Coming Soon: Paula Deen, Comic Superhero

Fallen food icon Paula Deen may have lost her Food Network cooking show, lucrative endorsement deals, book contracts, and possibly even a trace of her self-respect. But one thing she hasn’t lost is her ability to generate headlines. Last week Deen was in the news after an adult website that specializes in MILF-centric movies offered her six figures to appear in a porn film. This week she is…
Howard Portnoy
July 11th, 2013 2:31 PM

Stephanie Miller Radio Show Crew Thinks Deadly Plane Crashes Are Hilar

The strange radio-and-TV habitat known as The Stephanie Miller show somehow found it hilarious on Wednesday to ponder how American airplane passengers will be panicky about flying after the Asiana Airlines crash on the runway in San Francisco on Sunday that killed two and injured 182. Miller and her sidekicks laughed about airplane crashes by imitating Irish pilots and pretending that they…
Tim Graham
July 11th, 2013 2:05 PM

Salon: States That Most Strictly Regulate Abortion Are ‘Most Dangero

Salon.com published an article last Friday entitled “The 10 Most Dangerous Places To Be A Woman In America.” Naturally, the ten places were the states with the strictest abortion regulations in the country. The article, written by Katie McDonough, was chock-full of pro-abortion rights language, starting with the opening sentence: “Lately, the preferred strategy for reproductive rights…
Paul Bremmer
July 11th, 2013 12:38 PM

Not Interested: Obama Rewards Fat Cat Donors With Top Diplomatic Spots

In 2013, Barack Obama has nominated 11 ambassadors who were also huge donors to his presidential campaigns. Yet, NBC, CBS and ABC have skipped the failure of a president who vowed to "change the way Washington works" when it comes to money. As the Washington Times's Dave Boyer reported on Thursday, "Washington bundler John Phillips, who raised more than $300,000 for the president's two…
Scott Whitlock
July 11th, 2013 12:32 PM

Pope Plugging Leaks Is News at AP; But Not Obama's Insider Threat Prog

A report today from Nicole Winfield at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, headlines the news that Pope Francis's revision and update of Vatican City laws "criminalizes leaks." Meanwhile, searches on relevant terms at the AP's national web site ("leaks"; "insider threat" "McClatchy"; all not in quotes) return either nothing, or nothing relevant.  AP's apparent decision thus…
Tom Blumer
July 11th, 2013 12:26 PM

NBC's 'Ready for Hillary,' Touts Obama Aides Joining Clinton 2016 Supe

On Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell couldn't contain her excitement over Hillary Clinton's potential presidential run in 2016: "She already has her library. Hillary Clinton read The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but everyone waited for the next chapter as she opened the new Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library in Little Rock. Not far from a famous Arkansas presidential…
Kyle Drennen
July 11th, 2013 11:58 AM

WashPost Highlights D.C. Passing ‘Living Wage’ Law, Ignores Union

Walmart, the nation’s largest retail employer is in the process of building the very first of its planned six brand-new stores in Washington, D.C., but the liberal city council plans to welcome them into the city with new legislation mandating that the company "pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city’s minimum wage." Yet in his 27- paragraph story in the July 11 Washington Post,…
Jeffrey Meyer
July 11th, 2013 11:51 AM

CNN's RINO Voice Hits Pro-Life Group for Criticizing Portman's Gay-Mar

GOP strategist Ana Navarro is a CNN regular for good reason – she's the type of Republican the liberal media welcomes in their studios. Now she's ripped a pro-life group for being "incomprehensible" in opposing Sen. Rob Portman's (R-Ohio) support of gay marriage. Navarro is so much a "big tent Republican," she lectured opponents of same-sex marriage back in March to "get into the 21st…
Matt Hadro
July 11th, 2013 11:21 AM

Open Thread Thursday

Discuss the news of the day and anything else you'd like...
NB Staff
July 11th, 2013 10:23 AM

Andrea Mitchell On Immigration: McCain 'Heroic,' Conservatives Focused

Want to be "heroic" on immigration in Andrea Mitchell's eyes? Easy: team up with Chuck Schumer and President Obama to push amnesty through Congress.  Want to earn Andrea's ire?  Focus on border security.  She'll scold you and say you should be "ashamed." Yes, there was Andrea on today's Morning Joe, praising amnesty-pushing McCain as "heroic," while scolding conservatives who want to focus…
Mark Finkelstein
July 11th, 2013 9:43 AM

Networks Share the Love for Risky Kids’ HPV Vaccine

When a recent study demonstrated that HPV infections dropped more than half for teenage girls, the networks credited Merck’s Gardasil vaccine. The vaccine, a series of three shots targeting girls as young as 9-years-old, protects against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease that can evolve into cervical cancer or other health dangers. After U.S. Centers for Disease…
Katie Yoder
July 11th, 2013 8:53 AM

Richie Rich Romney: How the Media Smeared Mitt As a Bullying, Dog-Hati

[Excerpted from Collusion, by Brent Bozell and Tim Graham] Have you ever noticed the media’s dirty trick about multimillionaires in politics? If you’re a Democrat named Kennedy or Rockefeller, who inherited millions, or have a habit of marrying women with millions (think John Kerry), or made your millions chasing ambulances (Edwards), it couldn’t possibly put a wrinkle in your populist image.…
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
July 11th, 2013 8:22 AM

Piers Morgan Called 'Too Lazy, Too Irresponsible' to Get Facts Right i

CNN anchor Piers Morgan is diverting some of his attention away from his perpetual anti-gun crusade to render his verdict on the trial in which Hispanic George Zimmerman is accused of murdering black teenager Trayvon Martin. While he says he knows “what a lot of people think,” Morgan has been sharply criticized by the left-leaning Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler, who claims that the liberal…
Randy Hall
July 11th, 2013 12:31 AM

Dept. of Labor Contest: Develop an App to Harass and Embarrass Employe

A friend of mine and I separately received an email from the Department of Labor yesterday which made both of us to ask the same question: Why would anyone want to start up or expand a business and hire employees in the current hostile atmosphere? DOL's release, positioned as part of its celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, announces a contest which it calls…
Tom Blumer
July 10th, 2013 10:25 PM