Blogger Who Bashed Palin for Employing Ghostwriter Employs 'Ghostblogg

Remember all those blog posts from the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan bashing Sarah Palin for employing a ghostwriter? Well, it turns out many of those posts may have been written by...a ghostblogger! Apparently Sullivan's busy schedule prevented him from writing everything on his site, so, without informing his readers, he employed a few ghostbloggers to write in his name.Daily Dish readers were…
Lachlan Markay

Behar Politicizes Rush Limbaugh Wedding to Make Gay Marriage Plea

UPDATE: Sources tell NewsBusters Limbaugh-Rogers wedding slated for June 2010, which was reported as July 4, 2010 by Behar. It's probably no surprise, but conservative talker Rush Limbaugh isn't going to get a break from the liberal cheap shot artists on cable television in the wake of the news he will be getting married to Kathryn Rogers on July 4, 2010. On HLN's Dec. 17 broadcast of "The Joy…
Jeff Poor

Rachel Maddow Falsely Claims Ex-Gay Author Gave 'Support and Encourage

It's one thing to justifiably criticize an author for dubious claims. It's quite another to assert that the same author supported something heinous he adamantly opposes. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow did both over the last two weeks.Maddow's regular viewers have recently learned a great deal about Ugandan politics, as nearly every broadcast of her show since late November has featured a segment on…
Jack Coleman

Daily Kos: Joe Lieberman Like Showtime's Serial Killer 'Dexter

Tim Graham

Latest Scientific Study Finds Santa’s a Public Health Menace

The war on Christmas rages on, and nowhere more intensely than on the "kill-joy front." You know it: the predictable but still brutal attacks from those who say your eggnog and candy canes, the tree near your fireplace and even your favorite myths, stories and carols hide secret dangers to emotional and physical wellbeing. But at least one public health expert is striking a blow for…
Carolyn Plocher

Michael Moore: Boycott Connecticut If Joe Lieberman Isn't Recalled

Liberal schlockumentarian Michael Moore Wednesday called for the boycott of Connecticut if its residents don't immediately start a recall effort to remove Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).Moore, like many liberals, is angered by Lieberman's off and on opposition to parts of the Senate's healthcare reform bill.As is so often the case, there's a problem with Moore's thinking: Connecticut doesn't allow…
Noel Sheppard

Katie Couric Slyly Slams Joe Lieberman as Unethical

One of the pet peeves of your humble correspondent is reporters who slam people or policies via the device of "some say" or "critics say" when in fact it is really their own position. However, they can't say what they really think in order to put up the false front of "neutrality." Such was the case of Katie Couric on the CBC Evening News last night in which she used her Notebook commentary to…
P.J. Gladnick

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NB Staff

Time's 'Deeply Moving' Account of a Million-Joint Pothead Dad

Tim Graham

Dean: I Won't 'Vigorously' Back Obama Re-election Bid

Pour some more butter on the popcorn . . . Yesterday, Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs took shots at Howard Dean and his opposition to ObamaCare, suggesting the good doctor didn't know what he was talking about.It was payback time this morning, as Dean announced that he would "not vigorously" back Pres. Obama's re-election bid.The former DNC Chairman expressed his tepid support for Obama, Part…
Mark Finkelstein

Latest Scientific Study Finds Santa's a Public Health Menace

Giving the Christmas kill-joys a taste of their own medicine.
Matt Philbin

Olbermann's Pledge: I'll Go To Jail Before Buying ObamaCare Insurance

Maybe Leavenworth has a TV studio Keith could use . . .On tonight's Countdown, Olbermann vowed to break the law and go to jail if ObamaCare requires him to buy private-sector health care insurance.  Keith made his macho boast in the course of his melodramatic Special Comment this evening.KEITH OLBERMANN: Health care reform that benefits the industry at the cost of the people is intolerable and…
Mark Finkelstein

Gibson Empathizes with Obama: 'Holy God, What a Weight that Is on Your

In his swan song interview with President Barack Obama, which consumed more than ten minutes of World News, ABC's Charles Gibson couldn't have provided a friendlier or more empathetic platform to Obama on the “weight” of sending troops to war and how “devilishly difficult” it's become to pass a health care plan because of a few rogue Senators. Gibson, set to retire Friday, teased his last…
Brent Baker

CNN's Jeanne Moos Highlights 'Liberal Hate' at Joe Lieberman

On Wednesday’s Situation Room, CNN correspondent Jeanne Moos exposed some of the left-wing rage being directed at Senator Joe Lieberman, especially on the Internet. Moos’s examples of “liberal hate” at the Connecticut politician ranged from fantasy Hanukkah gifts, such as a muzzle, to a YouTube video of a woman having her cats attack a string which stood in for the senator [Moos's full report is…
Matthew Balan