CBS Reporter: Thin-Skinned White House Won't Tolerate Reports Elena Ka

On Sunday’s Face the Nation, CBS legal correspondent Jan Crawford revealed how the Obama White House is “strongly” pushing back against her unsurprising report last week that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan “stood shoulder to shoulder with the liberal left” when she clerked for liberal Justice Thurgood Marshall.Crawford says the White House reaction to her report “has been astonishing....Their…
Rich Noyes
June 8th, 2010 11:07 AM

Twitter Looking to Make It Easier For Politicians to Use Its Website

Do you think politicians, government officials and agencies should have more tools at their disposal to spread their message to the public?The social networking Web site Twitter does.A new full-time position the organization is looking to fill is called Government Liaison.Here's the job description (h/t Adam Baldwin):
Noel Sheppard
June 8th, 2010 10:49 AM

Open Thread: Super Tuesday Primaries

NB Staff
June 8th, 2010 10:22 AM

Vulgar MTV Movie Awards Gets 13% Less Viewers Than Last Year

Unless you've been asleep for the past 24 hours, you've heard or read about Sunday's MTV Movie Awards in which producers and presenters seemed to go out of their way to say "f--k" whenever possible.Figures released by various ratings house are giving conflicting reports about how many people actually watched this vulgar display.Some say viewership was up; others say it dropped.For instance,…
Noel Sheppard
June 8th, 2010 10:08 AM

Newsweek’s Alter: Obama ‘Prevented Another Great Depression

Appearing on Monday’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to promote his book, "The Promise," MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter – also of Newsweek – asserted that President Barack Obama had "prevented another Great Depression," and declared that Obama had it more difficult than Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he had to "sweep up" like a "shovel brigade" after President Bush, as he used a…
Brad Wilmouth
June 8th, 2010 9:12 AM

Behar Guest Robert Klein: No Liberals on FNC Since Alan Colmes Was

On Monday’s Joy Behar Show, after a segment on long-time journalist Helen Thomas’s recent outburst that Israeli Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany and Poland, host Behar held over guest and comedian Robert Klein to talk about his comedy show, titled Robert Klein: Unfair and Unbalanced. After Behar asked if the title was meant to be a jab at Fox News, Klein…
Brad Wilmouth
June 8th, 2010 8:50 AM

Newsweek’s Alter Praises Helen Thomas for ‘Asking the Tough Questi

On Monday’s Joy Behar Show on HLN, as host Behar led a discussion of long-time journalist Helen Thomas’s recent anti-Israel remarks with guest Jonathan Alter – of Newsweek and MSNBC – and comedian Robert Klein, Alter admitted that, as a Jew, he was offended by her words, but, although he claimed that "I`m not rationalizing it, Joy, I'm not trying to excuse her," he pinned some of the blame on "…
Brad Wilmouth
June 8th, 2010 8:14 AM

Norah Moved By Plight Of . . . Obama Staffers

When it comes to heart-wrenching images, forget about those oil-plunged pelicans. What appears to really move Norah O'Donnell is the plight of . . . Pres. Obama's White House staffers. Check out the very end of the video clip from today's Morning Joe and see if it doesn't seem that O'Donnell gets a bit emotional as she describes Obama aides waking up in the middle of the night with nightmares…
Mark Finkelstein
June 8th, 2010 7:25 AM

The Horror, the Horror: Eco-Carpetbagger Rachel Maddow Recoils From Sp

Do you live near wetlands? Worse still, in a subdivision near wetlands? If so, please hold your head in shame and make Rachel Maddow's day.  Reporting on the BP spill from Louisiana last week, MSNBC's self-proclaimed geek spent considerable time talking about the importance of wetlands. "Land like this is life or death, not only for the wildlife that lives there, and boy howdy do they have some…
Jack Coleman
June 8th, 2010 7:14 AM

A New Reuters Anti-Israel Photography Scandal

During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the news agency Reuters admitted that one of its pictures of smoke and destruction caused by Israel's bombing of Beirut had been augmented in a Photoshop program by photographer Adnan Hajj. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz yesterday reported Reuters was under fire again yesterday for manipulating photographs in a bias against Israel, this time in the Gaza…
Tim Graham
June 8th, 2010 6:23 AM

Eminem Wants to Change, But Still 'Not Afraid' to Swear

Rapper talks of taking fatherhood seriously while using his usual explicit language.
Melissa Afable
June 8th, 2010 12:00 AM

Network news programs still bashing Israel over flotilla incident

Media give more time top pro-Palestinian arguments, ignore 'activist' ties to terrorist organizations.
Alana Goodman
June 8th, 2010 12:00 AM

Salon.com Equates Helen Thomas to Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity

'Broadsheet' columnist Anna Clark blames White House press room fixture's downfall on ageism and sexism.
Jeff Poor
June 8th, 2010 12:00 AM

Media Promote Gay-Funded Study of Lesbian Parents

Time, U.S. News, others fail to mention report authored by lesbian, funded by advocacy groups
Katie Bell
June 8th, 2010 12:00 AM