Malkin Column: Obama's Hate Couture Divas

Talk about wearing your politics on your sleeve. An elitist clique of fashion designers has banded together to raise money for celebrity-in-chief Barack Obama and browbeat their customers into supporting him. Even worse, the Beautiful People who dress the Powerful People are putting increased pressure on conservatives to stay out of the business altogether. Out: Haute couture. In: Hate…
Michelle Malkin
October 24th, 2012 10:19 AM

Scarborough Clashes With 'New Yorker' Editor Over Mag's Bush-Bashing O

Some serious fur flew on the Morning Joe set today, as Joe Scarborough clashed with David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker.  Setting Scarborough off was the magazine's endorsement of Barack Obama that lauded the president for relieving the "national shame inflicted by the Bush administration." Scarborough saracastically asked Remnick "who got paid the bonus for being able to squeeze in,…
Mark Finkelstein
October 24th, 2012 10:07 AM

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NB Staff
October 24th, 2012 10:06 AM

Nate Silver Disses Gallup Poll That 'Turned Out Badly' in 2008, Missin

Tarnished Silver? The New York Times's young star pollster Nate Silver got some guff last week for dismissing Mitt Romney's large leads in the Gallup tracking poll. In an October 18 post on his FiveThirtyEight blog at nytimes.com, "Gallup vs. the World" (it also appeared, heavily edited, in print) Silver claimed the Gallup poll was overrated and "its results turn out badly" when it's an…
Clay Waters
October 24th, 2012 9:46 AM

Conan O’Brien Calls Romney ‘Adolf Mittler

Conan O'Brien on Tuesday appeared to want to make up for Bob Schieffer accidentally saying Obama bin Laden during Monday's presidential debate. To compensate, he referred to Romney as "Adolf Mittler" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
October 24th, 2012 9:23 AM

Obama's Softball Tour: Leno, MTV, Bowing Brian 'Thank You, Sir' Willia

Barack Obama continues to avoid press conferences in favor of protective liberal softball venues. He's appearing on NBC with Jay Leno and with Brian Williams. (Quiz: which interviewer will be softer? It's anybody's guess.) On Friday, Obama's doing another razzle-dazzle appearance on MTV with black veejay Sway Calloway. They're calling it “Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview With the President”…
Tim Graham
October 24th, 2012 8:47 AM

CNN's Morgan Declares Obama Wrong on Number of Bayonets

On Tuesday's Piers Morgan Tonight, host Morgan proclaimed that President Barack Obama was wrong during Monday's debate when he claimed that the U.S. military has fewer bayonets than in the past as the CNN host recounted that hand-to-hand combat still occurs in places like Afghanistan. As he brought aboard Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times as a guest, Morgan played a clip of Obama from…
Brad Wilmouth
October 24th, 2012 8:29 AM

WashPost Honors Ellen's 'Courage' As She Says Women Should Be 'Very, V

Tuesday’s Washington Post honored lesbian comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for “A comic’s courage” to come out of the closet. So did the Kennedy Center people who selected her to win the Mark Twain Prize. She did not disappoint the liberals. On the awards show (taped for PBS), she made a “sly nod toward Mitt Romney’s sentiments” with the joke, “Thank you, PBS. I’m so glad to be…
Tim Graham
October 24th, 2012 7:52 AM

As Others Report WH Knew Nature of Attack, AP Still Insists That the B

At the Associated Press Tuesday evening, the wire service re-posted verbatim Eileen Sullivan's "Why It Matters" report from October 15. One of that report's core assertions is that It "injected the issue of diplomatic security into the presidential campaign and renewed questions about the quality of U.S. intelligence." At my related  NewsBusters post that day, I noted that  President Obama and…
Tom Blumer
October 24th, 2012 7:34 AM

Bozell Column: Say No to Feisty Liberal Moderators

In the final debate, liberal CBS anchorman Bob Schieffer did it right. He moderated without asserting his own political opinions. Indeed, if this was all you had as a compass, you'd never know where he leaned. It was a welcome change from the Raddatz and Crowley libfests. On the morning after the debate, CBS invited on Fox’s Bill O’Reilly to discuss the debate performances. Interestingly…
Brent Bozell
October 23rd, 2012 10:54 PM

FactCheck.org Hits Obama Campaign for 'Inflated' Jobs Claims (by Over

Although it should have used harsher language in its headline, FactCheck.org, the Annenberg Foundation-funded outfit, has apparently set its leftist bias aside long enough to take shots at an ad narrated by President Barack Obama which claims 5.2 million jobs created and gives all but the most alert viewers the impression that the number represents those created during his entire administration.…
Tom Blumer
October 23rd, 2012 9:48 PM

Romney Sweating 'Like a Whore in Church,' Opines Stephanie Miller

Based on her experience as a frequent churchgoer. Obviously. Libtalker Stephanie Miller on her radio show today used a pithy analogy to describe Mitt Romney appearing to sweat during last night's final presidential debate (audio, h/t, Brian Maloney at mrctv.org) --
Jack Coleman
October 23rd, 2012 8:10 PM

NPR Ballyhoos 'Blowout' For Obama 'If World Had Its Say

On Tuesday, liberal stalwart NPR hyped a BBC World Service poll that found that "if the world picked U.S. president, election would be a blowout" for President Obama. Writer Eyder Peralta's item, which was the number-one most-viewed on its website, spotlighted that the poll "taken in 21 countries...found for the most part, foreign countries preferred Obama. The only exception was Pakistan where…
Matthew Balan
October 23rd, 2012 6:47 PM

Biden's Brother Awarded Lucrative Gov't Contracts: Media Silent Thus F

The rampant crony capitalism of the federal government simply can't be ignored anymore, but the media has made a habit out of selectively picking and choosing what it wants to report on with this administration. This latest example may ultimately be ignored and denied too however, because it involves the brother of our current vice president. According to Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business, a…
Ryan Robertson
October 23rd, 2012 6:29 PM