Joy Behar: 'Everybody Is a Whore

Everyone is a whore according to "View" panelist Joy Behar. Discussing the identity of Governor Eliot Spitzer’s call girl, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Behar appeared sympathetic and portrayed the woman as a victim. Later in the show, in conversing about former "American Idol" contestant David Hernandez’s alleged background as a stripper, Behar hypothesized that "everybody is a whore, a little bit."…
Justin McCarthy
 

Foreclosure Filings Drop Month-to-Month, So Burnett Reports Year-over

CNBC contributor emphasizes disappointing foreclosure numbers but ignores decrease highlighted by reporting group.
Nathan Burchfiel
 

Barack Obama: Media's Favorite Superhero

Barack Obama's good for NewsBusters' job security. Just ask Ace:I've changed my mind: I want Obama as the Democratic nominee. Not only is he much more beatable than I first thought -- corruption, that Marxist harpy of a wife -- but the media bias should he prevail will be (licks fingers) muah!, magnifique. In a humorous riff (mild content warning) on the Barack Obama cover art on Rolling Stone…
Ken Shepherd
 

'Today' Double Standard: Sex Scandals Only Hurt Republicans

On Thursday's "Today" show when co-host Meredith Vieira asked NBC's Washington bureau chief Tim Russert if there would be any "fallout for the Democrats" from the Spitzer scandal, Russert asserted: "Probably not....that story pretty much leaves the front pages."However, last year, when Senate Republicans David Vitter and Larry Craig were in the news for sex scandals the "Today" show wasn't so…
Geoffrey Dickens
 

Obama's Spiritual Guide: 'God Damn America

At the end of a Good Morning America segment today about Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., an Obama campaign representative complained that John McCain's pastor had not been similarly "vetted." If that's true, then ABC or some other media outlet surely should and will do so. Let's imagine that upon vetting, McCain's pastor is found to have made statements that were…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the race factor in this election (video of Obama discussing this issue available here).Are you surprised by the amount of focus this is getting during a Democrat nomination process? Is it all due to the Clintons, or would this be a huge issue regardless of who Obama was running against? Does this battle threaten to so divide the Democrat…
NB Staff
 

Uh-Oh, Hillary: Sinbad Says Bosnia Trip Wasn't Exactly Dangerous

Tim Graham
 

ABC Finally IDs Spitzer as Democrat, NBC Fails to for Third Night

For the third evening in a row Wednesday, the NBC Nightly News refused to identify Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat, but after ABC's World News failed to cite his party affiliation on Monday and Tuesday night when Elizabeth Vargas anchored, on Wednesday evening substitute anchor George Stephanopoulos finally properly tagged him: “The Democrat resigned today just two days after reports that he…
Brent Baker
 

Spitzer and the Media: What Might Have Been

Remember all those stories during Monicagate about how being a serial philandering president might not necessarily be a bad thing? NBC's Bob Faw captured that zeitgeist, saying in 1998 that actually, Bill Clinton was in very good company."It might put Mr. Clinton’s conduct with a certain intern in a different light," he said, referring to allegations by liberal historians that Jefferson had…
Matthew Sheffield
 

New TV Ad Addresses Dangers of Al Gore's Global Warming Policies

The heck with 3:00 AM ads cautioning Americans about who's more qualified to be in the White House answering fictitious emergency phone calls.What this country really needs is a national television campaign warning folks about the dangers inherent in global warming policies advocated by Nobel Laureate Al Gore.Just in the nick of time, the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute announced…
Noel Sheppard
 

Gay Porn as Required Reading in Ill. High School, Media Silent

The story of an Illinois high school making a gay pornographic play required reading for seniors has been reported since March 7th, but it has been ignored for the most part with only a handful of news outlets having taken on this issue. The fact that a public high school that requires such reading doesn't raise a fuss in the media shows how the media supports the gay agenda, of course. It also…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Geraldo Trashes 'Right-Wing Talk Show Thugs' on Comedy Central

Tim Graham
 

CBS ‘Early Show’ Fawns Over Obama, Slams Geraldine Ferraro

Following the same pattern as ABC’s "Good Morning America" Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show" featured a glowing interview with Barack Obama by co-host Harry Smith, while co-host Russ Mitchell interrogated Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro for recent comments about Obama’s candidacy: "Do you really think that Barack Obama has been so successful in this campaign because he's a black man?"When Ferraro…
Kyle Drennen
 

'Today' Continues Embargo on Spitzer Party Affiliation

For the second consecutive day NBC's "Today" show refused to identify Eliot Spitzer as a Democrat. In a total of seven Spitzer-related segments on Wednesday’s "Today" show and one interview with Barack Obama, where the scandal was mentioned, not one anchor, reporter, guest, talking head or on-screen graphic mentioned Spitzer's party affiliation. However, following the trend on NBC's Nightly News…
Geoffrey Dickens