Not News at AP: $1 Million Bounty on Sheriff Joe

UPDATE, 6:20 p.m. ET: AP now has a 5:28 p.m. item on the bounty. It's enough to make you wonder if the item below shamed the wire service into covering it. (original post) A look at the Associated Press's raw national feed (saved and stored here at about 1:30 p.m. ET for future reference) informs us that the wire service considers the following items worthy of at least some countrywide attention…
Tom Blumer
August 2nd, 2010 2:28 PM

Arizona Sheriff: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy

Pinal County (Ariz.) Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government.Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in Arizona stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the United States illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel."What's very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and…
Penny Starr
August 2nd, 2010 2:17 PM

World Spinning Again After Clinton Wedding

Did you hear Chelsea Clinton got married over the weekend? If it seems like that's all the media talked about, you're not alone. The broadcast networks - ABC, CBS and NBC - aired 87 stories about Clinton's July 31 nuptials between July 25 and August 1. Four major newspapers - The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today - printed 21 stories during the same time…
Nathan Burchfiel
August 2nd, 2010 2:04 PM

Ed Schultz Says No Votes for Democrats: 'I'm Not Going to Vote in the

While Democrats like Nancy Pelosi professed not to disturbed by their gloomy electoral prospects, ABC's Christiane Amanpour could have really riled her up by noting Ed Schultz proclaimed on his radio show Friday that he's boycotting the midterm elections unless someone extends unemployment benefits past 99 weeks. Democrats are apparently  worthless and weak while the Republicans "say yes to death…
Tim Graham
August 2nd, 2010 1:29 PM

'Media Mash': Bozell and Hannity Address MRC Study on Anti-Arizona Bia

"You're talking about brainwashing, when by a 10-to-1 margin, they [the broadcast media] attack Arizona," Media Research Center (MRC) founder Brent Bozell told Sean Hannity on the "Media Mash" segment on the July 30 "Hannity" program. The NewsBusters publisher was commenting on an MRC study that found in a 3-month survey [April 23 - July 25] of the three broacast networks, that of 120 stories…
NB Staff
August 2nd, 2010 1:20 PM

ABC's George Stephanopoulos Touts Possible Gloom for GOP

In the midst of bad news for Democrats, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Monday continued to search for a silver lining. Talking to ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he quizzed, "But, I wonder what makes you nervous? Because some other polls show some warning signs at least for the Republican Party." The former Democratic operative turned journalist added, "Going back to 1994 when…
Scott Whitlock
August 2nd, 2010 1:09 PM

The Big Lie: Pro-American Films Don’t Sell Overseas (Are You Listeni

There was a lot of cool news out of Comic Con last week. The "Avengers" has a great cast, with the addition of Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, and a great director in Joss Whedon. The images from Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch" look awesome. "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" was screened and people love it. Oh, and the upcoming "Captain America" film won't be "about America so much as it is about the…
Leigh Scott
August 2nd, 2010 12:40 PM

Joe Klein Defames ADL Leader As Intolerant for Questioning Appropriat

Time magazine's Joe Klein has a penchant for self-righteous bluster in his writing, particularly, it seems, when he's smacking around adherents of his Jewish faith who happen to disagree with him politically. Klein can't seem to let his wrath take a respite, as witnessed by a sabbath-day posting on Time's Swampland blog. Klein lit into Abraham Foxman of the ADL in a Saturday morning blog post for…
Ken Shepherd
August 2nd, 2010 11:56 AM

Fareed Zakaria Uses Fuzzy Math and Revisionist History to Bash Bush Ta

As a small number of so-called "moderate Democrats" voice opposition to raising taxes in the middle of a weak economic recovery, a movement is surfacing in the liberal media to shout them down and force the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. One such voice is Fareed Zakaria who used the Sunday CNN program bearing his name as well as a Washington Post op-ed Monday to make his dishonest case.…
Noel Sheppard
August 2nd, 2010 11:34 AM

Right Online, Vegas: Thoughts on the Conservative Movement

What a fine group of happy warriors! Right Online 2010 turned out over 1,000 like-minded activists from over 30 states. These passionate folks walked the over-100 degree streets of Las Vegas to educate voters that November Is Coming.Should the Democrats be worried? No. They should be resigned. The real worry-warts should be Republicans consistently intent on selling out their principles. Be…
Melissa Clouthier
August 2nd, 2010 10:23 AM

Stephen King Mocks 'Patronizing' Rush Limbaugh, 'Crazy' 'Nutcase' Glen

Best-selling novelist Stephen King slammed Glenn Beck as a "crazy" "nutcase" and Rush Limbaugh as a cynical huckster in his August 6, 2010 Entertainment Weekly column. The horror author derided Limbaugh as having "no conviction in that sonorous, slightly flabby voice." King attacked the radio star for supposedly not being sympathetic enough to the plight of Lindsay Lohan's drug problem. Yet, he…
Scott Whitlock
August 2nd, 2010 9:58 AM

Open Thread: Michelle Rhee Shakes Up DC Public Schools

Tellingly, it's front-page news when 4 percent of the city's public school teachers are laid off for poor performance. Wall Street Journal writers weigh in:Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>Thoughts?
NB Staff
August 2nd, 2010 9:03 AM

Unrepentant Weiner: People at Fox News 'Make Millions Acting Angry Whe

Of all networks to go on to accuse Fox News hosts of faux anger, Anthony Weiner chose MSNBC.  You know, MSNBC--home to Ed Schultz, who into his mid-40s was a Republican, and who described himself as a "fresh conservative voice" in seeking a GOP congressional nomination.  MSNBC.  Keith Olbermann's hang-out, the man whose stagey histrionics have made him a laughingstock even at his sister network'…
Mark Finkelstein
August 2nd, 2010 8:43 AM

WaPo's Shales Sneers at Amanpour as 'Globe-Trotting Fancy Pants' Who'd

Much thumped in March for a harsh critique of ABC's choice of Christiane Amanpour as This Week host, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales will get tongues buzzing again Monday as he panned her first episode of the old Brinkley show. He argued that Jake Tapper had "grown quickly and comfortably" into the Sunday spot: "the adept and likable Tapper stood a good chance of steering This Week into the…
Tim Graham
August 2nd, 2010 8:22 AM