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It certainly wasn't what American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina was wishing for on Thanksgiving. As she sang the national anthem at the start of the Green Bay Packers-Detroit Lions NFL football game Thursday, Alaina fumbled the lyrics a bit, and stood silent for a few seconds as the crowd nervously looked on:

NBC on Wednesday issued a formal apology to Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) for the offensive song that was played as she walked onto the stage to be Jimmy Fallon's guest Monday evening. The issue was discussed in great detail on Thursday's Today show (video follows with transcript and commentary):

NewsBusters wanted to wish all of its readers a Happy Thanksgiving by sharing Rush Limbaugh's depiction of what really happened centuries ago at Plymouth Rock (video courtesy Daily Rushbo):

As NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell accurately observed Tuesday, America's media have pounced on the University of California at Davis incident where Occupy protesters were pepper-sprayed by campus police. Doing his part Wednesday was liberal radio host Ed Schultz who on his Thanksgiving Eve program actually equated this incident to the Rodney King beating (video follows with transcript and…

Although it's long been proved that Sarah Palin and so-called violent political rhetoric had absolutely nothing to do with January's tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona, CNN's Piers Morgan felt it was necessary to bring her up during Wednesday's interview with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' (D-Ariz.) husband. For his part, astronaut Mark Kelly was only too happy to take the bait and run…

Every week, it seems the Obama administration is granting another favor to the "LGBT" community, but the D.C. gay magazine Metro Weekly is especially thankful this November for obscure HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan for becoming the Cabinet's most pronounced gay-marriage advocate. Chris Geidner reported "U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan became the first sitting cabinet…

Via Fox Nation, we learn that The New York Times can find a liberal sermon in just about any holiday. At the Opinionator blog, philosopher Justin Erik Halldor Smith found pain and angst in the "dark parody" of the presidential pardoning of a turkey, since it reminds him too tenderly of the fate of death-row prisoners: He wrote, "In just a few days, we will once again endure the annual…

This is a good time to bring up something that’s been bothering me for a couple of years now. As someone who has made his way in the world all on my own and without the help of rich parents or family connections, do I resent the fact that Tim Russert’s son Luke has been shot by the cannon of nepotism into a job men twice his age and with ten times his experience only dream of? Actually, no.…

On Tuesday night, ABC's World News pulled out another story that sounded like a fan letter to the Obama campaign. ESPN's Rachel Nichols, who just happens to be married to Diane Sawyer's stepson Max Nichols, paid tribute to Obama "body man" Reggie Love, now leaving the White House. Love has been there for the small moments and the "landmark" moments, like passing the so-called "stimulus" bill…

I admit that I haven't kept up with trends in establishment press local crime coverage. But an item at Toledo-area blogger Maggie Thurber's place about a robbery-related story in Monday's Toledo Blade caught my attention. I hope the perspective Maggie saw on display is an outlier. I'm concerned that it may not be. You see, someone robbing a convenience store in the Glass City was killed…

A much-trumpeted "innovation" from Occupy footstompers is the so-called "human mic" whereby people in a crowd parrot the words of a designated non-leader to amplify his or her message. Examples of this creepy phenomenon abound, including this one helpfully provided by Occupy cultist Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show last night (video clip after page break) --

CBS's Early Show on Wednesday boosted a claim by Democrats that a recent Mitt Romney ad takes a line from a 2008 speech by then-candidate Barack Obama out of context. However, CBS noted at that time that Obama was using that line to counter a McCain campaign ad which played up the Democrat's association with left-wing terrorist Bill Ayers. Anchor Erica Hill raised the controversy over the…

On Tuesday's Early Show, CBS reporter Bill Plante explained the Obama strategy in the wake of the "super committee" failure: "He came out and put the finger on Congress. He's trying to use public disgust over the gridlock as a lever." Obama's line was exactly CBS's line on Tuesday's Evening News. Scott Pelley began the show by asking: "Tonight, did Congress kill the recovery? Stores worry…

Former poet laureate Robert Hass participated in the "Occupy Cal" campout at the University of California at Berkeley a couple of weeks ago – and in the latest example of knee-jerk left-wing Reagan-bashing in the Times Sunday Review: “Poet-Bashing Police.” The former poet laureate and his wife come off rather naive about life, pompously lecturing their unlettered fellow humans (who are nearly…