Colorful NYTimes Editorial Rant Lumps in Birthers With John McCain Cri

Wednesday's lead New York Times editorial, "Conspiracy World – Behind every nonpartisan institution, the right sees the malevolent hand of a liberal cabal," is at least more colorful than the paper's standard editorial offering. It's a liberal hodge-podge of accusations that the right is living in a "world of conspiracy theories"-- but why are John McCain's criticisms (presumably of the State…
Clay Waters
October 11th, 2012 8:18 AM

Open Thread: Do Veep Debates Matter

Tonight is the big night for Vice President Joe Biden. Or is it? Do veep debates even matter? Other question: Due to Sarah Palin's presence, the veep debate in 2008 was widely watched. Do you think people will tune in this year?
NB Staff
October 11th, 2012 8:15 AM

Universal Studios Orlando Turns Halloween Horror Nights Show Into Obam

What can be political about Halloween? Especially Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando. Well, guess what? Universal Studios in Orlando this year actually turned a Halloween Horror Nights show into what is obviously a not very subtle Obama campaign rally in which the Romney type candidate declares he lied in the debate and that he shoves grannies off the cliff. Think I'm kidding…
P.J. Gladnick
October 10th, 2012 9:33 PM

Sawyer Spends 4 Minutes Channeling Liberal Angst Over Obama’s Debate

ABC’s Diane Sawyer spent a solid four minutes of her interview with President Barack Obama, as excerpted at the top of Wednesday’s World News, channeling liberal angst over Obama’s debate performance – and that’s before she allocated more than a minute to cuing up Obama to denounce a Mitt Romney comment on abortion. She prompted Obama with a harsh assessment of Romney: “Is it a lie?” “Libya…
Brent Baker
October 10th, 2012 9:21 PM

MPAA Hangs an 'R' Rating on 'Hating Breitbart'; Why

Hollywood Reporter's Paul Bond is reporting that "Hating Breitbart," the Andrew Marcus film which was to hit theaters two days from now has been pushed back to October 19 in a dispute over the film's rating. Marcus has pushed for PG-13, but the MPAA retained its R rating of the film even after the filmmaker deleted all F-bombs except a few delivered by Breitbart himself. So nine days from now…
Tom Blumer
October 10th, 2012 8:28 PM

Scott Rasmussen Responds to 'Slop' Comment From NBC's Chuck Todd

While a guest on the Fox News Channel's "America Live" program on Tuesday, Scott Rasmussen dismissed a comment made last week by NBC's very liberal political director Chuck Todd who called the pollster's work "slop." Even though Rasmussen said he doesn't know Todd or follow his work and is happy to have the competition, host Megyn Kelly called the NBC correspondent's remark "mean" as she came…
Randy Hall
October 10th, 2012 7:53 PM

Coulter Column: Got Racism? The Liberal Media Sure Does

Liberal racism sightings have become like a lunatic's version of "Where's Waldo?" Kevin Baker of Harper's magazine says Romney's referring to his "five boys" in last week's debate was how he "slyly found a way" to call Obama a "boy." Says Baker: "How the right's hard-core racists must have howled at that!" MSNBC's Chris Matthews says the word "apartment" is racist because black people live in…
Ann Coulter
October 10th, 2012 6:57 PM

MSNBC's 'Now' Doesn't Bother to Mention Congressional Hearing on Bengh

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform convened for a hearing on Wednesday at 12 p.m. EDT to delve into the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Detailed accounts were heard, revelatory statements were made, but MSNBC's noon time program Now with Alex Wagner was too busy criticizing everything Mitt Romney has said over the last few years to even…
Ryan Robertson
October 10th, 2012 6:49 PM

Martin Bashir Whines: Why Aren't Reporters 'Prepared to Buy' White Hou

Liberal anchor Martin Bashir on Wednesday whined about reporters who actually commit journalism and dare to question the shifting White House story on the death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya. After playing a clip of his colleague, Mike Viqueira, quizzing press secretary Jay Carney, Bashir scolded, "Mike, despite Carney repeating his assertion the administration divulged details of this attack…
Scott Whitlock
October 10th, 2012 6:17 PM

Actual AP Headline: 'Experts: Global Warming Means More Antarctic Ice

For many years, climate realists have pointed to expanding ice in Antarctica as a counter to the claim that decreasing ice in the Arctic is necessarily proof of anthropogenic global warming. The folks at the Associated Press on Wednesday came up with an unbelievable answer to that in an article unbelievably titled "Experts: Global Warming Means More Antarctic ice":
Noel Sheppard
October 10th, 2012 5:11 PM

MSNBC's Roberts Attacks GOP Spox Over Voter ID 'Poll Tax,' Then Treats

Updated: Roberts defends himself on Twitter (see bottom of post) | In a segment today on MSNBC Live entitled "Who's Got the Ground Game?" and ostensibly about how both the Democrats and Republicans were working hard to get out their voters to the polls on election day and to the early voting stations before hand, MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts set out to attack the GOP for pushing for a "poll tax…
Ken Shepherd
October 10th, 2012 5:03 PM

Huh? USA Today Hypes Insurance Company's Claims: Global Warming 'Targe

A front page story in USA Today on Wednesday hyperbolically pushed recent storms as proof of global warming, warning, "Weather disasters target N. America." (Weather disasters are targeting America?) Citing a study by a Munich-based insurance firm, reporter Doyle Rice hyped, "The number of natural disasters per year has been rising dramatically on all continents since 1980, but most notably in…
Scott Whitlock
October 10th, 2012 4:22 PM

CNBC Host Asks Jets Owner if He Knows Whether Tim Tebow is Still a Vir

As far as Joe Kernen of CNBC's Squawk Box is concerned, the word 'virgin' and Tim Tebow  are synonomous. Apparently, there can be no conversation about Tebow without bringing it up in a mocking manner for what is essentially a deliberate and faith-based decision. In an interview with New York Jets owner Woody Johnson on Wednesday morning, the conversation transitioned from politics to…
Ryan Robertson
October 10th, 2012 3:40 PM

NBC's Lauer Frets Over Obama Debate Performance: 'Does He Understand W

On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer cited left-wing Daily Beast columnist Andrew Sullivan ripping apart President Obama's bad debate performance: "I've never seen a candidate this late in the game so far ahead just throw in the towel in the way Obama did last week. How do you erase that imprinted first image from public consciousness, a president incapable of making a single argument…
Kyle Drennen
October 10th, 2012 3:33 PM