BMI's Gainor to Appear on FOX at 11:45 ET

Dan Gainor, vice president and T. Boone Pickens Fellow of the Business & Media Institute, will be appearing on FOX News Channel at 11:45 ET to discuss House GOP charges against ACORN.
Sarah Knoploh

Open Thread

NB Staff

Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Arrest Report From Website

(UPDATE: The Boston Globe has now posted what it calls a redacted revised docket although it is described as a "police report" at the left side link on its site. And redacted it certainly is since it has redacted out almost the entire narrative section of the original report. To read the full highly revealing narrative, check out the original police report.) A little tip for anyone who gets…
P.J. Gladnick

L.A.Times Still Calling it the ‘So-Called War on Terror

In the L.A. Times on July 22, writer Catherine Lyons again revealed a bit of her Bush Derangement Syndrome by calling the war on terror a “so-called war on terror.” What is with these people that simply cannot accept terms of reality? It’s like this every time they use the word terrorism, or “terrorism” as the Old Media so often terms it, and the war on terror. The Old Media simply refuses to…
Warner Todd Huston

NBC's Snyderman: 'I Was Rooting for the President to Hit a Home Run

NBC's medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, was “rooting” for President Barack Obama to do well in selling his health care takeover during his Wednesday night press conference: “As a physician, you know, I felt like I understood the complexity of the problem. As an American citizen, I was rooting for the President to hit a home run.” On the 10 PM EDT Hardball an hour after Obama wrapped up…
Brent Baker

NYT Shocker: 'Experts Dispute Some Points in Obama Health Care Talk

Shortly after Barack Obama finished his healthcare press conference Wednesday evening, the New York Times posted an article at its website refuting some of the President's arguments.Not only that, the Times chastized Obama for "claiming credit for not spending money that, under the policy he inherited from Mr. Bush, would never have been spent in the first place." Entitled "Experts Dispute Some…
Noel Sheppard

Sen. DeMint Fires Back at Obama: 'President Obama has Lowered the Disc

President uses primetime press conference to complain about 'Waterloo' comments much cited by media.
Jeff Poor

NBC Wades Into 'Spreading Lies about President Obama's...U.S. Citizens

Daring to go where only cable has gone so far, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News waded into the rampant claims that President Barack Obama -- though he was born in a U.S. state and to a mother who was a U.S. citizen, so even if he were born in Kenya he'd still be a U.S. citizen -- is somehow really not one. Anchor Brian Williams didn't hide his disdain, teasing the newscast: “Spreading lies about…
Brent Baker

Live Blog: President Obama's July 22 Primetime Press Conference

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NB Staff

CNN's Blitzer Surprised Giuliani Thinks Obama 'Much Worse' Than He Tho

[Update, 8:24 pm Eastern: Audio and video clips from the interview added.]CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was a bit surprised by Rudy Giuliani’s answer during Wednesday’s Situation Room, after asking the former mayor to reassess his prediction last year about “on-the-job training” for a President Obama. Blitzer inquired whether his “worst fears [had] come true.” Giuliani answered, “In many respects, it’s much…
Matthew Balan

Reuters Has Problem with Counting Uninsured

Zoe Ortiz

Shocker: PBS/US News's Erbe Calls for Flat Tax, Bashes Surcharge on Ri

Reliably liberal journalist Bonnie Erbe almost caused a few heads to explode here at Media Research Center headquarters today when yours truly passed along her July 21 blog post entitled, "Democrats' Meaningless "Tax the Rich" Proposals Will Lead to Class Warfare."The PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News & World Report contributing editor slammed the idea floating in Congress of adding a…
Ken Shepherd

BMI Special Report: UnCritical Condition Finds Proponents of ObamaCare

Julia A. Seymour

CBS Early Show Uses Obama Volunteer to Promote Health Care Reform

While reporting on President Obama’s efforts to pass health care reform legislation on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez cited one person who would benefit from the plan: "Debby Smith from Virginia...lost her job back in 2006, and lost her health care benefits, and says that she can't afford the $700 a month that it would cost take to pay for her own insurance."What Rodriguez…
Kyle Drennen