Weekend Open Thread

Speak out.
NB Staff
November 26th, 2011 8:57 AM

Weekend Sports Open Thread

So many great sporting events this weekend who knows what to watch?
NB Staff
November 26th, 2011 8:55 AM

Melissa Harris-Perry: Pilgrims Were Illegal Immigrants, Indians 99 Per

Did you know the Pilgrims were not only illegal immigrants, but part of that reviled economic elite known today as the one percent? At least according to Tulane professor and MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris-Perry. Here's Harris-Perry on Al Sharpton's radio show earlier this week reaching for new heights in revisionism (audio) --
Jack Coleman
November 26th, 2011 8:34 AM

Bozell Column: Rewarding Rotten Ricky Gervais

The culture of Hollywood has just been beautifully defined by two awards-show decisions. The first one was Brett Ratner being dumped as the director of ABC’s Oscars telecast after he said “rehearsals are for fags.” It wasn’t long before Ratner turned himself in for “negotiations” with the gay Anti-Defamation cops about doing P.C. penance. The second one, just days later, was the Hollywood…
Brent Bozell
November 26th, 2011 8:17 AM

Ted Koppel, Elitist Hack: 'Corrosive Partisanship' That Fox News Start

In the same issue of Broadcasting & Cable magazine in which Al Gore described the public's deep yearning for Current TV, former ABC anchor (and current NBC Rock Center special correspondent ) Ted Koppel issued one of his lectures on how the elite media has lost its way amidst all the rabble and their incessant partisan blogging and partisan cable news. To Koppel, the nation was much…
Tim Graham
November 26th, 2011 8:04 AM

Wesley Smith Notes Pro-Embryonic, Anti-Adult Stem Cell Research Bias i

On November 15 (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I compared how two of the leading wire services, Reuters and the Associated Press, covered the announcement by Geron Corp. of its decision to halt the first government-approved clinical trial involving embryonic stem cells. Reuters fairly noted that "teams working with adult stem cells -- a less ambitious area -- are making good progress." While…
Tom Blumer
November 25th, 2011 11:52 PM

What the 'Occupiers' Don't Get Is How the Wealthy Enrich Us All

Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, the phonograph, the DC motor and other items in everyday use and became wealthy by doing so. Thomas Watson founded IBM and became rich through his company's contribution to the computation revolution. Lloyd Conover, while in the employ of Pfizer, created the antibiotic tetracycline. Though Edison, Watson, Conover and Pfizer became wealthy, whatever…
Walter E. Williams
November 25th, 2011 9:29 PM

NPR Pits Lululemon's Ayn Rand Tote Bags vs. Yoga's 'Community Values

Penny Starr at CNSNews.com reported on a cultural clash between the Ayn Rand fan who created Lululemon yoga clothing and the liberals who've been shocked and dismayed by the company's "Who Is John Galt?" tote bags. On the November 17 edition of NPR’s All Things Considered, substitute anchor Guy Raz interviewed a reporter, Simon Houpt, with the Toronto Globe and Mail, who said Lululemon “has…
Tim Graham
November 25th, 2011 8:40 PM

Which New York Times Is It? Obama Is Mush, Or His Critics Should Hush

James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal enjoys watching the New York Times columnists clash with each other. Most recently, Thomas Friedman was not a fan of Obama's mushy budget politics, while Paul Krugman played defense for the president. "Here we are in America again on the eve of a major budgetary decision by yet another bipartisan 'supercommittee,' and does anyone know what President…
Tim Graham
November 25th, 2011 7:59 PM

Chris Matthews Admits 'National Media Leans a Little to the Left

The next time you get into an argument with a liberal about whether or not the media is biased, show him or her the following video of MSNBC's Chris Matthews admitting on Friday's Hardball that it is (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 25th, 2011 6:21 PM

Occupying Seven Deadly Sins

A friend of mine was recently opining on Facebook, in the midst of the Occupy Albany movement announcing plans for a Black Friday flash mob scene at the local mall - What are the Occupiers trying to get done? It is a question many people have been asking since the movement began. Democrats, particularly Nancy Pelosi, would have people believe that this is simply a wonderful grassroots citizen…
Rusty Weiss
November 25th, 2011 3:55 PM

Barack Obama and Ed Schultz Make GQ's '25 Least Influential People Ali

President Barack Obama and MSNBC's Ed Schultz have been named to GQ magazine's annual list of "The 25 Least Influential People Alive." Although not available online yet, TVNewser published a preview Friday:
Noel Sheppard
November 25th, 2011 3:16 PM

Vanity Fair Editor Calls Newt Gingrich a 'Big Baby

Now that he's frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich must feel a sense of deja vu with all the attacks he's getting from liberal media members. Keeping up his end Thursday was Vanity Fair's national editor Todd S. Purdum with a hit piece intelligently titled "Big Baby":
Noel Sheppard
November 25th, 2011 1:31 PM

Huff-Po Delights In New Yorker Cover Making Pilgrims Illegal Immigrant

The Huffington Post's Latino Voices section is thrilled with the latest controversy-stoking cover of The New Yorker: pilgrims and their bonneted wives in the moonlight crawling through a hole chain-link fence in the American desert. Who knew Miles Standish was a Mexican? The cover artist claims this is somehow not oversimplified. "Too often in politics, very complex subjects are being turned…
Tim Graham
November 25th, 2011 1:26 PM