MSN Says Ridiculing Palin Is the Top TV Moment of

MSN TV reporter, Dave Lake, has decided in his infinite wisdom that Tina Fey ridiculing Governor Sarah Palin is the top TV moment from the 2008 TV season. Aren't you surprised that making fun of Sarah Palin has become the top TV moment? I mean, it's incredible that the liberal media has decided that out of the entire TV season, this is the top moment! I'm SHOCKED, to say the least. (Don't worry…
Warner Todd Huston

Christmas Eve Funnies: Santa Claus Demands Massive Bailout

This is really delicious, and should cheer up the grinchiest of Grinches and the scroogiest of Scrooges:Rumors that Santa Claus may be the latest and most high-profile victim of the worldwide credit crisis sent world stock markets roiling and children's hopes plummeting today as Wall Street analysts warned that Santa's entire production and distribution network could collapse by the end of the…
Noel Sheppard

Christmas With the Nazis: WWII Films Proliferate at Year's End

For most people, late December conjures up images of Christmas trees, religious services, and year-end recaps. That is not the case in Hollywood, however, where Christmastime seems to be Nazi time. That is especially true this year where six World War II films are being released almost simultaneously.AP reporter Sandy Cohen details this strange phenomenon and delves a bit into its origins:
Matthew Sheffield

Scarborough: Don't Read EJ Dionne, You Know He Supports Obama

Conservatives still licking their wounds over the results of the November elections finally have something to cheer about: you don't have to read Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne's articles anymore because you know he's supporting Barack Obama.So deliciously said MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart on Tuesday's "Morning Joe" with the latter actually not…
Noel Sheppard

Rare Rachel Maddow Show Acknowledgment of Progress in Iraq

Jack Coleman

Open Thread

NB Staff

Christmas Lights Are Bad For the Planet

Here's an announcement that will please atheists and climate alarmists alike: Christmas lights are bad for the planet because they cause global warming.So says the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency.  Bah humbug, I kid you not. As reported by the Courier and Mail this Christmas Eve:
Noel Sheppard

Williams Sounds Wail of the MSM Dinosaur

There was no Memorex around when the brontosauri were bidding bye-bye, but I think we have a pretty good idea of what they sounded like as they were going extinct.  Just listen to Brian Williams this morning.  Appearing on Morning Joe, the NBC Nightly News anchor lamented the decline of "classically-trained" journalists in favor of guys with "an opinion and a modem."  A question from Pat Buchanan…
Mark Finkelstein

CNN's Tale of Two Screen Graphics: Beefcake Barack vs. Winky Palin

Tim Graham

Bozell Column: The Year of Leg Thrills

Brent Bozell

Whoops! Shuster Discovers Rev. Lowery Doesn't Support Gay Marriage

Given some of the reactions to an item I wrote yesterday about Barney Frank's objections to Rick Warren giving the invocation at the inauguration, let me state for the record that I lean libertarian on marriage.  On the one hand, I don't like courts substituting their judgment for legislatures or the will of the people.  But in the long run, I think it might be better for government to recognize…
Mark Finkelstein

Brit Hume Steps Down

Matthew Sheffield

NYT Admits It Fell for Hoax Letter to Editor

Oops! The New York Times admitted yesterday that it had inadvertently printed a letter critical of would-be Democratic senator Caroline Kennedy."This letter was a fake. It should not have been published," the paper admitted in a note printed after it had already printed it.The hoax message was supposedly sent by Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris.
Matthew Sheffield

TV Alert: MRC/NB's Tim Graham on 'O'Reilly Factor' Tonight

MRC director of media analysis Tim Graham will appear on tonight's "O'Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel with guest host John Kasich. The show airs at 8 and 11 pm Eastern. The red-hot topic is MRC's survey of The Best Notable Quotables of 2008.
NB Staff