NBC's Mitchell Hails Hillary Clinton As a 'Foreign Policy Superstar

In a piece that could've been crafted by Hillary Clinton's PR shop, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, on Monday's "Today" show, gushed on and on about the Secretary of State's new "role of a lifetime," as a "a foreign policy superstar," and cheered Clinton has the "highest approval ratings of any time in her career." Mitchell's theme throughout her story was that the "anger of the primaries," between…
Geoffrey Dickens

Obama Jokes Still Off Limits To America's Comedians

Did you hear the one about Barack Obama?You didn't?Well, that's because jokes about him are still forbidden to America's comedians.As the Los Angeles Times' Greg Braxton wrote Monday, this breaks a long-standing tradition of comics jabbing at the White House resident as often as possible (h/t Big Hollywood):
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

'60 Minutes' Promotes $27-Billion Leftist 'Fraud' Efforts Against Chev

When $27 billion is at stake, some companies would pay big bucks to win a PR battle, but one side of an environmental lawsuit doesn't have to, since CBS is pushing its position for free. On CBS's May 3 "60 Minutes," correspondent Scott Pelley, who once compared global-warming skepticism to Holocaust denial, gave the plaintiff of a $27-billion frivolous lawsuit against Chevron a public relations…
Jeff Poor

All Reporters Rise for Obama

Tim Graham

CNN/Oprah.com: Calls Sudden Lesbian Syndrome a 'New' Trend Without Any

Oprah.com and CNN have decided that there is a growing "new" trend in American sexual relations. The two Internet giants have teamed up and have decided that increasingly "women are leaving men for other women." Shocking news, I know. Only one little problem. Oprah.com has no proof for any such proclamation. After the shocking headline and the first three paragraphs proclaiming a new lesbian…
Warner Todd Huston

UPI Coming to Joe Biden's Rescue

As expected, Joe Biden is fast becoming the clown prince of Washington D.C. His never ending case of athlete's mouth resulting from his penchant for sticking his foot between his chompers is something that should be no surprise to any long-time Biden watcher. But, amusingly, UPI tries to re-center the Biden story, rescuing him from ridicule, to discuss the supposedly important things that…
Warner Todd Huston

ABC, CBS Blame Conservative Social Positions for GOP Misfortunes

On ABC’s World News Saturday, and the same day’s CBS Evening News, correspondents suggested that conservative positions on social issues were responsible for the Republican party’s recent electoral misfortunes, as the two programs filed stories about an appearance in Arlington by Jeb Bush, Eric Cantor and Mitt Romney as part of an effort to rebuild the party’s appeal. ABC cited a recent ABC News…
Brad Wilmouth

Opie Gets Ugly

Movie watchers are going to think large chunks of Ron Howard's Angels and Demons are actual human history, and the trailer has no disclaimer about how this scientist-murdering-church narrative is pure fantasy.
L. Brent Bozell III

NYT Publishes Misleading Article About 'Pragmatic Views' of 'Law Profe

If you had read a newspaper article about Colonel Harlan Sanders which left the impression that he really held that rank in the military without mentioning that it was strictly an honorary title from the state of Kentucky, wouldn't you consider the story to be misleading? Well, that is pretty much what Jodi Kantor did in her New York Times story about "law professor" Barack Obama starting with…
P.J. Gladnick

Op-ed: 'U.S. Has a 45-year History of Torture

Noel Sheppard

CBS News Exec Kaplan: Republicans Have to Admit Obama's First 100 Days

Today's Washington Post Web site carries the Associated Press story "Who's Watching News Scorecards on Obama?"  Written by David Bauder, the piece begins by reporting:As President Barack Obama passed his 100th day in office last week, two studies judged that the news media has given him more coverage, and more positive coverage, than his two predecessors at the same point in their terms.…
Mike Bates

Scarborough: Today's GOP is Not Too Conservative It's Too Radical

In the wake of back to back disappointments the past two elections, as well as Arlen Specter's recent defection to the Democrat Party, liberal media members -- and even some not-so liberal media members -- have been blaming the GOP's supposed demise on Republicans being too conservative.On Sunday's "Meet the Press," MSNBC's Joe Scarborough took issue with this popular yet obviously debatable…
Noel Sheppard

Ingraham and Morano Expose Gore's Global Warming Profit Motive

For several years NewsBusters has been informing readers of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's profit motive as it pertains to his advancement of global warming hysteria. This included the presentation of a video of the former Vice President disclosing in March 2008 what investments he's personally made in companies that will benefit from any legislation designed to curb carbon dioxide emissions.This…
Noel Sheppard