Press Secretary Gibbs Having Fun Battling Limbaugh

Shortly after it was revealed the Obama administration is engaging in a coordinated media attack on Rush Limbaugh, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs admitted that he's having fun battling the conservative talk radio host.Gibbs is apparently also enjoying the sparring with CNBC's Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli.Anything to distract the nation from a deteriorating economy and the obvious lack…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Chris Matthews Runs Rush's 'Liberal Lion' Kennedy Clip, Shrum Denounce

Tim Graham

AP Publicizes Dem Outrage at Limbaugh's Mention of Ted Kennedy (He Cal

Tim Graham

Obama's British 'Gift Gaffe' Not Reported By U.S. Media

The Obamas, Barack and Michelle both, pretty much diplomatically botched the recent visit of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife. Oddly enough, the U.S. Old Media seems uninterested in the story that is a hot topic in England, a story that's left many Brits a bit miffed. As the visit of the national leader of our closest ally began, the President informed the Brits that he wouldn't…
Warner Todd Huston

Bozell Column: A Low-Tech Lent

Lent is a season of sacrifice and repentance. Most commonly, the discussion of Lenten commitments revolves around our obesity problem, sounding like a recommitment to already dissolved New Year's resolutions about a better diet or more exercise. Sometimes, we can sound like we're more focused on Jenny Craig than Jesus Christ. Christians are supposed to concentrate on denying themselves in some…
Brent Bozell

Couric Uses Bad News to Tout How 'Stimulus' Bill 'Is Creating' Jobs

CBS anchor Katie Couric on Friday night used the jump in the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent to cheerlead for how the “stimulus” bill is “creating” jobs, an impact her newscast illustrated with two full stories after reporter Anthony Mason declared: “It's the government that's going to have to pull us out of this recession.” (On ABC's World News, Betsy Stark similarly saw salvation in the…
Brent Baker

Government Surveillance Now Deemed Necessary - Under Obama

Jack Coleman

NY Times Says GOP Senator Bunning 'Bit of a Screwball,' May Be Mentall

New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich specializes in spunky profiles of politicians -- hostile profiles of conservatives, flattering ones of liberals. His latest, on controversial Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, "Republicans Looking for a Reliever in Kentucky," fell safely into the former category, crammed with personal attacks ("questions about his mental fitness") and colorful insults (Bunning's…
Clay Waters

Jim Cramer Responds to White House Criticism

After calling Obama's budget one of the 'greatest wealth destroyers of all time,' the 'Mad Money' host replies to administration's attacks on his credibility.
Edward Schatz

Weekend Captionfest

Hillary Clinton gestures during a news conference after a Gaza aid conference at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, March 2, 2009. Photo Reuters/Asmaa Waguih (Egypt)
NB Staff

CNN's Heidi Collins: Monstrous Spending Bill 'Is a Hold-Over From the

On this morning's CNN Newsroom, anchor Heidi Collins gave Barack Obama some cover by characterizing the omnibus spending bill, larded with thousands of earmarks, as left over from the Bush administration:A controversial $410 billion spending bill hits a snag in the Senate. This is the bill we've been talking about with about $8 billion in earmarks. Republicans and a few Democrats are mad about…
Mike Bates

Newsweek's Gross on Blaming Obama for Lack of Market Confidence: That

CNBC panel discusses BusinessWeek cover contemplating the question of the new administration's role in market turmoil.
Jeff Poor

Newsweek’s Wolffe: Limbaugh Is GOP’s ‘Jeremiah Wright’ Corneri

On Thursday's Countdown show, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe of Newsweek compared Rush Limbaugh to rapper Sister Souljah and Barack Obama's racist former minister, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, as Wolffe advised the Republican party to "kill some sacred cows" by denouncing "extremist" Limbaugh. Wolffe: "What they first of all need to do is to kill some sacred cows here. ... for President…
Brad Wilmouth