Kick Vick Out

The Atlanta Falcons superstar will plead guilty to running a dog fighting operation. He has forfeited his right to enjoy the limelight of the NFL.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

Dem Debate: Stephanopoulos Never Challenged Candidates With Evidence S

Was ABC's George Stephanopoulos [file photo] moderating a presidential debate in Iowa today [transcript here], or running an internal Dem strategy session over how to most propitiously handle U.S. surrender in Iraq? Imagine that instead of being a former Clinton operative, you're a bona fide journalist dedicated to challenging candidates about their assumptions. When talk turned to Iraq, wouldn…
Mark Finkelstein
 

San Francisco Columnist Wins Rove Derangement Syndrome Contest

P.J. Gladnick
 

NASA’s Hansen Quotes Thomas Jefferson to Incite Global Warming Hyste

Well, it only took a week for NASA's James Hansen to formally address the changes made to the United States historical climate record by the agency he oversees. When he finally got around to it, Hansen actually quoted from a letter Thomas Jefferson sent to James Madison in 1789 to suggest that the Founding Father would have been a global warming alarmist, while castigating today's skeptics as…
Noel Sheppard
 

Mark Steyn Shows Officials, Media in Denial About Newark Murders

Tom Blumer
 

Booing Rove in the Newsroom: Reminds Me Of

Bill Hobbs
 

Open Thread

It's Sunday. Doesn't that mean tomorrow's Monday again?
NB Staff
 

PBS Continues to Promote False History Trashing Einstein

Is PBS still making money off a discredited documentary that they know is filled with untruths, misquotes, and lies? It would seem so. In 2003 PBS aired a show titled "Einstein's Wife" that attempted to prove that Albert Einstein's world changing theories of physics were a result of a hidden collaboration with his first wife, Mileva Maric. This documentary claimed that Maric’s work on the theory…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Former CNN Reporter Suggests Hurricane Dean God's Wrath Against Bush

P.J. Gladnick
 

California’s Global Warming Watchdog Owns Oil, Coal and Utility Stoc

Here's a headline you'd never expect to see: Global Warming Watchdog Invests in Oil, Coal, Utilities Think I'm kidding? Well, check the link. Making the issue that much more delicious, it was the leading front-page story in Saturday's San Francisco Chronicle (emphasis added throughout):
Noel Sheppard
 

Weekend Captionfest II

NB Staff
 

Vick the Victim: NYT Article Paints QB As 'Failed by Friends

See incredible Roberts double-standard Update at foot.Michael Vick, victim. That's how Selena Roberts's article in today's New York Times largely portrays the NFL QB accused of involvement with dogfighting. The article's headline sets the tone: Vick Is Trapped in His Circle of Friends. Excerpts:The crooked circle Michael Vick drew around himself has tripped and squeezed him. The first to fail…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Fox News Jumps on Fred-Thompson-Is-Lazy Bandwagon

John Stephenson
 

Bill Moyers Claims ‘Rove Turned Religion Into a Weapon of Political

There are times when I hate being a media analyst, for I am often forced to view and review television reports and newspaper articles that literally make me nauseated while undermining my faith in journalists as a whole as well as my fellow citizens. The following video is a perfect example, a virtual piece of detritus that unfortunately is likely to offend so many viewers on so many levels that…
Noel Sheppard