Huffington Repeats Charge of ‘Disturbing’ & ‘Violent Imagery

Appearing during the "Roundtable" segment on Sunday’s This Week on ABC, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington continued her campaign to portray conservatives as promoters of violence as she recounted what she referred to as the "violent imagery" of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s speech at CPAC in which he, alluding to Tiger Woods’ troubles, suggested that a golf club should be used to "…
Brad Wilmouth
February 21st, 2010 11:10 AM

Elton John Blames Parade Mag For His 'Jesus Was Gay' Remark

Pop singer Elton John is blaming Parade magazine for his remark in Sunday's edition that Jesus Christ was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man."Parade magazine did a kind of a sneaky thing and put it on their website that I said this," John told Chicago's WGN-TV.According to John, he made the comment "as part of the conversation during the interview," but he apparently didn't think this was…
Noel Sheppard
February 21st, 2010 11:05 AM

Olympics Open Thread

The United States continues to amass medals. Are you having fun yet?
NB Staff
February 21st, 2010 10:02 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
February 21st, 2010 9:59 AM

CBS, AP, N.Y. Daily News Play Twitter Tag on Conservatives With the Au

It’s getting tiresome that the liberal media will use the ramblings of any extremist on Twitter and try and associate them with the conservative movement. CBSNews.com [on their 48 Hours Mystery page] blogged the AP and the New York Daily News reporting that Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack has fan pages on the Internet: "Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no…
Tim Graham
February 21st, 2010 9:28 AM

Tony Blankley Rebuts Arianna on 'Undertones of Violence' at CPAC

Arianna Huffington just keeps slamming our Olbermann floor mats. Plugging her own appearance on the public-radio show Left, Right, and Center (based at Santa Monica NPR station KCRW), the Huffington Post blurb writer suggested CPAC was based in Texas: "Taking the temperature of the conservative GOP: To judge from their conference in Austin, they're quite cheery, yelling Run Dick Run to Dick…
Tim Graham
February 20th, 2010 11:03 PM

ABC Gives Credibility to Claim ‘Queen of Fake Outrage’ Palin ‘Ov

Now that actress Andrea Fay Friedman of the Fox television series the Family Guy has spoken out publicly against Sarah Palin’s criticism of the show, ABC News has aired a story on the controversy, which ran on Saturday's World News. The Family Guy episode in question not only treated Down’s Syndrome as something to laugh at (credit to NB reader Birch Barlow for emailing in the link as a tip), but…
Brad Wilmouth
February 20th, 2010 9:18 PM

Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote Speech To Enthusiastic CPAC

Glenn Beck gave the keynote speech to conclude this weekend's CPAC meeting Saturday, and the Fox News host did not disappoint.The rising conservative star touched on familiar themes saying that progessivism "is the disease in America.""It is a cancer," he said. "It must be cut out of the system because it cannot co-exist. And you cannot cure cancer by saying, ‘I'm just going to give you a little…
Noel Sheppard
February 20th, 2010 7:58 PM

Rachel Maddow Miffed That Constitution Allegedly Sullied by Accompanyi

After strolling through the exhibition hall of CPAC 2010 on Thursday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow told viewers that night of her impressions.Here's Maddow describing one of the things she didn't like --MADDOW: There were lots of people giving away copies of the Constitution, but in a thing that sort of bothers me, they couldn't resist adding their own documents to the Constitution. So you can get the…
Jack Coleman
February 20th, 2010 7:08 PM

Breitbart Takes On Salon's Blumenthal For Calling O'Keefe Racist

Conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart had a heated exchange with Salon's Max Blumenthal at CPAC Saturday. A few weeks ago, Salon published an article by Blumenthal disgracefully titled "James O'Keefe's Race Problem." The subheadline was even worse: "A photo of the righty stuntman at a white-nationalist confab illustrates a career marked by racial resentment."With pressure from Breitbart's…
Noel Sheppard
February 20th, 2010 6:52 PM

Newt Gingrich Invokes Reagan and Freedom in Address to CPAC

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addressed a huge audience at CPAC Saturday offering his plan to save America."I think this is the most important CPAC meeting since Ronald Reagan came and said that we have to have no pale pastels but bold colors," the Speaker stated to thunderous applause."I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."Of course, one of the…
Noel Sheppard
February 20th, 2010 6:02 PM

Crossing the Red Sea

First, we will face several plagues. Locusts, frogs, tax hikes....etc. 
Glenn Foden
February 20th, 2010 5:36 PM

Rev. Stephanopoulos Brought Religious Aura to Fighting Bimbo Eruptions

Felix Gillette of the New York Observer favorably profiled George Stephanopoulos, but the weirdest part came when he tried to suggest that somehow destroying the credibility of any woman claiming an affair with Bill Clinton made him priest-like. Since when does a priest say "forget that sixth commandment, just look away"?His father was a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church. So too his grandfather…
Tim Graham
February 20th, 2010 4:22 PM

FNC Notes NYT, Daily Beast Plagiarism Scandals, Lack of Media Interest

Saturday’s Fox News Watch gave attention to two recent plagiarism scandals – one involving Gerald Posner of the Daily Beast, the other involving Zachery Kouwe of the New York Times. Host Jon Scott summarized the stories:First, chief investigative reporter for the DailyBeast.com, Gerald Posner, admits to lifting five sentences from the Miami Herald. Posner says he was horrified and has no idea how…
Brad Wilmouth
February 20th, 2010 3:20 PM