Mitchell Miffed McCain Hired 'Man Behind That Dreadful Commercial Agai

Interviewing Rick Davis, chairman of John McCain's presidential exploratory committee, on MSNBC at about 11:45 AM today, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell [NB file photo] demanded to know why McCain had hired Terry Nelson as his campaign manager. She described Nelson as "the man who was behind that dreadful commercial against Harold Ford. This is John McCain, the victim of these kinds of attacks in…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Open Thread

Comment on the issues of the day and anything else.
NB Staff
 

Newsweek: Jesus is a "nice Jewish boy

Newsweek offers up the annual Christmas season story undermining orthodox Christian faith.
Kristen Fyfe
 

Newsweek: Jesus is a "nice Jewish boy

Newsweek offers up the annual Christmas season story undermining orthodox Christian faith.
Kristen Fyfe
 

When Will the Media Stop Pushing the Idea That Social Security Is a 'R

Tom Blumer
 

Top 1% Pay 35% of Federal Income Tax; Will Only the WSJ Notice

As noted in a Wednesday subscription-only editorial, Nancy Pelosi already has the steeply progressive tax system Democrats want: The Top 1% Pay 35% Maybe our liberal friends are onto something. They keep saying the rich should pay more taxes, and it turns out the rich already are! That's one of the valuable lessons from the IRS's annual study of income tax data, just released for 2004.…
Tom Blumer
 

Kerry's Cri de Coeur: I Was Framed

Mark Finkelstein
 

WashPost Interviews Bush, Demands He Bend to Will of Democrats, Er, Th

President Bush submitted to a 25-minute interview Tuesday with the three Washington Post White House correspondents: Peter Baker, Michael Fletcher, and Michael Abramowitz. The transcript in today's Post leaves the definite impression it was another game of asking "when will you submit to the will of the Democrats, er, the people?" The tone of questioning suggests Bush is denying the reality that…
Tim Graham
 

Non-PC Pundit: Friedman's Arab Ethnic Stereotyping

I'm actually beginning to think something could be afoot at the New York Times. On Monday, one columnist extolled the virtues of that fount of Western civilization, Hellenism. Tuesday, another columnist claimed freedom and liberty are distinct creations of Western civilization. Today, the celebrated Thomas Friedman offers up a laundry list of generalizations about Arabs that - from the…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Opinion Journal: Bloggers Are A Mob -- 'Written By Fools To Be Read By

Warner Todd Huston
 

Bozell on 'Hannity & Colmes' About Behar Comparing Rumsfeld to Hitler

MRC President Brent Bozell appeared live on Tuesday's Hannity & Colmes on FNC to discuss Joy Behar's quip on Monday's The View, in reference to Time magazine punting on a Person of the Year, that “you have to put like a Hitler type. Like you put Donald Rumsfeld there or something" (Links at bottom of this node to video). Sparring with Alan Colmes, Bozell declared: “I'm sick and tired of the…
NB Staff
 

Journalists Whine About Not Being Alerted to First Lady's Skin Cancer

Reminiscent of the high dudgeon Washington press corps reaction after a few hours passed before they were notified of Vice President Cheney's hunting accident, on Tuesday some reporters denounced the White House for failing to publicly announce how last month First Lady Laura Bush had a skin cancer growth removed from one of her legs. On FNC, Brit Hume played a montage from the daily briefing…
Brent Baker
 

Marine to Matthews: Surge This

Mark Finkelstein
 

Comedian Jon Stewart: ‘08 Dem Candidate Does ‘Great Job’; Bush i

On December 18, the first 2008 Democratic presidential candidate made the (soon to be) required pilgrimage to talk with Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show." The liberal comedian lavished considerable praise on Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, while attacking President Bush with a vulgar expletive. Though Stewart tried to cast his comments in a humorous style, one has to ask if, in 2008, he’ll be a…
Scott Whitlock