Hypocritical Olbermann Finds It ‘Weird’ That Bush 41 Called Him

Less than a week after likening conservative blogger Michelle Malkin to a “mashed-up bag of meat” on his Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann on Monday called out former President George H.W. Bush for daring to call him and fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow “sick puppies,” as Olbermann described Bush’s words from a recent interview as a “weird term."As he characterized Bush as being…
Brad Wilmouth

Republican Senator Accuses Obama of Acting Like Nixon

A top Republican Senator who used to work for President Richard Nixon has warned the Obama administration to not create an "enemies list" like that of his former employer.Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) in his speech on the Senate floor Wednesday listed a number of recent events that uncomfortably remind him of how the Nixon White House treated everyone in America that didn't agree with it:If the…
Noel Sheppard

Welcome to the P.T. Barnum Administration

Obama, media treat Americans like a bunch of suckers and it's working on health care.
Dan Gainor

MSNBC Entertainment Editor Furthers Misinformation About Palin

MSNBC entertainment editor Courtney Hazlett spent all of two minutes on "Morning Meeting" with Dylan Ratigan and still managed to get her facts wrong.Noting former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's scheduled November 16 appearance on "Oprah," Hazlett told viewers that the former Alaska governor "famously said no to appearing on Oprah" during the 2008 presidential campaign,…
Ken Shepherd

Dumb and Dumber, By Choice

Americans are ignorant, and Obama is counting on it.
Dan Kennedy

CNN Again Cites Liberal Study on Talk Radio, Pushes Localism

CNN’s Carol Costello again omitted the liberal source of a statistic she touted during a report on Wednesday’s American Morning, that 91% of talk radio is apparently conservative. Costello also pushed the left-wing aim of localism in radio programming, playing three soundbites in favor of the proposal, versus two against it.Near the end of her report, which aired at the bottom of the 7 am Eastern…
Matthew Balan

Open Thread

NB Staff

Olbermann: Prejean's Complaints About Breast Surgery Publicization 'Ir

It was bound to happen - an inevitable character assault on former Miss California Carrie Prejean by a host from MSNBC, the place for misogyny, after K2 Productions, the company that directs the Miss California USA pageant, filed a publicity-seeking, lawsuit. Prejean unintentionally created a firestorm when she answered a question from self-proclaimed gay rights activist and gossip blogger…
Jeff Poor

Former FNC Lib: CNN and MSNBC Further Left Than Fox Is Right

Recently fired liberal Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill claimed Tuesday the White House attacks on his former employer reek of propaganda.Speaking with WOR radio's Steve Malzberg, Hill also agreed that the two other cable news networks he used to contribute to, CNN and MSNBC, are far more to the left than Fox News is to the right. These were fascinating comments from someone that was…
Noel Sheppard

Krauthammer Rips 'Repulsive Audacity' of White House for Fox News Atta

By now, the cat is out of the bag - President Barack Obama and his administration are no fans of the Fox News Channel and have been all too eager to wear that sentiment as a badge of honor. However, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer identified the vigor with which the Obama administration has attacked Fox. He explained on the Fox News Oct. 20 broadcast of "Special Report with Bret…
Jeff Poor

Is the WaPo Stuffing Its Own Ballot Box for the 'Public Option

The Washington Post touted a new poll on Tuesday that popular support is increasing for a government-run "public option" health care system – just as liberal Democrats try to push that into the Senate Finance Committee bill. The headline was "Public option gains support: Clear majority now backs plan." So it’s not surprising, as Ed Morrissey found at Hot Air, that the Post is stuffing its poll…
Tim Graham

Three's Company: Pop Culture 'Knocks at the Door' of Group Sex

Teen-oriented entertainment attempts to normalize three-ways.
Colleen Raezler

Olbermann Calls Prejean's Privacy Complaint over Breast Surgery Detail

MSNBC host equates belief in traditional marriage with privacy breaches.
Jeff Poor

People Mag Falsely Claims Palin Refused To Appear On Oprah Last Year

As NewsBusters reported a few hours ago, Oprah Winfrey has finally decided to allow former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on her highly-rated daytime talk show.Shortly after it was announced, People magazine's web article on the matter falsely informed readers that Palin refused Oprah's invitation during the campaign last year (h/t NB reader Christy Ellsworth):Oh, what a difference a multimillion-…
Noel Sheppard