Open Thread: 'I'm Exhausted of Defending You

Yesterday's viral video star pours her discontent out on Obama during a town hall.Thoughts?
NB Staff
September 21st, 2010 9:11 AM

Nutty Professor Pleads for Extinction of All Carnivorous Animals

Better enjoy the Lion King while you can. Flipper could also be gone soon. If a certain nutty professor has his way, all lions, dolphins, as well as all other carnivorous animals on this planet would be selected for controlled extinction for the "high crime" of eating meat and causing suffering in other animals. I kid you not. In a long, rambling, seemingly endless opinion piece in the New York…
P.J. Gladnick
September 21st, 2010 8:43 AM

Cramer Credits CNBC-Obama Infomercial for 146-Point Dow Jones Rally

Someone's a little full of the power of his network apparently.  On Sept. 20, CNBC hosted a so-called "town hall" meeting on its network about President Barack Obama and how his administration is dealing with business issues. Obama took some criticism from participants and observers said the president was playing defense. However, CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer had a different take on the…
Jeff Poor
September 21st, 2010 8:31 AM

WaPo Warns of 'Far Right' Ken Cuccinelli, But Virginia's Democrat Sta

The Washington Post's undisguised loathing for conservative Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is on display again Tuesday. Post reporter Anita Kumar put him on the "far right" and questioned the propriety (and even the constitutionality) of his working relationship with other Republicans in Richmond.  Kumar began by noting a list of Cuccinell's "controversial" legal opinions, that "police…
Tim Graham
September 21st, 2010 8:07 AM

CBS Befuddled by How Tea Party Candidates Have Survived Despite Their

ABC, CBS and NBC all ran full stories Monday night on how an old video clip showed Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell talking about how, as a high-schooler, she had “dabbled into witchcraft.” CBS, however, used O’Donnell to pivot to marveling at how other Tea Party-affiliated Senate candidates remain viable despite what CBS considers exotic views.  “Christine O'Donnell's…
Brent Baker
September 21st, 2010 12:52 AM

Imam's Group Trained NY Times Reporter Who Wrote Glowing Ground Zero M

Reporter also formerly worked as lobbyist for CAIR.
Alana Goodman
September 21st, 2010 12:00 AM

AP Headline on O'Donnell 'Seeking' Establishment GOP Help Doesn't Matc

I suspect that headline writers at the Associated Press would be pleased as punch if readers stopped at their capsulization of Randall Chase's story and didn't read it. The headline at the AP's main site currently reads: "Surprise Del. primary winner seeks GOP support." Perhaps they're hoping that Christine O'Donnell's Tea Party base will be disappointed at the impression the headline gives,…
Tom Blumer
September 20th, 2010 11:24 PM

Matthews Scolds Obama: 'Stop Saying Cutting Taxes Is Giving People Mon

A truly shocking thing happened on Monday's "Hardball": Chris Matthews, the man who once proudly boasted about getting a thrill up his leg when Barack Obama speaks, actually scolded the President on national television.Maybe even more surprising, the MSNBCer told the object of his affection, "Stop saying that giving people tax cuts is giving people money. It`s their money!"The unashamed liberal…
Noel Sheppard
September 20th, 2010 10:34 PM

NBC's Brian Williams Gives Jimmy Carter a Platform to Denounce Fox New

In selecting which excerpts, from his sit-down with former President Jimmy Carter, to showcase on Monday's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams began with the not so humble boast from Carter that “I feel that my role as a former President is probably superior to that of other Presidents, primarily because of the activism and the injection of the Carter Center into international affairs,” but also…
Brent Baker
September 20th, 2010 7:51 PM

UNION: MSNBC Calls for Fashion Industry 'Norma Rae

MSNBC is very upset about one "highly-unregulated industry" and its "questionable and even abusive" working conditions. What industry? Coal mining or perhaps sewage treatment? No. Keli Goff, an author and political analyst who has a "Daily Rant" on MSNBC's "Dylan Ratigan Show," was complaining about the working conditions of models. That's right, models. The people paid to walk down…
Julia A. Seymour
September 20th, 2010 6:47 PM

Newsweek's Stuart Taylor a Bit Misleading in Article on Court Challeng

"The justices have not struck down a major piece of legislation, let alone a president's signature initiative, as beyond Congress's power to regulate commerce in some 75 years."That's how Newsweek's Stuart Taylor Jr. today all but argued that, political ideology of the Supreme Court's majority aside, a Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional the "individual mandate" of ObamaCare is…
Ken Shepherd
September 20th, 2010 6:09 PM

'Morning Joe' Actively Pushing Moderate Candidates

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" has recently delivered some strange messages of bipartisanship and moderation to its viewers. These included lecturing would-be Koran-burner Florida pastor Terry Jones on loving one's neighbor before cutting him off without opportunity to answer, and showcasing a "Bipartisan Health Challenge" – a group of politicians and journalists walking three kilometers around the…
Matt Hadro
September 20th, 2010 5:36 PM

SEIU Activist: Local Networks 'Willing Partners' in Campaign Against W

Are the three news networks actively working to defeat the Republican candidate for Governor in Wisconsin? According to the far-left Service Employees International Union, yes, they most certainly are.SEIU spokesman John-david Morgan - also, incidentally, a former journalist - told a staffer (audio embedded below the fold) for GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker that local media affiliates…
Lachlan Markay
September 20th, 2010 4:53 PM

NBC Reporter Warns Global Warming Now Endangering the Walrus

It seems like every few years there's a new mascot for Team Global Warming. First it was the polar bear, then the Arctic fox and now it's the walrus's turn. On Monday's Today show, Lee Cowan traveled to Point Lay, Alaska to report on how shrinking ice sheets are leaving walruses stranded, in between their feedings, adding: "Much like the polar bear, they can't swim forever." In fact it didn't…
Geoffrey Dickens
September 20th, 2010 4:51 PM