Suze Orman Claims White Collar Workers are in 'Bread Lines

Just one night after CEO Donald Trump told "Larry King Live" viewers that the U.S. is in a "Depression," Suze Orman, personal finance expert and host of her own show, started talking about people in bread lines - but she wasn't making a historical reference. According to Orman there are people in bread lines right now, some of them white collar workers:"There are some people who can't find a job…
Julia A. Seymour

WaPo Foodie Throws Pinch of Bush-bashing Into Carnegie Deli Owner Obit

Ken Shepherd

CBS Poll Claims Obama More Bipartisan Than Republicans

On Thursday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid touted a new CBS News poll that portrayed Barack Obama as being more bipartisan on the current "stimulus" spending bill being debated in Congress, than Republicans: "The new CBS News poll shows 81 percent of Americans think the president is trying for bipartisanship, but less than half say congressional Republicans and Democrats are doing…
Kyle Drennen

Pro-Global Warming Study Receives Worldwide Headlines; Discovery of Er

When University of Washington Professor Eric Steig announced in a news conference and paper published in the January 22 edition of the journal Nature that he and several colleagues removed one of many thorns in the sides of climate alarmists -- in this case, evidence that Antarctica is cooling -- he received extensive worldwide attention in the mainstream press.But when a noteworthy error was…
Amy Ridenour

Press Clairvoyants: Opening Rise Means Markets Want Stimulus Passed

Have you ever wondered how the geniuses who report business news know why the stock market opens or closes up or down on any given day -- especially when they venture into political explanations? I received this e-mail from CNN just after the markets opened: Gosh, those e-mail drafters at CNN are smart. Who knew that the markets want the stimulus package so bad? Can't you hear, senators? The…
Tom Blumer

George Stephanopoulos Links Obama's Islamo Dictatorship Metaphor to GO

On Friday's "Good Morning America," George Stephanopoulos turned a statement that Barack Obama made about corrupt Islamic dictatorships and made it into a metaphor on congressional Republican opposition to the President's stimulus bill. Speaking of the difficulty Obama has had with passing his multi-billion dollar spending bill, Stephanopoulos instructed, "And to borrow a metaphor from the…
Scott Whitlock

Over Half the Nation Thinks Media Are Exaggerating Global Warming

For years NewsBusters has claimed media -- largely led by Nobel Laureate Al Gore for his own financial benefit -- are tremendously exaggerating man's impact on global warming as well as the dangers.A new study by Rasmussen Reports found most Americans agree with this premise.Color me unsurprised.As Rasmussen reported Friday:
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: You tell us.
NB Staff

Bos. Herald: Conservative That Prevents a Suicide, 'Does Indeed Have a

How do you turn a hearwarming tale into just another excuse to call conservatives heartless, mean ol' hatemongers? Just ask Jessica Heslam from the Boston Herald who, right in the first sentence of her story, decided it would be fun to take a slap shot at a conservative that helped save a woman's life, this week. Boston's conservative radio host, Howie Carr, helped a women decide against…
Warner Todd Huston

'Today Show' Suggests Single Moms Only Need Dad's Money

The morning show hosts reduce role of octuplets' father to monetary supplier.
Erin Brown

Newsweek Film Critic Turns Chick Flick Into an Out-With-Bush Metaphor

Tim Graham

Irate Matthews Defends Obama's White House Attire, Bashes Bush

Former White House chief-of-staff Andrew Card's suggestion to Barack Obama that his administration should continue the Bush fashion code of wearing a jacket and tie in the Oval Office, out of respect, ignited Chris Matthews, on Thursday night's "Hardball," to unleash an angry litany against Bush's foreign and domestic policies and then condemned, "If that's dressing for success I prefer shirt-…
Geoffrey Dickens

Chris Matthews to Obama: Don't 'Let Us Down

Chris Matthews is rooting for Barack Obama to get his so-called stimulus package passed so much, he offered him advice on how to sell it, on Thursday night's "Hardball," and cautioned him if he doesn’t succeed in that sales job he'll "let us down." Matthews, the former Jimmy Carter speechwriter, offered the following piece of advice to Obama on the February 5 edition of "Hardball":
Geoffrey Dickens

CBS’s Kroft Denies ‘Cheerleading’ for Obama in Fawning Documenta

Appearing on Wednesday’s O’Reilly Factor on FNC, CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft discussed his campaign interviews with Barack Obama that have been spliced together to create a CBS News DVD, ‘Obama: All Access,’: "Well, they were dying to have somebody come out, especially '60 Minutes,' very early on to kind of explain their campaign...we developed a nice rapport." Host Bill O’Reilly…
Kyle Drennen