Sarah Palin Draws Huge Audiences As Fox Contributor

While mainstream media members continue to belittle her at every opportunity, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attracted huge audiences in her first two official appearances as a Fox News Channel contributor.Debuting on Tuesday's "O'Reilly Factor," the former vice presidential candidate drew almost 4 million viewers more than doubling the combined total of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and CNN's…
Noel Sheppard

Doomsday Clock Moved Back A Minute Because Obama Is President

First he wins a Nobel Peace Prize just for getting elected, and now his mere presence in the White House has moved the world further away from blowing itself up.So concluded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Monday who in its infinite wisdom moved the famed Doomsday Clock back one minute:For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are…
Noel Sheppard

Irrelevant Behar & Guests Attack Relevant Palin with Lame Jokes

In what must be an effort to remind the public she has a show on a network most people don't know exists, HLN's Joy Behar (and guests) continue their hackneyed on-air hate fest against Sarah Palin, characterizing the former Alaska governor as a "dumb" woman who parades her disabled child "around more than a joint at a Grateful Dead concert." After all, continually bashing a popular public figure…
Jason Antebi

Matthews: America is the Book Palin Didn't Read! 'She Doesn’t Know U

Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, trashed Sarah Palin, for all things, not quickly responding to a Glenn Beck question about who her favorite Founding Father was. After playing a clip of Palin telling Beck, initially, that she liked, "all of them," before settling on George Washington as her favorite Founding Father, the MSNBC host portrayed Palin as the dumb student: MATTHEWS: You know in…
Geoffrey Dickens

CNN's Lisa Bloom Hints Same-Sex Marriage Opponents are 'Lunatic-Fring

CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom condemned the voter-approved Proposition 8 in California in an editorial on CNN.com on Tuesday, and labeled the Supreme Court’s Lawrence v. Texas decision in 2003 as “the gay community's Brown v. Board of Education.” Bloom would later imply that the supporters of Prop 8 were “lunatic-fringe bigots.” The legal analyst began the January 12, 2010 editorial, titled “…
Matthew Balan

Ted Turner Advises CNN Not to Follow Fox News Opinion Model

Since Lou Dobbs left CNN in November, citing a mutual agreement between he and CNN President Jonathan Klein that involved CNN going in a different direction, CNN's ratings have plummeted. But Ted Turner, founder of the first truly 24-hour cable news channel, doesn't see anything wrong with the channel's heading. CNBC's Joe Kernen asked Turner if he had any problems with CNN's direction during…
Jeff Poor

Krugman's Evolving 'Conscience': Conservative 'On the Take,' Liberal D

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's double standards: A conservative radio host who was paid by the Bush administration to push its education agenda was "on the take," but a liberal professor paid by the Obama administration while pushing its health care agenda "is no big deal."When it was revealed in January 2005 that conservative radio host and commentator Armstrong Williams was paid $240,…
Clay Waters

'Bubbles' Brzezinski Picks a Favorite Founding Father: Lincoln

Via Ed Morrisey at HotAir.com, we find out what you get when you cross a liberal, with a blonde, and a person of Polish heritage: Mika "Bubbles" Brzezinski.Coming back from commercial this morning at the MSNBC Clown Kingdom, the bump-in video clip was one of Sarah Palin’s interview with Glenn Beck.  Palin stated that it took all of the Founders to come up with the Constitution, but that George…
Mike Sargent

New Episode of the Notable Quotables Show

NB Staff

Dear Wash. Post: Haitian Tragedy Magnified by Lack of Economic Freedom

Greater economic freedom could have spared lives.
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

HuffPo Religion Editor, a Baptist Preacher, Tells Pat Robertson to 'Go

File this under "WWJD FAIL."It's one thing for a sainted icon of the secular Left like Keith Olbermann to wish perdition on a controversial American televangelist, but a Christian preacher?Yet that's exactly how Huffington Post religion editor and ordained American Baptist minister Paul Raushenbush went off on Pat Robertson for his controversial "pact with the devil" remarks about this week's…
Ken Shepherd

CNN: Don't Blame Harry Reid - Most White People Are Racist

After working days to deny that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said something patently racist, the media realized the story wouldn't die, and have now begun looking for fresh angles that can mitigate the damage. On Wednesday, CNN.com fell back on a favorite strategy of claiming that even though it was a racist remark, it shouldn't be surprising because everybody does it. Writer Wayne Drash…
Candance Moore

CBS’s Katie Couric Gets Another Journalism Award for Palin Interview

In yet another testament to liberals celebrating liberals, on Thursday the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric won the Alfred I. duPont award for excellence in broadcast journalism for her slanted 2008 interview with vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. In the interview, shown over a number of days on the CBS Evening News in…
Kyle Drennen

Study: On Twitter, Republicans Dominate Dems

On Twitter, Republicans are absolutely dominant, according to a recent study by a prominent Washington policy analyst. The study found that Republican politicians have far more followers and influence on the micro-blogging site than do their Democratic counterparts.GOP prominence on online social networks heralds a markedly different trend from the technologically dominant Obama presidential…
Lachlan Markay