Health Care Poll-Cooking: AP Headlines 'Tax the Rich' Finding, Ignores

That the Associated Press's basement-level poll-cooking and poll-reporting standards are quite low, and quite agenda-driven, might as well be an article of faith by this time. But the wire service-commissioned poll on health care, and Erica Warner's report on it (saved here for future reference, fair use, and discussion purposes; HT JammieWearingFool via Instapundit; the full poll report in PDF…
Tom Blumer

Olbermann: Kristol 'Spitting on Ft. Hood Dead,' O'Reilly Slammed for C

On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, presumably picking up on a posting by the far left ThinkProgress.org -- one of his regular sources of information to attack conservatives -- made the arguably inaccurate claim that FNC political analyst Bill Kristol had on the Thursday, November 12, Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, called for Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan to be…
Brad Wilmouth

Four Days After Airing Fake Photos of Sarah Palin, MSNBC ‘Fact Check

Only four days after airing faked photographs purporting to be of Sarah Palin wearing a bikini and holding a gun, MSNBC hosts on Tuesday decided they were qualified to fact check the ex-governor of Alaska. Contessa Brewer chided Palin’s new memoir: "But can this book really be classified as fact, fiction or a little of both? Okay, so here is a bit of fact-checking." Brewer, who was part of the…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Touts Another Exclusive Interview With Palin-Bashing Levi Johnston

On Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez previewed an exclusive interview with Levi Johnston on the CBS entertainment show, The Insider: “Levi Johnston says he is winning the war of words between Sarah Palin and him. We’ll hear from him.” Later, correspondent for The Insider, Chris Jacobs, declared: “Sarah Palin lashing out at Levi and now Levi fires back.”Rodriguez has conducted…
Kyle Drennen

As They Pound Palin with Polls, Where Are the Gallup and Network Polls

As several networks run around with new ratify-our-liberal-bias polls insisting that Sarah Palin is completely unqualified to be president -- exquisitely timed to ruin her book tour and channel all their very obvious and partisan Palin-loathing -- where are the polls that are about 2009, as opposed to 2012? A scan of Gallup.com and Pollingreport.com suggests that neither Gallup nor any of the…
Tim Graham

Surprise! Lauer Asks If Dobbs Was 'Too Conservative' For CNN

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, actually asked Lou Dobbs, formerly of CNN, if he and the network parted ways because he was "too conservative" and if CNN was okay with Dobbs' push for immigration reform when he was attacking George W. Bush but wasn't happy when Dobbs started slamming the Obama administration on the issue, as he queried the former CNN host, "You got much less kickback…
Geoffrey Dickens

WaPo Fails to Consider Dem Gov/DNC Chairman Kaine's Role in 18-Point L

His state voted Democratic in the 2008 presidential contest for the first time in 44 years, he's personally popular with voters, and he's currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Yet not once in her November 17 11-paragraph story did Washington Post's Rosalind Helderman raise the notion that Gov. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) might share blame for his party's gubernatorial candidate…
Ken Shepherd

Twitter Ends List Service After Democratic Favoritism Surfaces

Twitter has announced that it will end a list service that blatantly favored Democratic politicians by attracting viewers to their profiles while excluding GOP officials from the service.The list service provided new Twitter users with lists of prominent message-posters they might like to follow. Watchdog groups discovered late last month that Democratic officials were prominently listed by the…
Lachlan Markay

Kossacks Hail KSM Civilian Trial...as a Weapon Against 'BushCo

Although many in the mainstream media write off the Democratic Underground as somewhat sanity challenged, they continue to praise the Daily Kos Kossacks as somehow being "reasonable progressives." The truth is that the Kossacks are every bit as loony as their DU cousins as you can see in this Daily Kos thread about what they hope will be the real outcome of the civilian trial of 9/11 mastermind…
P.J. Gladnick

USA Today Puts Picture of Palin-Hating Book in Article About Ex-Gov

UPDATES AT END OF POST: Picture has been changed!USA Today's Oval blog Monday used a picture of a Sarah Palin-hating book called "Going Rouge, An American Nightmare" instead of the former Alaska Governor's "Going Rogue."This despite the opening paragraph of the piece actually referring to Palin's book:In her much-discussed new book, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin…
Noel Sheppard

Huckabee: Obama's 'Redistribution' Extends Beyond Wealth to Health Car

Joe the Plumber was certainly on to something when he got then-candidate Barack Obama to admit he wanted to redistribute the wealth, according to former Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.  Huckabee, who now hosts a show aired on the weekends on the Fox News Channel, told "On The Record" host Greta Van Sustren on Nov. 16 that Obama's policies go beyond just the…
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

Joy Behar: Prejean's Sex Tapes Out 'Just In Time For The Holidays

Comedienne Joy Behar on HLN Monday jokingly accused former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean of releasing seven additional sex tapes "just in time for the holidays." Surprisingly able to do simple arithmetic, Behar quipped, "Maybe she made one for each night of Hanukkah."This nicely set up guests Perez Hilton, Heidi Montag, and Spencer Pratt to join in the Prejean bashing.Particularly vile and…
Noel Sheppard

Huckabee: Obama's Redistribution Extends to Health Care, Foreign Polic

FNC host and former Arkansas governor says president's policies well-intentioned, but gone about 'in the worst possible way if they're really serious about recovery.'
Jeff Poor