UPDATE: Whoopi Goldberg Asked McCain 'Do I Have to Worry About Becomin

Developing: On September 12's "View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg inquired of Senator John McCain, "do you want me to be a slave?"[EDITOR'S NOTE: Working now from the actual tape instead of notes, the question was "Do I have to be worried about becoming a slave again?"]The question was spurned by the Senator's stance on Roe v. Wade. When McCain answered he supports judges who support the original…
Justin McCarthy

In 2007 Interview, ABC’s Gibson Greeted Obama With Softballs

Nearly a year ago, when the inexperienced presidential candidate Barack Obama sat for his first interview with Charles Gibson, the ABC anchor did not try and expose any gaps in Obama’s foreign policy knowledge or press him about his readiness for the job he was seeking. Instead Gibson emphasized Obama’s personal story, about how his parents met, how Obama met his wife, etc.But just as he did with…
Rich Noyes

Open Thread

NB Staff

Time.com Web Poll Misrepresents Palin on War with Russia

In its Dunkin' Donut-sponsored Web poll of the day for September 12, Time.com misrepresented Gov. Sarah Palin's position on the Georgia-Russia conflict, perhaps to paint the Alaska governor as a trigger-happy novice at foreign affairs:Do you agree with Sarah Palin that the US should go to war to defend Georgia if necessary," asked the poll. That suggests Palin is urging the United States gear up…
Ken Shepherd

NBC Features Retired Businessman Striving to Fix Urban Schools

'Nightly News' segment highlights billionaire philanthropist who has donated time and money to improving education.
Jeff Poor

CNN's Roberts Refers to Democrats as 'We

It now makes more sense why CNN's John Roberts didn't want to talk about liberal media bias with NewsBusters at the Republican National Convention last week, for while discussing the state of the presidential campaign with former Clinton administration advisor Paul Begala Friday morning, Roberts referred to Democrats as "we." [audio here]I kid you not.At 6:57 AM, after showing a video of Barack…
Noel Sheppard

Mo Dowd, Matt Damon Repeat NutRoots Lie About Palin

**Video Below the Fold** As if we needed another reason to think that the excitable Maureen Dowd and the empty headed Matt Damon are... well, excitable and empty headed... we get the newest raindrop in their river of blather as proof that their "research" into a subject seems to consist of hearing an unsupported claim and deciding it represent gospel truth. Our latest proof is that they both…
Warner Todd Huston

Pounding Palin on Pakistan, Cuomo Ignores Obama Doctrine

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama issued a pointed warning yesterday to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying that as president he would be prepared to order U.S. troops into that country unilaterally if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists. -- "Obama Says He Would Take Fight to Pakistan," Washington Post, 8-2-07 [emphasis added]Much has been made of Sarah…
Mark Finkelstein

Profane Palin Hate, Unfit for Publication? WaPo 'Washes In Most Happil

Tim Graham

WaPo's False 'Aha' on Palin, Iraq, and

I guess if the press can't find anything substantive to throw up against Sarah Palin, making stuff up will have to do. A front-page article by the Washington Post's Anne Kornblut crows over what the reporter claims is a gaffe by GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin: FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Sept. 11 -- Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an…
Tom Blumer

Conn. Paper: Tired of Attacking Palin, Attacks 'Angry' Town of Wasilla

This one has got to take the cake for stupidity and lack of journalistic integrity. The Old Media has been gyrating in ever widening circles to find new and unheard of ways to destroy Governor Sarah Palin and now from the Hartford Courant (Connecticut) we find the most ridiculous one yet. With this Robert Thorson column we have now gone from slandering Gov. Palin herself, to attacking every last…
Warner Todd Huston

Gibson Pushes Palin to Concede Global Warming 'Man-Made

ABC's Charles Gibson pressed Sarah Palin repeatedly, in a fresh interview excerpt aired on Thursday's "Nightline," to cry uncle and concede global warming is “man-made” -- but even when she did he wasn't satisfied and pushed for more of a mea culpa. "Nightline," which made “War, God and Oil” the on-screen header for excerpts from Gibson's interviews, began with a slightly longer version of what "…
Brent Baker

ABC's 'Nightline': Sarah Palin 'Is Most Definitely Christian

Did you know that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin was Christian?Well, in case you didn't, ABC's Martin Bashir felt it was necessary to bring up this fact at the beginning of Thursday's "Nightline." No foolin'. After an introduction teasing the topics to be addressed in this installment, Bashir curiously began (video embedded right): 
Noel Sheppard

One Year of 'NewsBusted

It's hard to believe but today marks both the one year anniversary of our fake news comedy show "NewsBusted."With leftist comedians dominating the television world, it has been a great pleasure to try and bring some humor to the right side of things here on our corner of the interweb. My thanks to my fellow show staff, our star comedian Jodi Miller, creator and director Bruce Roundtower, our…
Matthew Sheffield