Open Thread: The Lame Duck

Clint Howard is back as everyone's favorite out-of-touch - and now out-of-work - Congressman. In his last couple months in office, he's got to decide what lefty legislation to ram through as a lame duck, Check out the new video from Heritage Action:
NB Staff
November 8th, 2010 9:35 AM

Lauer Hits Bush: You Were Appalled at Racism Charge, Not the 'Misery i

Football fans watching NBC on Sunday night were presented a brief commercial at halftime for Monday night's NBC interview with former president George W. Bush. Liberals might have been disgusted, since Matt Lauer's only question was to ask Bush to explain how military families supported his war policies. But on Thursday, Lisa de Moraes of The Washington Post picked up on an earlier NBC…
Tim Graham
November 8th, 2010 8:51 AM

BBC’s Katty Kay: Cheney ‘Hoodwinked the American Public’ into Be

 On Sunday’s syndicated Chris Matthews Show, panel member Katty Kay of the BBC claimed that Vice President Dick Cheney had convinced 70 percent of Americans to believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, and that he "hoodwinked the American public." Kay’s accusation came as host Matthews had turned the discussion to the topic of how President Obama might have handled the response…
Brad Wilmouth
November 8th, 2010 8:48 AM

YouTube Removes Some Al Qaeda Videos from Website

But thousands of radical sermons still remain public on YouTube.
Alana Goodman
November 8th, 2010 12:00 AM

Breaking: Olbermann Back On MSNBC Tuesday

It appears NBC management feels a two day suspension is all Keith Olbermann should get for violating company policy regarding political donations. MSNBC's Phil Griffin issued the following press release moments ago (h/t NB reader Keith Hanson):
Noel Sheppard
November 7th, 2010 9:57 PM

Zurawik: 'TV Journalism Diminished in Public Mind' Due to MSNBC's Elec

The Baltimore Sun's media critic is still fuming about MSNBC's pathetic coverage on election night. In his piece published Saturday, David Zurawik called the cable news network a "liberal prep school" while claiming the behavior of folks like Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Keith Olbermann was "so egregious" that the "entire realm of TV journalism was diminished in the…
Noel Sheppard
November 7th, 2010 7:57 PM

Obama’s Dance Moves: He Still Has That ‘Yes We Can’ Charisma

CNN has been airing a video clip today of the President and First Lady trying out some folk dance moves on their trip to India.  The scene isn’t necessarily newsworthy, nor does it stand out.  The President should be commended for at least trying to entertain the children and performers at a Mumbai high school.  It was a fun moment.  But McClatchy reporters went a little over the top with their…
Rusty Weiss
November 7th, 2010 7:29 PM

Kurtz: Rove's Fundraising For GOP 'a Lot Worse' Than Olbermann Donatio

On Friday's Situation Room, The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz stated that the fundraising activities of Fox News contributors Dick Morris and Karl Rove somehow rose to a worse level than Keith Olbermann's maximum individual donations to three Democrats, which violated MSNBC's policy. Kurtz also suggested that both networks "tighten up on this stuff or just tear up the rule book." Correspondent…
Matthew Balan
November 7th, 2010 6:54 PM

Bill Press Falsely Claims Obama Created More Jobs in 20 Months Than Bu

Bill Press this weekend said Barack Obama has created more jobs in the past 20 months than George W. Bush did in his entire eight years in office. As readers will see from the actual data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Press's comments made on the "McLaughlin Group" were so false it's laughable (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
November 7th, 2010 5:54 PM

Ex-Newsweek Editor Meacham Mocks the Right: Don't Expect Obama to 'Put

Recently departed Newsweek editor Jon Meacham placed an article in Sunday's Washington Post that tried to make sense of the “shellacking” that Team Obama took on Tuesday. Meacham dismisses any talk of “moving to the center” as silly, as if that's where Obama presently stands. The headline was "Obama didn't change. We did."  In Meacham's world, Obama is still likely headed to the pantheon of…
Tim Graham
November 7th, 2010 5:46 PM

Did Joe Biden Turn to Keith Olbermann for Anger Management Advice

Would you seek advice on how to save your marriage from John Edwards? Or how about a teenage girl turning to Paris Hilton for suggestions on how to maintain her purity? If you think those ideas seem silly then take a look at what the recently suspended MSNBC Countdown host is claiming in a New York Times Q&A interview conducted by Deborah Solomon. Keith Olbermann is asserting that Vice…
P.J. Gladnick
November 7th, 2010 5:02 PM

With Pope in Spain, AP's Winfield Trumpets Gay 'Kiss-in,' Misrepresent

The Associated Press' Nicole Winfield is at it again with erroneous and slanted reporting of the Catholic Church. In an article about Pope Benedict XVI's dedication of a basilica in Spain this weekend (Sun. 11/7/10), Winfield writes: As [the Pope] headed to the basilica, about 200 gays and lesbians staged a 'kiss-in' to protest his visit and church policies that consider homosexual acts '…
Dave Pierre
November 7th, 2010 4:44 PM

Bias in NBC's NYC Marathon: 'We Torture the Planet

As Ethiopian runner Gebre Gebremariam closed in on a victory in his first New York City marathon, NBC announcer Al Trautwig described the unbelievable poverty in Kenya and Ethopia, and then shifted into social commentary on the Ethiopians: "They're closer to the earth. They're from the earth. They're closer to the rhythms of the planet than we ever were. We torture the planet to our needs. They…
Tim Graham
November 7th, 2010 4:27 PM

Amanpour Presses Paul and Pence to Agree Taxes Must Be Raised, Trumpet

Christine Amanpour spent much of Sunday’s This Week arguing with her guests about how taxes must be raised -- a theme also echoed on Face the Nation and Meet the Press -- as she brought aboard the media’s newest hero, tax-hike advocate David Stockman, and also touted Warren Buffett’s quest to hike taxes and how even conservatives in Britain have agreed to do so: “They’re saying there for every…
Brent Baker
November 7th, 2010 3:44 PM