AP Worried Obama Rules Media With Iron Fist

On January 22 the Associated Press posted an interesting little tidbit of news about how Team Obama is treating the press. Apparently, the Obama White House is trying to force news agencies to use Obama's own, special, ostensibly "official" photographer's photos taken at Obama press conferences instead of allowing news agencies to have their own photogs present to record the event. As a result of…
Warner Todd Huston

Famous Obama 'Hope' Image Stolen

So, where exactly did the communist graphics inspired artist Shepard Fairey get the image of Obama for his ubiquitous "Hope" poster featuring a confident, young Obama intently staring off into the distance for glorious leader's future, anyway? Turns out the celebrated artist stole it from an Associated Press freelance photographer and never bothered to acknowledge where he got it in the first…
Warner Todd Huston

WaPo: Attempting to Make Bush Look Like Tech Moron

Our old friend Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post Staff writer, is at it again with her latest outbreak of Bush Derangement Syndrome. This time she and the Washington Post have teamed up to try to paint the Bush White House as technological Neanderthals in theirs headlined "Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages." The headline alone tells readers that those poor, poor Obama…
Warner Todd Huston

Brother of Terri Schiavo Warns Pro-Life Activists about 'Secular Media

Bobby Schindler uses MSNBC's Keith Olbermann as example.
Colleen Raezler

Votes Outnumber Voters in Minnesota Senate recount? Ed Schultz Shrugs

Jack Coleman

CNN's Brown Scolds Limbaugh for 'Outrageous...Foul'; Halperin: 'Off Ke

CNN's Campbell Brown on Thursday night framed a panel segment around Rush Limbaugh's comment that he wishes President Obama will fail if success means implementing socialist policies, a remark she characterized as matching his usual “outrageous” outbursts and which “has a lot of people crying foul out there.” Guest Mark Halperin, editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time magazine and…
Brent Baker

Terri Schiavo's Brother Rips Olbermann At D.C. March for Life

Tim Graham

Cramer on Geithner's Tax Troubles: 'If it was Cramer, I Would Be Prose

Like him or not, this time he has a valid point. CNBC rabble-rouser and "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer questioned the merits of Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama's Treasury Secretary-designate, and told viewers on CNBC's Jan. 22 "Street Signs" that, had he been in Geithner's shoes, he'd face criminal prosecution.  "I happen to have a meeting with my lawyers just to discuss this - with my…
Jeff Poor

Lowery's Clueless-White Prayer: CBS Skips It, ABC, NBC, PBS Feature It

Liberal pastor and civil rights leader Joseph Lowery’s strange benediction prayer hoping that one day "white will embrace what is right" wasn’t ignored on the Tuesday night news, but it wasn’t portrayed as at all controversial. CBS skipped over it. But ABC, NBC, and PBS’s NewsHour all featured it, often without interrupting their gauzy promotional tone. Here’s a brief tour of how it unfolded.ABC…
Tim Graham

With Geithner, Kennedy, Will Media Raise Concerns About Democratic Cul

As Barack Obama's tax-delinquent Treasury pick Tim Geithner appears to be sailing smoothly towards nomination, it seems Caroline Kennedy's once all-but-apparent ascension to the vacant Senate seat for New York seems to be dead in the water and sinking fast.As the New York Times is reporting, tax issues appear to be responsible for sinking the Kennedy bid:ALBANY - Problems involving taxes and a…
Ken Shepherd

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on WaPo Writer's Torture Claims: 'Bull

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Thursday aggressively clashed with his liberal co-anchor Mika Brzezinski and Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart about Guantanamo Bay and the definitions of torture. After Capehart asserted, "I do think there's a way to protect America without violating everything that we stand for and everything that we are," a clearly agitated Scarborough…
Scott Whitlock

CBS: Barack Obama, ‘Hugger in Chief

Thursday’s CBS Early Show focused on an important aspect of the Obama Administration as co-host Julie Chen declared: "...in a meeting yesterday with senior White House staffers, President Obama showed a lot of love. That's right. The president is a man hugger. We counted nine man-to-man hugs." Co-host Maggie Rodriguez added: "Nothing wrong with that." Chen then asked co-host Harry Smith: "Man of…
Kyle Drennen

The New York Times Throws a Hip Inauguration Party for Obama

The New York Times celebrated Obama's presidency Inauguration Night at a hip location in the already painfully hip Lower East Side of Manhattan. Reid Pillifant, blogging for the New York Observer, filed the day after Tuesday night's NYT party at the New Museum on the Bowery, a Twitter-ific shindig co-sponsored by Facebook: Last night at the New Museum on the Bowery, a crowd of left-behind New…
Clay Waters

Rush Limbaugh Discusses 'Drive-By Media' With Sean Hannity

On Wednesday, part one of Sean Hannity's interview with Rush Limbaugh was aired on the Fox News Channel, and amongst other things, they discussed a term the conservative talk radio host coined years ago: The Drive-By Media. It's a like a drive-by shooter except the microphones are the guns, and they drive into groups of people they report a bunch of totally wrong libelous stuff about people. They…
Noel Sheppard