CNN’s Blitzer to Huffington: ‘I Read Your Blog on HuffPost All the

Wolf Blitzer, on Friday’s "The Situation Room," conducted a softball interview of Arianna Huffington, helping her to promote her new book, "Right is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe," and asking her for her take on the three presidential candidates. He failed to identify her "Huffington Post" website, "one of the most popular…
Matthew Balan

Polar Bear Scare Could Maul Energy Production

BMI Staff

Star Jones Whacks Barbara Walters: Using Her Adultery to Sell Books

A funny friend e-mailed me this joke about the ABC special tonight selling the new Barbara Walters boudoir-opening memoir: "Just a few hours now until the most eagerly awaited program of the May sweeps, 'Barbara Walters: Skanky In the Seventies.' I can't wait." From Us Magazine through TV Newser: Star Jones lets her old "View" boss Barbara Walters have it on how she's using her tale of adultery…
Tim Graham

Limbaugh Derangement Syndrome at HuffPo: Radio Host Genocidal to Dems

I'm no medical doctor or psychiatrist, but I believe there's a disturbing condition sweeping the left-wing blogosphere, closely related to the well-documented malady of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Call it Limbaugh Derangement Syndrome if you will, and I will.What else do you call it when a lib blogger compares the radio talk show host to agitators of Rwandan genocide? From Jeffrey Feldman's May 7…
Ken Shepherd

Clinton and Obama Not Quite ‘Liberal’ to CBS’ Greenfield

How far left do you have to be to make the networks' progressive candidates dream team? CBS News Senior Political Correspondent Jeff Greenfield twice referred to Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) as "relatively liberal senators" during a live interview on Washington, D.C.'s WTOP News this morning during drive time. Discussing the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic…
Robert Knight

Norah to McAuliffe: 'Mathematically Impossible' for Hillary to Win Nom

Hillary's odds of overtaking Obama among elected delegates are not much better than those of the milk-wagon nag's winning the Preakness. But is it "mathematically impossible" for Clinton to win the nomination? No way. Many superdelegates remain undeclared. And even those who have come out for Obama are not bound. If another shoe of the Rev. Wright variety were to drop, it's far from…
Mark Finkelstein

Cindy Crawford Fights Global Warming Malibu Style

Another celebrity has seen Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and found green religion. Supermodel-turned-mommy Cindy Crawford, now a blogger for Vanity Fair's Web site, appeared on ABC's May 7 "Good Morning America" to tell viewers they can save the environment by buying a $20 water bottle. "But my kids go to a school in Malibu and it's super-environmentally conscious," Crawford said. "We do…
Jeff Poor

'Fox & Friends' Repeats Flawed Disenfranchised Nun Story

This morning's "Fox & Friends" repeated some misreporting on a dozen nuns who were supposedly "barred" from voting yesterday at their South Bend, Indiana, polling station due to lack of proper ID. As I noted in my May 6 blog entry, the sisters were not refused the vote, they chose not to vote using the provisional balloting option. [audio available here]As the AP's Deborah Hastings reported…
Ken Shepherd

Cindy Crawford Saves the Environment One $20 Water Bottle at a Time

Supermodel appears on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to promote green tips of the rich and famous.
Jeff Poor

Polar Bear Scare Could Maul Energy Production

Global warming alarmists, news media portray arctic beasts as victims and spokesbears, but protecting their thriving population means greatly increased federal power to control our lives.
Nathan Burchfiel

All We Are Saying is Give Profit a Chance

'Evening News' is talkin' 'bout money drought, selling out, 'Lennon, thanks,' making bank.
Nathan Burchfiel

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: not a good night for Hillary.Sure, she won in Indiana, but not by much. And, North Carolina, no matter how you spin it, was a disaster.Does she have to get out now? Will Democrat leaders start putting the pressure on her? That's certainly not the way it looked during her "victory" speech last night in Indiana.On another note: how much do…
NB Staff

Are Media Focusing on Limbaugh's Operation Chaos to Force Hillary Out

Are "Totally in the Tank for Obama" media members focusing on Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" in order to force Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton out of the race?Consider if you will all of the attention Limbaugh's months-old plan to keep the Democrat nomination process going as long as possible got Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning following Hillary's tough night in North…
Noel Sheppard

LAT Losing Subscribers? Just Paint the Titanic Green

P.J. Gladnick