Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail in 2006 Poll, Will Media Care

CRITICAL UPDATE at end of post: former Clinton pollster wrote in depth about this in September 2006!If it's unpatriotic and supposedly treasonous for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh to want Barack Obama's policies to fail in the middle of a serious recession, is it similarly so for Democrats who wished President Bush wouldn't succeed while the nation was at war?In August 2006, a Fox…
Noel Sheppard

Wikipedia Scrubs Ayers and Wright From Obama Biography

Wikipedia users have scrubbed all references to homegrown terrorist William Ayers and the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright from Barack Obama's entry at the online encyclopedia.Apparently, any information posted about Ayers or Wright in the text of the Obama biography is not only immediately taken down, but the offending user is banned for three days. Such was revealed by WorldNetDaily moments…
Noel Sheppard

After Nine Years, Oprah's Allowing Another Cover Girl on O Magazine: M

Tim Graham

MoveOn.org Quotes N.Y. Times Columnist As Proof Obama Is Fundamentally

Tim Graham

New York Times: 'Some Conservatives Have Implied' Obama's a Socialist

In The New York Times today appears "The President Is on the Line to Follow Up on Socialism," by Jeff Zeleny.  The article's first three paragraphs:Less than 90 minutes after Air Force One landed, the telephone rang. President Obama was on the line, wanting to add one more point to a response he gave during an interview with The New York Times.On a flight from Ohio to Washington on Friday, Mr.…
Mike Bates

Kurtz: 'Outrage' Media Ignored CNN Host Who Called Republicans 'Nazis

Brent Baker

Iran's Ahmadinejad Gets Shoe Thrown At Him, Will Media Care

An Iranian website is claiming that Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently had a shoe thrown at him while en route to give a speech ahead of the upcoming elections. Given the tremendous attention given to President Bush having a shoe thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist last December, one has to wonder if American media will report this incident or ignore it.Consider what was published by…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Tea Parties? What Tea Parties? Predictably, Established Media Coverage

Coverage of "tea party" protests in various cities around the country (this March 4 Pajamas Media press release, HT to FreeRepublic, cited 22 locations on February 27 and seven this weekend) has been sparse to non-existent, especially at major establishment media outlets. Most notably, based on a seach on "tea party" (not in quotes) at its ap.org home page at about 10:00 a.m., there has been no…
Tom Blumer

Matthews Laughs at Limbaugh the 'Fat, Pill-Popping Idiot,' But Margare

Tim Graham

Newsweek Cover Story: Conservative Frum's 'Why Rush is Wrong

The media attack on Rush Limbaugh will take an interesting turn Monday when the March 16 issue of Newsweek hits newstands around the country for the cover story is an astoundingly negative article about the conservative talk radio host written by former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum.With "Why Rush is Wrong" getting published at Newsweek's website Saturday evening, it is also sure to be…
Noel Sheppard

More 'Gift Gaffes,' Now From Hillary

On top of the major faux pas in gifting promulgated by the Obamas during the visit of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown comes the story of the ridiculous mistake that Secretary of State Hillary "the linguist" Clinton made with her gift to Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov. The "gift" was supposed to be a funny one, but it was a misfire because it seems that Clinton couldn't find anyone…
Warner Todd Huston

Bill Maher Bashes CNBC's Cramer for Calling Obama Lenin

In today's Pot Calling the Kettle Black moment, Bill Maher thinks CNBC's Jim Cramer isn't helping by suggesting that President Barack Obama is Lenin.This coming from a man who built an entire weekly television program on HBO savagely attacking George W. Bush and anyone associated with his Administration.Despite the obvious hypocrisy, on Friday's "Real Time," as Maher was talking to CNBC's Erin…
Noel Sheppard

Alec Baldwin: Reagan Republicans Are 'Bulls*** Wing' of GOP

"30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin jumped on the anti-Rush Limbaugh bandwagon Friday calling the conservative talk radio host "an uneducated, marginally talented, overbearing, recovering drug addict." He also took a cheap shot at one of America's most-beloved presidents referring to Reagan Republicans as "the bulls***t...wing of the party."Such vitriol was included in a Huffington Post article entitled…
Noel Sheppard