Hula-Hooping 'Death Bunny' Taunts Walter Reed Vets

Tim Graham

Open Thread Friday

Politics, jokes and whatever else...
NB Staff

Diane Dishes But Can't Take: Sawyer Accuses Larry Elder of 'Attacking

Touchy, touchy! Diane Sawyer is in the business of dishing out tough questions and challenging people's answers. But when a guest on today's "Good Morning America" politely corrected her on a First Amendment matter, the GMA host was quick to accuse him of "attacking" her.Los Angeles-based radio talk show host Larry Elder was Diane's guest, in to discuss the Imus matter. Sawyer introduced him…
Mark Finkelstein

LAT: Americans are 'Cheapskates' over Lack of Foreign Aid Spending

Warner Todd Huston

Jet-setting Bands Overpopulate Gore's Live Earth

The April 10 London Daily Mail dares to say what others have not. Instead of a trendy story about green celebs, reporter Richard Simpson revealed an Inconvenient Truth; many of the musicians participating in Al Gore’s upcoming Live Earth concerts are major eco-offenders themselves:The stars of a major Live 8-style concert to raise awareness of climate change have been condemned as hypocrites for…
Lynn Davidson

Obscene Material -- Hard-Core Porn -- Is Not Constitutionally Protecte

While the ACLU and liberal judges have managed to create a body of distorted case law in which soft-core porn has legal protection, the hardcore stuff found in adult stores does not. Hard-core porn has nothing to do with free speech and is an extension of prostitution. It's also a favorite tool of child molesters. Ask any cop.
Robert Knight

Only ABC Addresses Broader Context of Imus Firing Adequately

Is the story of the firing of radio shock jock Don Imus only about racism, or is it also about hatred and incivility in hip hop culture?
Kristen Fyfe

Blood, Guts, but No (Box-Office) Glory

The message comes across loud and clear. Hollywood wants more – more violence, more gore, more blood. But another message, while a whisper, is just as powerful. Last weekend's box office indicates that audiences may think this bar of depravity has slipped too low.
Colleen Raezler

Olbermann Revels in 'Racist' Limbaugh Getting Yanked Like Imus: 'Best

Keith Olbermann opened his Wednesday MSNBC show by displaying video of Rush Limbaugh on screen as he smeared conservative talk radio as “racist,” asking, “Why have none from the racist right been protested, boycotted or fired?” He then delighted Thursday night when guest Sam Seder, of the far-left Air America Radio, predicted “the next time Limbaugh slips up, which I think is inevitable, I think…
Brent Baker

Bozell's Rap Chronicles: Four Years of Corporate and Media Excuse-maki

Tim Graham

'GMA' Features Segment on Man Sharpton Falsely Labeled a Rapist

On Thursday’s “Good Morning America,” reporter Kate Snow hosted a segment on whether the Duke lacrosse players will be able to get their reputations back. In so doing, she discussed Reverend Al Sharpton’s role in falsely accusing New York prosecutor Steven Pagones of raping then 15-year-old Tawana Brawley in 1987. Though this segment was not specifically related to the unfolding Don Imus story,…
Scott Whitlock

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Producer Laurie David Attacks CNBC's Joe K

Honestly, folks, no matter how hard you tried, and regardless of the effort or good intentions, you just can’t make this stuff up.Following her disgraceful performance during an interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen on Tuesday, one of the producers of the schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” Laurie David, opted to further humiliate herself by publishing a “scathing rebuttal” at the Huffington Post…
Noel Sheppard

'View' Shocker: Co-Hosts Expose Sharpton's Extreme Remarks

Justin McCarthy

Bill Maher: ‘John McCain [Screwed] by the Republican Fantasy World

If you’re thinking an expletive was deleted in the headline, you would be correct, for the real title of Bill Maher’s most recent nonsensical rant at the Huffington Post actually used a word with a similar meaning as “screwed,” but beginning with an “F”.Nice headline, dontcha think?Yet, that was only the beginning of the vulgarity from a literary sense, for Maher went on a predictably vitriol-…
Noel Sheppard