Zuckerman Compares Current 'Financial Crunch' to Great Depression

U.S. News & World Report editor-in-chief tells 'McLaughlin Group' viewers credit freeze is a problem 'nobody knows how to deal with.'
Jeff Poor

Barbara Walters Scolds Those Who Make Lewinsky Jokes

Justin McCarthy

CBS ‘Early Show’ Ignores Romney Win in Nevada

On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," while co-host Harry Smith and political analyst Jeff Greenfield discussed both Hillary Clinton’s win in the Democratic Nevada caucus and John McCain’s win in the Republican South Carolina primary on Saturday, they failed to mention that Mitt Romney had won the Republican Nevada Caucus in a blowout. This just days after Smith interviewed Romney, when the former…
Kyle Drennen

NYT's Public Editor Rides to Liberal Reporter's Defense, Ignores Smear

Clay Waters

CBS's Havana-based Producer Lends Credence to Cuban 'Election

Ken Shepherd

Media Ignore Anti-war Lawyer Keying Marine's Car

Since the media have promised the anti-war left really do support the troops, wouldn't it be news that an anti-war, self-described "radical leftist" was in court on Friday for angrily keying the car of an Iraq vet because he didn't like the military plates and USMC stickers? Jay Grodner keyed a $2400 side-to-side gash into Sgt. Mike McNulty's car. When confronted, Grodner berated McNulty, who was…
Lynn Davidson

ABC's Shipman Slams Linda Tripp on Lewinsky Anniversary

Half a decade after observing the fifth anniversary of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, "Good Morning America" correspondent Claire Shipman filed a report on Monday's show that commemorated ten years since the event. Shipman used the January 21 piece to take a swipe at Lewinsky-gate figure Linda Tripp, snidely labeling her "that questionable, tape-recording friend" and pointing out that she "has…
Scott Whitlock

CBS’s Smith: Most Blacks ‘Feel Discrimination’; Wonders ‘Is Th

On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked to two liberal politicians, the black Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, and black mayor of Washington D.C., Adrian Fenty, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and asked Fenty: You know, if we look at this statistically, it's not a particularly bright picture. I want to just put up a couple of statistics very quickly here. The…
Kyle Drennen

CNN: Media Deserve 'Shame' for 'Complicity' w/ Dems Ignoring Immigrati

Brad Wilmouth

Hillary: I'm 'Blessed' Bill is 'Passionate

Did Hillary Clinton really claim to be "blessed" and "grateful" to have a "passionate" husband? Yes. Freudian slip or part of a calculated strategy to curry the women's vote by reminding people of the indignities she's suffered at the hands of her wayward spouse? In any case, Hillary deployed the intriguing double-entendre to defend Bill's recent attacks on Barack Obama.View video here.
Mark Finkelstein

Brokaw: Limbaugh's Hurting GOP As Voters Reject Reagan 'Dogma

Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw dismissed Rush Limbaugh as wrong-headed on Sunday’s Meet the Press. Not only did Brokaw pound the narrative that Reaganism is dead or dying within the Republican party, with a "nomadic herd" of voters "rejecting dogma," but he said Limbaugh trying to debate which candidate is truly conservative "is not going to help the Republican party." As if Tom Brokaw was really…
Tim Graham

AP Talks MLK's Forgotten 'Complexity' Forgets his Plagiarism & Communi

On the national holiday that celebrates the birth of famed civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the AP decided to remind us all that there was more to King than the popularized view of him affords. AP says that it is a shame that King has been "frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message." Who can disagree with this? After all, very often…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

NB Staff

ChiTrib Blogger Notes Reagan's Signing of MLK Day Law

Ken Shepherd