Obama Tells Congressional GOP To Turn Off Rush Limbaugh Show: Will Med

Tim Graham

Obama Delivers 'Sweeping Change' at 'Warp Speed,' Now 'We Will Practic

ABC and CBS on Friday night delivered glowing assessments of President Barack Obama's first three days in office, with ABC's George Stephanopoulos declaring “this first week was disciplined and strategic” enabling “sweeping change.” Fill-in anchor Diane Sawyer pronounced: “Change the tone and change it at warp speed.” CBS's Bob Schieffer relayed how “I think he's off to a very good start” and…
Brent Baker

Chris Matthews Says Gov. Sarah Palin is Illiterate

**Video Below Fold** Good old Chris "Tingle" Matthews. We can always look to him to lower his own credibility just one more notch with each and every broadcast, can't we? This time Ol' Chris Tingle has debased himself by telling the four or five viewers he has that he thinks Governor Sarah Palin can't read or write. Apparently Matthews doesn't think that Palin has the capacity to write the book…
Warner Todd Huston

Debunking the Stimulus Myth: Only 3% Allotted for Road, Bridge Spendin

You've heard it here, there and everywhere in the news media - the time is now for a big-government economic stimulus package, not only to revive the economy, but to salvage America's crumbling infrastructure. That's one of the selling points used over and over again by pundits, as they are paraded out repeatedly on broadcast and cable network news programs - that so-called "shovel-ready"…
Jeff Poor

Viewer Alert: MRC/NB's Tim Graham on Hannity Tonight

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham is scheduled to appear on the "Hannity" show on Fox News Channel on Friday night. In a "media mash" segment, Tim will discuss some of the latest media-bias issues and video. (We're told it's near the end of the hour.)The show airs at 9 pm and midnight Eastern time.
NB Staff

CNN Guest on Embryo Destruction: 'Religious Right' Also Opposed Anesth

During a segment on Friday’s Newsroom program, CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen heralded the FDA’s approval of the first human clinical trial involving embryo-destroying stem cell research. Cohen then gave a soft interview of the president and CEO of the company involved in the trial, who made the bizarre claim that new medical breakthroughs, including corneal transplants and…
Matthew Balan

Matthews: 'What's Wrong' with a 'Show Trial' or 'Witch Hunt' of Bush

Ken Shepherd

Debunking Stimulus Myth: Only 3% Allotted for Road, Bridge Infrastruct

Despite media rhetoric after Minnesota bridge collapse, Democrats commit money to other projects.
Jeff Poor

Dear Wash. Post: Don't Worry about China

Geithner warns about Chinese currency manipulation, but why should U.S. complain about lending when credit is tight?
Donald J. Boudreaux, Ph.D.

CBS’s Rodriguez Cites NYT to Criticize Obama Gitmo Decision

In a rare instance of critical coverage of the Obama administration on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman about Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay: "I'm not sure if you've seen the New York Times this morning. On the front page there is an article that reveals that a terror suspect released from Guantanamo a few months ago...is now…
Kyle Drennen

Veterans' Ball Organizer Takes Money, Runs; Where's the Outrage, Media

In a follow-up to an January 19 report from the Navy Times, the Army Times reported yesterday that:The promoter who failed to hold a promised Veterans Inaugural Ball on Tuesday has left behind a trail of angry corporate sponsors and charities who contributed to the event, disappointed performers who were booked for entertainment, and 17 to 25 beauty queens who were told they would be ambassadors…
Ken Shepherd

Weekend Captionfest

President Obama glares at Joe Biden after the VP makes a joke at the expense of Chief Justice John Roberts at a swearing-in ceremony for senior White House staffers on January 21, 2009.
NB Staff

White House Press Briefing Live Blog

Ken Shepherd

ABC Spins New Senate Pick as a 'Conservative Democrat

On Friday's "Good Morning America," reporter John Berman spun Representative Kristen Gillibrand, the soon-to-be announced senator from New York, as a "conservative Democrat." Although she is only beginning her second term in the House, Gillibrand has been endorsed by the aggressively pro-abortion group NARAL. According to the New York Observer, she supports gay marriage. Additionally, the…
Scott Whitlock