Ed Schultz Calls Drudge and Breitbart Liars: They Cherry-picked Harry

MSNBC's Ed Schultz on Friday called internet giants Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart liars for supposedly cherry-picking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression" comment (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard

Reid 'Depression' Remark Ignored by AP Until GOP Responds; TARP 2008 D

When a Democrat or leftist makes an ill-advised remark, it seems that there's a three-stage process at the Associated Press, and perhaps in most other establishment press outlets, for handling it. It goes roughly like this: Stage 1 - Ignore it as long as you can. If there isn't much outcry, keep ignoring it. Stage 2 - If there ends up being enough of an outcry from conservatives or…
Tom Blumer

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NB Staff

Gutfeld’s Case Not to Defund NPR: We Need Them to Remind Us What Sub

It appears Juan Williams’ firing is just what the public needed to realize their tax dollars are being poorly handled through subsidies from the federal government given to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prop up National Public Radio. However, “Red Eye” host Greg Gutfeld makes the most reasonable case not to deprive NPR of its taxpayer subsidies. On the Oct. 23 broadcast of his…
Jeff Poor

Bozell Column: Shock and Awful Art

Rocco Landesman is the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and boy, does he know how to spin the official line on offensive art. In a recent interview in Cincinnati, he was asked vaguely about controversy. “The best art taps into deep feelings, sometimes to comfort and sometimes to confront. Art can be very uncomfortable,” Landesman said. “What can lead to strong reactions -- for…
Brent Bozell

Brian Williams Sniffs: Juan Has No 'Right to Be Employed' by NPR

Alissa Krinsky of the TV Newser blog talked to NBC anchor Brian Williams in Chicago Friday on his way to a Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation fundraiser. Williams refused to join the crowd of liberal reporters and celebrities who've called it a mistake. He even refused to condemn the firing for giving Williams to chance to explain himself.
Tim Graham

On Maher, Rob Reiner Equates Tea Party to Hitler: ‘All They're Selli

  Prefacing his remarks by proposing “you never get into a political discussion unless you bring the word Hitler in. You have to have Hitler, so let's put Hitler out there,” as if that caveat lessened the vulgarity of his impending comparison, on Friday night’s Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner (IMDb page) contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic…
Brent Baker

George Clooney Exposes Bill Maher’s Ignorant Hatred For Conservative

George Clooney on Friday exposed Bill Maher's ignorant hatred for conservatives. During a discussion with the actor, director, and activist on HBO's "Real Time," Maher pathetically said, " I don't think conservatives are bad people. I think they have a hard time being empathetic to people who are not like them at all." Clooney's answer will not only surprise you, but also visibly stopped…
Noel Sheppard

What? NYT's Kate Zernike Pegs Christine O'Donnell Win as 'Jump the Sha

New York Times reporter Kate Zernike appeared on Washington Week on PBS to discuss the Tea Party, but with less than two weeks to go before a wave election, Zernike has already spotted "the jump-the-shark moment" for the Tea Party in Christine O'Donnell. Does she know what means, as in when a TV show reaches its zenith and from then on, it's all downhill? It doesn't sound like November 2 is…
Tim Graham

Schultz: NPR 'As Down The Middle As You Can Get

Hey, it's Friday night.  Time to kick back, relax, and have a few chuckles, courtesy Ed Schultz.  On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz, somehow managing to keep a straight face, claimed that NPR is "as down the middle as you can get." Schultz served up his side-splitter in condemning Jim DeMint and other Republicans for proposing the federal defunding of NPR.  In the world according to…
Mark Finkelstein

PBS NewsHour Analysts Agree NPR Firing Is Wrong, But David Brooks Tout

At the end of Friday night's PBS NewsHour, anchor Judy Woodruff asked their political analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks about NPR's firing of Juan Williams. Shields said "NPR made a serious mistake...and I think they did it in a terrible way, by a telephone call without a personal chance to explain himself. You know, I think it's given the right wing a tremendous opening to attack NPR,…
Tim Graham

Essay: Colorado Personhood Amendment is 'Social Justice

In typical lefty fashion, the Huffington Post is hiding behind a “qualified” author to make a feminist, pro-abortion argument. Reverend Dawn Duval, a minister of social justice (whatever that means) and mother of two, wrote a passionate piece to slam Colorado Amendment 62 and its supporters, while making the misaligned point that in defining a fertilized egg as a person, it removes a woman’s…
Erin R. Brown

Recycling the Trash Against Clarence Thomas: Is the New Accuser's Moti

The Washington Post is apparently an easy mark for someone selling 19-year-old sex allegations – or in this case pornography allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In 1991, during the Hill-Thomas hearings, Lillian McEwen kept quiet. But now, she has a memoir she's "shopping to publishers." The Post splashed her face across the front of Friday's Style section. The headline…
Tim Graham

Al Qaeda Unhappy About Helen Thomas's Firing

America's mortal enemy was apparently displeased with the recent firing of White House correspondent Helen Thomas. The following question was actually published in al Qaeda's new English language online propaganda magazine Inspire (h/t Weekly Standard via Hot Air):
Noel Sheppard