Where’s Memorial Day Coverage of Our Soldiers' Achievements

On Friday’s Fox & Friends, Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt rattled off a series of U.S. and Iraqi achievements, then blasted the liberal media for failing to report them. “If you talk about success in Iraq, then you’re somehow giving credit to McCain,” Hunt surmised, “and I think it’s wrong, because it does not give credit to the soldiers who have earned this, and we need to stop…
Rich Noyes

McCain in Great Health, Will ABC Apologize for Thursday's Dire Report

Despite ABC News's concerns about Republican presidential candidate John McCain's health, 1,173 pages of medical records just released to the press show the Arizona senator "appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health."This is in stark contrast to a segment on Thursday's "World News with Charles Gibson" (reported by my colleague Brent Baker) which addressed…
Noel Sheppard

Oy Vey: Obama's Salute to Israeli Socialism

Barack Obama—kibbutznik?Of all the ways the presidential candidate sought to connect with Jewish voters at Congregation B'nai Torah in Boca Raton yesterday, perhaps the most heartfelt seemed these lines:BARACK OBAMA: As I learned more [about the Zionist movement], I found I had a deep affinity with the idea of social justice that was embodied in the Jewish faith. There was a notion–tikkun–that…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

NB Staff

Survey: Americans Say They're Well-Informed, But Dissatisfied With War

Terry Ann Rendon

Rock Star: 'The Whole Joke of Live Earth Was How Wasteful It Was

Tim Graham

Olbermann: 'Awol' McCain 'Supporting Himself Instead of the Troops

Brad Wilmouth

NewsBusted

NB Staff

Age Card: Lautenberg Not Laughing Now

In a political season in which Barack Obama has delighted in playing the age card—see "lost his bearings," "wander around," and multiple mentions of McCain's "half-century of service," Democrats are now demonstrating that they're even willing to use an opponent's superannuation on each other.There I was in my upstate NY home this evening, innocently watching the Yankee game, when this ad by Dem…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC: McCain Psychologically Damaged? Suffer Dementia? Die Soon

Not waiting until the actual Friday release of John McCain's medical records, on Thursday's World News anchor Charles Gibson (who's 65) and Dr. Tim Johnson (who at 72 is older than McCain) speculated about McCain's health. Gibson wondered about “psychological damage” from his POW captivity. Assured there's no evidence of that, Gibson jumped to wonder how much longer McCain has to live, a question…
Brent Baker

Actress Dern: 'Loved' Making Katherine Harris Look 'Clueless' in HBO F

It's not often that a denizen of Hollywood is so crass as to admit that they enjoyed using their film work as a bludgeon with which to beat up a living person, but Reuters is reporting that the folks that made the upcoming HBO film "Recount" -- and actress Laura Dern in particular -- really relished making at least one person look like an idiot. Apparently Dern really enjoyed skewering Katherine…
Warner Todd Huston

Bozell Column: Hillary Cries 'Sexism

Brent Bozell

'Early Show' Takes Jab at Oil Executives for Industry Profits

Segment later features oil expert that explains it isn't the oil company profits causing the spike.
Jeff Poor

WaPo Touts Senator Webb as a 'Bold Choice' for Obama's Veep

Tim Graham