Awed Actress Meryl Streep ‘Star-Struck’ by Barack and Michelle Oba

Brent Baker
January 12th, 2010 11:24 AM

FNC's 'Special Report' Picks Up on Bozell Slam of '60 Minutes

NB Staff
January 12th, 2010 10:48 AM

Matthews: How Can Palin Be A Pundit? She Doesn`t Know Anything

NewsBusters on Monday assured readers that liberals would be enraged by the announcement that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was becoming a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews didn't disappoint.  While speaking to guests Chuck Todd of NBC and Howard Fineman of Newsweek, Matthews, during a segment specifically designed to belittle the intellectual capacity of the…
Noel Sheppard
January 12th, 2010 10:42 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
January 12th, 2010 9:37 AM

2.5 Cheers for Andrew Breitbart's Daily Caller Op-Ed

Andrew Take-No-Prisoners Breitbart of Big Hollywood, Big Government, and Big Journalism fame has an important column that appeared yesterday at Tucker Carlson's new enterprise, the Daily Caller. In it, he clearly delineates the difference between "the news" as establishment media outlets want it dispensed and the "market for information" that technology has created. Its only shortcoming is that…
Tom Blumer
January 12th, 2010 8:54 AM

Remember Wright? Mika Says Obama 'Worked For Decades' To Transcend Rac

Does the name Jeremiah Wright ring a bell with Mika Brzezinski?The Morning Joe co-host sought today to explain the pass Pres. Obama gave Harry "negro dialect" Reid by claiming that PBO has "worked to transcend racial issues for decades." The skeptical look on Joe Scarborough's face [see still after jump] as Mika uttered her assertion was priceless. Let's take a stroll down memory lane with Rev.…
Mark Finkelstein
January 12th, 2010 7:51 AM

Joy Behar's Sex Chat on HLN: 'Sean Hannity Has Never Truly Satisfied a

Tim Graham
January 12th, 2010 7:07 AM

Newsweek Column: 'Same-sex Marriage is an American Value

Ted Olson pushes for gay unions without taking into account many drawbacks.
Carolyn Plocher
January 12th, 2010 12:00 AM

CBS Exposes Congress Wasting Money At UN Climate Summit

It must really be cold outside, for the CBS "Evening News" Monday actually did a segment exposing how members of Congress wasted a huge amount of money at the United Nations' climate summit in Copenhagen last month.Even more surprising, CBS's Sharyl Attkisson pointed fingers at prominent Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.), and Charles Rangel…
Noel Sheppard
January 11th, 2010 11:11 PM

In Newsweek, Ted Olson Is Wrong on Gay Marriage

Former Solictor General Ted Olson's Newsweek essay, "A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage," is embarrassing for conservatives -- that is, embarrassing that we had a Solicitor General so willing to publicly use straw-man arguments. Of course, as it has ever been, when an individual conservative of moderate fame wants some nice press in the mainstream media, he offers up a 'man bites dog' story,…
Amy Ridenour
January 11th, 2010 10:46 PM

Clyburn Seems To Say 'Negro' Now Okay

Somebody owes Rush Limbaugh a big apology.  Remember all the flak he took over his 'Barack The Magic Negro' parody—which was riffing off an LA Times op-ed by a black author who used the same term?  Turns out, using "Negro" isn't objectionable.  Don't take my word for it.  Ask Rep. James Clyburn, former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and current House Majority Whip.Clyburn made his…
Mark Finkelstein
January 11th, 2010 7:59 PM

Black Professor: If White Republican Said What Reid Did It Would Be Hu

On Monday, a far-left leaning black college professor stated what few in the liberal media dare: if a white Republican said what Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did about presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, it would be huge news.Speaking on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson elaborated, "They would be making hay out of it, calling for his resignation. I…
Noel Sheppard
January 11th, 2010 6:52 PM

Prior to Harry Reid, Networks Associated Use of 'Negro' Term With Hate

The revelation Saturday that Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's use of the word "Negro" to refer to then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008 -- Reid said the candidate had "no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one" -- has been heavily covered by the broadcast media, but the tone of coverage has emphasized how the President has accepted Reid's apology, with the implication that that should be the…
Rich Noyes
January 11th, 2010 6:35 PM

Transportation Secretary Attacks AP Report, Draws Blanks

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took to the WhiteHouse.gov blog today to try to refute a devastating AP report showing that the the stimulus's highway and road funding has done next to nothing to improve the unemployment situation. Though he offered a couple of valid points, LaHood, pictured right in a file photo, actually did very little refuting.The AP asserts in its report that "there was…
Lachlan Markay
January 11th, 2010 6:30 PM