Ace Wins CPAC 2008 Blogger of the Year

NB Staff

ABC: Global Warming to Force Humans to Flee Destroyed Earth

"Good Morning America" weatherman and resident environmental alarmist Sam Champion wondered on Friday if global warming could cause "the ultimate climate disaster" and force humanity to abandon Earth and live in space. (Throughout the day's themed program, various GMA hosts filed reports on space and astronauts.) So, as a transition to a piece on liberal environmental issues, Champion segued, "…
Scott Whitlock

Bush Defends Tax Policies Against Media Attack at CPAC

President explains how his tax policy helped grow the economy; criticizes liberal health care proposals.
Jeff Poor

Former ‘Crossfire’ Host Says Media Picked McCain and Obama

Over the past few months, there has been great debate concerning which candidates media have been pushing in order to assist them attain the presidential nominations of their respective parties. On Friday, former "Crossfire" co-host Bill Press, who currently has a talk show on Sirius radio, wrote a column at World Net Daily on this very subject. For a variety of reasons, his opinion might raise a…
Noel Sheppard

CPAC's Presidential Banquet Featured MSM Bias Victim Rep. Blackburn

I had the honor of attending the Presidential Banquet last evening at the 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference. Speakers included Bob Novak and Rep. Marsha Blackburn, as well as former ABC White House correspondent Sam Donaldson (who good naturedly needled Novak in a speech introducing and praising his career in journalism). Blackburn spoke eloquently about having the "best district" in…
Ken Shepherd

Matthews: Unless She's Starting a War, Conservatives Will 'Kill' Pres

H/t DW.Chris Matthews went off on one of his patented tirades on today's Morning Joe, imagining how conservatives would relish going after a President Hillary Clinton with a vengeance. Might Matthews, understandably, be short on sleep? He also bit Mika Brzezinski's head off for a harmless statement.CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well you know a lot of Republican talk show people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Peggy Noonan's fabulous piece at WSJ (some paragraph breaks removed for space):If Hillary Clinton loses, does she know how to lose? What will that be, if she loses? Will she just say, "I concede" and go on vacation at a friend's house on an island, and then go back to the Senate and wait? [...] Hillary is the easier candidate, Mr. Obama…
NB Staff

Time Reporters Admit They Voted for Obama, Hillary

Should liberal reporters bare all on their voting records? Time TV writer James Poniewozik not only declared that he voted for Obama, but that other reporters should do the same: "Writing about election coverage, I have disclosed, probably to the point of tediousness, that I voted for Obama. I think it's a good thing for you to know, but I really do it for me. It's important to me that I have…
Tim Graham

Sawyer Utterly Misrepresents Rush on Helping Hillary

I'm not talking about endorsing Hillary. I'm talking about raising money for her because apparently the Republican 'strategery' is relying on fear and loathing of Hillary to unite everybody. -- Rush Limbaugh, Feb. 7, 2008 There's nothing the MSM loves more than Republican in-fighting. And of late, conservatives have concededly given the liberal media plenty to gloat about in that regard. Well-…
Mark Finkelstein

McCain Opposed by 'Hard-Line GOP Conservatives' and 'Far Right

Implying those on the right opposed to John McCain's Republican presidential bid are extremists beyond the politically acceptable, fill-in CBS Evening News anchor Harry Smith on Thursday night warned that McCain “still faces a tough battle to win the support of hard-line GOP conservatives.” Smith's characterization came a day after Time magazine's Web site headlined a Wednesday posting by…
Brent Baker

Dem Consultant Shuster to Obama: Get Rougher With Republicans

David Shuster: not just an MSNBC "correspondent" anymore -- now a Dem campaign consultant too! In the opening segment of today's Morning Joe, Shuster offered a kernel of consulting wisdom to the Obama campaign, and the message was clear: Barack needs to get rougher with those mean-spirited Republicans.MIKA BRZEZINSKI: We did get some comments from Barack Obama yesterday about Mitt Romney…
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusted

Topics in today's NewsBusted (filmed before CPAC): Major terrorist Abu al-Liby gets killed by our nation's military, Bill Clinton says we should slow down the economy, Barack Obama sets one-month fund-raising record, Microsoft bids for Yahoo, and a church of Star Wars? Like the show and want more conservative comedy? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace or subscribe to our YouTube…
Matthew Sheffield

CBS News Alum Goldberg Predicts Media Will Turn Against McCain

Brent Baker

Obama, Thomas and Liberal Bias

The media paint the Supreme Court Justice's autobiography as angry, but ignore the rage in the presidential candidate's autobiography.
Jan LaRue, Esq.