Twitter Ends List Service After Democratic Favoritism Surfaces

Twitter has announced that it will end a list service that blatantly favored Democratic politicians by attracting viewers to their profiles while excluding GOP officials from the service.The list service provided new Twitter users with lists of prominent message-posters they might like to follow. Watchdog groups discovered late last month that Democratic officials were prominently listed by the…
Lachlan Markay

Kossacks Hail KSM Civilian Trial...as a Weapon Against 'BushCo

Although many in the mainstream media write off the Democratic Underground as somewhat sanity challenged, they continue to praise the Daily Kos Kossacks as somehow being "reasonable progressives." The truth is that the Kossacks are every bit as loony as their DU cousins as you can see in this Daily Kos thread about what they hope will be the real outcome of the civilian trial of 9/11 mastermind…
P.J. Gladnick

USA Today Puts Picture of Palin-Hating Book in Article About Ex-Gov

UPDATES AT END OF POST: Picture has been changed!USA Today's Oval blog Monday used a picture of a Sarah Palin-hating book called "Going Rouge, An American Nightmare" instead of the former Alaska Governor's "Going Rogue."This despite the opening paragraph of the piece actually referring to Palin's book:In her much-discussed new book, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin…
Noel Sheppard

Huckabee: Obama's 'Redistribution' Extends Beyond Wealth to Health Car

Joe the Plumber was certainly on to something when he got then-candidate Barack Obama to admit he wanted to redistribute the wealth, according to former Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.  Huckabee, who now hosts a show aired on the weekends on the Fox News Channel, told "On The Record" host Greta Van Sustren on Nov. 16 that Obama's policies go beyond just the…
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

Joy Behar: Prejean's Sex Tapes Out 'Just In Time For The Holidays

Comedienne Joy Behar on HLN Monday jokingly accused former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean of releasing seven additional sex tapes "just in time for the holidays." Surprisingly able to do simple arithmetic, Behar quipped, "Maybe she made one for each night of Hanukkah."This nicely set up guests Perez Hilton, Heidi Montag, and Spencer Pratt to join in the Prejean bashing.Particularly vile and…
Noel Sheppard

Huckabee: Obama's Redistribution Extends to Health Care, Foreign Polic

FNC host and former Arkansas governor says president's policies well-intentioned, but gone about 'in the worst possible way if they're really serious about recovery.'
Jeff Poor

WaPo Offers Liberal and Conservative Palin Book Reviews; Liberal Slams

Tim Graham

Dobbs Tells O’Reilly He 'Discerned' a Different Tone from Critics Un

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs stuck to his guns when questions were raised if he was forced out at CNN in an interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. However, Dobbs did make one distinction - how his detractors decided to pile on when he was critical of President Barack Obama instead of former President George W. Bush. He elaborated on this on Fox News Channel's Nov. 16 "The O'Reilly Factor…
Jeff Poor

Naomi Wolf Says Sarah Palin Is Part Of A Rove-Cheney-Bush Cabal

Naomi Wolf on Monday accused former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin of being part of a "cabal" involving George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove.The feminist author and political consultant made this accusation on CNN's "Larry King Live."Fortunately, former Bush adviser Mary Matalin was there to contest Wolf's absurdities:[T]his is why people think liberals are such fringies. I mean you -- you run…
Noel Sheppard

MSNBC Crusades for Tax-Funded Abortion

Accusations of lying, calls for IRS investigations dominate coverage of Stupak Amendment.
Colleen Raezler

N.Y. Times Sells MSNBC As 'Progressive But Not Partisan

Tim Graham

Beck Rejects 'South Park' Criticism about Questioning Government Offic

Fox News' Glenn Beck isn't catching a break anywhere - from "Saturday Night Live," The New Yorker, Al Gore's Current TV and Comedy Central's "South Park." They have all taken shots at the popular TV host. On his Nov. 16 program, Beck responded to the "South Park" interpretation of him - that he wasn't making accusations, but phrasing them in the form of a question. The show's character Eric…
Jeff Poor

New Ox-Am Dictionary Names 'Teabagger' Word of the Year Finalist

The New Oxford American Dictionary on Monday named its 2009 "Word of the Year," and listed as one of the finalists "teabagger."Fortunately, its definition was different than the sexual connotation many media members and liberal bloggers conveyed by using the term.Regardless, its inclusion is still quite offensive to millions of Americans.I guess the good folks at NOAD weren't concerned with that…
Noel Sheppard