Ted Turner's Next Prophecy: Food Riots 'Going to be More Commonplace

After forecasting cannibalism from global warming, media mogul-turned-U.N. Foundation chairman appears on CNBC and ties 'global climate change' to 'an ever-increasing population.'
Jeff Poor

Chris Matthews: White People Willing to Pick Up Black Heroes, If They

John Stephenson

More than 33,000 People Send Petition with 'Outrage' Over Time's Docto

Media Research Center petition demands apology from magazine for 'offensive cover demeaning World War II vets.'
Jeff Poor

Weekend Captionfest

Interviewed by Bill Moyers for a PBS show to be aired on the night of April 25, 2008, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. accused people of trying to paint  him as "un-American" or "some sort of fanatic" for purposes of harming the candidacy of Barack Obama. (AP Photo/PBS, Robin Holland, HO)
NB Staff

Meredith Vieira Hits McCain from the Left

Justin McCarthy

CNN’s Larry King Fails to Ask Pelosi About Fake Bible Quote

During a taped interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi which aired on Thursday’s "Larry King Live," Larry King did not bring up the California Democrat’s longstanding use of a fictional quote from the Bible, which CNSNews.com chronicled in a report on April 23. During the interview, which totaled just under 19 minutes, King asked Pelosi about a variety of topics, such as the race between…
Matthew Balan

NPR Plugs Chafee's Bush-Bashing Book, But Not His GOP Opponent

Republicans are welcome on National Public Radio – especially if they’re former Republicans who think the Bush-Cheney administration is a reckless disaster. On April 17, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross interviewed former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who’s now left the GOP and gone independent. He has a new book titled "Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless…
Tim Graham

Harrison Ford Gets Chest Waxed to Promote Environmentalism

When I saw the headline in the NewsBusters' ad section for Deceiver's website "Harrison Ford Waxes Off His Man Fur for Mother Earth," I was expecting something tongue-in-cheek. To my amazement, this was serious: one of my favorite actors of all time was actually waxing the hair off his chest to bring attention to deforestation.Think I'm kidding, and participating in the joke?Think again, for…
Noel Sheppard

God and Grammar at the Chicago Tribune

In her April 24 post at The Seeker blog, Chicago Tribune's Manya Brachear asked readers how they would keep the peace between Armenian and Greek Orthodox priests that maintain the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Brachear also noted the concern at least one reader of the Tribune expressed as to the grammatically, historically, and theologically sloppy way in which the print edition…
Ken Shepherd

Perfect Job for Sheryl Crow: Montgomery County, Md. Jailor

"Toilet Paper Rationing Proposed for Inmates" read the teaser headline in the sidebar of my Metro section front page for the April 25 Washington Post. "Since when did Sheryl Crow become a jail warden?" I wondered. Much to my chagrin, I found it was not such a green story after all, unless the green we're talking about is the budget for the Montgomery County, Maryland budget:Montgomery County…
Ken Shepherd

ABC Defends 'Soft-Spoken,' Patriotic Jeremiah Wright

In an attempt to rehabilitate Jeremiah Wright and, by extension, Senator Barack Obama's connection to the man, Friday's "Good Morning America" featured two segments on the "soft-spoken," patriotic pastor, a man who urged God to damn America. Reporter David Wright, a well-known Obama partisan, described an appearance Pastor Wright made with liberal PBS journalist Bill Moyers. Wright cooed, "But…
Scott Whitlock

Nets Stress Wright's Claim His Remarks Distorted, Not How Obama Agrees

Barack Obama's pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, suggested in an interview with Bill Moyers that Obama agreed with his comments which stirred a furor in March, but instead of framing their stories around evidence Obama may be in sync with Wright's paranoid and America-hating rants, the network evening newscasts on Thursday stressed Wright's claim his sermons were unfairly distorted. CBS's Jim…
Brent Baker

Nancy Pelosi's Promiscuous Definition of 'Holiness

Tim Graham

CBS’s Rodriguez Pushes McCain to Do More to Ban NC GOP Ad

On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed John McCain and asked about the recent ad put out by the North Carolina Republican Party that criticized Barack Obama’s relationship with his pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "The Republican Party of North Carolina is planning to run an ad bashing Senator Obama. I know that you oppose that ad, but they're running it anyway. So what does…
Kyle Drennen