PBS's Bonnie Erbe Reiterates Her Palin Derangement

"If Sarah Palin Weren't a Fanatic, I Might Feel Sorry For Her" blares the headline for Bonnie Erbe's June 30 blog post up at USNews.com. Gov. Palin joins blogger Michelle Malkin as a target of Erbe's rather catty disdain.The PBS "To the Contrary" host and US News contributing editor alerted her readers of her antipathy for the former Republican vice presidential nominee in light of Todd Purdum's…
Ken Shepherd

ABC Features Own Journalist in 'Debate' With Conservative Gingrich on

ABC medical expert Dr. Tim Johnson, a fervent fan of universal health care, actually talked to the other side on Wednesday, featuring Newt Gingrich for what an onscreen graphic labeled a "debate" on the merits of a government-run program. It might seem odd for the network to tag a segment of a conservative talking to one of its journalists as a debate, but Johnson is certainly a partisan on this…
Scott Whitlock

Media Skim Over Franken Being 'Finally' Seated

Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

Jenny Sanford for Governor: Kudlow, Moore Urge S.C. First Lady to Run

While many on the left are reveling in the downfall of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford after he disclosed his affair with a woman in Argentina, there's a sympathetic figure being overlooked that might have the necessary background to fill the void left by the governor should he resign. On CNBC's June 30 "The Kudlow Report," Wall Street Journal senior economics writer Steve Moore explained his…
Jeff Poor

On Health Care (and Everything Else), What is the American Way

We should look to individuals for answers.
Dan Kennedy

Obama Laments 'Worn Arguments and Old Attitudes' Holding Back Gay Libe

The Washington Post put the first White House celebration of Gay Pride Month on the front page Tuesday, but reporter Michael Shear left out some of the president’s most liberal and most supportive lines from the transcript. Obama pledged to be "an ally and a champion" of the gay left’s agenda and hailed gay activists "who have refused to accept anything less than full and equal citizenship." He…
Tim Graham

CNN Loses to MSNBC for First Time

Over at TVBytheNumbers.com, we see that CNN has come in third to FoxNews and MSNBC respectively for weekday primetime ratings during the second quarter of this year. This is the first time that MSNBC has come out ahead of CNN ever. Unfortunately for those of us wishing for a well informed public, it is the Keith Olbermann show that is driving MSNBC's ratings gain over CNN. Apparently Americans…
Warner Todd Huston

Now It's SF Chron Using False '90% of Mexican Guns From US' Line

The San Francisco Chronicle is proving the old bromide true. That's the one that goes: "a lie can be half way 'round the world before the truth can pull its boots on" (often incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain). Then there is another one Twain didn't originate but aptly fits here, "there are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics." The subject of this scoffing is that factoid the…
Warner Todd Huston

Baier: Purdum's Vanity Fair Hit Piece Example of 'Palin Derangement Sy

“Another case of Sarah Palin derangement syndrome has reared its ugly head,” FNC's Bret Baier announced Tuesday night in citing Todd Purdum's lengthy piece in the August issue of Vanity Fair magazine, “It Came from Wasilla.” Purdum, a New York Times reporter for 23 years until leaving the paper in 2006, is married to ex-Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.In the “Grapevine” segment…
Brent Baker

Bozell Column: Celebrities At The End

Brent Bozell

Kudlow, Moore Push for S.C. First Lady Jenny Sanford to Run for Govern

Wall Street Journal writer calls former finance executive 'brains of the operation.'
Jeff Poor

CNN's Kyra Phillips Brings Out Kid Gloves for Homosexual Colonel

[Update, 8 pm Eastern: Screen capture, video link to interview added.] CNN anchor Kyra Phillips sympathized with an outed homosexual army officer on Tuesday’s Newsroom program. Phillips questioned Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach about his recent meeting with President Obama, and asked, “What else did you tell him, because I know this has weighed heavily on your heart for a very long time....What…
Matthew Balan

The Other Side of the Health Care Debate the Matador Media Should Be H

For the Matador Media, One Side Fits All As the media walk hand-in-hand with the Left towards their fantasy-addled government medicine Utopia, they routinely forget that there is another perspective out there as to whether or not the government should commandeer the nation's private health care system. A perspective on which they, had they not already…
Seton Motley