Imagine If Bachmann Had Said It: Networks Skip Obama Confusing Kansas

The same networks that jumped on every flub by Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann have, so far, ignored video of President Obama confusing Kansas with Texas. Only Fox News and CNN played the clip.  Special Report's Bret Baier, however did cover the President's speech about taxes, calling the moment "inauspicious." He then showed Obama, in Osawatomie, Kansas, asserting: "Well, it is great to be…
Scott Whitlock
December 7th, 2011 12:38 PM

Michael Moore: 'A Roof Over One's Head Is a Human Right

Did you know it was a human right to have a roof over your head? So says schlockumentarian Occupy Wall Street supporter Michael Moore in an absolutely hysterical call to arms published at the Huffington Post Wednesday entitled "The Winter of Our Occupation":
Noel Sheppard
December 7th, 2011 11:52 AM

NPR Promotes 'Science' of Kiddie Temper Tantrums, Advises Parents to

On Monday's Morning Edition, NPR science reporter Shankar Vedantam (formerly of The Washington Post) indulged the naughtiest little children, the ones that throw screaming, crying tantrums in public places. The story claimed scientists have now apparently proven that parents should just let the little monsters roar until they exhaust themselves. In the early stages of rage, parents should "do…
Tim Graham
December 7th, 2011 11:41 AM

WaPo 'On Faith' Editor Sally Quinn Snarks 'What Will God Whisper In He

Washington Post "On Faith" editor and religious agnostic Sally Quinn took time yesterday morning to hack out a blog post offending people of faith entitled, "What will God whisper in Herman Cain's ear next?":
Ken Shepherd
December 7th, 2011 11:24 AM

T. Boone Pickens Wants Obama To Tell Him What His 'Fair Share' of Taxe

Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens wants President Obama to explain to him what his "fair share" of taxes is. Such was discussed on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday (video follows with transcribed highlights):
Noel Sheppard
December 7th, 2011 10:25 AM

Barnicle Complains To Carney: When Will Obama Stop 'Swinging At Air' A

Barack Obama's political tone has become progressively more partisan since his "no red states, no blue states just the United States" warm 'n fuzziness at the 2004 Dem convention.   But President Obama's rhetoric is still not harsh enough to suit Mike Barnicle. On Morning Joe today, the former Boston Globe columnist demanded to know of Obama press sec Jay Carney just when the president was…
Mark Finkelstein
December 7th, 2011 10:08 AM

NBC's Ann Curry to Obama Advisor: How Has the President 'Inspired Hope

Updated : More analysis and full transcript added. In an interview with Obama campaign advisor Robert Gibbs on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry teed up the President's former press secretary with this softball: "In 2008, the President campaigned on this idea of hope and change....Can you give us one example of what the President has done that has inspired hope or created change in…
Kyle Drennen
December 7th, 2011 10:02 AM

Open Thread: Chevy Volt Buyback? Or Tax Credit Abuse

Following a number of safety crash tests on GM's electric Chevy Volt that resulted in the cars' batteries igniting, GM has offered to buy the car back from any purchasers with safety concerns. The only problem is that when these buyers bought the Volt, they also received a $7500 tax credit from the government. Due to the lax rules of the tax credit, buyers are able to get a full refund for the…
NB Staff
December 7th, 2011 9:30 AM

NY Times Profiles New NPR CEO With Only Lefties, Skips Over Soros and

New York Times media reporter Elizabeth Jensen reported on new NPR CEO Gary Knell on Monday without devoting one word to conservative NPR critics in a piece loaded with public-broadcasting officialdom. The Times is clearly reporting from inside the NPR tank. But Jensen did find time to quote the radical-left Noam Chomsky lovers at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) from October 7: "The…
Tim Graham
December 7th, 2011 6:39 AM

Prince George's Co. Executive Johnson Sentenced to 7 Years; Dem Party

Former Prince George's County, Maryland Executive Jack Johnson was sentenced today to over seven years in prison for, according to Eric Tucker at the Associated Press, "extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes during a tenure that prosecutors say was rife with greed, corruption and an unchecked pay-to-play culture." Tucker failed to identify Johnson as a Democrat. The AP is not…
Tom Blumer
December 7th, 2011 12:32 AM

Bozell Column: Loathing Conservative Christian Candidates

Time magazine didn’t mind ruffling feathers in religious America with a cover this summer that asked “Is Hell Dead?” Never mind that overwhelmingly America is Christian. Then Time found only one letter worth plucking out to feature in large, bold type, from a man in Dallas: “Hell is easy to define. It would be spending eternity with evangelicals.” That sums up the secular liberal media…
Brent Bozell
December 6th, 2011 11:17 PM

Shhh, Don't Tell Anyone: Dolly the Sheep Pioneer Recommends Shifting A

Bradley Fikes at the North County Times, whose coverage area is mostly the northern portion of San Diego County in California, appears to have broken a quite significant story last Thursday when he reported that cloning pioneer Ian Wilmut of Dolly the sheep fame (4,250 stories from 1996-2003 were found in the Google New archive) urged stem cell scientists, as Fikes headlined, to "shift away…
Tom Blumer
December 6th, 2011 10:56 PM

NBC Delivers Brief Against ‘Cry Baby’ Gingrich and His Speakership

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Tuesday evening promised a look “back at some of the hits, runs and errors” of Newt Gingrich’s years as Speaker of the House, but other than a sentence from Lisa Myers about how “working with President Clinton, Gingrich piled up real achievements: a balanced budget, an historic welfare reform,” she focused her entire piece on how “his speakership also…
Brent Baker
December 6th, 2011 9:28 PM

CNN, at OWS 'Office' in New York, Interviews 'Volunteers' Heritage Out

Last week, CNN's Steve Kastenbaum (podcast is also at link) visited what he characterized as Occupy Wall Street's "nerve center" (but don't call it a "headquarters," Occupiers insisted) in space provided by an anonymous donor. No, it wasn't at Zuccotti Park or any other open-air location. It was, and presumably still is, in Lower Manhattan, one block south of the New York Stock Exchange.…
Tom Blumer
December 6th, 2011 8:36 PM