CNBC’s Cramer Still Bearish Despite 'Emergency' Rate Cut; Questions

After the Fed made an "emergency" 75-basis-point rate cut this morning, CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer, who has gone from bull market cheerleader to bear market doom and gloomer in the last six months, said it was too little too late. "[T]his is obviously the kind of action I was most fearful of - which is that they would have to go panic and that they would get way behind the curve,"…
Jeff Poor

'Juno' Scores Four Award Nominations

Ordinarily there wouldn't be a link between an awards ceremony and the anniversary of legally sanctioned abortion. But this was before "Juno." Today marks the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case which gave women access to legal abortions. This morning the Academy Award nominees were also announced, and "Juno," a movie in which a teenage girl chooses adoption over abortion,…
Colleen Raezler

Thompson to Drop Presidential Bid

Warner Todd Huston

‘Today’ Hosts’ Carpool Stunt Shows Dark Side of Carpooling

Playing off the popularity of its "Ends of the Earth" jet-setting extravaganza in November, the "Today" show on January 22 kicked off a four-day series called "Today Goes Green" to encourage viewers to be more environmentally friendly.In a segment supposedly meant to encourage carpooling, Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira, Ann Curry and Al Roker submitted to the degradation and humiliation that is a…
Nathan Burchfiel

'Today' Saves Energy, But Just for Today

NBC morning hosts carpool for one day to save the Earth, complaining the whole way that carpooling is lame and sarcastically comparing it to living in a tree.
Nathan Burchfiel

AP: Fans Flames of Race Hatred With Focus on MLKing/Robert E. Lee Day

Warner Todd Huston

NYT Mocks Mitt, Lets Sleeping Bill Lie

Clay Waters

ABC Reporters Fawn Over Bin Laden Son and His 'Curious Proposal

ABC correspondent Nick Watt conducted a softball interview with the son of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden on Tuesday's "Good Morning America" and he credulously repeated Omar bin Laden's goals of being an "ambassador for peace." Host Diane Sawyer called the idea a "very curious proposal," while Watt announced that the younger bin Laden "wants to meet with President George W. Bush" and…
Scott Whitlock

Scott Beauchamp's 'Shock Troops' Statements

Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee.After the article "Shock Troops" in The New Republic had been challenged by critics , a documentary filmmaker/blogger by the name of JD Johannes narrowed down the search of the author to Alpha Company, 1-18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry Division on July21. Three days after that on July 24, the military began a formal investigation, which…
Bob Owens

CNBC's Jim Cramer Still Down on Fed After Three-Quarter-Point Rate Cut

'Mad Money' host challenges WSJ reporter Greg Ip for putting out contradictory stories on Fed leading up to the 'emergency' rate cut.
Jeff Poor

Is This The Sound of Pro-Choice Conceding Defeat

What if pro-choicers wrote a column filled with well-articulated pro-life arguments . . . and never mustered a substantive response? Would it suggest they have effectively conceded defeat on one of the great moral issues of the day? That "what if" becomes reality in Abortion's battle of messages in today's LA Times. As noteworthy as the column's substance is the identity of one of the co-…
Mark Finkelstein

Top Time Editor Lauds Bill Clinton as Michael Jordan of Politics

On Sunday’s edition of the Chris Matthews Show (syndicated by NBC), Time managing editor Richard Stengel applied the usual superlatives to Bill Clinton, in describing how he will overshadow any mere Vice President if Hillary is elected: "But the other thing that’s going to be hard is, if you have Michael Jordan on your team, i.e., Bill Clinton when it's a troubled game, aren't you going to call…
Tim Graham

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode: Democrats' race war in '08 primaries, Romney takes Nevada, MSNBC acknowledges moonbat Keith Olbermann's influence, the new Rambo movie, and more!If you're a Myspace user, feel free to click over to our new MySpace page and add us as a friend. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel and help take back Web 2.0 for conservatism by giving us positive ratings and…
Matthew Sheffield

Open Thread

NB Staff