Ezra Klein: Ruling Against Obamacare May Insure Socialism

Not every liberal media pundit was distraught over a federal judge finding that ObamaCare's imposition of a mandate to buy insurance was unconstitutional. Some attempted an extreme case of happy talk. At The Washington Post, Ezra Klein wrote that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and other conservatives may have just signed "the death warrant for private insurers" and cleared a path for…
Tim Graham
December 15th, 2010 11:56 AM

Actor Mark Wahlberg Literally Kisses Feet of Harry Smith on CBS 'Early

In honor of Harry Smith leaving the CBS Early Show at the end of the month, along with weatherman Dave Price and already departed co-host Maggie Rodriguez, actor Mark Wahlberg concluded an interview with the morning show host by literally getting on the floor and kissing Smith's feet, declaring "You're the best, ever."   On November 30, it was announced that Smith, Rodriguez, and Price would…
Kyle Drennen
December 15th, 2010 11:07 AM

WaPo Hypes Poll Showing 'Many Still Skeptical of GOP'; Still Neglects

Yesterday my colleague Tim Graham noted how the Washington Post failed to report its most recent ABCNews-Washington Post opinion poll on President Obama's signature health care overhaul legislation. This was despite the fact that the poll showed ObamaCare had fallen to "the lowest level of popularity ever" as ABC reporter Jake Tapper observed. Today the Post continued to keep its poll…
Ken Shepherd
December 15th, 2010 11:00 AM

Ed Schultz Cuts Off GOP Strategist for Calling Him a Liar About ObamaC

Ed Schultz on Tuesday abruptly ended an interview with a Republican strategist when she accused him of lying to his audience about the significance of Monday's ruling striking down the Constitutionality of ObamaCare's mandate to buy health insurance. When the host of MSNBC's "The Ed Show" said, "It’s not a big key element of the health care bill," sparks began to fly (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
December 15th, 2010 10:59 AM

AP Deliberately Captions Palin Haiti Photo to Cast Her As Self-Conscio

Maybe we need to add the word "Palinography" to the dictionary. Its definition would be: "The process of preparing news photographs and accompanying captions about Sarah Palin in a deliberately negative light." One example many will likely remember involved the amateurish wire service shoes-and-calves-only photos frequently seen during Palin's vice-presidential run. Lori Ziganto at the…
Tom Blumer
December 15th, 2010 10:55 AM

Open Thread: 'F--k You, Boy

A cogent, if unexpected, result of the ongoing civil war in the Democratic Party has been the revalation among the mainstream press that (gasp) it's not racist to criticize Barack Obama. Better late than never, I suppose. Naomie Emery explores this fact in her Wednesday column: Boy, some people fly off the handle at nothing these days. "F--- the president," an unidentified Democrat said at a…
NB Staff
December 15th, 2010 9:58 AM

Changing America

Dr. Thomas Sowell, in "Dismantling America," said in reference to President Obama, "That such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be president of the United States at a dangerous time in the history of the world were rhetoric, style and symbolism — and whose animus against the values and institutions of America had been…
Walter E. Williams
December 15th, 2010 12:05 AM

Christmas Without Christ

He's the reason for the season, but networks mum on Jesus in Christmas coverage.
Erin Brown
December 15th, 2010 12:00 AM

FCC vs. Bristol Palin: More Proof Free Speech is the Enemy of the Left

In movies like "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984," neighbors inform the police about serious crimes against the State like subversion and book possession. In real America, people call 911 because McDonald’s has run out of McNuggets.
Tim Slagle
December 14th, 2010 6:20 PM

Julian Assange to Stay in Mansion Owned by UK Journo's Parents

Poor Julian Assange. He has celebrities lining up donations to get him out of a British jail, and now, the Atlantic reports, he'll be staying at a massive Kent Suffolk manor owned by, you guessed it, a prominent British journalist (well, his parents, really).
Lachlan Markay
December 14th, 2010 6:14 PM

The Unholy Hatred of the Westboro Baptist Church

I remember the first time I ever saw any of the Westboro Baptist Church. It was many years ago and I can't remember where it was but I saw a bunch of people at a distance holding up day glow colored signs that said, "GOD HATES FAGS" and "THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS." When you travel as much as I do, you see some pretty strange sights and tend to catalogue such things as the antics of a bunch…
Charlie Daniels
December 14th, 2010 5:26 PM

She's Back! Kathy Griffin Returns for More New Years Eve Fun on CNN

Kathy Griffin is back for another round on CNN's New Years Eve coverage. As Mediaite reported today, CNN is bringing back anchor Anderson Cooper and the left-wing comedienne as the network's New Years Eve team.
Matt Hadro
December 14th, 2010 5:24 PM

Today Show Explores the Softer Side of Julian Assange

NBC's Peter Alexander, on Tuesday's Today show, decided to explore the softer side of WikiLeaks founder and purveyor of U.S. state secrets Julian Assange as he interviewed an investigative journalist from Oxford University who found him to be "funny, intelligent" and "not at all...rigid" and also aired a clip of Assange's mother speaking up for her son as she demanded that the world "stand up…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 14th, 2010 4:01 PM

Michael Moore Bails Out Julian Assange, Despite Total Ignorance of His

To the sound of the nation's collective yawn, filmmaker Michael Moore announced Tuesday that he had given $20,000 to bail out Wikileaks proprietor Julian Assange from a British jail. Moore cited his admiration for Assange's quest for openness and transparency in government. But Assange has openly declared that his objective is precisely the opposite - he wants to make the American government…
Lachlan Markay
December 14th, 2010 2:57 PM