N.Y. Times Can't Report the Box-Office Receipts Without Blurting 'Mel

The New York Times certainly doesn’t have dazzled stars in its eyes when it writes about Mel Gibson. What could have been a standard weekend-box-office-receipts piece by Brooks Barnes on Monday sounded like an attack piece: LOS ANGELES - And the blue money just keeps rolling in.The much-hyped return to the multiplex of Mel Gibson, whose drunken and anti-Semitic outburst in 2006 turned him into a…
Tim Graham
 

Another Liberal Attack on Republican Patriotism

While the Times routinely rebukes Republicans for allegedly questioning the patriotism of Democrats, columnist Frank Rich is free to claim that Republican "John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition."
Clay Waters
 

Chris Matthews Compares Conservative Republicans to Murderous Khmer R

Ken Shepherd
 

Whispering Sweet Nothings

Does anyone seriously believe he will really push for nuclear, offshore drilling, natural gas or that Pelosi/Reid will let it go through?
Glenn Foden
 

Howard Kurtz: 'Jon Stewart Is An Icon To Many Journalists

The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz believes comedian Jon Stewart is an icon to many journalists. "[E]specially those in television who sometimes copy his quick-cut editing techniques," wrote Kurtz in his column Monday.But that's not all.Kurtz sees the "Daily Show" host as "a pop-culture bellweather," and feels his recent attacks on Barack Obama are a significant sea change. Last week Stewart went…
Noel Sheppard
 

WaPo Runs Front-Page Story on New Media Conservatives -- Stuffed with

Monday's Washington Post has a front page story by Jerry Markon on the building "anti-Obama" conservative movement in the New Media, easing conservative complaints that the movement doesn't get much ink. MRC's Brent Bozell came in at the very end (saving the best for last?) as Markon mentioned Greg Mueller, the head of our PR firm, CRC Public Relations:  Among CRC's clients is L. Brent Bozell III…
Tim Graham
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Obama Proposes Huge Hike In War Spending, Will Media Revolt

Less than two months after receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, the President is proposing a huge increase in war spending.Despite his campaign pledges to the contrary, Obama's new budget calls for expenditures associated with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to increase to levels only ten percent below the average of former President George W. Bush's last two years in office.Given the media's anti-war…
Noel Sheppard
 

Nine Days Before Election, Boston Globe’s Pierce Ridiculed Notion Br

In a contribution to the Boston Globe Magazine published nine days before the January 19 Senate election won by Republican Scott Brown, veteran Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce ridiculed the idea Brown could win, in a piece formulated as a letter to Brown: Well, we’re almost here, aren’t we? The end of a long, arduous, four-month campaign for a Senate seat that you have approximately the same…
Brent Baker
 

Air Force Academy to Open Outdoor Worship Circle for Wiccans and Druid

Networks like ABC have hyperventilated about the "outrage" of "endangering" soldiers with rifle sights with "secret Bible codes" on them. They worried about Christian proselytizing on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Will these TV reporters notice as the Air Force responds to the liberal-media complaints by opening an outdoor chapel space for Wiccans and Druids? If Christians in the…
Tim Graham
 

Calculating Jobs a Muddled Mess – Press Presents it as Fact

The White House continues to throw out random numbers in their quest to convince the public that their behemoth stimulus bill is saving jobs at a massive rate.  The confusion has even seeped into the President's biggest support group - the media. CNN recently announced how the stimulus plan funded nearly 600,000 jobs this past quarter.  In their article, which parrots the numbers provided by the…
Rusty Weiss
 

Michael Moore To Receive Taxpayer Subsidy He Criticized In

Michael Moore's schlockumentary "Capitalism: A Love Story" has been approved for a taxpayer-funded subsidy he once criticized.According to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonpartisan Michigan-based think tank, Moore's 2009 film is set to receive an undisclosed amount of money from the Michigan Film Office.Yet Moore, who ironically advises the state-run Office, told a forum in July 2008…
Noel Sheppard
 

Salon's Joan Walsh Says Chris Matthews Roots For Obama

Salon editor Joan Walsh said Sunday that MSNBC's Chris Matthews roots for Barack Obama.Appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Walsh was asked by host Howard Kurtz to comment on Matthews' remark that he had forgotten the President was black during Wednesday's State of the Union address. "There's no such thing as post-racial, and so I disagree with Chris about that," said Walsh."But on the other…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chip Reid Still Ravin' on Baltimore: Obama 'Really Did Wallop Them The

CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid took his Friday night cheering routine for Barack Obama’s "command performance" at the GOP meeting in Baltimore and repeated it on Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN. "The president realy did wallop them there," he insisted. "The Republicans were fighting them with one hand, maybe both hands, tied behind their back."HOWARD KURTZ: How is it that the cameras…
Tim Graham