Anderson Cooper Compares Obama to Nixon, Spotlights Declining Approval

How do you know that the White House's anti-Fox News campaign has gone seriously wrong? When CNN, let alone Anderson Cooper, begins to compare the Obama and Nixon administrations (video embedded below the fold, h/t Mediaite's Colby Hall).On last night's "360," Cooper stated that "this White House is starting to look like another White House and the comparison is not flattering." He showed a clip…
Lachlan Markay

In the Wake of Philly ACORN Vid, BigGov Calls Out Big Media's Follow-u

As noted early this morning, BigGovernment.com posted James O'Keefe's and Hannah Giles's latest video yesterday. That video totally nuked claims by ACORN National and ACORN Philly that O'Keefe and Giles had been "shown the door" and "kicked out" after a "few minutes" in their Philly Office visit -- claims that establishment media outlets continued to repeat even, as shown in the excerpt that…
Tom Blumer

'Early Show': Why Not Limit Compensation for Non-TARP Companies Too

The Federal pay czar announced that executives in companies that took bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Recovery Program should not receive the bonuses that were announced recently. And there are rumblings about extending government reach into the executive compensation at all publicly traded companies. That would be just fine with Harry Smith at CBS's "Early Show." On Oct. 22, Smith…
Carolyn Plocher

Maddow Runs What Passes for Correction on MSNBC About Limbaugh

As to be expected from a person who plays a journalist on TV -- a correction more accurately described as a "correction".With forced ebullience, Rachel Maddow sought to set the record straight on her MSNBC show Monday about a dubious quote from radio host Rush Limbaugh, which Maddow claimed back on June 3 that Limbaugh had once stated. As in, last spring. It's now autumn. In fairness to Maddow,…
Jack Coleman

WaPo Lashes Out Against ‘Militant,’ ‘Provocative,’ ‘Bizarre

The liberal Washington Post, which for months has been running a seemingly endless series of attack pieces on Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, appears to have moved on to a new target, the GOP’s choice for Attorney General. On Thursday, the Post featured a column by Robert McCartney on nominee Ken Cuccinelli and included this ominous headline: "Cuccinelli: In your heart, you know he…
Scott Whitlock

Networks, Newspapers Ignore Partisan, Racially-motivated Obama DOJ Act

The Obama ascendency, the president's acolytes have been keen on telling us, is the dawn of a new post-partisan era. But a development that undercuts that fiction -- the Obama Justice Department's recent move to scuttle non-partisan local elections in Kinston, North Carolina, on the basis of racial and partisan considerations -- has escaped the interest of the mainstream media.Both the Washington…
Ken Shepherd

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NB Staff

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Criticizes Informant in Huge Corruption S

There is currently a huge corruption scandal involving public officials in Broward County Florida that is being investigated by the FBI. The local Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel newspaper, which has been dragging its feet until recently on reporting this scandal, has finally gotten around to criticizing someone involved in the scandal investigation...the informant who helped break the case. I kid…
P.J. Gladnick

Obama: Fox Operates More Like 'Talk Radio' Than As 'News Outlet

Pres. Obama has described Fox News as "operating basically as a talk-radio format" rather than as a "news outlet."When NBC's Savannah Guthrie raised [in a segment of her extended interview of the president aired on Today this morning] the issue of White House attacks on Fox News, PBO first tried to play the statesman, resorting to the old dodge about "the American people" being more interested in…
Mark Finkelstein

Fox News Replaces Bush As New York Theatre's Punching Bag

Here's another sign that Fox News is becoming an all-purpose punching bag for liberals. Playbill reports that when the smutty-puppet musical Avenue Q went off-Broadway in New York, they replaced Bush-is-only-temporary lyrics with Fox-is-only-temporary lyrics: In the song "Only For Now," the ensemble shouts out "Sex! is only for now" and "Your hair! is only for now." On Broadway, the original…
Tim Graham

BigGov's O'Keefe and Giles Have Done It Again; Philly ACORN Vid Expose

Just when you thought that activist filmmaker James O'Keefe, partner Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart at BigGovernment.com had run out of ammo to direct at ACORN, they have outdone themselves.In September, BigGov aired videos showing O'Keefe and Giles, posing as a pimp and prostitute, asking for and getting cordial help in setting up their enterprise as a deliberately income-underrporting cash…
Tom Blumer

'View' Shames Media for 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent'; No Mention of

Hosts muster sympathy for teacher wrongly accused of having sex with a teen; forget their own complicity in spreading falsehoods.
Carolyn Plocher

'Safe Schools Czar' Funded Anti-Christian Gay Porn Art Exhibit

The man advising the president on safe schools is a gay activist who sponsors 'important' dirty pictures.
Matt Philbin

NBC 'Nightly News' Champions Obama's Sensitivity to Women

Correspondent's one challenge to the president focused on a male-only basketball game.
Brent Baker