Networks Ignore SEIU's Alliances, Thuggery and Presidential Lobbying

Members of the self-proclaimed fastest-growing union in North America have started fights at town hall meetings, share office space with ACORN and spent over $60 million to elect President Barack Obama. The left-wing, 2.1 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its president, Andy Stern, spent much of 2009 campaigning for health care reform that would include a…
Julia A. Seymour
November 19th, 2009 11:42 AM

Oh, So Now U.S. Soldiers Are 'A Pretty Good Photo-op'; Let's See How T

The Washington Post's Anne Kornblut (saved here in case her report is modified or disappears) captured a comment Obama made to U.S troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea while heading back to Washington after his Asian trip. I believe that the comment (bolded) could be seen as shining a less than flattering light on the president's mindset: Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m.…
Tom Blumer
November 19th, 2009 10:57 AM

Chris Matthews: Palin Supporters Racist -- 'White vs. Other People

The attacks on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took an interesting turn Wednesday when MSNBC's Chris Matthews suggested that racism is at the heart of her support.Much like mainstream media coverage of this year's Tea Parties, Matthews and "Hardball" guests Norah O'Donnell and Salon's Joan Walsh made an issue of how "white" the crowd was at a Palin book signing event in Michigan."This is a…
Noel Sheppard
November 19th, 2009 10:26 AM

Gainor Column: Ready to Pay Your $6 Trillion 'Climate Justice' Bill

The $1,000 bill has President Grover Cleveland’s face on it. The $100,000 bill has the dour image of President Woodrow Wilson.We’ve already seen President Barack Obama attach his name and face to the $787 billion stimulus bill. And if the left has its way, the face on the $6 trillion “climate justice” bill will also be Obama’s. Or maybe it will belong to Al Gore.December’s global warming…
Dan Gainor
November 19th, 2009 9:49 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
November 19th, 2009 9:44 AM

Fox-TV Mocks Fox News: Heartless Christian Dad on 'Glee' Is a Glenn Be

Tim Graham
November 19th, 2009 7:08 AM

NBC's Todd and CBS's Reid Fret Over 'Stress' of Presidency on Obama

NBC's Chuck Todd and CBS's Chip Reid both concluded their interviews with President Obama conducted in Beijing by worrying about the “stress” of his job. “He laughed off the speculation about his reported weight loss,” Todd relayed on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, “but admitted the burden of the office does weigh on him.” The MSNBC.com online video of the entire interview disclosed Todd's…
Brent Baker
November 19th, 2009 2:30 AM

Newsweek's Lisa Miller Labels Passion of the Christ 'Anti-Semitic

Magazine ranked Tina Fey's portrayal of Sarah Palin, the beginning of American Idol, and the death of Michael Jackson ahead of movie on list of Top 10 cultural moments in the last decade.
Matthew Balan
November 19th, 2009 12:00 AM

U.S. News' Erbe: Stupak-Pitts Amendment is 'a Privacy Invasion of Mass

Pro-abortion blogger wants 'uber-religious' to pay for children they force poor women to bear.
Colleen Raezler
November 19th, 2009 12:00 AM

'GMA' Features Chastity (now Chaz) Bono's 'Journey into Manhood

The 'Alternative Broadcast Company' continues fascination with deviant sex.
Carolyn Plocher
November 19th, 2009 12:00 AM

Newsweek's Miller Complains 'Abortion Is Not the Only Moral Issue' in

"This week's abortion conversation is about politics. Let's not pretend it's about anything else," Newsweek's Lisa Miller huffed in a November 18 Newsweek.com post, complaining about how the moral issues surrounding abortion are taking on a life of their own in the health care debate.We suffer, this week, from a moral myopia. Thanks to the passage in Congress of a health-reform bill, abortion is…
Ken Shepherd
November 18th, 2009 6:31 PM

ABC Brings Up 'I Can See Russia from My Backyard' in Palin Interview

Brad Wilmouth
November 18th, 2009 6:29 PM

Newsweek’s Lisa Miller Labels Passion of the Christ 'Anti-Semitic

Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller, contributing to her magazine’s “20/10” list of top 10 cultural moments of the past decade, revisited the “furor surrounding...[the] alleged anti-Semitism” of Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ, and concluded “the film is, in fact, anti-Semitic.” Miller also accused Gibson of making “Jesus in his own image.”The 2004 film was number eight on Newsweek’…
Matthew Balan
November 18th, 2009 5:57 PM

NPR Shocker: Attorney General Holder Stumped By Lindsey Graham

During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official.Maybe more surprisingly, NPR reported it at its website.As NPR's Frank James noted, "The exchange started with Graham stumping Holder with a…
Noel Sheppard
November 18th, 2009 5:51 PM