Open Thread

NB Staff
May 29th, 2010 8:56 AM

Bozell Column: CBS, The Toilet Network

CBS announced its new fall lineup to advertisers and the entertainment press on May 18. After all the jawing and legal wrangling back and forth over televised profanity, and whether it's somehow not profane if it's blurted out accidentally, CBS has ended the debate over accidents. The artists formerly known as the classy “Tiffany Network” have very deliberately introduced a new show called “$#*!…
Brent Bozell
May 29th, 2010 8:30 AM

WaPo on Bill Clinton: 'Even the Master Can't Fix Everything

As the Joe Sestak job-offer scandal took a weird turn on Friday -- Bill Clinton offered me an unpaid, obscure presidential advisory panel placement to dissuade me from a Senate run? -- The Washington Post found in the new story a chance to hail Bill Clinton. At the very end of a Saturday report headlined "Bill Clinton has evolved into Obama's Mr. Fix It," reporters Philip Rucker and Paul Kane…
Tim Graham
May 29th, 2010 7:40 AM

Chris Matthews Praises Rush Limbaugh...For Mocking Bill Clinton

An absolutely astounding thing happened on MSNBC's "Hardball" Friday: Chris Matthews praised Rush Limbaugh.Not only that, but what tickled Matthews' fancy was the conservative talk radio host lampooning former President Bill Clinton.To set this up, the "Hardball" host invited MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and NBC's David Gregory on the program to discuss Friday's revelation that Clinton, acting as a…
Noel Sheppard
May 29th, 2010 12:47 AM

N.Y. Times Sympathy for Lori Berenson, Baker, Music Teacher, Unrepenta

Simon Romero of the New York Times reported from Bogota, Colombia, Thursday on the surprise turn in the case of Lori Berenson, the young American woman (now with “baking skills”) convicted in 1996 of aiding the violent Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a Marxist terrorist group in Peru. She's now out on parole in Peru, and Romero's story and headline suggested that maybe everyone should just…
Clay Waters
May 28th, 2010 11:06 PM

Sestak Still Hasn't Denied He Was Offered Navy Job

Has it dawned on the MSM that the only thing that would have carried any weight today would have been Joe Sestak unequivocally stating that he wasn't offered the Sec. of the Navy job?  He didn't.  Sure, Pres. Obama's mouthpiece issued a denial.  But if there was any way under heaven that the White House could have strong-armed Sestak into flatly stating that no one offered him the Navy post, it…
Mark Finkelstein
May 28th, 2010 8:31 PM

Margaret Carlson Despairs that After Bush-Cheney Big Oil is 'Too Big t

“Eight years of the Bush-Cheney administration removing regulations” has made it so “now the oil industry is too big to regulate,” former Time magazine Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Margaret Carlson fretted on Friday's Political Capital show on Bloomberg TV.Defending Barack Obama against the notion the gulf oil disaster is “Obama’s Katrina,” Carlson, a columnist for Bloomberg News, argued on the…
Brent Baker
May 28th, 2010 8:05 PM

Denver Post Finally Gets Around to Mentioning Romanoff Job Offer Alleg

Well hallelujah!After 8 months of being in a silent lockdown mode on the subject of whether the White House offered the Democrat Senate candidate from Colorado, Andrew Romanoff (photo), a job if he would remove himself from the primary race, the Denver Post has finally gotten around to reporting on it again following their initial September story. By strange "coincidence" the Post's sudden…
P.J. Gladnick
May 28th, 2010 6:50 PM

Time Alleges Pope Benedict XVI's Guilt in Abuse 'Trial' Cover Story

The June 7 Time magazine cover blared, “Why Being Pope Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry,” and the article explored the sexual abuse that has occurred in the Catholic Church and how the church might overcome the scandal. But the authors, Jeff Israely and Howard Chua-Eoan, left little doubt that they viewed Pope Benedict XVI as already guilty in the sexual abuse scandal. The article tried to…
Sarah Knoploh
May 28th, 2010 6:15 PM

Joe Sestak Speaks: Open Thread

Your thoughts?
NB Staff
May 28th, 2010 5:29 PM

CNN's Henry Sees Obama Moment that Would've Driven Media Mockery of Bu

Shortly before 2 PM CDT, CNN”s Ed Henry cited a dismissive remark President Barack Obama made during his visit to Louisiana which could undermine his “I feel your pain” message, “but,” Henry observed live from a beach in Grand Isle: If George W. Bush had made a comment like that along the beach after Katrina, you can imagine the kind of criticism he might get.Henry recounted how a little earlier…
Brent Baker
May 28th, 2010 4:51 PM

Matthews Special 'Rise of the New Right' Pretty Much What You'd Expect

A promo for a new Chris Matthews special on the "Rise of the New Right" is pretty much what you'd expect: Rand Paul, 9/11 Truther Alex Jones, and lots of militiamen shooting guns. That is the doctrinaire leftist snapshot of the Tea Party movement, so it stands to reason that Matthews will extrapolate it into some dire warning about our political future."There is a rising tide on the right,"…
Lachlan Markay
May 28th, 2010 4:03 PM

Hollywood's Summer Blockbusters Mostly Have White Stars

As media members continue to accuse the Tea Party of being racist due to the supposed lack of minority members, there is a conspicuous absence of diversity in blockbuster movies coming out of Hollywood this summer."With the notable exception of 'Karate Kid,' headlined by Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, most of the big-budget films hitting over the next few months star Caucasian actors," wrote Brent…
Noel Sheppard
May 28th, 2010 3:50 PM

Video: Deaf Baby Hears for the First Time

Here is a feel-good video to enjoy as you begin your Memorial Day weekend:Make sure you visit this post at the Eyeblast Blog for the details of how this is possible.
EyeBlast.tv Staff
May 28th, 2010 3:40 PM