Open Thread: No War in Libya, Just 'Kinetic Military Action

You probably remember how Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) savaged the Bush administration for their supposed use of Orwellian euphemisms for various military and intelligence policies ("enhanced interrogation," for example). What do you suppose their reaction to this will be? Byron York reported Thursday that the administration is now referring to the conflict in Libya as a "…
NB Staff
March 24th, 2011 10:15 AM

Gainor Column: Why Are Media Ignoring Soros Plans to Remake Entire Glo

Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start – and no one seems to have noticed. On April 8, a group he’s funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conference and Soros’s goal for such an event is to “establish new international rules” and “reform the currency system.” It’s all according to a…
Dan Gainor
March 24th, 2011 9:17 AM

CBS Celebrates Year of ObamaCare By Touting Its Benefits and Despairin

Wednesday’s CBS Evening News celebrated the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare by touting its benefits before Katie Couric, who devoted half her newscast to Elizabeth Taylor’s passing, fretted: “What about the legal battles? Could they actually derail health care reform altogether?” Neither ABC nor NBC touched ObamaCare on Wednesday night but, in contrast to CBS, on FNC’s Special Report Carl…
Brent Baker
March 24th, 2011 9:01 AM

Chris Matthews and Robert Reich Ironically Discuss 'Republican Lies Ab

Former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich wrote a truly nonsensical piece for the Huffington Post Tuesday ironically called "The Republicans' Big Lies About Jobs." MSNBC's Chris Matthews must have loved this tripe and its sophomoric title for he invited the Berkeley professor on Wednesday's "Hardball" so that the pair could put on a clinic in liberal economic fantasy (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
March 23rd, 2011 9:30 PM

Finally: Bloomberg BusinessWeek Adds Balance to Media Coverage of Chev

Magazine's 'Jungle Justice' story gives extensive treatment of both sides of protracted legal battle.
Julia A. Seymour
March 23rd, 2011 9:07 PM

Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy

Left-wing billionaire's own experts dominate quiet push for 'a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.'
Dan Gainor
March 23rd, 2011 8:48 PM

NPR's Rovner: Dependent Constituencies Among the 'Benefits' of ObamaCa

NPR's Julie Rovner put the best liberal spin on the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare becoming law on Wednesday's Morning Edition. When an opponent of the legislation stated that supporters would try to "create constituencies that will fight to preserve it...[by] spending hundreds of billions of dollars on health insurance subsidies," Rover added that "those are just a few of the law's benefits…
Matthew Balan
March 23rd, 2011 7:47 PM

MSNBC Resorts to Using Boy Health Care Activist to Plug for ObamaCare

On the one-year anniversary of the health care law, MSNBC thought it fitting to bring on a boy who championed the bill and give him a platform. Anchor Andrea Mitchell hosted 12-year-old activist Marcelas Owens Wednesday and asked him questions with predictable answers to explain the case for the health care law. Owens became famous last year for his public appearances to rally support…
Matt Hadro
March 23rd, 2011 6:07 PM

Diane Sawyer Ignores Lack of Congressional Approval for Libya, Is Fasc

ABC anchor Diane Sawyer on Tuesday interviewed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for World News and Nightline, but offered no questions about the Obama administration's failure to seek congressional approval for air strikes in Libya. Instead, the journalist seemed fascinated by the decision-making process, repeatedly asking about Clinton's "decisive" role in going ahead with the bombing.…
Scott Whitlock
March 23rd, 2011 4:58 PM

MSNBC Celebrates ObamaCare Anniversary, Condemns Republican 'Lies' Abo

In Wednesday's 12PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer touted the one year anniversary of the passage of ObamaCare: "One year ago today, President Obama signed the health care reform bill into law. It wasn't soon enough for Eric De La Cruz, who needed a heart transplant." The headline on screen read: "Why We Need Health Care Reform: A Personal Story." Brewer spoke with Eric's sister,…
Kyle Drennen
March 23rd, 2011 4:44 PM

Drilling Ken Salazar

After two years of practicing unrepentant contempt for science, jobs, law and truth, why should Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's words mean anything anymore? While President Obama promotes offshore drilling overseas thousands of miles away in Brazil, Salazar now promises to revitalize America's oil and gas industry. It's like Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian promoting himself as a lifesaving CPR…
Michelle Malkin
March 23rd, 2011 4:01 PM

What Do 49 Percent Approve of

Even Chris 'Thriller' Matthews perplexed by Obama.
Dan Kennedy
March 23rd, 2011 3:03 PM

NYT's Shear Covers GOP's 'Assault' on First Anniversary of 'Historic M

New York Times political blogger Michael Shear used loaded language to describe the Republican Party’s “assault” on Obama-care on the one-year anniversary of that “historic measure," in his Wednesday morning post “Boehner, McConnell Push Assault on Health Care Law” A year after President Obama signed his health care law into effect, the two leading Republicans in Congress are making it clear…
Clay Waters
March 23rd, 2011 2:20 PM

NYT Quotes Biologist Likening Housecats to Environmental Threats Like

New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal has found another unlikely environmental menace: Cats, an invasive species that disturbs the natural order, like kudzu. That’s the takeaway from Monday’s report on the grave danger felines present to birds: “Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy.” While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows…
Clay Waters
March 23rd, 2011 2:14 PM