NBC's David Gregory Downplays GOP Wins on Today

NBC's David Gregory, on Wednesday's Today show, downplayed the huge GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia as merely reflecting the "anti-incumbency mood," and "the change message that Obama" started last year. Gregory, however, did play up Democrat Bill Owens' win over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in the New York 23 congressional race, and even more absurdly Bob McDonnell's win in…
Geoffrey Dickens

WaPo's Marcus: 'Ignore the Hype,' Virginia Landslide Means Nothing

Tim Graham

Open Thread

A special open thread today. We're helping Soldiers' Angels raise money for their Project Valour-IT campaign, which raises money for research and development of technology that supports wounded warriors in their recovery. NB has chosen to support the Marines. Your generosity is greatly appreciated (link below fold).
NB Staff

Joy Behar: Profits are the 'Real Immorality' of Abortion

Profits, not the killing of unborn children, are the "real immorality" of abortion, according to "View" panelist Joy Behar. Behar expressed her unique view of morality during  the Nov. 3 "Hot Topics" discussion about Abby Johnson, a Texas Planned Parenthood director who resigned from her post last month after seeing an abortion on an ultrasound. Johnson explained to the local…
Colleen Raezler

ABC, CBS, NBC Go Palin Bashing: GOP at ‘Lowest Point’ in History

UPDATE: Not wanting to be left out of the Palin slamming scene, ABC's "Good Morning America" joined the fray on Nov. 4, interviewing the same people as CBS' "Early Show" and criticizing Palin on the same points.  From accusing her of igniting a civil war within the Republican Party to calling her "nutty" antics a "treasure" to the Democrats, the mainstream media is once again shamelessly slamming…
Carolyn Plocher

Warren Buffett: 'Newspapers Have Got a Terrible Future

Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A), doesn't have much faith in the future of print media. In an interview on CNBC's Nov. 3 "Squawk Box," following the announcement of his purchase of Burlington Northern (NYSE:BNI), Buffett was asked to comment on the future of news media, in particular newspapers and business news by "Squawk Box" co-…
Jeff Poor

CNN's Larry King Focuses on Defeat and Threat of 'Far Right

During a live midnight EST hour Larry King Live Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, CNN's Larry King repeatedly employed the “far right” pejorative to describe those who backed the unsuccessful New York congressional bid of the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman. After Wolf Blitzer announced at 12:15 AM EST that CNN had declared Democrat Bill Owens the winner, King blurted: “That may be the first…
Brent Baker

Republicans Win Two Governor Races, LAT Focuses on Dem Regional Wins

Sometimes spotting liberal bias is like shooting fish in a barrel. The folks at the Los Angeles Times really must have been trying to make it easy, however by downplaying two Republican gubernatorial victories (state-wide) and playing up two House races won by Democrats."Democrats win congressional victories in California, N.Y." the paper's editors are touting on the site's home page. The linked…
Matthew Sheffield

Still Whalin' on Palin: CBS Helps Levi Johnston Smear Sarah

Network gives 'white-trash idiot' four interviews in two days to discredit former vice-presidential candidate.
Colleen Raezler

CNN's Sanchez Cites Liberal Org to Bash Republican, Omits It's Liberal

CNN’s Rick Sanchez omitted the left-wing ideology of an organization he cited as he lambasted North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx on Tuesday’s Newsroom for her recent hyperbolic remarks against ObamaCare. Sanchez referenced a figure from the National Priorities Project, a think tank labeled “progressive” by CNN itself in 2007. He also left out some of the context of Rep. Foxx’s full…
Matthew Balan

CBS's Schieffer Denies Vote a Referendum on Obama, Compares Conservati

Shortly before the polls closed, CBS's chief Washington correspondent, Bob Schieffer, rejected any effort to tie President Barack Obama to two the Democratic gubernatorial candidates for whom Obama campaigned, insisting on Tuesday's CBS Evening News that the contests were more about local issues and so “I don't think they had much to do with anything but New Jersey and Virginia.” Citing the…
Brent Baker

Election Night Open Thread and Chat

The future of our civilization depends on tonight's election returns!Well, not really, but those that want to discuss it with fellow NBers can do so here or join a chat just started here.  Have fun, and play nice!!!
NB Staff

Matthews Belittles Climate Change Skeptics and Homeschoolers

If you're a skeptic of climate change or want to educate your child at home Chris Matthews probably thinks you're an oddball. On Tuesday's Hardball, the MSNBC host egged on the former liberal Republican New Jersey governor and former EPA head Christine Todd Whitman to turn to the camera to scold all the global warming non-believers in the GOP as he urged: "Would you tell your Republican…
Geoffrey Dickens

Parallels to Obamamania in ABC's 'V' Sci-Fi Mini-Series, Plus Reporter

ABC's 'V' mini-series, which will debut tonight (Tuesday) in the first hour of prime time, is “nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity,” but “it's also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the President's supporters and delight his detractors,” Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin asserted in a review…
Brent Baker