What the Feds Can Learn From Egyptian Internet Control

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google services all have been disrupted by Egyptian governing authorities in pursuit of clamping down on protests. And we don't think the U.S. government would do the same? Tell me, what's the difference between the Egyptian government's shutting down social networks to "bring order" to protests and the U.S. government's shutting down the Internet if there is an…
Chuck Norris
February 8th, 2011 11:01 AM

Ed Schultz Calls AOL's Huffington Post Purchase 'A Big F-ing Deal

MSNBC's Ed Schultz began his show Monday railing against American corporations sitting on trillions of dollars of cash while refusing to exhibit "economic patriotism" by using those funds to add to their payrolls. In a demonstration of classic liberal hypocrisy, the host of the "Ed Show" finished his program calling AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post "a big f-in deal" while not once asking…
Noel Sheppard
February 8th, 2011 10:46 AM

Open Thread: Obama Offers to Cut Federal Budget by .02 Percent

The budget deficit, meanwhile, is expected to rise to an unprecedented $1.5 trillion in the president's proposed FY2012 budget. The Hill reports: President Obama's budget director Jack Lew in a Sunday opinion piece outlined some off the “tough choices” Obama is willing to make to cut spending in his 2012 budget request due out on Feb. 14.
NB Staff
February 8th, 2011 10:01 AM

WaPo Reviews Rumsfeld Memoir...Right Next to 110-Page Rumsfeld Torture

Few people really pine for the opportunity to read an 815-page memoir of a former Secretary of Defense. But in Tuesday's Washington Post, the front of the Style section matches a book review of Donald Rumsfeld's new memoir Known and Unknown as equal with...a 110-page Rumsfeld torture fantasy concocted for the small magazine company McSweeney's. The title over both was "Two Shots of Rummy." In…
Tim Graham
February 8th, 2011 8:43 AM

Daily Kos Smears 'Rapeublican Party

A few days ago, Dante Atkins at the Daily Kos accused pro-lifers of being the "American Taliban" for trying to curtail taxpayer funding of abortions. On Sunday, Atkins went at it again, in a blog entitled "The Rapeublican Party." It began: "To take a page from Senator Harry Reid's book: if you're a woman anywhere to the left of Fred Phelps, I don't understand how you can in good conscience vote…
Tim Graham
February 8th, 2011 7:36 AM

Time Helps Declare Michelle Obama One of the Most Fashionable First La

Time magazine knows it can't be all serious, so in addition to its cover story on Egypt this week, they have a gushy piece on Michelle Obama's fashions, written by Kate Betts, author of the new book Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style. Michelle's so chic it's historic: Given her widespread reputation as one of the most stylish women ever to inhabit the White House, you might…
Tim Graham
February 7th, 2011 11:18 PM

MSNBC Misspells 'O'Reilly' in 'Last Word' Segment Bashing the Fox Star

The geniuses at MSNBC actually misspelled Bill O'Reilly's last name during a lengthy opening segment Monday bashing the Fox News star's interview with President Obama the previous day. For the first minute and a half of the ten and a half minute "Last Word" piece, the graphic on a television screen behind and to the right of host Lawrence O'Donnell read "Interruptus O'Reilyus" (video follows…
Noel Sheppard
February 7th, 2011 11:02 PM

Olbermann Rumored to be Joining Gore's Struggling TV Network

Keith Olbermann is rumored to be announcing Tuesday that he is joining Al Gore's struggling network Current TV. The New York Times reported moments ago:
Noel Sheppard
February 7th, 2011 9:59 PM

CBS Evening News Skips Liberal Label of Huffington Post

 On Monday’s CBS Evening News, as anchor Katie Couric read a short item on AOL’s purchase of the left-wing Huffington Post Web site, she neglected to mention the ideological lean of the Web site as she merely called it "one of the leading news Web sites." NBC’s Brian Williams did tag the Web site as "liberal" as he also read a an item on the acquisition. Williams: "A big payday for Arianna…
Brad Wilmouth
February 7th, 2011 9:49 PM

Chris Matthews: 'Palin's Talking to People Who Don't Read Newspapers o

It appears Chris Matthews' arrogance knows no bounds. On Monday's "Hardball," the MSNBCer actually said, "I think [Sarah Palin's] talking to people who don't read newspapers, don't pay attention to serious television broadcasts, whether the Lehrer Hour or anything like it or even this program" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Noel Sheppard
February 7th, 2011 8:53 PM

Maddow Oddly Invokes 'Manchurian Candidate' - to Mock Fears of Enemy I

Next time Rachel Maddow cites a movie to bolster her argument, she might want to watch it first. On her MSNBC show Thursday night, Maddow disparaged Fox News hosts Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Center for Security Policy founder Frank Gaffney for warning of a Middle Eastern caliphate possibly emerging in the wake of upheaval in Egypt and of Muslim Brotherhood subversion in the US.…
Jack Coleman
February 7th, 2011 8:48 PM

NBC Primetime Show Plays Bestiality for Laughs

'Outsourced' character fondly recalls pleasuring a horse.
Erin Brown
February 7th, 2011 7:27 PM

HBO Filmmaker Slams Reagan: His Policies Hurt Those He Sought to Help

Those who admired Ronald Reagan may want to steer clear of tonight's HBO documentary on the former president if that film's director's comments, on Monday's Hardball, are an indication of how slanted the project will be, as he denied many of Reagan's historic accomplishments. From reinvigorating the economy to defeating the Soviet Union, Eugene Jarecki, who also wrote the film, was egged on by…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 7th, 2011 7:10 PM

CNN: Tiny Pro-Illegal Immigrant Rally Gets More Coverage Than March Fo

CNN devoted three and a half minutes of coverage on Monday's Newsroom to a protest by "two dozen, maybe three dozen" people who were against two proposed laws targeting illegal immigration in Arizona. The network showed live and taped footage of this liberal protest. By contrast, CNN spent a mere 11 seconds to the March for Life in January and showed no footage from the pro-life demonstration…
Matthew Balan
February 7th, 2011 6:31 PM