Saturday Sports Open Thread

You think when the college football schedule was set up months ago they had any idea both Texas vs. OSU AND USC vs. Oregon would be such big games at the same hour? Anything else you're watching in this schedule?Maybe more important, who is praying the Phillies beat the Yanks this series?Anything else on your sports mind today?
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: The White House visitors list.Let's dig through this baby and find some of the gems. Clearly, William Ayers HAS to jump out at you...but don't say Obama's been palling around with him!
NB Staff

NYT's Zeleny Again Involved in Obama Story Scrub

Bloggers and their readers have "joked" about the New York Times being the official house organ of the Obama White House. Maybe it's not a joke. Earlier this month (as seen at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), several bloggers caught the Times making significant changes to its initial coverage of Chicago's humiliating loss of its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and of President Obama's…
Tom Blumer

Bozell Column: TV's Increasing Female Body Count

Brent Bozell

Washington Post Column: Subsidize Journalists

It's bad enough we have to bailout banks and auto manufacturers or spread around subsidies for wasteful, inefficient forms of energy like ethanol and morally reprehensible institutions like ACORN and Planned Parenthood.  However, now a couple of the wizards of smart that have managed to land a spot in the editorial pages of The Washington Post are lobbying for journalism subsidies. In the Oct.…
Jeff Poor

Schultz [16% Of O'Reilly Audience] Mocks Dennis Miller's Ratings

If you were a cable TV host whose audience size is obliterated by O'Reilly's, buried by Beck's, hammered by Hannity's and slam-dunked by Susteren's, would you really go around mocking someone else's ratings?Appparently yes, if you're Ed Schultz. The host of the miniscule MSNBC program went out of his way this evening to belittle the ratings of Dennis Miller's radio show . . .Schultz's snide…
Mark Finkelstein

CNN Throws Out Idea That Dems Might Be Better Off If They Lose NJ & VA

On Friday’s Situation Room, CNN forwarded an idea proposed by The New Republic’s Peter Beinart- that Democratic losses in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey this year would result in the reelection of President Obama in 2012. An on-screen graphic during a discussion of Beinart’s hypothesis read, “If The Dems Lose Next Week: How it might help them in the long run.”Anchor Wolf…
Matthew Balan

Reminder: Rush Limbaugh on 'Fox News Sunday

Brent Baker

White House Blog Whines About Edmunds's C4C $24K/Car Claim, Ignores Cu

We're just going to have to get used the fact that we're long past the point where we should expect dignity and stick-to-the-facts restraint from this White House. Going after its critics is something the previous Bush 43 administration should have done more, but on the rare occasions when it did, it conducted itself and framed its language appropriately. Such is clearly not the case with the…
Tom Blumer

Morning Show Hosts Skip News of Ethics Probe of Dems, Play Dress-up fo

All three network morning shows on Friday skipped a Washington Post report revealing that powerful congressional Democrats such as John Murtha, James Moran and others on a defense panel are the subject of an ethics investigation for a relationship with a lobbying firm. The Democrats, and some Republicans, are under intense scrutiny for steering over $200 million in earmarks to clients of a…
Scott Whitlock

Wanda Sykes Plays Down Limbaugh Kidneys Joke, This Time on CNN

Comedian Wanda Sykes brushed aside her low blow about Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys failing as no big deal on CNN’s AC360 on Thursday: “Was it...too far for that room? Yes, it was...but, hey, you shouldn’t invite me....I think everybody would have been disappointed if I hadn’t gone too far. Sykes also gushed wildly over President Obama during the interview: “He is like the George Clooney of presidents…
Matthew Balan

Sting: Obama Was 'Sent From God', Critics 'Violent and Full of Fear

Many Hollywood leftists consider President Obama a figurative godsend. Some, including Sting, think he was literally sent from God. The former Police front-man told the Associated Press that he believes that Obama is a gift from Heaven, delivered to shepherd the befuddled masses to providence (h/t Ace)."In many ways, he's sent from God," Sting said in an interview with the AP. He heaped praise…
Lachlan Markay

Politico Says White House 'Under Pressure' Will Announce 1 Million Job

The Obama administration continues to push its "jobs created and saved" theme, taking credit for up to a million jobs on account of its $787 billion economic stimulus package (roughly a quarter of which has been spent). But some in the media remain skeptical.  Politico.com announced on Oct. 30 that White House officials planned a Friday afternoon announcement for the same day claiming "at…
Julia A. Seymour

Anemic Newspaper Circulation Numbers Due To Obsolete Strategies

The latest newspaper circulation numbers, measuring copies sold from April through September of this year, show a 10.6 percent decline in daily newspaper sales, the first double-digit drop in circulation ever. Newspaper readership is now at its lowest level since before World War II.The biggest losers during this six-month period, as reported by NewsBusters's Tom Blumer, were the San Francisco…
Lachlan Markay