VIDEO: Media Routinely Used 'Conservative' Label on Bush Nominees to S

When President Bush nominated John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005, the media did not hesitate to describe both men as "very conservative," but when President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor in 2009 and Elena Kagan this year many in the press couldn't seem to identify any liberal ideology. The Media Research Center has produced a video compilation of examples to further…
Kyle Drennen

AP Breaking: Supremes' Ruling 'Casts Doubt' on Chicago Handgun Ban

Lord have mercy, even when it hits him in the face, the Associated Press's Mark Sherman won't concede the obvious: "Cast doubt"? Is that what court rulings do now? A USA Today item has it right:
Tom Blumer

Mary Matalin Battles Libs Arianna Huffington and Mark Green in New Rad

A new talk radio show was launched this weekend that will certainly get a lot of attention from producers across the fruited plain.Called "Both Sides Now," the program pits far-left internet publisher Arianna Huffington against conservative political consultant Mary Matalin.Unfortunately, there's a glaring problem with the format: the host is the far-left leaning Mark Green who used to be the…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread: Corruption in Afghanistan Complicates US Mission

NB Staff

WaPo Applauds Obama's 'Skilled Operatives' for Not Choosing 'Outspoken

On the day confirmation hearings begin for Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, The Washington Post stresses on the front page that Kagan has been an "elusive GOP target." The Post website summarized: "Republicans have struggled to find a compelling line of attack to take against the Supreme Court nominee. But their efforts have largely failed."When Republicans nominate a Supreme Court…
Tim Graham

Barnicle Can't Bring Himself To Mention Byrd's Klan Past

When Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond died, the MSM was quick to stress his segregationist past. The New York Times ran the headline "Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100," leaving readers to imagine the South Carolinian had remained an advocate of segregation.  The very first line of USA Today's story described Thurmond as "the nation's most prominent segregationist." Strange how the…
Mark Finkelstein

Breaking: Sen. Robert Byrd Dies at

Sen. Robert Byrd died early Monday. Joe Holley of the Washington Post began with a mildly surprising label for a senator who was a Bush-bashing hero of the anti-war left this decade (with a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 28): Robert C. Byrd, a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the…
Tim Graham

Kagan an Ultra-Liberal on Social Issues, Say Conservative Groups

Alana Goodman

Sheryl Crow: Tea Partiers too 'Uneducated' to 'Understand What's Happe

Alana Goodman

Geithner Miscasts the 1930s at the G-20 Summit; AP's Aversa Lets Him G

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is admonishing the leaders of other countries attending the G-20 summit in Toronto to keep spending like there's no tomorrow, because if they spend like there's no tomorrow, there will still be a tomorrow. But in the gospel according to Geithner, if they don't spend like there's no tomorrow, there really won't be a tomorrow. With such blubbery logic, is it any…
Tom Blumer

Al Gore's Current TV Is Struggling

Andrew Wallenstein at The Hollywood Reporter suggests more than Al Gore's marriage is crumbling. Gore's cable channel Current TV is facing a dramatic makeover with an injection of MTV executives. Wallenstein tried to sugarcoat the inconvenient truths: For all the brilliance he has displayed grasping the meteorological dynamics governing the globe, Gore has miscalculated those of a slightly less…
Tim Graham

ABC Warns G-20's Rejection of Obama-Spendanomics ‘Could Plunge World

Based on the view of a single economist, ABC portrayed the agreement by world powers, at the G-20 summit in Toronto, to pursue fiscal sanity over the accelerated government spending urged by President Barack Obama, as a threat the well-being of the American people. “President Obama lost an argument today with other world leaders, and some economists say that could plunge the world into a second…
Brent Baker

Chris Matthews: 'Is Sarah Palin The Most Important Republican In The C

A truly extraordinary thing happened on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show": the host asked his panel if former Alaska governor Sarah is the most important Republican in the country right now.What made this even more surprising was how his guests -- CNN's Gloria Borger, Politico's John Harris, the BBC's Katty Kay, and former "CBS Evening News" host Dan Rather -- seemed to feel she was.Most…
Noel Sheppard

CBS's Logan Zings Hastings: He’s ‘Never Served His Country the Way

Lara Logan, CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, took to CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday to accuse Michael Hastings, who was interviewed by Howard Kurtz in the preceding segment, of using subterfuge and Rolling Stone of pushing an agenda in their hit piece on General Stanley McChrystal, both of which unfairly tarnished McCrystal and will lead to more military wariness toward the…
Brent Baker