Essay: ‘Question Authority’ – and Bumper Sticker Morality

The other day I was driving behind a car with a “Friend of Tibet” Virginia license plate. That’s great and I’d like to be a “Friend” myself, but with the job and the family and cutting the lawn … Can I just become a “Facebook Friend of Tibet?” If so, am I entitled to the same preening as Tibet’s actual Friends? It got me wondering whether we’d see “Free Iran” paraphernalia anytime soon, and…
Matt Philbin

Bozell Column: News Executives In The Tank

The network news divisions are enjoying the unprecedented coverage they're providing President Obama, not just because they support him, but because White House specials are cheap and do well in the ratings. "Obama should change his middle name from Hussein to Nielsen," quipped longtime TV reporter Gail Shister in a story by David Bauder of the Associated Press. It seems like a never-ending spin…
Brent Bozell

Media Help Obama Gear Up for 'Stimulus, The Sequel

BMI Staff

Obama's Climate of Fear

Real businesspeople are really afraid of what the president is doing to free enterprise.
Dan Kennedy

Conservatives, let this be our Waterloo

It's time the right teaches Obama his victory was short-lived.
Dan Gainor

Media Help Obama Gear Up for 'Stimulus, The Sequel

It's beginning to sound like February, as political rhetoric and journalistic support suggest momentum for more spending.
Jeff Poor

'Today' Wonders If Europe Will Swoon for Obama Again

Previewing Barack Obama's trip to Italy for the G8 summit, on Wednesday's "Today" show, NBC's Matt Lauer asked Savannah Guthrie what kind of reaction the President will receive as Lauer noted the President got a "chilly reception" in Russia. Guthrie responded that "It was a real contrast," because she is used to seeing, "really swooning Europeans who are very excited about Mr. Obama." [audio…
Geoffrey Dickens

Huge CO2 Emissions Disagreement Between EPA and Energy Dept. Ignored b

The mainstream media loves to tell the public about how "unreliable" the blogosphere is as an information source. However, there is a huge story out there that is only being covered by the blogosphere, in particular at Watts Up With That?, which is currently being completely ignored by the MSM.It is about a significant disagreement between the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa…
P.J. Gladnick

Camille Paglia Explains Palin Derangement Syndrome

Salon's Camille Paglia has regularly chided the press for their obvious Palin Derangement Syndrome, and on Wednesday tried to once again explain the malady:As a Democrat, I detest the partisan machinations that have become standard in Northeastern news management and that are detectable in editorial decisions at major metropolitan newspapers nationwide. It's why I, like a host of others, have…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Huff-Po: Democrats Proving Again That Compromise is Not an Option on H

In this report we get a nice one-two punch. Not only are we seeing Democrats once again refusing even a tiny compromise with Republicans on Obama's takeover of nearly 20% of our economy with his healthcare plans, but we also get to see another example of why Huffington Post is not journalism. I like a nice one-two punch for a Wednesday. For one thing, the HuffPo article hilariously calls Democrat…
Warner Todd Huston

Olbermann: We Have To 'Legally Stop' Glenn Beck

Noted free-speech champion Keith Olbermann has declared that we have to "legally stop" Glenn Beck. The Fox News host's crime? Not reacting strongly enough for Olbermann's taste when a guest made an over-the-top remark.  [H/t reader JKF.]On the June 30 editon of Beck's show, former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer said: "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to detonate…
Mark Finkelstein

NPR Host: Palin Morphed From Superwoman to 'Just Another Mean Girl' At

Tim Graham

AP, Reuters Go Full Tilt in Spinning Latest Writing of Pope

[Please see update below.]Two major wire services- AP and Reuters- cherry picked excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical (a teaching document of the Catholic Church) on Tuesday to support left-wing economic and political positions, and all but ignored the pontiff’s traditional stances on the family, bioethics, and the environment. The AP also went so far to bring up “the state of the…
Matthew Balan