Time's Klein: AIPAC Unpatriotic for Telling Obama to Ease Up on Israel

I wrote too soon apparently.Hours after I noted how Joe Klein suggested that Americans who support Israel might be unpatriotic for disagreeing with the Obama administration, the Time writer made his claim more explicitly in a Swampland blog post entitled "Israel First?" (emphasis mine):The America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has done a very unwise thing: It has issued a statement…
Ken Shepherd
March 16th, 2010 5:13 PM

Hume: Befuddled Reporters Sign that Pelosi Health Care Moves Unprecede

Veteran Fox News journalist explains House Speaker's effort to force ObamaCare through and the bill's survival to this point 'truly remarkable.'
Jeff Poor
March 16th, 2010 4:39 PM

A Benign NY Times View of the 'Slaughter' House Rule to Pass Obama-Car

Eternally optimistic New York Times pro-Obama-care reporter David Herszenhorn's Tuesday morning post managed to make the desperate proposal by House Democrats to pass a massive federal expansion of health care entitlement spending without actually voting on the legislation sound like an innocuous procedural wrinkle: “Passing Health Care Legislation, Tucked in a Rule.”According to a plan by…
Clay Waters
March 16th, 2010 4:16 PM

MSNBC's David Shuster Hits 'Far Right' Protesters Who Are 'Going Nuts

MSNBC host David Shuster on Tuesday demonstrated his condescension for conservative tea party activists, deriding protesters who had arrived in Washington as "far right" and "going nuts." Talking to reporter Richard Wolffe, he chided, "I mean, what does the White House make of the opposition on the far right?" [Audio available here.] Later in the day, Shuster showed video of demonstrators who…
Scott Whitlock
March 16th, 2010 3:39 PM

Homosexual Activist Group Honors 'Outstanding' CNN for 'Excellence

CNN received two awards on March 13 from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) during its annual GLAAD Media Awards. The American Morning program received the "outstanding TV journalism segment" award for an interview of a child who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance until homosexuals have "equal rights," while Joy Behar received their "excellence in media" award for her…
Matthew Balan
March 16th, 2010 3:13 PM

Moore: Uninsured Dying Because They 'Hold American Instead of Canadian

Michael Moore: crusader and "common-man" - with a net-worth in the range of $25-50 million, appeared on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" with fill-in Lawrence O'Donnell March 15, continuing to fight the good fight against capitalism and health insurance companies. Moore predicted the Democrats' ObamaCare will pass, "But this bill, as good as many of the thing are in the bill, you know - young…
Anthony Kang
March 16th, 2010 1:41 PM

RedState's Erick Erickson Joins CNN As Regular Contributor

This morning RedState.com editor Erick Erickson announced that he is joining CNN as a political contributor. Back in January, Politico noted that Erickson (pictured at right) and CNN denied a rumor floating around at the time that the Macon, Ga.-based conservative blogger would replace John King.  It turns out Erickson will be a regular contributor to a brand new weekday evening program to be…
NB Staff
March 16th, 2010 1:05 PM

WaPo 'On Faith': Glenn Beck Using 'Same Strategy of the Hitler Youth

Apparently, March 15 was “get Beck” day at the Washington Post. Columnist Howard Kurtz criticized Fox News’ Glenn Beck for “dividing” Fox. He pointed out that companies have boycotted the show, and noted all the controversial things that Beck has said. Yes, Beck is wildly successful, “But that growth has come at a price, at least for those at Fox who believe that Beck is beginning to define their…
Sarah Knoploh
March 16th, 2010 11:29 AM

WaPo Puts Slaughter Solution on Page One -- But Where Are the Good-Gov

Some credit should go to The Washington Post on Tuesday for putting Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the front page as she boldly associates the "Democratic" Party with the strange notion of passing bills without a vote. But reporters Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane present the only opponents of this scheme as Republicans. Where are the disdainful good-government gurus? The Post reported: The tactic --…
Tim Graham
March 16th, 2010 11:17 AM

Prime Time CBS Drama to Target Health Insurance Company

Perfectly timed for the week President Barack Obama is pushing the House to vote on ObamaCare, on tonight’s (Tuesday) episode of CBS’s The Good Wife, set at a Chicago law firm, the lawyers “battle a health insurance company that refuses to pay for urgent in-utero surgery.” The CBS.com plug for the March 16 episode: “In an emergency courtroom set up in a hospital, Alicia and Will battle Patti…
Brent Baker
March 16th, 2010 10:47 AM

CNN Documentary Depicts Sex Change as a 'Medical Necessity ... Done to

CNN dished out a heavy dose of liberal bias last night with its two-hour long documentary "Her Name Was Steven." The documentary sympathetically followed the "gender reassignment" of former Largo, Fla., city manager Steven Stanton.CNN, which advertised the documentary as being about "one person's struggle to live an authentic life," gave a grand total of 47 seconds to those opposed to sex change…
Carolyn Plocher
March 16th, 2010 10:28 AM

Inhofe Blasts Gore On Senate Floor: He's 'Running For Cover

Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Monday that Nobel Laureate Al Gore, "the world's first potential climate billionaire," is running for cover as a result of various scandals surrounding his favorite money-making theory known as manmade global warming."He is under siege these days," said Inhofe in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor. "The credibility of the IPCC is eroding, EPA's endangerment…
Noel Sheppard
March 16th, 2010 10:24 AM

WaPo Editor Responds to CMI’s Complaint about Pro-Gay Marriage Bias

Last week, the Culture & Media Institute published a study of The Washington Post's coverage of the legalization of same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia. CMI found overwhelming bias in the Post's reporting during the seven days after gay couples could begin applying for marriage licenses. The celebratory tone of many of the articles was enough to merit charges of bias, but CMI had…
Matt Philbin
March 16th, 2010 9:42 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
March 16th, 2010 9:40 AM