Matt Lauer in Time: Tougher On Tom Cruise Than On 'Smeared' Hillary

Time magazine devoted its "Ten Questions" interview this week to NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer. Time’s Jeanne McDowell had a light touch, asking about Meredith, and Katie, and squabbling with Tom Cruise. The interview quickly draws the reader to this comparison: Lauer was tougher on Tom Cruise than he was with Hillary Clinton in the famous "vast right-wing conspiracy" interview of 1998, despite…
Tim Graham
 

CNN’s Blitzer Confronts Teddy: Were We Better Off With Saddam in Pow

On the Tuesday edition of "Situation Room," host Wolf Blitzer asked Ted Kennedy whether Iraq and U.S. interests would be better off with Saddam Hussein still in power. The CNN anchor spent much of his interview wondering how the Massachusetts Senator would stop President Bush from increasing troop levels in Iraq. However, he only briefly challenged Kennedy on what should be done in Iraq,…
Scott Whitlock
 

Dana Milbank on Obama: 'The Honorable Beach Babe From Illinois

Mike Bates
 

Sen. Dick Durbin Asks Daily Kos Members to Help Set the Senate’s Age

Assume for a second that a high-ranking Republican member of Congress published an article at a popular conservative website like National Review Online, Rush Limbaugh.com, or even NewsBusters asking readers for their opinions on the major issues of the day. Think this would generate some outrage from the liberal media?Well, Tuesday morning, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), the new Majority Whip,…
Noel Sheppard
 

Sean Hannity Declares Sean Penn an ‘Enemy of the State

It is surprising that this slipped under the radar, but during the Sunday inaugural of Sean Hannity’s new program on Fox News "Hannity's America," the host declared actor Sean Penn an “Enemy of the State” for his vitriolic remarks about the President and others in the Administration (video available here). NewsBusters has reported and chronicled many of Penn's absurd statements here, here, here, …
Noel Sheppard
 

ABC, NBC Hail Arnold's 'Bold, Groundbreaking' Health Plan Covering Ill

Tim Graham
 

USA Today Reporter: 'Card Check' in Union Organizing Is an 'Open Proce

Tom Blumer
 

Olbermann: Tony Snow 'Bald-Faced Lying' About 'Mission Accomplished' S

Brad Wilmouth
 

Alec Baldwin Sees Link Between Global Warming and War in Iraq

Actor Alec Baldwin -- since he woke up one morning believing that he understood politics and had an opinion that American’s would be interested in hearing -- has said and written a lot of absurd things. His recent rant at HuffnPuff has to rank high on his growing list of most inane. Please take a seat, and secure all fluids. You’ve been warned (emphasis mine throughout):All around us are signs of…
Noel Sheppard
 

UPI Report is Just a Muslim 'Leaders' Press Release

Warner Todd Huston
 

Carlson Enjoys The Waters -- At Pelosi's Expense

Where has Maxine Waters been? It wasn't until she turned up on Tucker Carlson's show this afternoon that I realized how long it's been. Now there is one fun lady. The Representative from California proved the perfect foil, helping Carlson score some wicked points at Nancy Pelosi's expense.Carlson's fundamental question, and I think it's a good one, is, given that Dems ran and were elected on an…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Bozell Column: The Nancy Vs. Newt Contrast

Anyone remembering the ascent of Newt Gingrich to House Speaker in 1995 surely noticed a difference between media coverage of that historic event and Nancy Pelosi taking the gavel back for the Democrats in 2007. One had all the joy of a child’s funeral. The other was New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. CNN even had a countdown clock to the Democrats regaining the majority. All that was missing was a lighted…
Brent Bozell
 

Wesley Clark and the "New York Money People", er, Jews

Joshua Sharf
 

Who Wants To Imagine Morley Safer Interviewing In The Nude

Tim Graham