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NB Staff
November 17th, 2009 9:47 AM

Joy Behar: Prejean's Sex Tapes Out 'Just In Time For The Holidays

Comedienne Joy Behar on HLN Monday jokingly accused former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean of releasing seven additional sex tapes "just in time for the holidays." Surprisingly able to do simple arithmetic, Behar quipped, "Maybe she made one for each night of Hanukkah."This nicely set up guests Perez Hilton, Heidi Montag, and Spencer Pratt to join in the Prejean bashing.Particularly vile and…
Noel Sheppard
November 17th, 2009 9:30 AM

Huckabee: Obama's Redistribution Extends to Health Care, Foreign Polic

FNC host and former Arkansas governor says president's policies well-intentioned, but gone about 'in the worst possible way if they're really serious about recovery.'
Jeff Poor
November 17th, 2009 8:13 AM

WaPo Offers Liberal and Conservative Palin Book Reviews; Liberal Slams

Tim Graham
November 17th, 2009 7:20 AM

Dobbs Tells O’Reilly He 'Discerned' a Different Tone from Critics Un

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs stuck to his guns when questions were raised if he was forced out at CNN in an interview with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. However, Dobbs did make one distinction - how his detractors decided to pile on when he was critical of President Barack Obama instead of former President George W. Bush. He elaborated on this on Fox News Channel's Nov. 16 "The O'Reilly Factor…
Jeff Poor
November 17th, 2009 12:45 AM

Naomi Wolf Says Sarah Palin Is Part Of A Rove-Cheney-Bush Cabal

Naomi Wolf on Monday accused former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin of being part of a "cabal" involving George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove.The feminist author and political consultant made this accusation on CNN's "Larry King Live."Fortunately, former Bush adviser Mary Matalin was there to contest Wolf's absurdities:[T]his is why people think liberals are such fringies. I mean you -- you run…
Noel Sheppard
November 17th, 2009 12:23 AM

MSNBC Crusades for Tax-Funded Abortion

Accusations of lying, calls for IRS investigations dominate coverage of Stupak Amendment.
Colleen Raezler
November 17th, 2009 12:00 AM

N.Y. Times Sells MSNBC As 'Progressive But Not Partisan

Tim Graham
November 16th, 2009 11:24 PM

Beck Rejects 'South Park' Criticism about Questioning Government Offic

Fox News' Glenn Beck isn't catching a break anywhere - from "Saturday Night Live," The New Yorker, Al Gore's Current TV and Comedy Central's "South Park." They have all taken shots at the popular TV host. On his Nov. 16 program, Beck responded to the "South Park" interpretation of him - that he wasn't making accusations, but phrasing them in the form of a question. The show's character Eric…
Jeff Poor
November 16th, 2009 7:37 PM

New Ox-Am Dictionary Names 'Teabagger' Word of the Year Finalist

The New Oxford American Dictionary on Monday named its 2009 "Word of the Year," and listed as one of the finalists "teabagger."Fortunately, its definition was different than the sexual connotation many media members and liberal bloggers conveyed by using the term.Regardless, its inclusion is still quite offensive to millions of Americans.I guess the good folks at NOAD weren't concerned with that…
Noel Sheppard
November 16th, 2009 7:06 PM

CBS: NY Daily News Reporter Hails Obama’s Arlington Visit

On CBS’s Sunday Morning, New York Daily News Washington correspondent James Meek related President Obama’s visit to the graves of Iraq and Afghanistan war dead at Arlington National Cemetery: “Now, cynics may say this was just an Obama photo-op. But they weren’t there looking him in the eye. I saw a man fully carrying the heavy burden of command on a weighty day.”In an article Meeks wrote for the…
Kyle Drennen
November 16th, 2009 6:09 PM

Double Whammy: MSNBC's 'Green Week' Coverage Attacks Bottled Water and

NBC environmental correspondent Anne Thompson and MSNBC host Contessa Brewer slam water containers in one-sided report.
Jeff Poor
November 16th, 2009 5:30 PM

Palin Admits Annoyance in 2008 Interview with CBS’s Katie Couric, 'T

Sarah Palin, in an interview that is a part of the lead up to the Nov. 17 release of her new book "Going Rogue," appeared on Oprah Winfrey's TV show on Nov. 16.  Aside from the questions about the campaign, she expressed her irritation with "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric, or as she referred to her - "the perky one." "Now, obviously, you've why didn't you just name some books or…
Jeff Poor
November 16th, 2009 5:15 PM

Will Media Buy Obama's 'My Thumbs Are Too Clumsy' To Twitter

President Obama told Chinese students in Shanghai Sunday that he doesn't use the website Twitter because his "thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone."Are media going to buy this (audio available here, h/t Steve Malzberg)?After all, the press were almost as smitten with candidate Obama's Blackberry as he was.Have they forgotten that he fought to keep it after he was elected?In fact,…
Noel Sheppard
November 16th, 2009 4:49 PM