Time's Klein Attacks The New Republic for Printing McCain Piece Critic

On the eve of the one year anniversary of the most recent Iranian presidential election, the Web site for The New Republic gave space to Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) to lament the Obama administration's feckless response to the corrupt Iranian regime's crackdown on protesters and its continued quest for nuclear weapons and terrorist sponsorship under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.In response two days later…
Ken Shepherd
June 14th, 2010 12:14 PM

Nickelodeon Game Site Lets Kids Play at Trying to Look Up Skirt of 'Na

Parents who assume the Nickelodeon website is kid-friendly should think again - its homepage links to a sister website called AddictingGames.com that features racy, sex-focused video games like "Naughty Babysitter," "Booty Rider," and "You da Sperm!" AddictingGames.com is owned by Nickelodeon's parent company, Viacom, but can be accessed directly from the Nick.com homepage. On AddictingGames.com…
Alana Goodman
June 14th, 2010 10:52 AM

Larry King To Be Replaced By 'Britain's Got Talent' Judge

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Morgan is the former British tabloid editor that mocked George W. Bush for falling off a Segway only to break three ribs years later driving one himself!A number of reports claim CNN's longtime host Larry King is about to be replaced by Piers Morgan, one of the judges on "Britain's Got Talent" and its U.S. version "America's Got Talent."According to London's The Daily…
Noel Sheppard
June 14th, 2010 9:46 AM

Bill Maher Goes Out with Another Conspiracy: ‘We Need a War All the

Catching up from Friday night, on the last Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO until September, Maher insisted “I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist,” but then proceeded to assert the Defense Department “uses more oil than anywhere else to kill people in the Middle East to get fuel to fight wars,” so “I do think there’s something -- just the way the pharmaceutical companies sometimes come up…
Brent Baker
June 14th, 2010 9:10 AM

Howard Kurtz Oddly Suggests Few 'Onlookers' Noticed Helen Thomas Had V

Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz wrote Monday that Helen Thomas could have spared herself an embarrassing quick retirement if her media colleagues had “gently suggested” it was time to go. He said the press corps saw her as an “eccentric aunt,” but he claimed most of the country never saw her as cranky and ideological: But that's not how she was seen by much of the country, which still…
Tim Graham
June 14th, 2010 8:43 AM

Open Thread: When Congressmen Attack

NB Staff
June 14th, 2010 8:39 AM

Chris Matthews Tells Charlie Rose That Bill Clinton Is a Hit In 'Cultu

Have liberals blacked out the sex-and-perjury impeachment of Bill Clinton? MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on the Charlie Rose show on PBS Thursday, and Rose asked him about how Sen. Blanche Lincoln had a “secret weapon” in her primary race in Arkansas. Matthews responded by laying it on thick about how great Bill Clinton is. Surely viewers giggled as Matthews talked about Clinton giving Lincoln…
Tim Graham
June 14th, 2010 7:51 AM

WaPo Promotes Ted Olson's Anti-Prop 8 Efforts, Continues Gay Marriage

As he 'crusades' for same-sex marriage, Olson is the kind of conservative the Post is happy to profile.
Melissa Afable
June 14th, 2010 12:00 AM

Nickelodeon Game Site Lets Kids Play at Trying to Look Up Skirts of 'N

Network makes games titled 'Perry the Perv' and 'Booty Rider' accessible to young children.
Alana Goodman
June 14th, 2010 12:00 AM

USA TODAY Hypes Topless and 'Adult' Vegas pool parties

Paper offers a guide to Sin City's raunchy 'daylife.'
Katie Bell
June 14th, 2010 12:00 AM

Donna Brazile Defends Obama By Badly Misrepresenting Oil Pollution Act

Nothing ruins my Sunday more than a pundit defending his or her politician by completely misrepresenting a law and nobody on the program in question bothering to challenge the falsehood.Such happened on the recent installment of ABC's "This Week" when Democrat strategist Donna Brazile said of President Obama's pathetic response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, "The administration has been constrained…
Noel Sheppard
June 13th, 2010 10:29 PM

Clyburn, Boiled Down: We'll Never Stop Blaming Bush

Real Clear Politics currently has a video highlighting statements by Democratic Congressman James Clyburn Jr. of South Carolina. It teases the video with a question asked by Candy Crowley of CNN. Once one sees the entire sequence, it's clear that Clyburn really answered Crowley's question before she even asked it. Here's the full transcript of the vid, which begins after Indiana Republican…
Tom Blumer
June 13th, 2010 10:09 PM

Chris Matthews Accuses Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina of 'Very Hard-rig

With Americans heading to the polls in less than five months, the liberal media have once again adopted their typical strategy of depicting every Republican candidate as being a far-right extremist.Such was on display in this weekend's syndicated "Chris Matthews Show" when the host began the second segment by saying, "This week's primaries proved again that this anti-Washington year may usher in…
Noel Sheppard
June 13th, 2010 7:26 PM

Kurtz: Helen Thomas Has Been Excused for Saying Questionable Things fo

CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday said an inconvenient truth that few in his industry would care to admit: "Helen Thomas has been saying all kinds of questionable things in [the White House] press room for the past decade, but her colleagues, for the most part, had given her a pass until now."This indeed is the real lesson behind last week's retirement of the nation's longest living member of the…
Noel Sheppard
June 13th, 2010 4:47 PM