Why Hasn't Racism Been Blamed For Obama's Poor Response to the Oil Spi

When Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005, numerous media members blamed racism for President Bush's supposedly poor response to the disaster.According to LexisNexis, there were almost 1,000 reports in the nine weeks following the storm's passage through the Gulf of Mexico that tied racism to the government's post-hurricane strategy.Five years later, as oil slams the same region and…
Noel Sheppard

Toy story: Food Police's Next Target? Happy Meal Toys

ABC and NBC give priority to liberal CSPI executive Jacobson while putting restaurant's response at very end.
Kyle Gillis

Crime Pays: CNN Hires Prostitute-Plying Ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to Star

The rumors were true. CNN is without shame. They are hiring disgraced Democrat Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the hypocritical “Sheriff of Wall Street” who hired high-priced hookers, as a talk-show host. Spitzer’s co-host will be pseudo-conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, who won the Pulitzer Prize for being a conservative-basher. CNN’s press release on their Political Ticker said “she describes herself…
Tim Graham

Networks Ignore Misleading Obama Report on Drilling Moratorium and Opp

All three network news shows on Tuesday skipped a report that eight of 15 experts consulted by the Obama administration opposed the government's plan to halt deepwater oil drilling for six months. Only Special Report With Bret Baier covered the story. FNC reporter James Rosen noted a federal judge's decision to overturn the plan: "The judge also rebuked the Obama administration for filing a quote…
Scott Whitlock

Open Thread: A Good Night for Conservatives

NB Staff

Daily Kos on Gen. McChrystal: 'Ruthless, Bullying Criminal' Like a

If the bloggers at Daily Kos can imply that Keith Olbermann isn't pro-Obama enough for them, you can only imagine what they think of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The Kosmonaut known simply as "Overlander" relayed that the general has written short stories with plots about presidential assassination, so clearly it's a "fantasy" of his: I hope the Secret Service strip searches this monstrous thug…
Tim Graham

Okay, Okay, We Get The Point

...and the shaft.
Glenn Foden

Build-a-Baby: ABC Promotes Designer Baby Services

Web report highlights latest in customized offspring trend: looks-based eugenics.
Katie Bell

Early Show Panelists on Marriage: 'Who Wants to Sign Up for That

Erica Hill's report highlights cohabitation, ignores benefits of marriage.
Melissa Afable

Bozell Column: So Much for 'Core Conservative Values

We’re entering the summer vacation season and conservatives continue feeling confident that an electoral wave is going to wash over the opposition come November. Polls show there is a great and growing dissatisfaction with Washington, which is not new, except the face this time around is that of Barack Obama, and the public is revolting over his administration’s incessant attempts to grant the…
Brent Bozell

ABC Frets Over Pickle McChrystal Has Put Obama Into: Look 'Petulant' o

ABC, CBS and NBC all led Tuesday night with multiple stories on the “firestorm” over disrespectful coments by General Stanley McChrystal and his aides about President Obama and other administration officials, but ABC's Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos particularly despaired over the position in which McChrystal has put Obama. Sawyer fretted that Obama “now faces a mind-boggling choice,”…
Brent Baker

Schultz Steamed Beck 'Allowed' To Criticize Public Schools

Jonah Goldberg might want to file this one away for his sequel to Liberal Fascism . . . On his MSNBC show this evening, Ed Schultz sputtered that it's "pathetic" that Glenn Beck is "on the airwaves in this country" and "allowed" to express his opposition to public schools and support for home-schooling and vouchers. Schultz aired a clip in which Beck had this to say . . .
Mark Finkelstein

Andrea Mitchell: McChrystal 'Ought to be Canned

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday claimed that for what General Stanley McChrystal allegedly said about the White House, he legally, morally, ethically, professionally ought to be canned.Discussing the issue with colleagues Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie on "The Daily Rundown," Mitchell claimed McChrystal's alleged statement "crosses the line of insubordination, and it crosses the line of the…
Noel Sheppard

Awkward: ABC Skips Report That Bianna Golodryga's Fiance Is Leaving th

Good Morning America on Tuesday skipped the news that Peter Orszag, Barack Obama's budget director, is resigning from the White House. Perhaps not coincidentally, Orszag is also the fiance of GMA's weekend anchor Bianna Golodryga. CBS's Early Show and NBC's Today both covered the subject. Today reporter Savannah Guthrie explained, "It's a mix of the personal and the political. Most budget…
Scott Whitlock