New Black Panther Party Leader Video: ‘We Will See Caskets and Fune

With recent controversial race topics entering the spotlight, such as the voter intimidation incident and Shirley Sherrod story, the media has been more than willing to open their arms and turn on their cameras to hear the opining of the National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz.  Shabazz has appeared on Fox News, issued a statement through CNN, and done exclusive…
Rusty Weiss
July 26th, 2010 2:05 PM

MSNBC's Brewer Hits Breitbart for Appearing at Political Fundraiser, B

On Monday's News Live, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer expressed incredulity at the revelation that journalist Andrew Breitbart will be appearing at a Republican fundraiser. "I mean, really? Is he going to be a good fund-raiser for the Republicans?" Reporter Richard Wolffe lectured, "Because if he is that much of a political activist that he is raising money for the RNC, then he is not quite the…
Scott Whitlock
July 26th, 2010 1:17 PM

CBS Touts Concord, Mass. Banning Bottled Water As 'Revolutionary Move

At the end of Sunday's CBS Evening News, anchor Russ Mitchell celebrated the efforts of 82-year-old Jean Hill to ban the sale of bottled water in Concord, Massachusetts as: "...one woman's campaign for a greener America, one bottle at a time." He declared: "...you may remember the environmentalist mantra: 'Think globally, act locally'....[Hill] is trying to take that message to heart."Mitchell…
Kyle Drennen
July 26th, 2010 12:57 PM

Even Liberal Mediaite Knows Fox Didn’t Get Shirley Sherrod Fired

In the past six days, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some liberal media member claiming that Fox News was responsible for Shirley Sherrod's dismissal from the Agriculture Department. So obsessed with this idea were the folks on PBS's "Inside Washington" Friday that the lone conservative on the panel Charles Krauthammer had to defend FNC's honor like a knight in shining armor…
Noel Sheppard
July 26th, 2010 11:56 AM

Surprise: AP Notes 'Chicken and Egg Problem' With Electric Cars

Report cites lack of public chargers as potential problem in electric car production, touts government grants on the way.
Kyle Gillis
July 26th, 2010 11:19 AM

National Review’s O’Beirne Corrects Bloomberg’s Carlson on FNC A

On Friday’s Political Capital, Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson – formerly of CNN and Time magazine – left the impression that FNC coverage of the Shirley Sherrod video was partially responsible for her firing, prompting the National Review’s Kate O’Beirne to clarify that FNC did not show the video until after the USDA employee’s resignation. After host Al Hunt asked, "did it also say something bad…
Brad Wilmouth
July 26th, 2010 11:09 AM

Open Thread: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000 Classified War Documents

NB Staff
July 26th, 2010 8:39 AM

Chuck T Plays D For White House On Megrahi Release Letter

So there was Robert Gibbs on the White House lawn, defending to Mika Brzezinski the letter from the Obama administration saying it favored a compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber over a prisoner transfer.  Oh, wait.  That wasn't the White House press secretary—it was Chuck Todd.  Sorry about that. But when you view the video I think you might forgive my error.  Todd certainly came across…
Mark Finkelstein
July 26th, 2010 8:31 AM

Hypocritical Schieffer Lectures on Superiority of ‘Old Media’ Over

Four months after leading Face the Nation with uncorroborated allegations from left-wing bloggers about racist and homophobic outbursts by anti-Obamacare protesters, spread in an effort to discredit President Obama’s opponents, CBS’s Bob Schieffer cited the Shirley Sherrod case to propound on the superiority of his fact-checking “Old Media” over the careless “New Media.” In his commentary on…
Brent Baker
July 26th, 2010 1:00 AM

Looking Back at Schorr’s Goldwater-Nazi Axis CBS Evening News Hit Pi

Daniel Schorr’s passing on Friday, at age 93, reminded me of the kind of assaults CBS News unleashed on conservatives before there were any countervailing forums available. A 2001 Weekly Standard article (nine years in my “pending” file!) detailed a particularly vicious left-wing hit piece he narrated in 1964 which linked Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater with neo-Nazis in Germany,…
Brent Baker
July 25th, 2010 9:07 PM

Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler from Being Port

Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the "Jewish domination of the media." The director also defended Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and railed against the "powerful lobby" of Jews in America.Stone said that his upcoming Showtime documentary…
Alana Goodman
July 25th, 2010 9:03 PM

Name That Party: Bell, California Edition

This is almost too obvious. Many readers may already be familiar with recent exposure of the treasury plunderers disguised as public officials serving up hefty salaries to themselves while allegedly serving their constituents in the LA suburb of Bell, California. Here's some of the latest from the Associated Press, carried at the Los Angeles Times, which broke the original story, for those who…
Tom Blumer
July 25th, 2010 8:46 PM

CNN's Velshi: Homosexual Teens Need Legal Protection to Take Dates to

Ali Velshi continued CNN's endorsement of the homosexual agenda on Thursday's Newsroom with a commentary where he endorsed legislation that would "require school districts to have policies recognizing sexual orientation and gender identity." Velshi highlighted the case of a Mississippi teen lesbian who, with the ACLU's help, won $35,000 in damages against her school district, who had barred her…
Matthew Balan
July 25th, 2010 8:31 PM

Bill O'Reilly Whacks 'NBC Loon' Rachel Maddow, Taunts MSNBC: We Kick Y

On The O'Reilly Factor on Wednesday night, host Bill O'Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod "for for not doing my homework, for not putting her remarks into the proper context." But then he quickly turned to NBC and MSNBC: "And then there is NBC News howling with left-wing indignation." He ran clips of  Matt Lauer saying the whole story was "garbage" and Rachel Maddow sneering:MADDOW: Just like…
Tim Graham
July 25th, 2010 6:14 PM