Eco-Activist: Children Amplify Emotional Effect of Alarmist Claims

Former New York Times environmental reporter criticizes market system, lack of government heavy handedness in new book: 'Poisoned Profits.'
Jeff Poor

Obama's Anti-Intellectual Zombies Attack Chicago Radio Host... AGAIN

A few weeks ago we wrote about the undue and disingenuous attack led by Barack Obama's Chicago HQ perpetrated against Chicago radio host Dr. Milt Rosenberg. Well, last week they did it again, raising their legions to attack the host and his radio station (WGN) and trying to have the unassuming radio host thrown off the air. And what was his "crime"? Rosenberg had the gall to actually interview…
Warner Todd Huston

'Today' Has No Love for Hershey's Kisses

NBC morning show rolls out another economic indicator cheaper chocolate.
Nathan Burchfiel

ABC Train Trip to Obama Land: 28 Minutes to Dem Guests; Only 14 to GOP

On Friday, "Good Morning America" concluded its week long train trip to election battleground states and ended up devoting 28 minutes to high profile Democrats and just over 14 to Republicans, a disparity of two-to-one. The tour, which was designed to see what average Americans think about the presidential election, featured mostly Democratic guests. Senator Barack Obama appeared on Monday,…
Scott Whitlock

Open Thread

NB Staff

National Journal Columnist Hits ‘Media Double Standard

Over the next 46 days, as the candidates trade charges and counter-charges, the self-appointed media umpires will act as if they are the ultimate fact-finders in Campaign ’08. Writing for tomorrow’s National Journal, columnist Stuart Taylor says that the media’s track record thus far makes him just as skeptical of the press. Taylor declares: “Many in the media have been one-sided, sometimes…
Rich Noyes

The 'Elderly White Woman' Time Accuses McCain of Using in 'Race Card

It's come to this . . . Barack Obama became a candidate for president on the wings of his 2004 Dem convention keynote speech in which he famously said "there is not a Black America and a White America a Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America."  But as Rush Limbaugh has described in the Wall Street Journal today, Obama is now relying on deceptive ads for the…
Mark Finkelstein

Alec Baldwin: Brother's Conversion Politically Offensive

Tim Graham

Sandra Bernhard: Palin Would Be Gang-Raped By Blacks in Manhattan

The Washington Post isn’t the only daily D.C. newspaper to rave about Sandra Bernhard’s anti-Palin ranting. Wednesday’s Washington Examiner joined in, with the headline "Comedienne delivers enraged optimism." Barbara Mackay claimed "in the end, oddly and subtly, Bernhard’s message is positive."That’s not the impression you’d get from the blog of Theater J, where Bernhard is appearing. It has…
Tim Graham

ProPublica Forgets to Mention Federal Judge Being Impeached was Clinto

A Federal judge from Louisiana is under a cloud of impeachment and if he's convicted it'll be the first federal judge impeached in almost 20 years. The story was covered by the new wire service named ProPublica, a service that claims to be non-partisan. Yet in two stories on this judge there is not one mention of the fact that he was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton, nor that his…
Warner Todd Huston

'Bitter' Campbell Brown Brought to Heel by Lynn Forester de Rothschild

P.J. Gladnick

NewsBusted

Topics in today's show: Is Sarah Palin helping GOP in congressional polls? CNN repeats rumors about Sara Palin it had already debunked, musician Sarah McLachlan splits from her hubby.
NB Staff

E! Delivers Free Obama Ad as Host Sports 'Obama 08' Shirt

Brent Baker

PBS Questions Palin's Experience, Not Obama's

First NPR and now PBS; the publicly funded media outlets are revealing their respective bias in different ways, but the net result is the same: they favor Barack Obama over John McCain.Now available on PBS's NOW segment webpage (not to be confused with the National Organization for Women, subject of my post yesterday) is a poll about Governor Sarah Palin. It asks:Do you think Sarah Palin is…
Jacob S. Lybbert