FNC’s Grapevine Highlights Totenberg’s ‘Forgive’ Christmas Cau

FNC’s Bret Baier ended his Tuesday night “Grapevine” segment by highlighting NewsBusters’ Monday morning post which has generated quite a buzz on a lot of blog sites, “Nina Totenberg: ‘I Was At – Forgive the Expression – a Christmas Party...’” In Wednesday’s Washington Post, however, The Reliable Source column insisted “her critics got it completely wrong” since “she was, she says, defending…
Brent Baker
December 23rd, 2010 1:32 PM

Calling Dr. Orwell: WaPo Tries to Help ACLU Define Abortion, Contracep

Liberals have claimed that conservatives wage a war on "science," but when it comes to social liberalism, they are often at odds with scientific reality. For example, they will define a woman as "He" and a man as "She" if the person in question simply decides that's how they want to be addressed. Or, in Thursday's Washington Post, the words "reproductive care" are used, without quotes, to…
Tim Graham
December 23rd, 2010 12:02 PM

ABC’s Cokie Roberts Omits ‘Illegal’ from Dream Act Talk, Calls T

 Appearing on Thursday’s Good Morning America to discuss the recent legislative activity in Congress, ABC’s Cokie Roberts managed to avoid using the word "illegal" as she recounted the failure by Senate Democrats to pass the Dream Act to provide a mechanism for the children of illegal immigrants to obtain citizenship. Framing the Senate vote as a "disappointment" for Obama, she went on to…
Brad Wilmouth
December 23rd, 2010 11:17 AM

Open Thread: Spielberg Advises Pelosi on Branding

Today's starter topic: Outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is trying to get some help on becoming more likeable: "Lawmakers say she is consulting marketing experts about building a stronger brand. The most prominent of her new whisperers is Steven Spielberg, the Hollywood director whose films have been works of branding genius. Lawmakers said Spielberg has not reported toPelosi with a…
NB Staff
December 23rd, 2010 10:05 AM

Oprah: 'America's Going to Fall in Love with Sarah Palin - As a Realit

Oprah Winfrey thinks America is going to fall in love with Sarah Palin - as a reality TV star that is. In a Parade magazine interview scheduled for publication this Sunday, the daytime talk star also said she's not afraid of Palin running for president because she believes in 'the intelligence of the American public":
Noel Sheppard
December 23rd, 2010 9:55 AM

On Time Magazine’s Top 10 List: Angie Jackson, Live-Tweeting Abortio

The mother who live tweeted her abortion earlier this year, Angie Jackson, has had her 15 minutes of fame extended, making #6 on Time Magazine's Top 10 Tweets for 2010. Seems to me Time used the most unflattering screen shot of Jackson it could find from her announcement video, and it also painted an unpleasant portrait of her overall. Read Time's blurb on Jackson after the jump....  
Jill Stanek
December 23rd, 2010 9:29 AM

Sachs Calls Victor Davis Hanson An 'Extremist Who Has Done More Harm T

Jeffrey Sachs has attacked distinguished military historian Victor Davis Hanson as an "extremist" who "has done more harm to the American people" than any other commentator. Sachs, a Columbia prof and income redistributionist supreme, launched his surprising verbal assault in commenting on Hanson's National Review Online column, "The Obamites' About-Face."  Hanson there makes the case…
Mark Finkelstein
December 23rd, 2010 8:44 AM

New Enrique Iglesias 'F' Word Song Accelerates Race to Bottom

The Latin singer's latest song is sexually explicit and profane – will media dismiss?
Erin Brown
December 23rd, 2010 12:00 AM

ABC: Catholic Bishop Excommunicated 'Saintly' Nun Who Supported Aborti

ABC's Dan Harris gave a slanted report on Wednesday's GMA about the Catholic bishop of Phoenix, Arizona stripping a hospital there of its Catholic status: "This is a story that involves a nun, described as saintly; a Catholic bishop; a world-class hospital; and a controversy now being discussed across the country." Harris unnecessarily introduced the priestly sex scandal into his report, and…
Matthew Balan
December 22nd, 2010 9:32 PM

Chris Matthews: Sarah Silverman Could Beat Sarah Palin for President i

Chris Matthews on almost a nightly basis devotes MSNBC air time to bashing former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Sticking with the trend, during a brief segment on Wednesday's "Hardball" about how President Obama is polling in Florida against some prospective Republican challengers in 2012, Matthews said, "Sarah Silverman can beat her down there" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
December 22nd, 2010 8:50 PM

Enthralled White House Press Corps Pose Sycophantic ‘Questions’ to

“There weren’t a lot of hard questions in this news conference,” FNC’s Bret Baier observed on Special Report in the understatement of the night. Indeed, in the first question posed at the late Wednesday afternoon session, Caren Bohan of Reuters reflected the collective glow of the White House press corp basking in Barack Obama’s glory: You racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks that…
Brent Baker
December 22nd, 2010 8:38 PM

Sharpton For Censoring Rush: 'Imagine The Arrogance Of Allowing People

Welcome to Al Sharpton's Brave New Radio World. A world in which the FCC would take a hard look at the licenses of stations that carry Rush Limbaugh. Al is outraged at the prospect that the FCC would "allow people to say what they want." Ed Schultz has, as I've noted, been offering Sharpton a serial stage to trumpet his censoring threats, and there was Al at it again tonight.  According…
Mark Finkelstein
December 22nd, 2010 7:46 PM

Time to Focus on Real Star of Christmas

Forget the secular holiday, Dec. 25 is about the greatest gift of all.
Dan Gainor
December 22nd, 2010 6:46 PM

Sappy Signoff from Brian Williams: 'Most Productive Congress' Since t

NBC anchor Brian Williams signed off with a pom-pom line for Barack Obama and congressional Democrats at the end of his live coverage of the Obama press conference. “At least one other writer has written, as making this the most productive Congress since the Great Society era of the 1960s.” It’s hard not to see in this a liberal definition of what “productivity” is. Reagan’s conservative…
Tim Graham
December 22nd, 2010 5:41 PM