While Interviewing Dem Congressman, ABC, CBS Keep the Focus Off Obama

Democratic Congressman Ed Markey appeared on ABC and CBS's morning shows on Monday to talk about the Gulf Coast oil spill and didn't face a single question about the government's handling of the disaster. Instead, Good Morning America and the Early Show both kept the heat on BP. Discussing the likely departure of BP's CEO Tony Hayword, GMA's Robin Roberts pressed, "And that when [Haywood] gave…
Scott Whitlock

CNN's Don Lemon Plays Softball With Discharged Homosexual Soldier

On Sunday's Newsroom, CNN's Don Lemon tossed softball questions at homosexual activist Dan Choi, who was discharged earlier in July from the U.S. Army under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Lemon asked Choi, "Was it worth the prize for speaking out?" The anchor also brought on Michelangelo Signorile, another homosexual activist, without bringing on anyone from the opposing side of…
Matthew Balan

As AZ Immigration Law Looms, ABC Touts Harm to Small Businesses

ABC's "World News" on Sunday caught up to CBS and NBC in fretting about the potential problems caused by illegal immigrants who may be leaving Arizona before the state's new law takes effect on Thursday. Correspondent Barbara Pinto devoted her entire piece to lamenting the possible damage to small businesses whose customers are presumably now leaving the state, but offered less than a sentence to…
Alex Fitzsimmons

Simply Wrong: WaPo's Kurtz Claims Network Newscasts 'Barely Touched' M

For his Monday Media Notes column, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz described the gossip-media battle between TMZ and Radar Online in a big splashy layout on the front of the Style section. But late in this piece, Kurtz wrote something that could land him in the Corrections box:  Strangely enough, given Gibson's star power and the huge controversy over his film "The Passion of the…
Tim Graham

Former Thatcher Adviser Rips Obama for Using BP Spill Against UK

Lord Monckton sees 'a deliberate hostility' toward Britain and Gulf oil spill being used to promote climate legislation.
Jeff Poor

New Black Panther Party Leader Video: ‘We Will See Caskets and Fune

With recent controversial race topics entering the spotlight, such as the voter intimidation incident and Shirley Sherrod story, the media has been more than willing to open their arms and turn on their cameras to hear the opining of the National Chairman of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz.  Shabazz has appeared on Fox News, issued a statement through CNN, and done exclusive…
Rusty Weiss

MSNBC's Brewer Hits Breitbart for Appearing at Political Fundraiser, B

On Monday's News Live, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer expressed incredulity at the revelation that journalist Andrew Breitbart will be appearing at a Republican fundraiser. "I mean, really? Is he going to be a good fund-raiser for the Republicans?" Reporter Richard Wolffe lectured, "Because if he is that much of a political activist that he is raising money for the RNC, then he is not quite the…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Touts Concord, Mass. Banning Bottled Water As 'Revolutionary Move

At the end of Sunday's CBS Evening News, anchor Russ Mitchell celebrated the efforts of 82-year-old Jean Hill to ban the sale of bottled water in Concord, Massachusetts as: "...one woman's campaign for a greener America, one bottle at a time." He declared: "...you may remember the environmentalist mantra: 'Think globally, act locally'....[Hill] is trying to take that message to heart."Mitchell…
Kyle Drennen

Even Liberal Mediaite Knows Fox Didn’t Get Shirley Sherrod Fired

In the past six days, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some liberal media member claiming that Fox News was responsible for Shirley Sherrod's dismissal from the Agriculture Department. So obsessed with this idea were the folks on PBS's "Inside Washington" Friday that the lone conservative on the panel Charles Krauthammer had to defend FNC's honor like a knight in shining armor…
Noel Sheppard

Surprise: AP Notes 'Chicken and Egg Problem' With Electric Cars

Report cites lack of public chargers as potential problem in electric car production, touts government grants on the way.
Kyle Gillis

National Review’s O’Beirne Corrects Bloomberg’s Carlson on FNC A

On Friday’s Political Capital, Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson – formerly of CNN and Time magazine – left the impression that FNC coverage of the Shirley Sherrod video was partially responsible for her firing, prompting the National Review’s Kate O’Beirne to clarify that FNC did not show the video until after the USDA employee’s resignation. After host Al Hunt asked, "did it also say something bad…
Brad Wilmouth

Open Thread: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000 Classified War Documents

NB Staff

Chuck T Plays D For White House On Megrahi Release Letter

So there was Robert Gibbs on the White House lawn, defending to Mika Brzezinski the letter from the Obama administration saying it favored a compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber over a prisoner transfer.  Oh, wait.  That wasn't the White House press secretary—it was Chuck Todd.  Sorry about that. But when you view the video I think you might forgive my error.  Todd certainly came across…
Mark Finkelstein

Hypocritical Schieffer Lectures on Superiority of ‘Old Media’ Over

Four months after leading Face the Nation with uncorroborated allegations from left-wing bloggers about racist and homophobic outbursts by anti-Obamacare protesters, spread in an effort to discredit President Obama’s opponents, CBS’s Bob Schieffer cited the Shirley Sherrod case to propound on the superiority of his fact-checking “Old Media” over the careless “New Media.” In his commentary on…
Brent Baker