CBS’s Smith: ‘An Extraordinary Number’ of Republicans for Obama

In yet another fawning interview with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith touted Obama’s bi-partisan appeal: "Though he leads Hillary Clinton in national polls, Obama trails in Pennsylvania. He's hoping record voter registration and an extraordinary number of people who have switched parties to boost his chances." Smith then asked…
Kyle Drennen

CNN’s Bash to McCain: Are You ‘Heartless’ When It Comes to the E

CNN correspondent Dana Bash, during an interview of Senator John McCain which aired on Tuesday’s "The Situation Room," raised the issue of whether the Republican presidential candidate felt voters’ pain on the economy. "[I]n this time of uncertainty, when there are so many people hurting, are you concerned that there are voters out there who hear that who say, John McCain is heartless when it…
Matthew Balan

ABC News: Girl Scouts A 'One Way Ticket to Obesity

Justin McCarthy

BMI/NB's Menefee Hits Media for Recession Fear-mongering on 'Fox & Fri

Business & Media Institute Managing Editor Amy Menefee appeared on "Fox & Friends" on April 2 to discuss the media's involvement in sparking recession fears. Rescuing viewers from "solid recession talk," Menefee said that specifically network news reports already "have gone far beyond recession, they are already concerned about a depression." "They're not tell-they're not…
Genevieve Ebel

Politico: More Southern Bashing Over Carville Remark in Pa

Typical of too many Northern based media outlets, Politico indulged in a little South-bashing today with a story on a remark about Pennsylvania spoken in 2006 by Clinton Democratic operative James Carville (pictured at right in file photo). In attempting to explain the political climate of the Keystone state, Carville basically said that state looked like Paoli (a suburb of Philadelphia) and Penn…
Warner Todd Huston

CS Monitor Writer Dismisses 'Operation Chaos' Based on Outdated Data

I have to give the Christian Science Monitor credit for at least discussing Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos which is his plan for Republicans to register as Democrats in order to vote for Hillary Clinton so as to cause yet more disorder in the Democrat party. One can search in vain in Google News for dreaded term "Operation Chaos," but with the exception of the Christian Science Monitor, the…
P.J. Gladnick

GMA: Raising Rev. Wright 'Close to Hitting Under the Belt

ABC has served warning: use the Rev. Wright against Barack Obama at your peril. Be prepared to be accused of "raising the race issue" to hit "below the belt." ABC's David Wright, a certified Obama fan/Hillary critic based on this past performance, issued his edict on today's Good Morning America.Riffing off Hillary having compared herself to Rocky Balboa running all the way up those steps in the…
Mark Finkelstein

Left-Wing Catfight: Vegan Strippers vs. Feminists

Last Thursday's New York Times carried an amusing story of a left-wing catfight. Kara Jesella reported that in Portland, Oregon, an entrepreneur has tried to combine strippers and vegans (the most extreme ahem, denomination of vegetarianism, with no eggs, milk, or animal products). But feminists are outraged that women would be objectified while the entrepreneur evangelizes the vegan gospel on…
Tim Graham

CNN's Cafferty Vs. Gergen on Bush's Role in Oil Prices

Brad Wilmouth

Turner: Global Warming Will Cause Mass Cannibalism, Insurgents Are Pat

  Interviewed Tuesday for Charlie Rose's PBS show, CNN founder Ted Turner argued that inaction on global warming “will be catastrophic” and those who don't die “will be cannibals.” He also applied moral equivalence in describing Iraqi insurgents as “patriots” who simply “don't like us because we've invaded their country” and so “if the Iraqis were in Washington, D.C., we'd be doing the same…
Brent Baker

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible discussion point: Chelsea Clinton gets asked about Monica Lewinsky...again (video embedded right which, due to resizing, might need some horizontal and vertical bar scrolling to properly center).Has this gotten out of control? Should she be asked such questions? Regardless of her age, should she have to answer for her father's behavior? Or, as she's…
NB Staff

Networks Ignore Revealing Obama 'Baby' Gaffe

Candidate doesn't want daughters punished with a baby.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Soldiers 'Experiencing God' a Problem for Newsweek

The Beliefwatch column suggests we can't have thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reading a Christian devotional book, lest people think the government favors a certain religion.
Kristen Fyfe

Expelled Encounters Liberal Media Hostility

Documentary exposes the academy's emotional and ideological commitment to evolution, and its anti-scientific refusal to consider evidence for intelligent design.
Kristen Fyfe