Media Ignore Labor Attacks on Catholic Colleges

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) apparently thinks itself qualified to judge how religious a college is. So far in 2011, the NLRB declared two Catholic colleges not Catholic enough to be exempt from federal labor law. This controversial labor union attack on Manhattan College and Xavier University has gone virtually unnoticed by the national news media. The Washington Times was the…
Paul Wilson
June 16th, 2011 11:25 AM

Pelosi's Net Worth Grew 62 Percent Last Year, Media Mostly Mum

You would think that in a tough economy with 9.1 percent of the population unemployed and most people seeing continued decreases in the value of their homes the revelation of a political leader experiencing a massive rise in her net worth would be newsworthy. Apparently not, for the following report about former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) stunning one year financial windfall…

Noel Sheppard
June 16th, 2011 10:51 AM

Weiner Resigns: Will Media Lament His Departure

Update: 14:30: Weiner made it official moments ago with these words: "I had hoped to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do, to fight for the middle class and those struggling to make it. Unfortunately, the distraction that I have created has made that impossible." Video and earlier post follows...
Matthew Sheffield
June 16th, 2011 10:48 AM

Deadbeats, Duds and Doofusses: Dads in the Media

These are tough times to be an American dad, and indeed, an American man. The recession, or "mancession," as it's been called, hit men harder than women; male unemployment was 8.9 percent compared to 8 percent for women in May. Adding insult to injury, leftwing journalists have sniggered about the plight of the "beached white male." In 2010, women became the majority in the work force for…
Matt Philbin
June 16th, 2011 10:47 AM

Obama Backs EPA War on Coal, While Networks Ignore Harm to Industry

It is no longer a secret that President Obama's administration is willing to allow electricity prices to "necessarily skyrocket," in order to accomplish his green energy agenda. Although he has so far been unsuccessful at instituting cap-and-trade, Obama's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hard at work running coal companies and consumers into the ground. Not that you'd know it from…
Julia A. Seymour
June 16th, 2011 10:41 AM

ABC Uniquely Highlights Report Showing Obama Worse than Bush on Paying

Wednesday’s World News on ABC led with a report from the left-leaning Center for Public Integrity (Arianna Huffington is one of several liberals on the Board of Directors) documenting Barack Obama’s failure to meet his promise to “change” politics as usual and thus not sell access and give jobs to big donors, a report not touched by the CBS or NBC evening newscasts. “Today,” Jake Tapper…
Brent Baker
June 16th, 2011 10:30 AM

Chris Matthews in New Interview: 'Nothing Excites Me More Than

Hey, I couldn't give it away in the headline, could I? And no, it's not steamy dreams of Obama in the night. In a new "Media Diet" interview at the Atlantic's website, Matthews explains how he sees himself as a conservative of sorts and how he revels in exposing "Grand Canyon[s] of ignorance" on his "Hardball" program (emphasis mine):
Ken Shepherd
June 16th, 2011 10:02 AM

Open Thread: 2009 Obama Says Economy Will Be Fixed Or He Is a One-Term

An MSNBC interview from early 2009 has resurfaced to haunt Barack Obama, who explained to Matt Lauer that if he had not fixed the economy within three years, then he will be a one-term president. Check out the video after the break, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
NB Staff
June 16th, 2011 10:02 AM

Is Obama Reneging on Vow to Use Solar Power at White House

(CNSNews.com) - It’s almost summer and green groups want to know: Where are the solar panels on the roof of the White House promised by the Obama administration? On Oct. 5, 2010, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, announced a plan to place solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the White House “by the end of…
Pete Winn
June 16th, 2011 8:51 AM

NY Times Ad for Anti-Mormon Musical Centers on NY Times Rave Review

A click Thursday morning on the “Arts” button on NYTimes.com brought a pop-up Web ad for the religion-bashing musical The Book of Mormon – with high praise from...The New York Times. “The Book of Mormon is the best musical of this century...The kind of newborn old-fashioned pleasure giving musical that our grandparents told us left them walking on air....It’s Heaven on Broadway.” This show’s…
Tim Graham
June 16th, 2011 8:04 AM

Liberal Radio Talker Thom Hartmann: GOP Promoting 'A Satanic Agenda

Liberal radio host Thom Hartmann insisted on his Tuesday afternoon show that Republicans are promoting "a satanic agenda" with an elephant symbol with upside-down (satanic?) stars, allegedly promoted by George W. Bush. First, there is the "pure star" with one point on top. And then: HARTMAN:If you flip that upside down...You’ve got the goat with his two horns up and his two ears on the side…
Tim Graham
June 15th, 2011 10:47 PM

CNN's Anderson Cooper Honored as 'Wildlife Hero' by Green Group

[Update below:] Anderson Cooper last June had advertised CNN's telethon raising money for the Gulf oil spill through the National Wildlife Federation. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) will be honoring CNN's Anderson Cooper as a "Wildlife Hero" at its 75th Anniversary celebration June 15. A spokesperson for the organization confirmed that Cooper will be receiving the award for his…
Matt Hadro
June 15th, 2011 6:41 PM

Brother, Can You Spare a Regulation

Last week, in a much-discussed, open, live, televised forum, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke the $64 trillion question. While most commentators focused on the apt question, it was Bernanke's answer that shocked me when I heard it — and ought to shock the nation much more than it so far has. Question: "Now we're told there are going to be…
Tony Blankley
June 15th, 2011 6:39 PM

Obama Blames High Unemployment on ATMs, Media Shrug Off Gaffe

On the June 14 edition of NBC's "Today," President Barack Obama ascribed part of the blame for the high unemployment rate to ATMs, yet most media outlets continue to ignore the gaffe. "There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers," lectured Obama in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry. "You see it…
Alex Fitzsimmons
June 15th, 2011 5:26 PM