Flashback, Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Winter Olympics ‘Look Like G

On the eve of the Winter Olympics four years ago, Bryant Gumbel couldn't resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his Real Sports magazine show on HBO. The former NBC and CBS morning news host concluded by telling viewers that as for the Winter Olympic games, “count me among those who don't like 'em and won't watch 'em.” He condescendingly suggested…
Brent Baker

Saturday Funnies: Canadian Legislator Gives Opposition The Finger

So you think the political tone in Washington, D.C., is hostile?We've got nothing on our friends to the north.Consider if you will what happened in the New Brunswick, Canada, legislature Thursday when one member gave the finger to another.As CBC news reported Thursday, this resulted in his expulsion (video embedded below the fold):
Noel Sheppard

George Lopez Calls Sarah Palin A B***h On National Television

Comedian George Lopez Tuesday called Sarah Palin "la cabrona" (b***h in Spanish) on his late night television show.During the opening monologue of his TBS program, Lopez said, "I usually don't let politics upset me, but this is crazy. Sarah Palin, la cabrona." He then went on a two and a half minute attack on the former Alaska governor that should make liberals in the media quite pleased (video…
Noel Sheppard

Rachel Maddow Cherry-picks Glenn Beck To Call Him A Liar

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Friday cherry-picked statements from Glenn Beck's radio show to accuse him of lying about global warming.In a brief segment on the MSNBC program bearing her name, Maddow said the Fox News star claimed the snowstorm that hit the East Coast this week disproves Al Gore's favorite myth.Unfortunately, Maddow conveniently left out the part when Beck said "one storm does not prove…
Noel Sheppard

Is It Wrong To Use Clinton's Heart Procedure In Healthcare Debate

Some media members are taking heat from the Left for bringing former President Bill Clinton's recent heart procedure into the healthcare reform debate.On Friday, the perilously liberal website Think Progress chastised "Fox & Friends" with the headline, "Fox Politicizes Clinton’s Heart Surgery, Suggests He Wouldn’t Have Received Treatment Under Health Reform." Later that evening, MSNBC's Keith…
Noel Sheppard

Labor Protest and Campaign Against Toyota Get Kid Gloves from AP, Fair

In late August 2009, Toyota announced that it would close its New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) factory in Fremont, California at the end of March. The plant had been a joint venture of the company and General Motors until June, when GM withdrew. Almost six months later, in the wake of a series of Toyota product recalls, and roughly seven weeks before the plant's scheduled shutdown,…
Tom Blumer

Keith Olbermann Blames 9/11 On George W. Bush

Keith Olbermann Friday blamed 9/11 on former President George W. Bush."3,000 people died on September 11th, 2001 because George Bush did not prioritize," the "Countdown" host disgracefully told his small number of viewers."Perhaps no one says it because it is such a painful, awful truth to confront, 3,000 people dead because Bush and Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld and others simply had other…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) rips Obama (video here):He says 'I'm for clean coal,' and then he says it in his speeches, but he doesn't say it in here. And he doesn't say it in the minds of my own people. And he's beginning to be not believable to me. Are even Democrats beginning to sour on Obama?
NB Staff

Olympics Open Thread

How'd you like the opening ceremonies? Any must-watch events today? Are you even going to watch?
NB Staff

Bozell Column: A Rosie O'Donnell Indoctrination

Rosie O'Donnell knows that cute kids can sell anything. When she hosted her afternoon talk show back in the late 1990s, she put out two books of children's jokes titled "Kids Are Punny." That same principle is at work in her new HBO documentary, titled "A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O'Donnell Celebration." But it's not a celebration. It's an indoctrination. O'Donnell and HBO are…
Brent Bozell

WaPo Still Celebrates Liberal Media Dominance of the Vietnam-Watergate

The Washington Post championed a new documentary on Friday, a film airing only at one art theater in town. It’s still championing America-bashing radical leftist whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg in a new film titled "The Most Dangerous Man in America."In a large spread that starts at the top of the front page of the Style section, film critic Ann Hornaday celebrated Ellsberg’s "moral courage" for…
Tim Graham

Washington Post’s King Disparages Palin as ‘Simple-Minded’ and

Sarah Palin “doesn't have any substance there behind her” and her remarks at the Tea Party convention were “embarrassing at points” since she delivered “simple, simple thoughts, very simple-mindedly expressed,” Washington Post columnist Colby King charged on Inside Washington. Jumbling the famous “most of the American people are mediocre. And they have a right to be represented” quote and its…
Brent Baker

AP ClimateGate Apologist/Participant Borenstein Can't Keep Global Warm

Poor Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press. Since the AP science reporter wrote his December 12, 2009 defense of the alleged scientists who have promoted the alleged perils of human-caused global warming, the scandal known as ClimateGate has inexorably widened. It has deeply tarnished never-deserved reputations; revealed the entire premise to be based on fraudulent, corrupted, manipulated and…
Tom Blumer

Bill Maher Denounces Scott Brown, Suggests Obama Stick Tea Bag Up Beck

Bill Maher granted an interview to Patrick Gavin of Politico.com, and he employed several profanities in denouncing the emerging conservatives on the political scene. He insisted new Sen. Scott Brown will be "a real a**hole" and "a regular Gandhi – if Gandhi took off his diaper and posed for Cosmo."This is strange territory for Maher – mocking someone for nude pictures, and yet Maher has been a…
Tim Graham