Sharpton Praises Holder, Says He's Helping Pick Next Attorney General

It looks like the Rev. Al Sharpton is taking Eric Holder's resignation pretty hard. Not only did the liberal activist praise him during Thursday's edition of the Politics Nation program as the first African-American to serve as attorney general, the host of the weekday MSNBC series called him the "best" one in history when it comes to civil rights. In addition, the liberal activist noted in a…
Randy Hall
September 27th, 2014 2:45 PM

Weekend Open Thread: Conservatives Going On Offense

Football fans know you don't want to spend a whole game on the wrong side of the 50 yard line. At the Values Voters Summit on Friday, MRC president Brent Bozell said it's time for conservatives to go on offense. Put in your two cents, on this, or the weekend games, et cetera.
NB Staff
September 27th, 2014 1:38 PM

In NY Times, Newbie Politician Clay Aiken Scampers Away From Obama

Sunday's New York Times Magazine includes an interview with former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken, now running against Republican Rep. Renee Ellmers in North Carolina's 2nd district. Late in the interview, Times reporter Jim Rutenberg brings up the dangerous question: How favorably do you view Barack Obama? Clay got out the ten-foot pole -- Aiken fans might hear him singing "From A…
Tim Graham
September 27th, 2014 12:42 PM

MRC Gala: Actress Stacey Dash Rips Hollywood 'Hypocrites'

Actress Stacey Dash, star of the movie and TV series Clueless, appeared at the Media Research Center's 2014 Dishonors Gala. Dash ripped Hollywood as being full of "hypocrites." The conservative actress explained how the city's residents don't practice what they preach: "Want proof? There are no movies made in Hollywood. They make them in places like Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina. Do you know…
Scott Whitlock
September 27th, 2014 12:05 PM

AP, MSNBC Trying to Downplay Terrorism in Reporting on Okla. Beheading

The establishment press, and now apparently the FBI, have a problem on their hands: an alleged killer who converted to Islam; expressed sentiments favored by terrorists; killed a woman by employing terrorists' favored method, i.e., beheading; shouted Islamic slogans while carrying out his evil deed; and was trying to kill someone else when another armed person shot and wounded him. Their problem…
Tom Blumer
September 27th, 2014 9:31 AM

Bozell & Graham Column: Jay Carney's Pinocchio Problem

By now, everyone knows that there’s a revolving door between Democratic politics and the “objective” news media. But does it have to spin so fast? On September 10, CNN announced it hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as a commentator, citing his “invaluable voice for the network” after his five years inside the Obama administration. By that afternoon and in heavy rotation in the…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
September 27th, 2014 8:47 AM

DNC Chair Also Used 'Back of the Hand' Barb Last Month on Fla.'s Scott

Debbie has been caught doing it again. Early this month, Democratic National Committe Chairmwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz went after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, claiming that he "has given women the back of his hand," and that "Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are ... grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back." I wrote at the time that Wasserman-Schultz's supposed "…
Tom Blumer
September 26th, 2014 11:30 PM

Pro-Lifers at Michigan College Get 'Who Let These F---ers on Campus?'

Kelli Kopetz at JillStanek.com reported on the kind of guff that pro-life protesters get on campus. Students for Life set up an informative Planned Parenthood Project display at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. The display features statistics about Planned Parenthood from the organization’s own annual reports. An unhappy feminist student asked as she passed by (several times), “Who let…
Tim Graham
September 26th, 2014 10:50 PM

HealthCare.gov Cost Surpasses the $2 Billion Mark; Press Mostly Yawns

It wasn't that long ago that Obamacare defenders were ridiculing those of us who pointed out that the fully loaded cost of HealthCare.gov would surely top the $1 billion mark. Well, we were wrong — to be so conservative. The real number is "about" $2.1 billion and counting, according to a Bloomberg report which is mostly being kept out of the non-business press.
Tom Blumer
September 26th, 2014 10:05 PM

The Hill Avoids Mention of Early Warnings of Children Virus Outbreak

The Hill published a story about a mysterious virus outbreak which particularly affects children. The most notable thing about the article is  how the author failed to note the many warnings about the possible cause of the outbreak.  
P.J. Gladnick
September 26th, 2014 6:41 PM

MSNBC's Sharpton Keynoting Dinner For Group Linked to Hamas

MSNBC host Al Sharpton will be the keynote speaker at the Council on American-Islamic Relations's (CAIR) 20th anniversary banquet on Saturday. Sharpton, who is President Obama's "go-to man on race," and who claims to be helping the White House pick outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder's successor, will be a guest of honor of the group, which was listed as a co-conspirator in a criminal case…
Matthew Balan
September 26th, 2014 5:57 PM

MRC Gala: Martin Bashir Wins 'Damn Those Conservatives' DisHonor

It was no contest really. For the 2014 "Damn Those Conservatives to Hell" DisHonor, the winner hands down was former MSNBCer Martin Bashir, who infamously wished on national television -- if MSNBC can count as that -- that former Gov. Sarah Palin might be subject to someone defecating down her mouth.
NB Staff
September 26th, 2014 5:05 PM

Daily Beast: Workplace Beheading a 'Tragedy'; No Mention of Islamism

UPDATED (18:10 Eastern): Daily Beast now describing attack as "Like ISIS" Yesterday in Moore, Oklahoma, a woman was brutally murdered and decapitated by a former coworker, Alton Nolen, who reportedly had repeatedly proselytized folks in the company, urging them to convert to Islam.  But when the liberal Daily Beast picked up the story and teased it in their Cheat Sheet digest, they tagged the…
Ken Shepherd
September 26th, 2014 3:27 PM

Attkisson Reports Latest on Fast & Furious; Nets Omit Holder's Role

Mere hours before President Obama announced Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation, Sharyl Attkisson reported on Thursday that U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ordered the Justice Department to "turn over a list of withheld Fast and Furious documents by Oct. 22 [2014]." CBS Evening News mentioned Fast and Furious in their coverage of the Holder announcement that evening, but NBC Nightly…
Matthew Balan
September 26th, 2014 2:58 PM