ABC Touts NYT ‘Conservative’ David Brooks to Bash Palin, Features

Good Morning America on Monday began a week of coverage on Sarah Palin’s new book by repeatedly fact checking claims from the Republican and highlighting a attack by the liberals’ favorite "conservative," New York Times columnist David Brooks. Reporter Kate Snow asserted that "even conservatives are on the attack" against Palin. She then played a clip of Brooks, who has previously gone after Rush…
Scott Whitlock
November 16th, 2009 12:49 PM

ABC Omits Critics of Obama’s ‘Jarring and Inappropriate’ Bow to

ABC’s Good Morning America finally picked up on the deep bow President Obama performed for the Emperor of Japan over the weekend. Co-host Diane Sawyer ran through how other U.S. Presidents have greeted either Emperor Akhito or his father, the late Emperor Hirohito over the years — some bowing, some not. Sawyer claimed that Americans are “not trained to greet royalty” and “it’s just too confusing…
Rich Noyes
November 16th, 2009 12:49 PM

CBS’s Schieffer: Sarah Palin ‘An Amusement;’ No Political Future

Appearing on Monday’s CBS Early Show to discuss Sarah Palin’s upcoming book tour, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer dismissed the former vice presidential candidate’s political ambitions: “I think she’s going to sell a lot of books. I think she’ll be a great attraction out, you know, as an amusement....But I can’t imagine that she has much future in politics. I really don’t.”Early Show co-host…
Kyle Drennen
November 16th, 2009 12:09 PM

Shep Smith Is Objective Because He Agrees With Left

Too often "objectivity in journalism" is code for agreeing with the left. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz demonstrated this sentiment in his profile of Fox News Channel's Shep Smith.Kurtz lauded Smith as an "outspoken newsman at the network defined by high-decibel conservatives, a stance that has earned him respect even from some Fox-hating liberals." But was it really his "newsman" status…
Lachlan Markay
November 16th, 2009 11:54 AM

CNN Features Boy Who Won't Say Pledge Till Gays Have Equal Rights

CNN on Monday featured a fifth grade student who is refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance in his classroom until gays and lesbians have equal rights.Not surprisingly, he was treated with far greater respect by the cable news network than Tea Party and town hall meeting protesters were earlier in the year. The boy and his father appeared on CNN's "American Morning," and John Roberts began the…
Noel Sheppard
November 16th, 2009 10:53 AM

Fox ‘News Watch’ Focuses on CMI’s Ft. Hood Report

The Culture & Media Institute’s report on network coverage of Major Nidal Hasan and the Ft. Hood murders continues to gain media attention. On Nov. 14, Fox’s “News Watch” program led off with CMI’s findings.“The Culture & Media Institute noticed something about the news coverage,” said host John Scott said of the Ft. Hood shooting. “Until President Obama spoke on Tuesday at a memorial…
Matt Philbin
November 16th, 2009 9:59 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
November 16th, 2009 9:29 AM

Scarborough: Comparing Palin To Howard Dean 'Insult To Dean's Intellig

Joe Scarborough was surely right about one thing . . . when he warned that his pronouncement would "enrage conservatives."The Morning Joe host today proclaimed that comparing Sarah Palin to Howard Dean was an insult . . . to Dean's intelligence.Joe's jab came in response to an analogy Time's Mark Halperin drew between the excitement Palin creates and that drummed up by Dean's presidential…
Mark Finkelstein
November 16th, 2009 8:54 AM

Palin Regrets – 'Dang It' – Journalists Didn't Get 'Fish-Slimed

Looking at Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, NBC's Andrea Mitchell caught a passage about herself in which Palin recalled that when she invited some reporters to go fishing with her this past July that “I wanted to see Andrea and her colleagues sporting fish-slimed waders, banging around in a skiff, stuck in the mud,” but, she regretted, the weather was too good so “dang it…
Brent Baker
November 16th, 2009 12:46 AM

Levin and Beck Take Second and Third in Amazon's 2009 Bestsellers

Amazon has announced its 2009 best selling books, and Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" and Glenn Beck's "Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government" are number two and three respectively.This will certainly ruin Chris Matthews' day, as the MSNBCer back in September agonized over there being "so much right-wing crap on the best seller list these days."…
Noel Sheppard
November 16th, 2009 12:03 AM

Ed Schultz Says Hasan is a Terrorist -- And Blames Bush/Cheney for Ft

Liberal radio host and MSNBC bobblehead Ed Schultz deserves credit -- he's that rare left-winger willing to throw political correctness to the wind and describe accused Ft. Hood killer Nidal Hasan as a terrorist.After finding such clarity unsettling, however, Schultz quickly reverts to form.Here's what Schultz told his radio listeners on Thursday (click here for audio) --  SCHULTZ: We've gotta…
Jack Coleman
November 15th, 2009 10:21 PM

Newsweek Admits 74 Percent of Gore Letters Are Critical, But Fails to

Tim Graham
November 15th, 2009 10:19 PM

AP Parrots GM's Comparative Tease of Not Comparable 'Financials' Comin

In the alternative universe known as Government/General Motors Land, you can: Talk about how your financial results are going to be better than last year's and in the next breath caution that the numbers won't be comparable. Inform the public that the financial information to be released on Monday isn't going to be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP),…
Tom Blumer
November 15th, 2009 8:47 PM

Former CNNer Claims Network's Liberal Bias Caused Dobbs' Exit

A seventeen year veteran of CNN claimed Sunday that Lou Dobbs' surprising exit from the network was because "his opinions are out of lockstep with the rest of the mainstream news media."Discussing the issue with Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Chris Plante, a former CNN correspondent and current talk radio host, said Dobbs, as "the last conservative voice on the channel," no longer fit…
Noel Sheppard
November 15th, 2009 7:06 PM