Self-Dealing Omitted: Rep. Grace Napolitano Pays Herself $200,000 In I

Tim Graham

Physician Declares Global Warming Will Cause Sharp Rise in Kidney Ston

Urology professor says climate change will create a billion-dollar 'kidney stone belt.'
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

NBC’s Chuck Todd Knocks Rush; ‘Backward,’ ‘Dying Medium’ of

NBC White House political director Chuck Todd appeared on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" on Monday to dismiss Rush Limbaugh as "looking backward" and deride the radio industry as a "dying medium." Todd (see file photo above), who was talking with co-host Mika Brzezinski about Limbaugh’s role as a leader in the Republican Party, also suggested a linkage between the radio host and far left bomb thrower…
Scott Whitlock

ABC's Jake Tapper Laments Some Producers 'Root' for Obama in News Cove

Tim Graham

WaPo: Hey, Bailout Snivelers: Hush. You Don't Need It

Hush all you sniveling bailout hating troublemakers. Just shut up, you don't need the money. That is the message from Washington Post personal finance commentator Michelle Singletary. In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama declared that he was going to "speak frankly and directly." That's what I want to do as well. I want to speak frankly and directly to the many…
Terry Trippany

Obama WH Secret Phone Conferences Bear Fruit With TV Media's Limbaugh

Back on January 29, we discussed the daily strategy phone call engineered by Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for friendly TV commentators and "reporters." Politico reported that Emanuel has a daily phone conference call with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, and CNN's James Carville and Paul Begala. With Rush Limbaugh's raucous CPAC address, as he termed it his "first address to the nation," we…
Warner Todd Huston

'National Shame' Will Propel Obama's 'Universal' Health to Victory

Brent Baker

CNN Contributor: 'Listening to Obama Give a Speech is Like Sex

Did you think listening to President Obama give his address before Congress on Tuesday evening was "like sex?"Republican strategist and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos did, or at least that's what he admitted to John King on Sunday's "State of the Union" a friend said:I think, as a friend told me once, that -- listening to Barack Obama give a speech is like sex. The worse there ever was, was…
Noel Sheppard

No Class: 'Wonkette' Blogger Rips Paul Harvey In Death

The death of Paul Harvey has resulted in some very respectful notices in the media, like Richard Corliss of Time magazine. (Except for this sentence: "The rosy sentimentalist was also a fretful conservative; he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary Communists in the State Department." ) Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer is highlighting Internet scribblings offering a more impolite reflection…
Tim Graham

'Lethal Medication'? AP Prefers Culture-of-Death Euphemisms for Assist

Tim Graham

Lib Blogger Pulls a Ted Turner, Mocks Ash Wednesday

Liberal blogger and Media Matters employee* Oliver Willis channeled his inner Ted Turner last Wednesday, while writing for his eponymous Web site. You see Willis took to his keyboard at 5:20 p.m. on February 25, Ash Wednesday, to hack out this 41-word snark about the liturgical ritual (h/t Damian G.): As I write this, millions of people around the world have a charcoal cross scratched…
Ken Shepherd

Limbaugh Speech Fact Check: Joe Biden's 'Stimulus Package' Cluelessnes

Will the mainstream media continue to attack Rush Limbaugh's speech to CPAC yesterday on the basis of "feelings" such as Bill Schneider of CNN did? Schneider called the speech "angry," "mocking," "bullying," and "full of contempt." What Schneider conveniently left out was any sort of challenge about Limbaugh's facts. So let this humble correspondent do the fact checking that the MSM seems to be…
P.J. Gladnick

Ann Coulter to Debate Bill Maher in Boston

On March 10, conservative author Ann Coulter will debate liberal comedian Bill Maher at the Citi Performing Arts Center in Boston.Sadly, the facility only seats 3,600 people, for this event, ironically organized by Madison Square Garden Entertainment, is sure to be a hot ticket given the fiery personalities involved.As reported by the Eagle-Tribune Sunday:
Noel Sheppard