Bozell Column: Hollywood's 2008 Best and Worst

Brent Bozell

Christmas Dinner Causes Global Warming

First it's Christmas lights, now it's Christmas dinner...causing global warming.Yep. People who cook more than their guests will eat and throw the food away are destroying the planet.I'm not kidding.ABCNews.com in Australia reported the following absurdity on Christmas Eve:
Noel Sheppard

Merry Christmas Open Thread

 NewsBusters and the Media Research Center wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas. (Marvelous Christmas videos below the fold for your holiday entertainment.)
NB Staff

'Today' Christmas Gift: Lauer's Apolitical Chat With Rick Warren

When during its first half-hour this Christmas morning "Today" moved to a conversation between Matt Lauer and Pastor Rick Warren, I braced myself.  Don't tell me, I thought, they're going to get into the invitation Pres.-elect Obama extended him to give the invocation at the Inauguration, and the reaction of some gay-rights groups. Well, surprise!  They didn't: not in word or implication.  Warren…
Mark Finkelstein

MSN Says Ridiculing Palin Is the Top TV Moment of

MSN TV reporter, Dave Lake, has decided in his infinite wisdom that Tina Fey ridiculing Governor Sarah Palin is the top TV moment from the 2008 TV season. Aren't you surprised that making fun of Sarah Palin has become the top TV moment? I mean, it's incredible that the liberal media has decided that out of the entire TV season, this is the top moment! I'm SHOCKED, to say the least. (Don't worry…
Warner Todd Huston

Christmas Eve Funnies: Santa Claus Demands Massive Bailout

This is really delicious, and should cheer up the grinchiest of Grinches and the scroogiest of Scrooges:Rumors that Santa Claus may be the latest and most high-profile victim of the worldwide credit crisis sent world stock markets roiling and children's hopes plummeting today as Wall Street analysts warned that Santa's entire production and distribution network could collapse by the end of the…
Noel Sheppard

Christmas With the Nazis: WWII Films Proliferate at Year's End

For most people, late December conjures up images of Christmas trees, religious services, and year-end recaps. That is not the case in Hollywood, however, where Christmastime seems to be Nazi time. That is especially true this year where six World War II films are being released almost simultaneously.AP reporter Sandy Cohen details this strange phenomenon and delves a bit into its origins:
Matthew Sheffield

Scarborough: Don't Read EJ Dionne, You Know He Supports Obama

Conservatives still licking their wounds over the results of the November elections finally have something to cheer about: you don't have to read Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne's articles anymore because you know he's supporting Barack Obama.So deliciously said MSNBC's Joe Scarborough to Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart on Tuesday's "Morning Joe" with the latter actually not…
Noel Sheppard

Rare Rachel Maddow Show Acknowledgment of Progress in Iraq

Jack Coleman

Open Thread

NB Staff

Christmas Lights Are Bad For the Planet

Here's an announcement that will please atheists and climate alarmists alike: Christmas lights are bad for the planet because they cause global warming.So says the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia's national science agency.  Bah humbug, I kid you not. As reported by the Courier and Mail this Christmas Eve:
Noel Sheppard

Williams Sounds Wail of the MSM Dinosaur

There was no Memorex around when the brontosauri were bidding bye-bye, but I think we have a pretty good idea of what they sounded like as they were going extinct.  Just listen to Brian Williams this morning.  Appearing on Morning Joe, the NBC Nightly News anchor lamented the decline of "classically-trained" journalists in favor of guys with "an opinion and a modem."  A question from Pat Buchanan…
Mark Finkelstein

CNN's Tale of Two Screen Graphics: Beefcake Barack vs. Winky Palin

Tim Graham

Bozell Column: The Year of Leg Thrills

Brent Bozell