WaPo Raises Victory Flag For Warner, Kaine -- Ignores Mark Levin

The Washington Post has a problem with partisan memory loss.Many of you may have heard of the recent nastiness of a Virginia homeowners’ association attempting to deny Colonel Van T. Barfoot (U.S. Army, Ret.), a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, the right to erect a flagpole in his own front yard.  If you are like me, you heard about this first on Wednesday, December 2, on the Mark Levin radio…
Mike Sargent

Joan Walsh: Olbermann Needs More Diverse Guests, Michelle Malkin Need

Salon editor Joan Walsh, a frequent contributor on MSNBC, finds the network's "Countdown" host to be lacking in the diversity department when it comes to his guests. Of course, her complaint isn't with Olbermann's refusal to feature guests with whom he could have ideological clashes -- something his nemesis Bill O'Reilly has never been afraid to do -- but the fact that his guests are infrequently…
Ken Shepherd

FNC's Wallace: 'Denier' Label Ascribes 'Religious Certainty' to Global

Chris Wallace, host of "Fox News Sunday" is the latest in a long line of observers to note the essentially religious fervor of those who believe man is responsible for global warming, and the blind faith with which they cling to the science behind it.   Wallace, appearing on the Fox Business Network's Dec. 10 "Imus in the Morning" program to discuss the President's European trip with stops in…
Jeff Poor

CNN Smears CEI with False Funding Info

Despite teasing the segment as NASA's "ClimateGate of its own," CNN's "American Morning" did its best to present global warming as the problem and discredit skeptics by misreporting their funding on Dec. 10. Correspondent Jim Acosta reported that NASA's climate data "shows the earth is getting hotter and changing fast" and quoted NASA scientist Thorsten Markus, who claimed rising temperatures…
Julia A. Seymour

MRC's Bozell Announces Bias Profiles for All Barack Channel (ABC) Anch

To coincide with the many changes at ABC News that begin today with George Stephanopoulos accepting the offer to replace Diane Sawyer as co-host of Good Morning America, NewsBusters's parent organization the Media Research Center (MRC) has unveiled their freshly updated Profiles in Bias of both left wing icons, as Sawyer will step into the World News anchor shoes of Charles Gibson later this…
NB Staff

Matthews Calls Palin A 'Troglodyte' For Not Buying Global Warming

Did you know that if you don't believe man is responsible for global warming you're a prehistoric cavedweller completely unaware of what's going on in the world?So said MSNBC's Chris Matthews during a discussion on Wednesday's "Hardball" when he referred to Sarah Palin and everybody else that doesn't agree with Nobel Laureate Al Gore's view of climate change as "troglodytes.""She`s got to be…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

ClimateGate 'An Inconvenient Scandal' Which 'Threatens to Crumble' Glo

ABC and CBS discounted the scientific relevance of the admissions and obfuscations displayed in the ClimateGate e-mails, but on Wednesday night they finally devoted full stories to the controversy and quoted the “most-damning” of the e-mails, the ones referring to a “trick” to “hide the decline” in a temperature measurement and in which a scientist fretted “we can't account for the lack of…
Brent Baker

CNBC's 'Squawk Box': All the Media Attention Could Actually Benefit Ti

Network's sports reporter makes case that media focus will boost his public image, but some sponsorship deals will suffer.
Jeff Poor

'Glambert's' Record Sales Indicate Not All Publicity is Good Publicity

American Idol runner-up sees a 74 percent drop in album sales.
Colleen Raezler

WaPo's McCartney: Archdiocese of D.C. Should 'Cut a Deal' on Homosexua

Writer admits to being a fan of the Catholic Church as long as it supports liberal causes.
Colleen Raezler

S.I. Writer Charges BCS an 'Illegal Monopoly'; Likens Current Format t

There's certainly an argument to be made that college football's Bowl Championship Series (BCS) isn't an ideal system, but just to what degree should the federal government come in and regulate this multi-billion dollar industry? According to Andy Staples, a writer for Sports Illustrated's Web site, SI.com who appeared on the Fox News Channel's Dec. 9 "Studio B," the industry should be revamped…
Jeff Poor

The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of

From jobs 'saved or created,' to stimulus saving the economy, to 'deficit neutral' health care reform; here are ten biggest stories the media got wrong this year.
Julia A. Seymour

Fallon Jokes to Maddow: ‘Awful’ That Palin Not Hit By Tomato

On Tuesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, during an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, when Maddow recounted a recent incident in which a man unsuccessfully threw a tomato at Sarah Palin at a public event at a mall, Fallon joked that it was "awful" because the thrower "didn’t come close" to hitting Palin. Fallon: "Didn’t hit her at all? Didn’t come close? Awful."Below is a…
Brad Wilmouth