Only NBC Notes Fewest Ever Monthly Deaths in Wars

Of the broadcast network newscasts Thursday evening, only the NBC Nightly News took a few seconds to note some more good news from the war front as fill-in anchor Lester Holt reported “combined deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan in November” stood at eleven, “the lowest total since the U.S. invaded Iraq.” ABC's World News devoted more than two minutes to LBJ tapes, which showed him “anguished about…
Brent Baker
 

CNBC's Burnett Downplays Senator's Opposition to Auto Bailout

'Street Signs' host says Banking Committee ranking Republican knows bailout will probably happen.
Jeff Poor
 

Lefty Granny Sues Army Over Embed SNAFU

The Oakland Tribune reports the story of a hipster granny from Berkeley that has decided to sue the U.S. military over a reporter embed she arranged in Iraq that was abruptly canceled by the government. While the Oakland Trib and the hippie granny try their hardest to make the U.S. military the villain, it's a bit hard to feel too sorry for her when the facts are considered. On top of that, the…
Warner Todd Huston
 

NYT: Make The Mormons Walk To Wal-Mart

In the social circles of the New York Times editorialists, it's OK to have one kid. Two is pushing the envelope. Three or more is déclassé, and a threat to the survival of the planet.That being so, there's really no reason to let any car bigger than a Prius be built.  Doing so just encourages the unenlightened to overbreed. And so it is that in its editorial of today, the Grey-but-barren Lady…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Oprah Whines that Sarah Hasn't Come on Oprah Show

Oprah cries: "She talked to Greta. She talked to Matt. She talked to Larry. But she didn’t talk to me…" Apparently, Oprah is whining that Sarah Palin won't come on her show now that the election is over. But, who can blame Governor Palin for snubbing Oprah after the nasty things Oprah reportedly said about her before the election? In an interview with TV tabloid schlocker Extra, Oprah acted all…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Follow-up: Former CA Speaker's Son Enters Murder Plea; Dem Party ID Bu

Updating Kerry Picket's NewsBusters post yesterday on the arrest of former (as of four days ago) Democratic California Assembly member Fabian Nuñez's son on murder charges -- Esteban Nuñez and others charged with murder pled not guilty Thursday. The party-ID treatment of Fabian Nuñez, whose term as California Assemly Speaker ended on May 13, but whose term in the Assembly ended just this past…
Tom Blumer
 

Obama 'Most Fascinating' to Walters: He 'Redeemed the American Promise

Unveiling President-elect Barack Obama as her “Most Fascinating Person of 2008,” Barbara Walters wrapped up her Thursday night prime time special by championing how Obama “has redeemed the American promise that an individual can make his own destiny and create a new world.” (Obama hasn't even taken office, yet he's already managed to “create a new world”?) She then presumptuously gushed: “We are…
Brent Baker
 

TIME's Jeff Israely Calls the Pope a 'Scrooge

Aren't the leaders of religions supposed to defend church doctrine?
Matthew Balan
 

Barbara Walters Betrays 'Fascinating' Bias

During her Ten Most Fascinating People special, ABC's news doyenne tolerates a pregnant pseudo-man, an outspoken cultist, a scandal-beset adolescent actress and a liberal president-elect, but judges a conservative talk show host and a conservative politician.
Colleen Raezler
 

Grinch-o-Meter ALERT

Politically correct holiday nonsense is picking up steam, especially in schools.
Kristen Fyfe
 

CNN’s Alina Cho Tries to Expose 'Rahmbo' Emanuel's 'Nice Guy' Side

During a report on Thursday’s American Morning, CNN correspondent Alina Cho used personal anecdotes in attempt to show how Barack Obama’s Chief-of-Staff-designate Rahm Emanuel has “softened over the years.” Cho cited the outgoing Illinois congressman’s unnamed rabbi, who said he is “really just a nice guy, intensely spiritual, even polite.” She also stated how despite being labeled a “street…
Matthew Balan
 

Matthews: It's 'Really Hard' to 'Salute Sarah Palin

On Thursday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews actually praised Sarah Palin for her ability to draw a crowd and even pegged her as the early frontrunner for the GOP nod in 2012, "Who’s gonna beat her?" However the MSNBC host, later admitted giving Palin that much credit took a lot out of him as he confessed to a guest panelist: "This is really hard to do this, to salute Sarah Palin."The following…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

CNN Reruns Year-Old Interviews on the Problem of Pro-Life Doctors

Tim Graham
 

Matthews: From Thrilled to Hypocritical in Under a Minute

Budding United States Senate candidate and still current MSNBC Hardball anchor Chris Matthews finds few things in life as thrilling as President-elect Barack Obama. Republican in-fighting, certainly, comes close.As we saw on Tuesday, when Chris the Contender gleefully reported on another potential Senate challenge, of current Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski by her Governor, Sarah Palin. There…
Seton Motley