Rosie O’Donnell: ‘We Sort of Started to Humanize’ Elisabeth Hass

Apparently in Rosie O'Donnell's world, people who don't subscribe to her beliefs are less than human, and she surrounds herself with people of like mind. The former "View" moderator took the opportunity during the Feb. 8 broadcast of her Sirius XM radio show, "Rosie Radio" to outline how she tried to "humanize" her former colleague, Elisabeth Hasselbeck. O'Donnell's comments stemmed from…
Colleen Raezler
February 10th, 2010 10:51 AM

Atlantic Magazine Writers Speculate About Possibility of John Edwards

There are no second acts in American lives. ---F. Scott FitzgeraldApparently writers Nicole Allan and Niraj Chokshi of Atlantic Magazine wish to hold open the possibility of a second act for disgraced John Edwards as they speculate about Is John Edwards Done Forever?  Yes, all Sarah Palin has to do is read a few notes from the palm of her hand and this is enough to set off MSM liberals into a…
P.J. Gladnick
February 10th, 2010 9:30 AM

Barbara Walters Goes After Sarah Palin on 'The View

Barbara Walters took to her own soapbox Monday on ABC’s "The View" to deride Sarah Palin. But if viewers were only getting their news from Barbara, they’d be getting a very slanted version of what Palin said. Walters said she urged Obama to declare war on Iran, but "I don’t have the exact quote." Walters also lined up with many liberals by suggesting Palin should have lashed out at Rush Limbaugh…
Tim Graham
February 10th, 2010 9:25 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
February 10th, 2010 9:03 AM

ABC's Robin Roberts Tosses Softballs to Michelle Obama: 'How Do you Fe

Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts tossed softballs to Michelle Obama in an interview on Tuesday, asking the First Lady to explain how she "feels" when people like Sarah Palin make "light" of her husband's efforts to "make a better world." After referencing Palin's speech to the tea party convention on Saturday, Roberts played a clip of the former Alaska governor mocking, “How's that hope…
Scott Whitlock
February 10th, 2010 7:17 AM

Olbermann's 'Federal Budget Debt a Good Thing' Staggeringly Stupid

On a nightly basis, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann pompously presents himself as being the smartest guy in the room as he belittles every leading Republican in the nation.But on Tuesday, the "Countdown" host exhibited a staggering level of ignorance as he claimed "federal budget debt" -- whatever that is! -- as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product is "about the same as it was in 1970," and "far less…
Noel Sheppard
February 10th, 2010 1:01 AM

Rosie O'Donnell: 'We Sort of Started to Humanize' Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Radio show exhibits liberal 'tolerance' at its best.
Colleen Raezler
February 10th, 2010 12:00 AM

Limbaugh Bashes Blitzer For Ignoring Obama's Sinking Poll Numbers

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh absolutely trashed Wolf Blitzer Tuesday for ignoring Barack Obama's declining poll numbers.As he opened the program, Limbaugh informed listeners about new data showing the President's approval rating at the lowest point since he moved into the White House. "He's down to 44% in a couple of polls, 46% in another, and where is the State-Controlled Media…
Noel Sheppard
February 9th, 2010 10:11 PM

Brilliant: 'Vagina Monologues' Creator Tells Palin to Look at 'Earthqu

No matter what former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin does, she's not going to win any friends in the mainstream modern feminism activist movement in the United States. But that might not be a bad thing. On HLN's Feb. 8 "The Joy Behar Show," Eve Ensler, the writer of the infamous "The Vagina Monologues" appeared on the broadcast to promote her new book "I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of…
Jeff Poor
February 9th, 2010 9:43 PM

Olbermann Paints ‘Tea Klux Klan’ as Wanting to Bring Back Jim Crow

On Tuesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann highlighted suggestions by former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo that there should be civics literacy testing for registered voters made at the recent Tea Party convention, which Olbermann referred to as the "Tea Klux Klan," and painted Tea Party activists as wanting to deny minorities the right to vote using the tactics of the Jim Crow…
Brad Wilmouth
February 9th, 2010 9:34 PM

Bozell Column: Obama's Balloon Hits the Dirt

It was only a year ago that liberal elites in Washington were shoveling dirt on conservatism. James Carville was writing boastful books about 40 years of Democrat dominance, boasting in his typical way that he could call "time of death" on the Republican Party. Liberals believed their hype that Barack Obama would be that black FDR they pictured on the cover of Time magazine. Now newspaper…
Brent Bozell
February 9th, 2010 9:21 PM

Anne Hathaway Leaves Church to Media Cheers

Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway has come a long way since her innocent breakout role in Disney’s “The Princess Diaries.” In a recent interview with British GQ, Hathaway stated that she and her family left the Catholic Church after her older brother announced that he was gay. USA Today, New York magazine and The Huffington Post used the public break as an opportunity to scold the Church. Hathaway…
Sarah Knoploh
February 9th, 2010 8:14 PM

Bloomberg News Calls Jack Murtha 'Supporter of Troops', Doesn't Mentio

Bloomberg News managed to pen a full obituary of the late Congressman Jack Murtha today, calling him a "Supporter of Troops" in the headline, without once mentioning his incendiary--and unfounded--claims that a group of Marines had murdered 24 Iraqis in cold blood (h/t Washington Examiner's Mark Hemingway).Murtha, himself a former Marine, said in 2005 after two dozen Iraqis were killed in the…
Lachlan Markay
February 9th, 2010 6:41 PM

Rosie O'Donnell, Broadway Star Spread 9/11 Truther Talk on Radio

Rosie O’Donnell is still spreading 9-11 conspiracy theories on her new Sirius/XM radio show. On Friday, she welcomed Broadway star (and one-season Saturday Night Live cast member) Christine Ebersole. The two entertainers agreed that something was fishy in Washington (just as they did on ABC's The View in 2007): EBERSOLE: I don't need to know what happened [on 9/11], because I don't, and that's…
Tim Graham
February 9th, 2010 6:13 PM