WaPo Celebrates Legalization of Gay Marriage in D.C

Yesterday was a joyous one in Washington, D.C., according to the Washington Post, because gay marriage is finally legal. On March 4, Keith L. Alexander and Ann E. Marimow cheered that the “fight” for gay marriage had won in the district. The giddy writers didn’t let the fact that the D.C. Council’s decision wasn’t a surprise dampen the, well,  sheer, unmitigated wonderfulness of the moment. “For…
Sarah Knoploh

CBS 'Early Show' Touts ObamaCare On 'Fast-Track

Introducing a story on the latest effort pass health care reform on Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez proclaimed: "This morning President Obama is putting health care reform on the fast-track, declaring that it's year-long journey must be completed in Congress quickly."At the top of the show, co-host Harry Smith had similarly declared: "President Obama says the health care…
Kyle Drennen

George Stephanopoulos Frets Over Bart Stupak and His 'Mutiny' Over Hea

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday put the responsibility for passing health care on the shoulders of the pro-life Bart Stupak, worrying that the Congressman is "now threatening a mutiny over the issue of abortion." The GMA host interviewed Stupak and pressed him three times on voting for the legislation. [Audio available here.] At one point, he solemnly queried, "If the…
Scott Whitlock

Double Standard: NPR Applies Varying Terminology on Gun Rights vs. Abo

One's bias can come out in subtle ways depending on your world view, and try as National Public Radio may to be fair, their leanings are transparent. In a March 2 story on NPR's "Morning Edition," Nina Totenberg reported on a pending Supreme Court case involving the Second Amendment and how it applies state and local laws. Her story is specifically about a Chicago handgun ban and how those on…
Jeff Poor

HuffPo Article Claims Tea Party is 'Motivated by Bigotry, Ignorance, a

“And when you throw out all of the nonsense and contradictions, there's nothing left except race.”The Huffington Post’s Bob Cesca apparently has the Tea Party movement all figured out. According to him, it’s all about race. In a March 3 article, “The Tea Party Is All About Race,” Cesca blasts the Tea Party members for supposedly being racists who are upset that an African-American is in the White…
Sarah Knoploh

Kaine Laughs Off Sleazy Patronage Deals. Sebelius: Kansans 'Wildly Su

 Someone submit the Morning Joe java to Henry Waxman for analysis.  There seems to be something in it causing top Dems to experience serious delusions . . . On today's show, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claimed that the people of her home state of Kansas are "wildly supportive" of the substance of ObamaCare.  Unfortunately, suggested Sebelius, they're just too ignorant to know what's in the…
Mark Finkelstein

WaPo's Givhan Mourns Desiree Rogers, the 'Sacrificial Ma'am' Who 'Aide

Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan was completely overwrought over the departure of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers in Wednesday’s paper. The headline transformed Rogers into the "Sacrificial Ma’am." Givhan must have needed a hanky as she wrote: Of all the bounty the Obama administration offered, Rogers was the most enticing. She was high-ranking, she had the dazzling task of…
Tim Graham

WaPo Reporter Finds Experts Skeptical of Crime-reducing Efficacy of Vi

On Monday, I noted how the Washington Post editorialized against repeal of Virginia's 1993 one-handgun-per-month law. The Post reasoned in its top March 1 editorial that without the law "straw purchasers" could "serve as front men for criminals who come to the state to buy guns in large quantities."But today, in a Metro section front page story, Post reporter Fredrick Kunkle noted that experts in…
Ken Shepherd

Malzberg Rips Scarborough For Bush-Newsweek Crop Out: 'Conservative My

Conservative radio host Steve Malzberg on Wednesday laid into MSNBC and Joe Scarborough for cropping George W. Bush out of the cover of Newsweek.As NewsBusters reported, "Morning Joe" earlier that day showed a picture of the Newsweek cover altered to omit former President Bush's face from the shot. "Big conservative Joe Scarborough. Big conservative my butt," said an angry Malzberg. "They know no…
Noel Sheppard

The Phony Rage of Ratigan

Now, there’s always a scene in zombie movies, when one non-zombie character will turn to another, and say, “If I ever turn into that, I want you to kill me.” Then they make love, and reload. Well, I want you, dear viewer, to make the same promise to me. Except instead of killing me if I become a zombie, I want you to kill me if I ever turn into Dylan Ratigan. I am not joking. If you see symptoms…
Greg Gutfeld

War in Iraq Low on Obama’s Agenda; Compliant Media Move On, Too

“Despite persistent violence and a critical election coming up, President Obama hardly ever mentions the war in Iraq,” Joseph Curl reports in today’s Washington Times, and the news media are largely aiding in this neglect. Curl discloses that “the last time a White House reporter asked about the Iraq war was June 26,” while ABC, CBS and NBC aired just 80 minutes of coverage in all of 2009.The…
Rich Noyes

Really Worried Yet

Sad, but some of our fellow countrymen are actually buying this.
Glenn Foden

Open Thread

NB Staff

Behar: Working for FNC Makes ‘Delusional’ Palin ‘Too Far to Righ

On Wednesday’s The View on ABC, during a discussion of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s standup comedy routine from Tuesday night’s Tonight Show on NBC, The View co-host Joy Behar downgraded Palin’s performance asserting that her confidence on stage came across as unusually "delusional" for a woman trying to do standup, and suggested that Palin is "almost delusional" to believe…
Brad Wilmouth