Bozell: Media Must Ask Where $350 Billion Went

President Barack Obama has congressional approval to spend the second half of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money. But before Americans are asked to spend another $350 billion, it is up to government to account for the massive spending that has already occurred. The question at stake: Where exactly is the money? While both Bloomberg and the Fox Business Network have filed…
Dan Gainor

Former Boss Rebukes NASA Global Warming Alarmist Hansen, Is AGW Skepti

I'll betcha this won't get much notice in the Obamedia, so it needs some here.Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe's Environment and Public Works Committee Press Blog released a statement last night reporting that Dr. John S. Theon, the former supervisor of over-the-top global warming alarmist James Hansen, has publicly rebuked his former employee's conduct, refuted Hansen's comedic claim that he was…
Tom Blumer

Open Thread

NB Staff

Governor's Party Irrelevant, Prostitute's Party Is Not

Tim Graham

Time Mag Photographer Works as Both a 'Journalist' AND Team Obama Empl

The old joke about CNN in the 1990s was that it stood for the Clinton News Network. The current joke about the anti-Israel Associated Press is that AP stands for Allah Press. In the 70s, people joked that NBC really meant National Broadcasting for Communists. We've all heard the various joke acronyms before, of course. But, the presumed sentiment of the individuals working for these news agencies…
Warner Todd Huston

Brian Williams: Obama First Non 'Choice of Evils' in 'Generations

Marveling on Monday's Late Show about how people were lining up during the inauguration “to buy merchandise with any depiction” of President Barack Obama, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams expressed his pleasure at seeing so many people “that excited about our new chief executive after a line of what the ordinary voter would maybe describe as bad choices or choices of evils, for years,…
Brent Baker

Democrats Start Petition Against Rush Limbaugh

If you had any questions remaining about the war liberals have launched to end conservative talk radio they should be answered by a petition the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee began "to show Rush Limbaugh and all of the Republicans what they're up against if they start attacking President Obama."On Monday, the MRC's Brent Bozell warned Americans that Obama's statement to Republican…
Noel Sheppard

Olbermann: Obama ‘Separating Mullah Limbaugh from the Herd,’ Lates

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann branded Rush Limbaugh as the "extreme right," and made an analogy between Barack Obama talking about trying to divide jihadists from Muslim moderates during his inauguration, and the President's current efforts to isolate Limbaugh from other conservatives. Hosting  Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter as guest, Olbermann began: "In his inaugural address…
Brad Wilmouth

CNN’s Jack Cafferty Slams Limbaugh as 'Corpulent Oxycontin Aficionad

CNN commentator Jack Cafferty, who had bashed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for “starting to sound a little like Chairman Mao” the previous day, labeled Rush Limbaugh “that corpulent Oxycontin aficionado of right-wing talk radio” during his usual “Cafferty File” segment on Tuesday’s Situation Room. The slam came during as Cafferty launched a mild criticism of President Obama’s first week in office…
Matthew Balan

NBC: ‘Immediate Action’ Needed to Stop 1,000 Yrs of Global Warming

Uniquely among Monday’s broadcast evening newscasts, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams read a short item citing a "disheartening" report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicting that the world is in danger of suffering effects of global warming that will take 1,000 years to reverse unless "immediate action is taken to cut greenhouse gases." Williams: "The…
Brad Wilmouth

Bailout Bait 'n' Switch

We buy one bill of goods. Washington delivers another.
Dan Kennedy

CBS ‘Early Show’ Interviews Blagojevich, No Democratic Mention

On Tuesday’s CBS ‘Early Show,’ embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was interviewed over the course of two segments, totaling 10 minutes, and was never described as a Democrat. Co-hosts Maggie Rodriguez, Harry Smith and Julie Chen all spoke with the governor at some point and none mentioned his political party. The only acknowledgment of the governor’s party affiliation was in an on-screen…
Kyle Drennen

Cynthia McFadden: Reporters Saw Obama as 'Bright Hope in the Distance

According to "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, during the 2008 presidential campaign "many in the media" saw Barack Obama as a "bright hope in the distance." The ABC journalist made that admission during a "Morning Media Menu" podcast interview with TV Newser editor Steve Krakauer on Tuesday. In a justifying tone, she quickly added, "It's also clear that a lot of Americans thought that."…
Scott Whitlock

Senator Warns White House Will 'Create Crisis' and 'Panic' to Push Sti

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., criticizes mainstream media for not reporting loads of pork in proposed legislation.
Jeff Poor