Scientist: Global Cooling is the Real Crisis

Global warming conference participant says reduced sunspot activity may cause extreme cold fatalities, mass starvation.
Jeff Poor
May 17th, 2010 4:12 PM

Brian Williams at Notre Dame Graduation: Katrina Response Was 'Benign

NBC anchor Brian Williams succeeded Barack Obama as the commencement speaker at Notre Dame on Sunday. Williams sounded like Obama and other Democrats by mentioning the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and somehow working that tragedy backwards to rerun NBC's atrociously biased coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Williams repeated himself on Sunday by calling it "benign neglect turned fatal." (It's…
Tim Graham
May 17th, 2010 2:25 PM

ABC Highlights Obama Cabinet Official to Tout His Fiancee, Reporter Bi

To highlight the announcement that Bianna Golodryga had been named co-anchor of the weekend Good Morning America, ABC blurred the lines of journalism on Sunday and brought on the host's fiancee, Barack Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag.In a fawning piece on Golodryga's life story, an onscreen graphic identified Orszag only as the journalist's fiancee. At the…
Scott Whitlock
May 17th, 2010 1:16 PM

Behar Paints Palin as Anti-Immigrant, Cracks: 'At Least They Finish th

On Monday’s The View on ABC, as the group discussed a recent appearance by Sarah Palin with Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer, at which Palin called on Americans to say, "We’re all Arizonans, now," to show unity with the state’s struggle with illegal immigration, co-host Joy Behar cracked: "I wish she would stop speaking for everyone. We are not all Arizonans. She has an issue with…
Brad Wilmouth
May 17th, 2010 1:09 PM

Today Show Takes Cheap Shot at George Allen in YouTube Anniversary Cel

During a segment where the Today cast celebrated the fifth anniversary of YouTube, in which they highlighted such clips as the Numa Numa Kid and other faves, Meredith Vieira, on Monday's show, threw an unexpected cheap shot at former Senator George Allen's way. Noting how YouTube has launched careers of those like Justin Beiber, Vieira -- right before a clip of Allen making his "macaca" quip -- …
Geoffrey Dickens
May 17th, 2010 1:04 PM

CBS's Schieffer Praises Cronkite, Ignores Allegations Late CBS Anchor

At the end of Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS, host Bob Schieffer gushed over a recent trip to the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and one exhibit in particular: "honoring Walter Cronkite....those moments in American history captured by TV...when Walter always seemed to be there....the little things we never saw, Walter's scripts, his pipe, and his office, just the way it was." Schieffer…
Kyle Drennen
May 17th, 2010 12:43 PM

MRC-TV: Bozell Discusses Kagan/Miers Double Standard on 'Fox & Friends

In 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama cast doubt on President Bush's pick of Harriet Miers in part because "her [legal] experience does not include serving as a judge" and as such "we have yet to know her views on many of the critical constitutional issues facing our country today." Yet five years later, after President Obama named his solicitor general -- who has also never served as a judge -- to…
NB Staff
May 17th, 2010 11:25 AM

Obama Administration Apologizes to 'One-Child China' for Ariz. Illegal

While the headline of this post is shocking, it will come as no surprise to those of us who know how strongly Obama supports abortion - to the point of infanticide. Apparently China's reprehensible one-child policy - with its forced abortion, forced sterilization, female feticide, and female infanticide - comes nowhere close to AZ's human rights violations of attempting to enforce…
Jill Stanek
May 17th, 2010 11:10 AM

BMI Video: Taking Lessons from Washington, GM Claims 'We Have Repaid

Julia A. Seymour
May 17th, 2010 10:23 AM

BMI Video: Taking Lessons from Washington

GM Claims 'We Have Repaid Our Government Loan.'
Julia A. Seymour
May 17th, 2010 10:16 AM

PBS's Borowitz Suggests Palin & Bachmann are Two of the Four Horsemen

Catching up on an item from the first episode of PBS’s Need to Know program, which aired on Friday, May 7, liberal satirist Andrew Borowitz suggested that Sarah Palin and Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann are two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse during the show’s regular "Next Week’s News" humor segment: "Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Minnesota Congresswoman…
Brad Wilmouth
May 17th, 2010 10:11 AM

Katty's Complaint: Crash 'Not Long Enough' To Turn People Off Capital

Give that lady a Peabody!  The Peabody folks claim they give their awards for "outstanding" journalism and "excellence."  So just how clueless do you have to be to qualify? Take Katty Kay, the BBC's chief US correspondent, in New York today to pick up her prize.  On Morning Joe, Kay got off a double-barreled dose of classic MSM-think:1. She defended Elena Kagan's opposition to military…
Mark Finkelstein
May 17th, 2010 9:33 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
May 17th, 2010 9:26 AM

David Gregory Presses McConnell for Hypocrisy on Harriet Miers, Goes S

NBC Meet the Press host David Gregory used an obvious double standard in his interviews with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. Charles Schumer on the Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination on Sunday. McConnell was grilled for hypocrisy in comparison to President Bush's clumsy Harriet Miers nomination in 2005 -- but Schumer was not. McConnell was accused of engaging in games that the…
Tim Graham
May 17th, 2010 8:20 AM