CBS's Greenfield: Obama 'Legitimate Heir' to Kennedy Legacy

On Monday’s CBS "Early Show" Senior Political Correspondent and former Robert Kennedy speech writer, Jeff Greenfield, discussed Obama gaining the endorsement of Patrick, Caroline, and Ted Kennedy: "It is, Harry, a family affair, and it is loaded with political significance and more than a little irony. At its center, one of the most significant legacies in American politics."Greenfield went on to…
Kyle Drennen

Investors Continue Revolt Against NYT

Despite its best efforts, the New York Times Company continues to find itself plagued by wave after wave of investor complaints spurred on by the fact that the company's shares have fallen from near $50 to just under $16 since 2004.First it was Morgan Stanley's audacious attempt to end the Times's dual-class share system which enables the radical leftist Sulzberger family to continue running the…
Matthew Sheffield

Canada: U.N. Anti-Racism Conference a 'Gong Show' of Hatred, Bigotry

The mainstream media turned a deaf ear to Canada's conservative government as they withdrew support for a United Nations led anti-racism conference on charges that the conference itself is a "a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry". One Canadian official called the U.N. Durban II conference a "gong show" as Ottawa withdrew all support in protest of the escalating rhetoric against Israel.…
Terry Trippany

Countrywide CEO Gives Up $37.5 Million; 'American Morning' Complains I

Anchor Kiran Chetry says CEO severance package agreed to by company's boards of directors a 'disconnect with Main Street.'
Jeff Poor

Bush Hater Behar Denounces Kennedy and Clinton 'Hatred

Joy Behar, a noted Bush hater, took the moral high ground to denounce hatred against Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. On the January 28 edition of "The View," Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama was the discussion topic. Behar then scolded those who exhibit hatred towards the Massachusetts Senator as well as Senator Clinton claiming Kennedy "is hated by a lot of Republicans just like…
Justin McCarthy

NYT: Celebrating America's Decline, 'Waving Goodbye' To The U.S.A

Through the pessimistically, penumbrous pen of Parag Khanna, the New York Times has declared that the U.S.A. is finished. Yes, we have lost our "global hegemony" and we will find that by 2016, "America’s standing in the world remains in steady decline." Boy, it looks bad the for the good 'ol U.S. of A., as far as the Times is concerned. My guess is that the news of our demise is being greatly…
Warner Todd Huston

Rush: 'We've Gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton

Leave it to Rush to nail it. Here's how Limbaugh opened today's show, speaking of the way Bill Clinton injected race into the campaign with his comparison [view video of Clinton making his statement here] of Obama's South Carolina primary victory to Jesse Jackson's twin wins in the Palmetto State in the '80s:We've gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton.
Mark Finkelstein

AP Soft-pedals McCain-Feingold's Effect on Campaigns, Free Speech

Covering the escalating battle between Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.) for Florida's Republican convention delegates, AP's Glen Johnson offered a tepid description of the defining and definitely liberal magnum opus of the former's legislative career, the McCain-Feingold bill --formally titled the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002 (emphasis mine):Romney…
Ken Shepherd

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Clinton camp will try to get Bill to chill out: Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign on Sunday debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife’s presidential candidacy.“I think his harsh style hurt…
NB Staff

Author That Dubbed Clinton ‘First Black President’ Endorses Obama

The fun in the Obama camp continues. On Monday, the author who in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky scandal back in 1998 actually dubbed Bill Clinton as "our first black president"  endorsed Barack Obama. Honestly, you really can't make this stuff up. As deliciously reported by the Associated Press moments ago:
Noel Sheppard

'Nightly News': 36 Miles a Gallon Not Quite Good Enough

Gas mileage of the Smart Car doesn't impress anchor Lester Holt, says 'it should be getting 50 to 60 miles a gallon.'
Jeff Poor

Ben Stein Documentary: Intelligent Design Scholars Muzzled By Scientif

American freedom is under assault within the scientific establishment and the academic community where the proponents of Intelligent Design (ID) theory are being silenced and marginalized at the expense of research that could potentially expand human knowledge and boost medical research, according to a new documentary that raises questions about Darwinian assumptions. A growing number of…
Kevin Mooney

MSM Ignores Leftwing Anger Over Attempted Delegate Grab by Hillary

P.J. Gladnick

Harry Smith: Did Bill Clinton Defraud African-Americans on Race

Harry Smith won't be up on the platform with Ted Kennedy today endorsing Barack Obama. But he might be there in spirit, after having absolutely unloaded on Bill Clinton's on this morning's Early Show. The CBS anchor made the stunning suggestion that when it comes to matters racial, Bill Clinton may have perpetrated a fraud on African-Americans. Smith's guest was "diversity expert" Joe Watson…
Mark Finkelstein