mentioned earlier, I was covering the Democrats' presidential debate this week. After it ended, I took off to "spin alley" where the various candidates had little areas underneath those vertical political convention signs, intent on seeing if I could find (or make) something interesting. The three top candidates did not show, although Clinton and Obama managed to get pretty good crowds…
Matthew Sheffield

Media Promote Al Qaeda Propaganda, Spinning Fake Beheading Story

Remember when you were a kid and got caught telling a lie, but your excuse was that a pal "made you do it" and it was so hard to tell the truth anyway because of this reason or that? It didn't matter to your parents then, did it? Well, here we have Reuters revealing that they fell for a false story about 20 beheaded Iraqis that was planted by insurgents, but do they just admit it and take…
Warner Todd Huston

PBS’s Moyers Disgracefully Rips Fox Owner Rupert Murdoch

I’m not sure what derangement syndrome Bill Moyers is currently suffering from, but on Friday’s “Bill Moyers Journal” broadcast on PBS, the outspoken host went into an invective-filled tirade about media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that frankly was one of the most disgraceful exhibitions of liberal bias so far this year.In his closing monologue, Moyers compared Murdoch to the Marquis de Sade, Imelda…
Noel Sheppard

Bozell Column: Grand, Old, And Pitiful

Brent Bozell

Open Thread

Happy Saturday.
NB Staff

Dreamin' of a Coup d'Etat? McClatchy Reporter Questions Bush's 'Hold

Is Ron Hutcheson, White House correspondent of the McClatchy Newspapers, dreaming of a coup d'etat? You'd almost think so, judging by the opening line in the litany of gloom that is his article of yesterday, entitled Another Setback for Bush.Writes Hutcheson:The Senate's rejection Thursday of President Bush's immigration plan was the latest in a series of embarrassments that have exposed Bush's…
Mark Finkelstein

Olbermann Blog Falsely Asserts Supreme Court Overturned Brown v. Board

The following was written for NewsBusters by Jason Aslinger, a private practice attorney from Greenville, Ohio. Portions in bold below reflect the editor's emphasis.The media’s contempt for the conservative U.S. Supreme Court reached new lows this week when it used a dishonest play on words to imply that the Court was against racial diversity in public schools.That distortion, however, paled in…
Ken Shepherd

As Amnesty Bills Fails, MSM Gives Us Tales of 'Immigrant Worker' Woes

Warner Todd Huston