Rush Limbaugh Sits Down With Sean Hannity

Last Wednesday and Thursday, the Fox News Channel aired Sean Hannity's interview with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.As many readers may have missed either all or part of these segments, both are herein presented for your review.What follows are videos from both nights embedded below the fold along with full transcripts:
Noel Sheppard

CNN Co-founder: High Fox News Ratings Caused by Anger

You just know it has to be killing the folks at CNN and MSNBC that Fox News has completely overwhelmed them in the ratings. In fact, the combined number of viewers of both of those networks still doesn't match that of Fox News. Could it be that the public is sick of the fawning coverage given to the Obama administration by most of the mainstream media and look to Fox News for providing more…
P.J. Gladnick

Stephanopoulos Doesn't Ask Hillary If Obama Has Marginalized Her

When it was announced that Hillary Clinton was going to give her first Sunday interview since becoming Barack Obama's Secretary of State to her husband's former advisor George Stephanopoulos, nobody envisioned a hard-hitting exchange.However, as he tossed the softest of softballs at his guest, the "This Week" host mysteriously avoided asking any questions about Clinton's future political…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Europe swings right! Europe was leaning to the right Sunday as tens of millions of people voted in European Parliament elections, with conservative parties favored in many countries against a backdrop of economic crisis. Opinion polling showed right-leaning governments with edges over their opposition in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium…
NB Staff

AP: Know What All These Job Losses Mean? 'Brightest Hope,' of Course

There is happy-talk and then there is delusion. The Associated Press has just approached the delusional stage with its recent assessment of what the unemployment numbers mean. Absurdly, the AP seems to imagine that the continued job losses under Obama means that job hunters are experiencing "raising hopes"! It's like sitting on the Titanic pleased that taking on water raises hopes that a nice,…
Warner Todd Huston

Ed Asner on PBS: Why Excrete Money in Iraq When You Can Waste It Here

Tim Graham

O'Reilly Denounces NARAL Woman: You 'Flat-Out Lied' In Washington Post

Tim Graham

National Review Skewers Newsweek's Obama Fixation

The good folks at National Review are absolutely skewering Newsweek's disgraceful Obama fixation with a delicious parody of the magazine including "New, improved, and longer articles extolling the First Family!" (h/t Hot Air, larger picture below the fold):
Noel Sheppard

Saturday Funnies: British PM Calls Omaha Beach 'Obama Beach

Is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown also an Obama lover?We report, you decide:
Noel Sheppard

Oil Prices Doubled Since Inauguration, Will Media Blame Obama

Virtually every time oil and gasoline prices rose when George W. Bush was in the White House, his policies and/or his connections to folks in the oil industry were blamed by newsrooms from coast to coast.Yet, even though oil has doubled in price since Inauguration Day, with retail gas prices up $0.75 a gallon, you'd be hard-pressed to find reports blaming these spikes on President Obama or…
Noel Sheppard

Media Slowly Noticing Sotomayor's 'Wise Woman' Comments

On Thursday, NewsBusters' Tim Graham asked, "Mark Levin Says Damaging New Sotomayor Texts Emerging: Will Media Notice?"As it turns out, Levin was right about these texts, and newsrooms are starting to pay attention, but very slowly.CQ reported Thursday evening:
Noel Sheppard

Shotgun Wedding: Court Docs Reveal Govt. Likely Forced Chrysler Deal W

Even if they ultimately lose their last-minute court battle, the Indiana pension funds defending their rights as secured first-lien creditors of Chrysler have done a valuable deed. We have learned, among many other things, how at least one government lawyer characterized the funds' lawyer, Thomas Lauria. A $10,000 Democratic Party donor, Lauria, despite clear evidence of intimidation of his…
Tom Blumer

Jon Stewart: Brian Williams 'Clearly Has the Hots' for Obama

NBC's Brian Williams "clearly has the hots" for President Barack Obama.So said Comedy Central's Jon Stewart Thursday in a total skewering of NBC's "Inside the Obama White House" special report. Not only did "The Daily Show" host totally lambaste Williams for using "this kind of unprecedented access" to the president to "cross-promote" other NBC programs, but also marvelously depicted the entire…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff