Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Sarah Palin conservative of the year?Sarah Palin wins HUMAN EVENTS’ prestigious “Conservative of the Year” Award for 2008 for her genius at annoying all the right people. The last woman to get liberals this hot under the collar would have been … let's see now … oh, yeah: Me!Read Ann Coulter's entire piece and share your thoughts.
NB Staff

Kurtz Profiles Mika: Resisting Liberal Label

Howard Kurtz features Mika Brzezinski in his WaPo Media Notes column this morning.  Between a book deal and the syndication of her new radio show with Morning Joe partner Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski has become a hot media property of late.The column reveals some interesting bits about Brzezinski, including the fact that she was unceremoniously let go at CBS upon the advent of Katie Couric.  But…
Mark Finkelstein

Newsweek Hails the Clintons as Perfect Pair to Repair America's Image

Tim Graham

USA Today Oozes Over Michelle Obama

Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz found a story in USA Today that qualified for the "Obama Adulation Watch." Reporter Maria Puente oozed over incoming First Lady Michelle Obama on Friday as the black Jackie Kennedy, and insisted the Obamas undermined the conservative "caricature" of her "through widely viewed television interviews in which they demonstrated warmth, affection, humor --…
Tim Graham

Euro Journo Sides With Muslim Hate Over BDS Shoe Toss

Mitch Potter of the Toronto Star is the quintessential example of a self-hating European, I must say. He is a journalist that sides with those who advocate the destruction of his own culture just so he can puff himself up that he "gets it" and he does this willingly ala the useful idiots of old. In his latest pretense at journalism, Potter takes such glee indulging his Bush derangement syndrome…
Warner Todd Huston

NBC Touts How Biden Will Boldly Put Middle Class 'Front and Center

In an abbreviated edition of Sunday's NBC Nightly News (shorted by golf in the EST/CST), the network still found time to tout as newsworthy how Vice President-elect Joe Biden will chair a “White House Task Force on Working Families.” With “Focus on the Middle Class” on screen below a picture of Biden, anchor Lester Holt, referring to ABC's This Week, asserted Biden had “revealed” his function: “…
Brent Baker

Air America Founder Agrees With Rush on Fairness Doctrine

You want to talk about politics making strange bedfellows, the founder of the liberal talk radio station Air America actually agrees with Rush Limbaugh's view of the Fairness Doctrine.Not only that, Jon Sinden even had an op-ed published in Monday's Wall Street Journal saying so.I kid you not.UPDATE: Readers are advised that Sinden is no longer affiliated with Air America, and that current…
Noel Sheppard

Sunday Wrap: Mitchell in Awe of Cabinet's 'Brain Power,' Donaldson Pro

Some quick items from the Sunday interview shows and newspapers: ♦ On Meet the Press, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell, who last month hailed Obama's “all-star cabinet,” on Sunday trumpeted the cabinet's “meritocracy,” and how it's supposedly made up of “superstars,” as she gushed over “people with so much brain power and so much education.” ♦ Over on ABC's This Week, during the roundtable's look at…
Brent Baker

Chavez Plans Expropriation of Nearly Complete Megamall; AP Avoids Key

Hugo Chavez has announced that he plans to expropriate a huge and nearly complete shopping mall in Caracas. The Spanish language web page of Constructora Sambil that describes the project (pictured at the right) says that it's 21,600 square meters. Chavez appears to have no idea what he will do with it. The Associated Press's Ian James apparently had no idea what to do with that shocking bit of…
Tom Blumer

Greenpeace Climate Change Ad: North Pole Melting, Santa Rescued

Is there no depth the global warming fear-mongers won't go to scare the public into believing carbon dioxide is destroying the planet?Apparently not, as a new ad by the environmental group Greenpeace disgracefully depicts an ocean rescue of a seasick and vomiting Santa Claus from a supposedly melting North Pole.As the animation comes to a close, the caption "Climate Change hits everybody" fills…
Noel Sheppard

Whoopi Still Clueless About the Constitution

“The View” moderator Whoopi Goldberg is apparently still unaware that the Constitution explicitly forbids slavery. Appearing on the December 21 edition of “Reliable Sources” (video here), host Howard Kurtz played a clip of Whoopi Goldberg questioning John McCain, that is he were to appoint strict constructionist judges, if she should fear a return to slavery. Unfazed, Whoopi replied “I thought…
Justin McCarthy

Google: Conservative Website Lucianne Harmful To Computers

Internet behemoth Google on Sunday declared the conservative website Lucianne, founded by Lucianne Goldberg, harmful to computers.Oddly, as NewsBusters reported, the same thing happened to the conservative website "American Spectator" almost exactly a year ago.  If you do a regular Google web search of the word "Lucianne," the following is the first result:
Noel Sheppard

Chertoff Includes 'Right Wing Nut' Driven By Racism Scenario As Threat

Kerry Picket

LAT Sunday Conversation: MSM 'Reverence' For Bush 'Only Recently Lifte

The MSM has been too reverential towards George W. Bush.  Yeah, that's the ticket.  The only thing more absurd than that assertion was Arianna Huffington's willingness to accept it as a fact in answering a question. Here was the exchange between Huffington and Choire Sicha, writing for the LA Times, in today's "Sunday Conversation" feature [emphasis added]:CHOIRE SICHA: It was only recently that…
Mark Finkelstein