New Year's Day Captionfest

 Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) admires a snowman made in her honor during a campaign stop at Muscatine West Middle School in Muscatine, Iowa December 31, 2007.
NB Staff

NYT Editorial Accuses American Soldiers of War Crimes

P.J. Gladnick

Chicago Sun-Times: Morality, Schmorality -- 'Have More Sex in

It looks like a wayward hippie from Haight-Ashbury circa 1967 found himself a time machine and came forward to 2008 and barricaded himself in the editorial room of the Chicago Sun-Times today. To celebrate this magical feat, the Sun-Times has gathered together all their best thinkers and, guided by their time leaping hippie, they've decided to advocate a little tonic for the New Year: Have more…
Warner Todd Huston

NYT Takes on Al Gore and Climate Alarmists...Happy New Year

The new year is beginning with some very serious shots being fired across the bow of the manmade global warming myth and at alarmists using it to advance their deplorable agendas. Moments after Investor's Business Daily presaged that "2008 just might be the year the so-called scientific consensus that man is causing the Earth to warm begins to crack," the New York Times of all entities published…
Noel Sheppard

Triumph of GOP PC Guy

Mark Finkelstein

Milbank Moans: The Press Savages Hillary, 'No Matter What

Tim Graham

CBS Sees GOP 'Mudslinging,' Not 'Playing As Nice' As Dems

Brad Wilmouth

NBC's Taibbi Sees Obama 'Independent Streak' with Centrists

Brad Wilmouth

FNC Cites MRC Quotes, Matthews Has 'Man Crush' on Clinton

FNC's morning anchors highlighted a few of the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2007" on the Monday edition of "Fox and Friends." Included were a quote of MSNBC's Chris Matthews comparing Bill Clinton's speaking ability to that of "Jesus at the temple" when the former President spoke at Coretta King's funeral, and a quote of comedian Bill Maher commenting that if [Vice President Cheney] died, "…
Brad Wilmouth

Did Mike Huckabee Try to Pull a Fast One on the Press

John Stephenson

AP Writer Falsely Casts Voter ID Laws As a 'Mainly' Partisan Issue

The Associated Press's Mark Sherman, as noted by Jim Taranto at Best of the Web, "reports on a pending Supreme Court case in a way that seems to give both sides their due, but in substance does not." Here are the first three paragraphs of Sherman's report (bolds are mine): The dispute over Indiana's voter ID law that is headed to the Supreme Court in January is as much a partisan political drama…
Tom Blumer

Newsweek's Prophetess of Doom Wonders 'Why We Were So Stupid

Tim Graham

Chris Matthews: GOP Candidates Want to Kill Bugs Bunny

On Sunday’s The Chris Matthews Show, the host used one of Mike Huckabee’s Iowa photo-ops as an excuse to launch into an elitist attack on Republicans and hunters. “Who made killing small animals the test of Republican manhood?” Matthews challenged at the top of his show. Over a clip of a vintage Looney Tunes cartoon, Matthews further upped the ante: “Who declared war on Bugs Bunny?!”Later with…
Rich Noyes

British Paper Names General Petraeus Person of the Year

Here's some truly delicious irony: it took a British newspaper to name General David Petraeus "Person of the Year."As NewsBusters reported earlier in December, Time magazine shunned the General for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, Petraeus didn't even come in second.I guess the Sunday Telegraph isn't constrained by Bush Derangement Syndrome like most American media as reported Monday (…
Noel Sheppard