ABC Lauds 'Hard-Nosed,' 'No-Nonsense' Susan Rice, Obama's New Nat'l Se

After President Obama appointed U.N. ambassador Susan Rice to be his national security adviser, ABC's Good Morning America lauded Rice on Wednesday as "hard-nosed" and "no-nonsense." Rice's biggest knock against her nomination for Secretary of State was giving false information on the Benghazi attacks to no less than five different Sunday talk shows just days after the attacks. ABC, though,…
Matt Hadro
June 5th, 2013 11:49 AM

Open Thread Wednesday

Sound off on the news of the day and anything else you'd like.
NB Staff
June 5th, 2013 11:15 AM

‘Late Late Show’ Host Ferguson to Bill Maher: You're Controlled by

This is beyond delicious. On the CBS Late Late Show Tuesday, host Craig Ferguson accused Bill Maher - to his face! - of being controlled by the Democratic Party (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
June 5th, 2013 10:34 AM

Bozell Column: Where's Holder on Team Obama's Leakers

The national media have evinced some outrage over the Obama Justice Department’s aggressive persecution of investigative journalists. But not enough. It is more important to help President Hope and Change overcome the legacy-strangling notion of an “atmosphere of scandal” than to investigate a scandal that is strangling their very profession. On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” New York Times…
Brent Bozell
June 5th, 2013 10:31 AM

Barnicle: Women 'Better Balanced, Have Better Judgment' Than Men

Looks like Mike Barnicle's not going to let anyone get to his PC-left when it comes to women. On today's Morning Joe, Barnicle claimed that "a lot of men . . . fear the fact—and I think it's a fact—that women are better balanced than men.  They have better judgment about things than a lot of men."  Barnicle's comment during a discussion about the statement made yesterday by Mississippi…
Mark Finkelstein
June 5th, 2013 8:09 AM

Supporting a Traitor: Hollywood Releases ‘I Am Bradley Manning’ Vi

With the start of the Bradley Manning court martial, a number of famous and not-so famous Hollywood liberals have released a video in support of their hero. It includes the likes of Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Moby, Tom Morello, Wallace Shawn, and the perilously liberal so-called journalists Matt Taibbi, Phil Donahue, and Chris Hedges (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
June 4th, 2013 11:42 PM

David Limbaugh Column: Scandals? So What? The Agenda Trumps All

Isn't it rich that the White House is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder's critics of being "partisans who seem more interested in launching political attacks than cooperating with him to protect the security and constitutional rights of the American people"? Partisan? Launching political attacks? Well, if the White House and Holder were not so partisan and attack-oriented themselves, we…
David Limbaugh
June 4th, 2013 6:46 PM

TIME Business Writer Attacks Superman Movie for... Product Placement

It's one thing, perhaps, for a major movie critic to grouse about product placement in a major motion picture and deem such an action a "sell out." But when a business writer does so, it kind of makes you scratch your head. Take TIME magazine's Brad Tuttle, whose beat his profile describes as covering "personal finance, travel and parenting, among other topics." In a June 4 piece headlined "…
Ken Shepherd
June 4th, 2013 6:09 PM

MSNBC’s Harris-Perry: ObamaCare Congress Was 'Most Incredible Legisl

Usually, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry only toils for the Obama administration on the weekends. Last Friday, she worked overtime. On the May 31 edition of Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation, Harris-Perry fawned over the Democrat-controlled 111th  Congress, which sat for the first two years of President Obama’s first term, as the “most incredible legislative session in American history.” Yes,…
Andrew Lautz
June 4th, 2013 5:40 PM

MSNBC Anchor Says Republicans Weren’t Sent to D.C. to ‘Just Hold H

MSNBC continues to disparage the scandals that have plagued the Obama administration the last few weeks. On Sunday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, the host brought on former Democratic staffer Jimmy Williams and former RNC chairman Michael Steele to reluctantly discuss the scandals once again. Of course, rather than focus on the substance of the controversies, Witt fell back on the concern that she…
Paul Bremmer
June 4th, 2013 5:07 PM

Huff Post Reports That Fox Business Would Not Run Ads Calling for Firi

Laura Bassett at The Huffington Post reported Tuesday that Fox Business would not air a TV advertisement by the feminist group Ultraviolet that called for the termination of Fox contributors Lou Dobbs, Erick Erickson, and Juan Williams. "Lou Dobbs has a problem," an announcer declares in the ad, over tiny out-of-context clips of the men speaking. "Women are winning the bread. Even his own…
Nathan Roush
June 4th, 2013 5:03 PM

New CNN Host 'Uncomfortable' With U.S. Gun Culture, Thinks Bloomberg's

Meet your new late-night CNN host George Stroumboulopoulos, who feels the Toronto Mayor's alleged use of a gay slur was worse than if he had a crack addiction, and thinks New York City Mayor Bloomberg is a "right-winger" whose soda ban revealed that his "heart's in the right place" and whose support for "marriage equality" was "fantastic." Stroumboulopoulos, currently a nightly CBC…
Matt Hadro
June 4th, 2013 4:51 PM

NB ToonsDay: Holder Investigates Holder

The patent absurdity of trusting Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate himself is the topic of today's NB ToonsDay:
NB Staff
June 4th, 2013 4:31 PM

NBC Plays Up Turkish P.M. 'Trying to Impose More Conservative Values

On Monday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams failed to mention Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan's traditional Islamic orientation as he reported on the "anti-government protests" in the Mediterranean country. Williams merely described the demonstrations as a "display of frustration with the prime minister...who has been trying to impose more conservative values on that mostly secular…
Matthew Balan
June 4th, 2013 3:04 PM