Media and Academia, Historical Illiterates du Jour

To show how foolishly hyperbolic the Old Media and the ignorati in our universities are, the Associated Press issued a dire report that breathlessly informed us all that Barack Obama is facing a "nation in crisis" and it's all "just like Lincoln and FDR." The AP even gets an historically illiterate university professor to sonorously declare how Obama is "one step away" from Lincoln and FDR. But…
Warner Todd Huston

Have Fun For Now, Frank

I don't begrudge Obama supporters a celebration.  After eight years in the presidential wilderness and an election that was, yes, historic, it's natural to whoop it up.Even so, if Frank Rich were an NFL player [willing suspension of disbelief required], his end-zone dance of a column today would earn him a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.Annotated excerpts:
Mark Finkelstein

CBS News: Obama Must 'Win Over' Media? Is CBS Joking Here

To answer the question of my headline, no CBS isn't joking. CBS is actually pretending that the Old Media must be "won over" by a President Obama. It makes one wonder just how much more the press can be in love with The One? As multiple studies have shown, the Old Media has been far more in Obama’s corner than not yet now CBS wants to pretend they are skeptical of Obama? Now CBS wants to act as…
Warner Todd Huston

Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread

UPDATE: Many more videos have been added!!!We wanted to try something new this evening: The Anti-SNL Comedy Video Open Thread.As Saturday nights were made for comedy -- despite what Elton John once sang -- we thought we might post humorous -- but always tasteful and non-controversial -- videos for your viewing pleasure so that you don't have to put up with the liberal bias on "Saturday Night Live…
NB Staff

NYT Displeased With Gracious GOP Congratulations To Obama

Is there anything a Republican can do that would please the folks at the New York Times short of losing an election, resigning from office, or getting caught in a career-ending scandal?You would think the gracious, post-election comments expressed towards president-elect Obama by folks such as John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn.) would have been greeted with joy by…
Noel Sheppard

Colby King on GOP's Make Up: Nationalist Party of South Africa

Washington Post columnist Colby King charged Friday night that a look those who attended McCain-Palin rallies -- presumably meaning all-white -- versus those who went to Obama events, plus a “look at the census projections and what do you see? The Nationalist Party of South Africa.”On Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, but first…
Brent Baker

O'Donnell Tells Buchanan Republican Party 'Celebrates Ignorance

The post-election unity was on full display Friday evening when MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell told syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan that the Republican Party celebrates ignorance.This set off a fiery exchange on the new "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" that included O'Donnell claiming the GOP forbids members to accept the theory of evolution, and Buchanan countering that he would…
Noel Sheppard

Washington Post Admits Bias Towards Obama

The media's post-election truth leaks are in full swing now as the Washington Post will publish an admission from its ombudsman Sunday that it was clearly biased towards Barack Obama in its coverage of the just-concluded presidential campaign.Isn't the truth great when it doesn't hurt your agenda?Although Deborah Howell's piece "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage" will appear in Sunday's print…
Noel Sheppard

Obama's 'Service in College' Program at Change.gov Promises $40 an Hou

Talk about "change." The latest version of president-elect Barack Obama's ever-evolving ideas for "community service" promises to pass out quite a bit of it to America's college students. The "America Serves" (link is to Google cache) and "Service" sections of Team Obama's Change.gov site have, uh, changed quite a bit over the past day or so after many, including Kerry Picket of Newsbusters,…
Tom Blumer

Saturday Sports Open Thread

First, was last Saturday's Texas-Texas Tech matchup the game of the year so far? Does anything on today's schedule have the same potential?No. 11 Ohio State at No. 24 NorthwesternNo. 20 Georgia Tech at No. 19 North CarolinaNo. 1 Alabama at No. 16 LSUNo. 9 Oklahoma State at No. 2 Texas TechNo. 21 California at No. 7 USCIn the NHL, are the Sharks and Rangers for real? In the NBA, Atlanta, Utah, and…
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Piling on Palin.Since Wednesday, media and so-called McCain campaign insiders have been bashing poor Sarah Palin. What do you think is behind this?More importantly, will she survive this onslaught? Does she still have a political career, or will all these attacks send her back to Alaska for good?
NB Staff

ABC Reignites 'Troopergate': Officer Portrayed as Victim, Palin as Gui

ABC Still Attacking Gov. Palin On its Blotter from Brian Ross Blog, ABC News is trying to re-ignite the "Troopergate" issue by portraying Alaska state trooper Mike Wooten as a victim of "threatening phone calls." And, in reporting this new aspect of the story, ABC waits until the last sentence of the story to mention that Governor Palin was deemed innocent of charges of ethics violations in…
Warner Todd Huston

Media Attacked Bush Over Baseless Conscription Fears, Ignores Conscrip

 Since U.S. troops have been in Iraq, the media instilled baseless fears around college campuses that President Bush would bring back the draft.  The Washington Post reported in 2004 the following: Rumors of reinstating the military draft, which have flourished for months in panicky e-mails, online chat rooms, college dorms and student newspapers, suddenly dominated the House floor yesterday in…
Kerry Picket

McClellan: Obama's Nancy-Mocking Presser Mistake-Free

Message to Scott McClellan: when your guy's gaffe merits a screaming headline at Drudge [see after the jump] about how he's had to apologize for what he said, he's messed up. Big time.  But that didn't stop Pres. Bush's former press secretary—turned Soros-paid scrivener—from going on TV and proclaiming that Obama turned in a flawless performance in his debut presser today as president-elect.…
Mark Finkelstein