How Bazaar: Vampy Katie Couric Video

Just when you forgot the horrifying images of the "Dance, Katie, Dance" special captionfest."The culture's come a long way, baby, what with two female solo anchors now presiding over America's three major network-news shows," purred Phoebe Eaton of Harper's Bazaar magazine in a feature in which she interviewed CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Cougar, er, Couric. But while she celebrated how Katie…
Ken Shepherd

'Champions For Life': Super Bowl Winners Speak Against Abortion

There has been a lot of controversy over the Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother discussing how she chose life for her son. The ad is a simple sincere look at a personal story. Yet the left and the "feminists" have gone nuts over it. 23 years ago, The American Life League, one of the largest Catholic Pro-Life organizations, produced a short featuring members of the Super Bowl winning…
Kathleen McKinley

AP Plays 'Hide the Numbers' In Its Unemployment Claims Report

You would think that someone going to the trouble of reporting on something would at least provide the most basic of relevant numbers so that readers could understand what they're telling us.That isn't the case with the 11:51 a.m. version of Uncle Sam's report on unemployment claims by the Associated Press's Stephen Bernard and Tim Paradis. Their report failed to specifically state what analysts…
Tom Blumer

CBS’s Rodriguez Asks Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist About RINO Label

In an interview with Florida Governor Charlie Crist on Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez turned to the hotly contested Senate race: “your opponent in the primary, fellow Republican Marco Rubio, and you...are in a dead heat in this race. Critics say that it’s because he is a true conservative and you are...a RINO, a ‘Republican In Name Only.’ How do you respond to that criticism…
Kyle Drennen

MSNBC Execs Scramble to Defend Olbermann as 'Countdown' Ratings Declin

Keith Olbermann's appeal has generally been his incendiary, attack-dog approach to the news. The approach paid off during the Bush administration when bashing the president was good business for a television host. Since Obama's inauguration, Olbermann's ratings have been in free-fall, but MSNBC brass are still more than willing not only to keep him on the air, but to defend him against any and…
Lachlan Markay

Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart Fight About Fox News and Glenn Beck

A heated debate about the political leaning of Fox News happened Wednesday when "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart was invited on the "O'Reilly Factor.""What you have been able to do, you and Dr. Ailes, have been able to mainstream conservative talk radio," said the Comedy Central star."Don't give me I'm a Republican shrill," countered host Bill O'Reilly. "That's bull."The pair also battled over Fox…
Noel Sheppard

MRC's Brent Bozell Rebuts 'Excrement In Broadcasting' Attack From D.C

MRC president Brent Bozell offered a radio rebuttal on Thursday morning defending Rush Limbaugh against a nasty January 21 commentary on D.C. NPR station WAMU. Regular commentator and longtime WAMU host Fred Fiske denounced Rush's show as "Excrement in Broadcasting."After I blogged about that outrage, our request for a rebuttal was granted, so Brent recorded one, and it was scheduled for today. […
Tim Graham

Obama Submits Largest Budget in History, But Networks Portray Him as F

President Obama just submitted a $3.8 trillion budget proposal, the largest federal budget ever, which will come with a "record amount of red ink." The projected deficit of that budget would be $1.6 trillion, yet the networks didn't criticize him for being spendy. To put this in perspective: Obama is proposing a budget $700 billion larger than big spender Pres. George W. Bush's last budget. It's…
Julia A. Seymour

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NB Staff

Obama Submits Largest Budget in History, But Portrayed as Fiscal Conse

ABC, CBS and NBC reports on federal budget give the president pass on spending, ignore critical liberal and conservative economists who argue it is 'unsustainable.'
Julia A. Seymour

Post's Milbank Gushes Over Admiral's Plea to End Ban on Gays in Milita

Dana Milbank of The Washington Post couldn't contain his glee over Joint Chief of Staffs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen's Feb. 2 testimony in favor of overturning "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." "Mike Mullen's 42 years in the military earned him a chest full of ribbons, but never did he do something braver that what he did on Capitol Hill on Tuesday," began Milbank's Feb. 3 ode to the admiral. "In…
Colleen Raezler

Rachel Maddow Building a Money-for-Nothing Reputation

Patrick McGeehan of The New York Times reported that several Air America radio talkers didn't get all their pay before the network went belly-up -- including Rachel Maddow, who wasn't even producing a show any more (just a simulcast of her MSNBC hour):But when the lefty chatter stopped, some of the talkers had not been paid for the last of the airtime they filled. Ms. Maddow was due $3,952 for…
Tim Graham

Planned Parenthood Strikes Back at Tebow Ad with Pro-Abortion Video

Planned Parenthood has just released a video in response to the upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring the pro-life birth story of college football star Tim Tebow. The pro-abortion group's ad includes Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner and former NFL football player Sean James promoting what they call "respect for women's choices." James said in the ad that he "respects and honors Mrs. Tebow's…
Carolyn Plocher

ABC’s Robin Roberts Lauds Pay Czar for Slamming CEOs: ‘We Can Feel

Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts didn’t even try for objectivity on Wednesday when she talked to pay czar Kenneth Feinberg about his attempts to stop AIG CEOs from receiving bonuses. "We can feel the fire in your belly," she enthused after Feinberg touted the administration’s efforts at reining in bonuses. "And that's great to see," Roberts opined. After Feinberg proudly told Roberts, "…
Scott Whitlock