NYTimes Celebrates America Hating Kids Enviro Video

A new propaganda video created by an extreme environmental activist is making its way into America's classrooms and The New York Times loves the whole idea. Enviro obsessive Annie Leonard, Greenpeace member and activist, has created a 20 minute video filled with anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda to encourage kids to eschew "stuff," calling the presentation "The Story of Stuff." Leonard's…
Warner Todd Huston

Newsweek’s Wolffe: GOP ‘Lost Their Heart in the 1980s, Lost Their

Brad Wilmouth

NPR Plugs Elizabeth Edwards Book, But Suggests Some Think She 'Perpetr

Tim Graham

FNC Highlights Archbishop Who Opposes Pro-Choice Obama Appearance at N

On Friday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, FNC correspondent Molly Henneberg highlighted the controversial decision by Notre Dame to invite the pro-choice President Obama to speak and be awarded an honorary degree. Henneberg filled in viewers on recent remarks by Archbishop Raymond Burke of the Vatican Supreme Court as the Catholic Church official voiced disapproval of Obama’s planned appearance…
Brad Wilmouth

'SNL' Producer: Sarah Palin 'Most Confident Person I've Ever Met

Stop the presses!  A member of the mainstream media actually said something nice about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.I kid you not: "Saturday Night Live" senior producer Marci Klein said during an interview last week, "This is the most confident person I've ever met."Certainly not the impression created by CBS's Katie Couric or ABC's Charlie Gibson, wouldn't you agree?Appearing on Julie Menin's "…
Noel Sheppard

Letterman Writer Boasts of Discrediting McCain, Obama 'Too Competent

The proudest moment in his career, Late Show writer Bill Scheft boasted at a Friday comedy writer panel held at Washington, DC's Newseum, was when he got David Letterman to try to undermine guest John McCain's Bill Ayers talking point by raising McCain's relationship with G. Gordon Liddy -- as if a political dirty trickster were the equivalent of a terrorist involved with bombings which killed…
Brent Baker

Maddow Sidekick Kent Jones Sorely 'Misinformed' About 'Casablanca

Kent Jones, a former Air America Radio humorist and writer for "The Daily Show," has his moments when he appears each weeknight on "The Rachel Maddow Show." But based on Jones' whopper of a claim about the movie "Casablanca," film criticism is not his forte.Here's what Jones said May 5 on Maddow's MSNBC show in describing recent articles by Stephen M. Walt and Daniel W. Drezner on the best films…
Jack Coleman

Cheney on Powell vs. Limbaugh: 'I'd Go with Rush Limbaugh

To Bob Schieffer's astonishment, when he wrapped up his Sunday interview by asking former Vice President Dick Cheney where he comes down between Rush Limbaugh and Colin Powell who both say the Republican Party would be “better off” without the other, Cheney declared: “I'd go with Rush Limbaugh.”  Cheney related on CBS's Face the Nation how “my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I…
Brent Baker

WSJ: Treasury's Stress Test Results 'Negotiated' -- Not To Mention Arb

It's a whole new wrinkle on the old joke about accountants (when asked what 2 + 2 is, he or she replies, "What do you want it to be?"). The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that the reported results of the financial institution stress tests were negotiated: Banks Won Concessions on Tests Fed Cut Billions Off Some Initial Capital-Shortfall Estimates; Tempers Flare at Wells The Federal…
Tom Blumer

Time's Joe Klein: Rush Limbaugh Is 'Delivering Misinformation, Lies

Noel Sheppard

Former Cuban Intelligence Official: Celebrities Often Blackmailed Into

It is not surprising that such far left Hollywood celebrities as Sean Pean and Danny Glover would support an outright communist dictatorship in Cuba but many other seemingly sane folks also have expressed their sympathy for Fidel Castro. I'm talking about people like Kevin Costner and Steven Spielberg. Costner is not known for any extreme leftwing politics and Spielberg, while liberal, has…
P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread

NB Staff

Lost in Translation: Biz Press Reports Dollar Amounts of Toyota's Loss

Here are the first two paragraphs of Toyota Motor Corporation's press release announcing its financial results for the year ended March 31, 2009 (most Japanese companies end their fiscal years on March 31; bolds are mine): Tokyo - TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION (TMC) today announced operating results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009. On a consolidated basis, net revenues for the fiscal year…
Tom Blumer

What Isn't History? CBS Hypes 'Unprecedented Presidential Burger Run

Tim Graham