UN May Retract Melting Himalayan Glaciers Claim, Will Media Care

A 2007 warning from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that Himalayan glaciers would be completely gone by 2035 due to global warming may be retracted in the coming days.New revelations concerning this claim indicate that it actually came from a 1999 article in a scientific journal that was in no way verified by any members of the IPCC.As Britain's Sunday Times reported…
Noel Sheppard
January 17th, 2010 5:07 PM

George Will: Dems 'Resort to Serial Corruption' to Pass ObamaCare

George Will on Sunday spoke an inconvenient truth about healthcare reform the Obama-loving media have dishonestly withheld from the public since this battle began: in order to get something passed, Democrats have resorted to "serial corruption."Visibly amused by the socialist blatherings of "This Week" guests Donna Brazile and Katrina vanden Heuvel, Will during the Roundtable segment said, "They'…
Noel Sheppard
January 17th, 2010 3:01 PM

When Bush Plummets in Polls, It's News--Obama, Not So Much

It is a strange paradigm among much of the mainstream  media that plummeting poll numbers are of far greater import for Republicans than  they are for Democrats. That, at least, is the logical conclusion of the relative silence of major media outlets on the steep decline in President Obama's poll numbers compared with the decline in President Bush's.According to an Allstate/National Journal poll…
Lachlan Markay
January 17th, 2010 2:17 PM

Tucker Carlson to Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Stop Saying 'Teabaggers

An absolutely beautiful thing happened on Sunday: Tucker Carlson asked Katrina vanden Heuvel to stop saying "Teabaggers."Appearing on ABC's "This Week," the perilously liberal editor of the perilously liberal "The Nation" magazine seemed on a mission to say "Teabaggers" more in a twenty minute television segment than anybody not affiliated with the perilously liberal MSNBC.Apparently getting…
Noel Sheppard
January 17th, 2010 12:35 PM

NFL Sunday Playoffs Open Thread

Well, another two games yesterday -- stinkers both. So far, only one of the six playoff games has been worth watching. Will that change today? Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top?
NB Staff
January 17th, 2010 10:23 AM

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Brown vs. Coakley.Will Brown win on Tuesday, and what happens politically if he does? Will it really be the end of the nation's dreadful move to the left? How will it impact the elections in November? And how will the Obama-loving media respond?
NB Staff
January 17th, 2010 10:18 AM

Last-Minute Left: Scott Brown Charged With Voting Against 9/11 Rescuer

Tim Graham
January 17th, 2010 8:25 AM

FNC’s O’Reilly Highlights Ray Stevens Song Parody Attacking ObamaC

On Friday's The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly interviewed singer Ray Stevens about a musical parody titled "We the People," posted on his Web site at RayStevens.com, in which he goes after ObamaCare. Stevens, famous for doing musical parodies since the 1960s -- though previously never political in nature -- on Friday's show joked that he is "right of Attila the Hun" politically.Below is a…
Brad Wilmouth
January 17th, 2010 6:07 AM

CNBC's Jim Cramer: Brown Win Tuesday Causes Huge Stock Rally As Invest

Former Barack Obama supporter Jim Cramer on Friday said the stock market would have a huge rally if Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Tuesday's special senatorial election in Massachusetts."I think investors who are nervous about the dictatorship of the Pelosi proletariat will feel at ease, and we could have a gigantic rally off a Coakley loss and a Brown win," said Cramer on Friday's "Mad…
Noel Sheppard
January 17th, 2010 1:25 AM

NPR's This American Life Tells a Tale of Two Eight-Year-Old Transgende

Tim Graham
January 16th, 2010 10:26 PM

Kelly O'Donnell Hopes 'All the Talk We`re Doing About This Race Will F

"What we`ve got to figure out is whether all the talk we`re doing about this race will fire up Democrats to try to prevent a loss, a stunning loss, really, if it were to happen."So said NBC's Kelly O'Donnell Friday during a discussion about the upcoming special senatorial election in Massachusetts.Speaking with MSNBC's Ed Schultz, O'Donnell clearly had a hard time hiding which candidate she…
Noel Sheppard
January 16th, 2010 7:06 PM

Ed Schultz: Brown Win Tuesday 'The End Of Change As We Know It

MSNBC's Ed Schultz believes a victory by Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in Tuesday's special senatorial election in Massachusetts would signal "the end of change as we know it.""I think it`s just an unbelievable scenario that`s playing out and don`t kid yourselves, folks, this could derail the rest of the Obama agenda for 2010 and beyond," Schultz told his "Ed Show" audience."The way the political winds…
Noel Sheppard
January 16th, 2010 6:20 PM

Roger Ebert: Rush Should Be Horse-Whipped For Insulting Obama

Movie critic Roger Ebert thinks conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh should be horse-whipped for insulting Barack Obama."Having followed President Obama's suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims," wrote Ebert in an open letter to Limbaugh…
Noel Sheppard
January 16th, 2010 4:42 PM

Hypocrisy! PBS President Lectures: Media Should 'Serve Kids, Not Sell

Tim Graham
January 16th, 2010 4:40 PM