WaPo Holds Nose, Accepts NRA-approved Bill Regulating Issue Advocacy A

How committed is the Washington Post to its crusade to see Congress abridge free speech under the guise of "campaign finance reform"? So much that it's willing to be a political bedfellow with the National Rifle Association, a group it detests for its persistent advocacy of Americans' Second Amendment liberties.In a June 17 editorial, the Post voiced its support behind a bill that Democrats and…
Ken Shepherd

Soundbites: Rep. Steve King

Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) discusses the Arizona Immigration Law and the Liddy interview fallout.
Bob Parks

Time's Halperin Dismisses GOP Response to Oval Office Speech as 'Child

Appearing on Charlie Rose's PBS program, Time magazine's Mark Halperin dismissed the GOP responses to President Obama's Oval Office speech as "childish" and "churlish" adding that the GOP "mocked" the President on Tuesday night, instead of seeking common ground with him on new energy legislation.The Time reporter thinks the present Gulf disaster constitutes a "national crisis," but also posited…
Matt Hadro

Newsweek Intern Assigned to Review Glenn Beck Book Admits She Only Rea

When reviewing a bestselling book, it is customary to read it first. Apparently Princeton doesn't teach that tidbit in its journalism classes anymore, as Newsweek intern (and Princeton student) Isia Jasiewicz decided she would attempt a review after reading only the first 10 pages--a fact she mentions in the last paragraph.Does Newsweek really have such disdain for Beck that it would not only…
Lachlan Markay

ABC News Ignores Blago Trial Witness's Current Federal Job

Today ABC News's The Blotter Web site carries the story "Blagojevich On Trial: 'Give Us The F***ing Money.'"  The article reports in part:(Tony) Rezko is a central figure in the government's conspiracy case. His relationship with Obama was highlighted this week when Joseph Aramanda, the owner of a Chicago pizza business, took the stand to detail how Rezko arranged for him to receive a $250,000 "…
Mike Bates

NBC's Gregory: White House Rhetoric 'Anti-Business,' 'Could Really Dis

'Meet the Press' host calls Obama advisers' lack of business experience 'a problem'; Says Barton's comments 'got to that larger point.'
Jeff Poor

Media Praises '8: The Mormon Proposition,' But Admit Film is One-Sided

“8: The Mormon Proposition,” is a documentary detailing the large role the Mormon Church played in passing California’s Proposition 8 in 2008.That ballot initiative added an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. While the media has naturally been praising the documentary, the movie is so biased that even some reviewers couldn’t avoid…
Sarah Knoploh

Chris Matthews Suggested Tea Parties Are Unlike Reagan -- Who Moved to

It's one thing for media liberals to suggest the Tea Party is on the fringe of the right, but when it's another when they starting putting Ronald Reagan in the center by comparison (even as Governor of California). On The Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday, Matthews suggested that somehow America is reliably centrist, so even Reagan moved to moderation (and there's no mention of Obama's left-wing…
Tim Graham

ABC's Tapper: White House Hails A 'Good Week' After 'Gift' From Joe Ba

On Friday's Good Morning America on ABC, White House correspondent Jake Tapper described  White House reaction to Republican Congressman Joe Barton calling BP's $20 billion escrow fund the result of a government "shakedown": "...the argument they're making, that the Republican Party is too close to corporate America.....And they've been given this great foil by Joe Barton."When co-host George…
Kyle Drennen

NBC’s David Gregory: White House Rhetoric 'Anti-Business,' 'Could Re

Wow, just wow. Never would have seen this one coming, but is one of the standard-bearers of the media elite recognizing the Obama administration's anti-business populist tone is inhibiting the U.S. economy? On the June 18 broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk Box," NBC "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory was asked to respond to a June 18 New York Times article by David Sanger suggesting the Obama…
Jeff Poor

Catching Heat From Left, Obama Meets With Liberal Commentators to Disc

President Obama met with a group of prominent liberal commentators on Thursday to discuss the Gulf oil spill and the administration's response. The meeting came in the midst of a rare firestorm of criticism from the left over the president's response to the spill.It was surely not coincidence that the journalists seen leaving the White House that afternoon--the New York Times's Gail Collins, the…
Lachlan Markay

Keith Olbermann Wins Award for 'Excellence in Electronic Journalism

It sure is a sign of the times when one of the most disgraceful and unashamedly liberal personalities in the television news industry wins an award for "excellence in electronic journalism."Despite the seeming incongruity, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann won an Edward R. Murrow award Wednesday from the Radio Television Digital News Association.So what did Olbermann win for you ask?Writing the following…
Noel Sheppard

Sally Quinn: Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden Should Switch Jobs

Sally Quinn really wants to be helpful to both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. However, the result of her laughable suggestion that Hillary and Vice-President Biden switch jobs is that it would only highlight the desperate political situation that the current administration has gotten itself into. Here is Sally trying to be helpful with her bizarre recommendation:Hillary…
P.J. Gladnick

Open Thread: When Regulations Trump Common Sense

NB Staff