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Ken Shepherd

CBS and NBC Minimize Obama’s Abortion Funding Order; ABC Highlights

Catching up on an item from Friday night, the three broadcast evening newscasts aired virtually nothing on January 23 about President Obama’s executive order permitting federal funding of abortions, overturning orders signed by President Bush in his first week in office back in 2001. Both CBS and NBC’s White House reporters squeezed in a single sentence about Obama’s action during stories about…
Rich Noyes

Bozell Column: Tony Blankley's Untimely Cry

Authors often try to release their books at an absolutely perfect moment for stoking sales. Exhibit A is PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who scheduled her liberal "era of Obama" thrill-fest about hot-shot black Democrats for Barack Obama’s Inauguration Day. Tony Blankley did almost exactly the opposite. To paraphrase the famous Bill Buckley slogan for National Review, Blankley’s new book stands athwart…
Brent Bozell

Gore to Turn Up Heat as Snow, Ice Hit Washington

Jeff Poor

Gore to Turn Up Heat as Snow, Ice Hit Washington

BMI Staff

Congresswoman Claims to Have Asked Gore About Global Warming on 19-Deg

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., warns about forthcoming cap-and-trade legislation and says earth is entering into a long-term global cooling stage.
Jeff Poor

It's Winter, So That Must Be Gore Talking about 'Warming

The left's own Punxsutawney Phil brings more hot air to a chilly Washington.
Dan Gainor

CBS Reporter Calls Environmentalists ‘Long-Suffering

Matt Philbin

Talking About the Economy, Couric Drops the ‘D-Bomb

Matt Philbin

Pool Reports Page Gone, Still No Press Briefings on WhiteHouse.gov

Checking out the official Web page for the Obama administration today, I noticed that the White House has removed the  "pool reports" entry from the "Briefing Room" lineup roughly six days after the White House press corps made clear it would not fork over the pool reports to the White House. The page itself, which of course lacks any pool reports, is still accessible here.As of noon this 27th…
Ken Shepherd

NBC Avoids Nipplegate, Nixes PETA's Sexy Super Bowl Ad

The good folks at NBC, clearly wanting to avoid a "Nipplegate" replay, will not air animal rights group PETA's hyper-sexual television ad during Sunday's Super Bowl.When you see it, you'll know why. For those that have forgotten, on February 1, 2004, during the halftime festivities of Super Bowl XXXVIII, singer Janet Jackson had a "wardrobe malfunction" revealing her naked breast to a startled…
Noel Sheppard

CNN’s Jack Cafferty Compares Speaker Pelosi to Chinese Dictator Mao

During his regular “Question of the Hour” segment on Monday’s Situation Room, CNN commentator Jack Cafferty compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s idea to spend hundred of millions of dollars on contraception as a cost-reducing measure to the oppressive birth control policies of the Chinese Communists under Mao: “What exactly did she mean? Are the millions of dollars for contraception supposed to…
Matthew Balan

Open Thread

NB Staff

Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Economic Solution 'May Just Be Throwing More M

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, a former Washington bureau chief at the magazine, was typically blunt as he warmly assessed Obama’s first few days in office on the Saturday Early Show. "He's moving right along, he's not wasting any time. He still seems cool. I think the American public's still with him," he announced. But what about the crisis atmosphere in the economy and the banking sector? Said Thomas…
Tim Graham