No Empty ‘Suits’ in this Week’s Episode

Evan Mantel
August 15th, 2013 10:53 AM

Oprah Gives Audience Member a New Car on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Was Oprah Winfrey trying to distract attention Wednesday from the stir she caused accusing a Swiss shop clerk of racism, or just doing PR for the new film she's starring in? Regardless of the answer, appearing on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Winfrey shocked a member of the studio audience with a new Ford Fusion (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
August 15th, 2013 10:30 AM

MSNBC’s Wagner: Fetal Pain Argument About Taking Away Women’s Righ

Another MSNBC host, another rote regurgitation of liberal conventional wisdom. This time, it was Alex Wagner, announcing that arguments about fetal pain have nothing to do with the protection of the most vulnerable. Instead, they’re all about making it “harder and harder and harder” for women.  MSNBC host Alex Wagner introduced the segment on the “pseudo science” of fetal pain at 20 weeks on…
Katie Yoder
August 15th, 2013 9:44 AM

Open Thread Thursday

For general discussion and comment about the news of the day or anything else.
NB Staff
August 15th, 2013 9:31 AM

WashPost's Goldfarb Cheers Obama Plan to Hike Cell Phone 'Fees' for 'C

Thanks to some clever thinking from his staff, President Obama has an "ambitious plan to expand high-speed Internet access in schools that would allow students to use digital notebooks and teachers to customize lessons as never before," the Washington Post's Zachary Goldfarb giddily gushed in the lead paragraph of his August 14 front page article "Obama pushes Internet proposal."  "Better yet…
Ken Shepherd
August 15th, 2013 8:45 AM

NPR Fondly Remembers Jack Germond...But Remembered Bob Novak as Damage

NPR media reporter David Folkenflik filed a fond and light remembrance of liberal Baltimore Sun reporter Jack Germond on Wednesday night’s All Things Considered: “He lived life large and didn't suffer phonies. But here's the thing about Germond, and you don't find much among reporters today, he liked politicians.” He was "a lover of horse races, and horses." Nobody remembered Germond comparing…
Tim Graham
August 15th, 2013 8:16 AM

MSNBC Displays Viewer F-bomb Twitter Bio

In the closing minute of today's Way Too Early on MSNBC, guest host Thomas Roberts invited viewers to use the hashtag #WayTooRowdy to submit descriptions of the best party they'd ever attended. The show proceeded to display a tweet from viewer N-Boyyy saying that "one time I had been to a party and there was this goat in the living room drinking beer from a bucket."  Just one problem: MSNBC…
Mark Finkelstein
August 15th, 2013 8:05 AM

Fox News Morning Hosts, Guest Slam Media Fury Over Obama Rodeo Clown

The focus of fiery discussion during Fox News Channel programs on Wednesday morning was the controversy over a rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia who wore a mask that resembled President Barack Obama and was banned from the event for life as a result. The hosts of Fox & Friends stated that “presidents have been fodder for jokes before, and nothing happened to those people…
Randy Hall
August 14th, 2013 11:42 PM

Leftist Radio Talker Thom Hartmann Can't Stand NPR: 'Too Much Right-wi

One of the reasons liberal talk radio has never been a big national success is the liberal elephant in the room: NPR. But when you're a leftist host like Thom Hartmann, NPR looks like a den of corporatist pigs about two political inches away from his villains, like the Koch brothers. On Tuesday's show, he announced "I'm astounded that several times a week I hear on NPR somebody from the…
Tim Graham
August 14th, 2013 10:46 PM

David Limbaugh Column: Mark Levin's 'Liberty Amendments' Deserves a Na

In his new book, The Liberty Amendments, my friend Mark Levin is offering a bold plan for the re-establishment of America's founding principles and a restoration of constitutional republicanism through a series of amendments to the Constitution. I know of no one who has a greater reverence for our Constitution and for the scheme of limited government and personal liberties it established.…
David Limbaugh
August 14th, 2013 7:45 PM

Olbermann Invites George W. Bush on New ESPN Show

For years, Keith Olbermann mercilessly attacked George W. Bush on his MSNBC program Countdown. Despite this, the producers of Olbermann's upcoming program on ESPN2 told the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday that they've reached out to Bush to appear on the show:
Noel Sheppard
August 14th, 2013 6:51 PM

Daily Beast's Bouie Repeats Faulty, Tired Talking Points About North C

In his August 13 story, "North Carolina's Attack on Voting Rights," the Daily Beast's Jamelle Bouie insults his readers' intelligence with tired, discredited left-wing talking points about the new North Carolina voter ID law. Let's take a look at a few of them below. First there's the Republicans-are-disenfranchising-college-voters meme, which is my personal favorite:
Ken Shepherd
August 14th, 2013 5:52 PM

Sharpton Claims Blacks Suffer From 'Battered Race Syndrome

Al Sharpton veered into unintended hilarity on his radio show yesterday when he unveiled what he surely considers clever framing for the current state of race relations in America. Too many African-Americans, the Rev. Sharpton informs us, are afflicted with a pernicious form of "battered race syndrome" comparable to that suffered by victims of domestic abuse.
Jack Coleman
August 14th, 2013 5:35 PM

MSNBC's Sharpton Accuses FNC's O'Reilly of 'Attacking the Poor

On Tuesday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC, host Al Sharpton griped about FNC host Bill O'Reilly labeling some welfare recipients as "parasites" and complaining about President Obama making it easier for people to take unfair advantage of the system. Without informing viewers that the FNC host was referring to a California beach bum who seemed disinterested in getting off welfare when he used the…
Brad Wilmouth
August 14th, 2013 5:34 PM