Flight 253: Media Ignoring Two-Day Gap Between Preliminary AQ Linkage

UPDATE, Jan. 1, 2010: This post at BizzyBlog shows that the there was recognition of likely Al Qaeda involvement in two separate press reports based on sources in a position to know on Christmas evening. Thus, the administration's delay in acknowledging that reality was actually three full days.In their initial December 26 report ("Passengers’ Quick Action Halted Attack") on the attempted…
Tom Blumer
 

MSNBC.com Analyst: Palin's 'Reality Show' Life Not Good for Grandson

MSNBC.com’s Steve Adubato went so far to compare Sarah Palin’s notoriety to a reality show during a segment on Wednesday’s Today show on NBC. Adubato acted as an apologist for Levi Johnston’s move to open his child custody dispute with Bristol Palin: “Sarah Palin’s reality show that she’s been on for the past couple years...It has an impact on this baby as well....and it’s not good for the kid…
Matthew Balan
 

Maddow's Peculiar Logic: Rove Shouldn't Oppose Same-Sex Marriage Due t

MSNBC, "the place for politics" strikes again, this time with character assassination in the name of same-sex marriage. On the Dec. 29 broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show," Maddow took aim at former Bush administration Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, now a Fox News contributor. She noted his prior opposition to same-sex marriage, which according to Maddow's citation of The Atlantic magazine,…
Jeff Poor
 

Bozell Column: The 'Stimulus' Picture Crumbled

Brent Bozell
 

Pssst. What's the Password, Janet

So, will Janet and company learn from their "one mistake," or will it be repeated until they do? I wish I knew. 
Glenn Foden
 

Times Watch's Top Ten Lowlights of the New York Times in

2009 began as a year of smiles at the Times, with rapture over the "historic" Obama administration. Reporters showered partisan praise on Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and first lady Michelle Obama. Meanwhile, the Times resolutely buried emerging left-wing scandals over ACORN and Obama adviser Van Jones. But the smile curdled into a defensive snarl during the long hot summer of "…
Clay Waters
 

Open Thread

What effect do you think the congressional health care overhaul will have on the 2010 midterm elections?
NB Staff
 

Name That Party: Quick On the Trigger Edition

Numerous police visits to his home, reported gunshots and screaming, attempted burglaries, loud arguments, reported assaults, whispers about having sex with young men.  North Carolina state senator R.C. Soles certainly leads an interesting life.  Soles is the Democratic caucus chairman in the Senate, but you wouldn't know that by reading today's dispatch from the Associated Press.  "No re-…
Mike Bates
 

Boston Herald’s Film Reviewer Baffled Gore’s Movie Didn’t Propel

Brent Baker
 

Chuck Todd on Ingraham Show: Napolitano Would Step Down -- When Obama

Tim Graham
 

MRC Pres Bozell Returns to Fox & Friends to Continue Discussion of the

NB Staff
 

Fodentoons of 2009 Wednesday Post

Glenn Foden
 

NY Times: Michelle Obama ‘a Woman Not to be Contended with So Much a

Fawning over First Lady Michelle Obama has been over-the-top, but considering her a "deity" a "goddess," and "a woman not to be contended with so much as worshiped from afar," is a bit much. Those are the labels Cathy Horyn, the NY Times fashion critic, bestowed upon the First Lady in her Dec. 27 look at the year in fashion. Horyn compared the straight-forward, "businesslike" style of…
Colleen Raezler
 

Mitchell Predicts: Head To Roll

Not a surprise, but still noteworthy: a heavy MSM hitter is now strongly suggesting that, post-NWA 253, a senior Obama admin official will be walking the plank.Say what we will of her, but Andrea Mitchell has her sources.  So when the NBC correspondent declared on Morning Joe today that she suspects "somebody is either going to be resigning or forced to resign," we can pretty much take it to the…
Mark Finkelstein