An Emotional George Stephanopoulos Coos: Murtha Made Congress ‘Work

Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday became emotional over the passing of John Murtha, named by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington as one of Congress’ most corrupt politicians. He lauded the Democrat as "one of those guys who make the [House of Representatives] work." [Audio available here.]Neither Stephanopoulos, nor Juju Chang, who filed a news brief on…
Scott Whitlock
February 9th, 2010 10:52 AM

MSNBC's Ratigan Blames 'Snowpocalypse' on Global Warming

With Washington, D.C. buried beneath at least 20 inches of snow, and with more in the forecast, common sense would suggest global warming alarmists look elsewhere to make the argument to raise awareness for their concerns. But no, Dylan Ratigan thinks it's ridiculous to suggest all the snowfall totals could cast doubt on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. On MSNBC's Feb. 8 "The Dylan…
Jeff Poor
February 9th, 2010 10:44 AM

Politico Glosses Over Murtha's Haditha Smear

David Rogers glossed over the late Rep. Jack Murtha's (D-Pa.) Haditha Marines smear in an obituary published yesterday and updated this morning at Politico:Rather than lie low, Murtha further made himself a target with public comments in the spring of 2006 pressuring the Marine command to investigate allegations of civilian casualties at Haditha, Iraq. This infuriated many Marines, and critics…
Ken Shepherd
February 9th, 2010 10:14 AM

Stephen Colbert Says 'Sarah Palin Is A F**king Retard

The media's hate parade against the former governor of Alaska hit a disgraceful peak Monday night when comedian Stephen Colbert said on national television, "Sarah Palin is a f**king retard."In a five minute segment bashing the former vice presidential candidate for her remarks at Saturday's National Tea Party convention, as well as her use of crib notes -- surprise! -- the Comedy Central star…
Noel Sheppard
February 9th, 2010 10:08 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
February 9th, 2010 9:28 AM

Testicular-Challenged Dems Drive Ed Schultz Nuts

Now the Democrats have gone and done it. And what resulted wasn't pretty.Here's libtalker Ed Schultz on his radio show Friday, obsessing on Democrats' acquiescence to the GOP and his diagnosis for what's needed to turn this around (click for audio here) -- SCHULTZ: It's time for the Democrats to grow a pair. That was the theme of one of my segments last night, although I couldn't say it exactly…
Jack Coleman
February 9th, 2010 8:42 AM

NBC's Todd: Fox News Trying To 'Undermine' MSM

Fox News has a business strategy of seeking to "undermine" the MSM by alleging that it has a liberal bias.   That was Chuck Todd's assertion on Morning Joe today.Todd, NBC's political director and chief White House correspondent, was reacting to Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon's statement on "Fox News Sunday" that "the mainstream media hates the tea party movement almost as much…
Mark Finkelstein
February 9th, 2010 8:14 AM

Matthews Attacks Palin for 12 Minutes: 'Can a Palm Reader be President

Chris Matthews Monday went on a twelve minute attack on former Alaska governor Sarah Palin that should make his fellow MSNBCers and the liberal blogosphere quite happy.Here's how Monday's "Hardball" began:Can a palm reader be president? What do we think of kids in school who write stuff on their hands to get through a test? What do we think of a would-be political leader who does it to look like…
Noel Sheppard
February 8th, 2010 11:05 PM

Painting Palin as Hypocrite for 'Crib Notes' and GOP as 'Party of No

From Monday's broadcast network evening newscasts: CBS and NBC found hypocrisy in Sarah Palin scolding President Obama's incessant use of a Teleprompter while she had “crib notes” written on her hand during her Saturday Tea Party convention appearance, CBS followed by giving Obama two-straight minutes to explain why the public will come around to “connect” with him again and, meanwhile, ABC…
Brent Baker
February 8th, 2010 9:12 PM

Former Time Columnist: Palin Attacks 'People Who Actually Know Somethi

The Washington Post website today linked to its sister site of black political analysis, The Root, where former Time magazine editor and columnist Jack White asserted Sarah Palin's "tea party speech revived the ancient practice of attacking people who actually know something." White painted Palin (and conservatives) as unthinking. Like many liberals, he doesn’t grasp that what conservative…
Tim Graham
February 8th, 2010 9:00 PM

Slate's Kaplan: Tea Parties Don't Amount to Much; Blasts GOP, Palin

On Monday’s Rick’s List program on CNN, Slate’s Fred Kaplan attacked Republicans for politicizing national security, accused the GOP of being in an alternate reality, and blasted Sarah Palin for “talking...complete and utter nonsense.” Kaplan also wrote off the tea parties as not a “mass movement,” and, along with anchor Rick Sanchez, accused Palin of forwarding “anti-intellectualism.”The Slate…
Matthew Balan
February 8th, 2010 8:45 PM

Arianna Huffington Denounces 'Extremist' Beck Yet Employs Sharia Advoc

Does Arianna Huffington consider Glenn Beck more radical and dangerous than an advocate of Islamic Sharia law? She's let off a lot of hot air lately criticizing Fox News president Roger Ailes for employing Beck, but it turns out that on the Huffington Post's payroll is an envoy to the United States from the Somali Unity government, led by the Islamic Courts Union. The ICU is a strong proponent of…
Lachlan Markay
February 8th, 2010 7:11 PM

Surprise: NYT's Kate Zernike Turns Out Fair Story on Tea Party Convent

New York Times reporter Kate Zernike's coverage of the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville made Sunday's front page: “At Tea Party Meeting, Looking to Forge a Full-Fledged Movement.”Zernike is best known to NYT bias hunters for her last-helicopter-out-of-Saigon defense of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry against a group of fellow Vietnam veterans who questioned his…
Clay Waters
February 8th, 2010 6:03 PM

Deutsch Says Tebow Ad Starts Down 'Slippery Slope'; Compares it to Gay

Even though, the day after it aired on the Super Bowl broadcast, the consensus on the Focus on the Family advertisement featuring former Florida quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was that it wasn't as bad as the left had feared, at least one person that isn't going to let it go. On MSNBC's Feb. 8 "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough made the point that the TV spot played during the…
Jeff Poor
February 8th, 2010 5:28 PM