Open Thread

NB Staff
December 27th, 2009 10:42 AM

NWA: NBC Plays D For O

Mark Finkelstein
December 27th, 2009 10:09 AM

Atlantic Editor Lauds Lack of Obama Public Response to Terrorist

Remember how outraged the left became when Michael Moore's movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, showed President George W. Bush not issuing a public statement on the Twin Tower attacks for several minutes until after the school children finished reading the Pet Goat story? Well, it is now almost two days since the Nigerian terrorist working at the behest of Al Qaeda attempted to blow up a passenger jet and…
P.J. Gladnick
December 27th, 2009 10:01 AM

Relief Without Limits: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Get Blank Checks; NYT P

On Thursday, the Treasury Department issued a press release, called "Update on Status of Support for Housing Programs." Its fourth paragraph reads as follows: At the time the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship in September 2008, Treasury established Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements (PSPAs) to ensure that each firm maintained a positive…
Tom Blumer
December 27th, 2009 9:42 AM

Fox Newswatch Highlights Couric & Klein in MRC's Awards for Worst Repo

Saturday's Fox Newswatch on FNC highlighted two “winners” in the MRC's “Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting.” (Posting on NewsBusters) Viewers were treated to Katie Couric pining to Barack Obama: “You're so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, damn, this is hard?” FNC host Jon Scott…
Brent Baker
December 26th, 2009 11:49 PM

Beware Leftist Bloggers 'Eating Beans in the Nude' Calling Themselves

Tim Graham
December 26th, 2009 10:44 PM

Size Matters In Creepy Government Motors TV Commercial

There I was, watching the perfectly harmless Meineke Car Care Bowl, when a truly creepy Government Motors commercial for the Chevy Silverado pickup broke out . . .GM spokesman, and former NFL player, Howie Long is not-so-subtly comparing the stats of the Silverado with an intimidated, younger, Ford F150 owner.
Mark Finkelstein
December 26th, 2009 7:50 PM

Liberal Henican Tags Couric Quote 'Icky

Saturday’s Fox News Watch gave attention to a couple of entries in the MRC’s "Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting." Returning from a commercial break, a clip of CBS’s Katie Couric began the segment as Couric was shown expressing awe at President Obama’s confidence as she interviewed him last July. Couric: "You’re so confident, Mr. President, and…
Brad Wilmouth
December 26th, 2009 3:13 PM

Flight 253: AP Scrubs 'M-Word,' Potential Relevance of 'Nigerian Talib

It has been interesting watching the Associated Press reports on the attempted takedown of Flight 253 devolve in the past 12-plus hours. In its 8:56 a.m. report (likely dynamic and subject to change), it looks like the assemblage of AP writers who worked on the story have succeeded in: As Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters noted earlier this morning in the case of the New York Times, ridding the…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2009 12:02 PM

Colbert Can't Mock Beck: He's Impossibly 'Raised the Stupid Bar

Tim Graham
December 26th, 2009 11:17 AM

Guess The Missing Word In NY Times Report On Attempted Plane Bombing

Imagine that there had been a series of three incidents in which members of a [invented for present purposes] fanatical Jewish sect had attempted to bring down airliners from Arab countries.  In reporting on the latest attempt and describing the previous ones, do you think the New York Times might have mentioned the religion of the perpetrators? So do I.But with the legerdemain required to…
Mark Finkelstein
December 26th, 2009 8:23 AM

AP's Babington Plays Obama/Dem Party Mouthpiece, Ignores CBO 'Double-C

The Associated Press should seriously consider renaming itself "Associated Dems" or "Associated Leftists." This morning, the AP's Charles Babington uncritically relays the latest Democratic Party talking point about its statist health care plan that has been passed in two very different forms in the House and Senate. The supposed point is that anyone who voted to create Medicare Part D in 2003…
Tom Blumer
December 26th, 2009 8:22 AM

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: terrorism almost strikes in America.What are your thoughts about what happened on Northwest Airlines Saturday? Wasn't hope and change supposed to make everybody like us again?
NB Staff
December 26th, 2009 7:44 AM

Fineman: ‘Self-Righteous’ Lieberman ‘Kicking Dems in Teeth,’ O

Catching up on the Sunday, December 20, syndicated Chris Matthews Show – during which the panel weighed in on who should be granted various dishonors for the year – panel member Howard Fineman of Newsweek charged that independent Senator Joe Lieberman, formerly a Democrat, had "kicked [Democrats] n the teeth time after time after time and behaved in a completely self-righteous way about it," as…
Brad Wilmouth
December 26th, 2009 1:37 AM