GMA Touts Tough Democrats’ Plan to Hold Bush’s ‘Feet to the Fire

On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," co-host Diane Sawyer and reporter Jake Tapper highlighted the Democrats’ strategy to "get tough on the White House." The ABC correspondent discussed plans to begin hearings on holding the Bush administration accountable for issues such as global warming, Hurricane Katrina, Darfur, and Iraq. Tapper indicated that the President would soon be assailed from all…
Scott Whitlock
 

Open Thread

Comment on the news of the day and most anything else you like.
NB Staff
 

Reuters Buries Key Finding in Global Warming Poll: Americans Aren’t

This is really too funny. On Monday, Reuters released the findings of an international ACNielsen Internet poll concerning global warming. As one might imagine, Reuters took the most dire assessments from the study and made them the focus of the piece.Yet, the most startling conclusions from this survey – that only “50 percent reckoned [global warming] was caused by human activities,” and that “…
Noel Sheppard
 

Today Finds Hillary's 'Evil' Men

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Fox News Cites Times Watch's Story on Double Standards at the NY Times

Fox News "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume led off his "Political Grapevine" segment Monday night by citing a piece that appeared that day on Times Watch, on the paper's double standard regarding the expressing of personal opinions on television. Here's Hume: "A New York Times reporter has been rebuked by his superiors after voicing the hope that the U.S. can accomplish its goals in Iraq. Here's…
Clay Waters
 

New Books Scientifically Disprove Man-Made Global Warming Theories

2006 will go down as the year that the media universally tried to sell America on the unproven theory that man-made global warming is destroying the planet, and will cause our imminent doom. Part of this hysteria includes fallacious assertions by all involved that there is a scientific consensus regarding these dire predictions.Though they are likely to get little attention from an hysterical…
Noel Sheppard
 

Vieira Shocker: 'Can We Afford to Leave Iraq if Iran Will Take Over

This one could make waves.When a NBC military analyst made the case that US withdrawal from Iraq would have very harmful consequences, you might have expected Meredith Vieira to argue the point. But not only did the NBC host seem to buy into his logic, she took it a significant step farther toward its logical conclusion.Retired LTC Rick Francona was Meredith's guest on this morning's "Today."…
Mark Finkelstein
 

NYTimes Reveals Distrust of 'Law Abiding' Citizens

The New York Times thinks you are a criminal if you own a gun. The editorial writers at the Times simply don't believe that you could possibly be a law abiding citizen if you are interested in self defense, their most recent anti-gun piece reveals. Their January 30th piece, incongruously titled "A Day Without Guns ..." -- incongruous because the piece itself does not address any such subject as…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Whitewashing the Reds (and the Blues, Blacks and Yellows

Radical leftists defaced the Capitol during Saturday's anti-Iraq War demonstration, and the media covered it up.
Brian Fitzpatrick
 

Matthews Drools Over Libby Trial

Matthew Sheffield
 

On 'The O'Reilly Factor,' MRC/NB's Tim Graham Cites NBC's Bias

NB Staff
 

Brush With 'Big Chill Hillary' Leaves a Mark

Mark Finkelstein
 

Yet Another Fawning Portrait of Obama From LA Times

Dave Pierre
 

CNN's Idea of a Money Show: More Global Warming Hype, Less Global Bus

[UPDATE, 11:07 EST, 1/30/2007: Audio (MP3) and Video (Real Player) (Windows Media) clips now available.]If you wake up on Saturday mornings and flip on the telly hoping to catch solid Wall Street analysis or perhaps a roundup of foreign and domestic business headlines that affect your investment portfolio, don't waste your time with CNN's "In the Money." Rather than looking to help average joes…
Ken Shepherd