‘View’ Shames Media for ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’; No Men

On Oct. 22, ABC's "The View" tsked at "the media" for presenting an alleged suspect as guilty. The focus of their discussion was Nicole Howell, a former high school teacher that was accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student but has since been acquitted of the charges. "Is her teaching career over?" worried Whoopi Goldberg. "They accused her of it; it turned out she hadn't done it, and…
Carolyn Plocher
October 22nd, 2009 4:03 PM

CNN Inadvertently Exposes Pro-Illegal Immigration Activist's Inconsist

CNN featured pro-illegal immigration activist Isabel Garcia of Tucson, Arizona on two programs on Wednesday night, and inadvertently caught her giving inconsistent answers regarding a 2008 protest where she participated in the beating and decapitation of a pinata effigy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona [audio clips from programs available here]. Correspondent Soledad O’Brien…
Matthew Balan
October 22nd, 2009 3:51 PM

Anti-Fairness Doctrine Champ Pence Rips White House for Fox News Feud

Over the past two weeks, three prominent White House officials have publicly come out and criticized Fox News by demeaning its status as a news outlet - White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, Senior Advisor David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. And today, the president himself commented on Fox News. However, this hasn't gone unnoticed by members of Congress. Yesterday, Sen.…
Jeff Poor
October 22nd, 2009 3:16 PM

‘Safe Schools Czar’ Funded Anti-Christian Gay Porn Art Exhibit

If we’ve learned anything in recent months, it’s that if you’re a racist, a Marxist, a Maoist, a domestic terrorist or any other variety of anti-American nut, the safest place to be is in the company of Barack Obama. If you can stay off the radar of Fox News and don’t get caught on tape giving advice on running a brothel for fun and profit, you get to influence the most powerful executive in the…
Matt Philbin
October 22nd, 2009 3:11 PM

Newsweek Ignores Scozzafava's ACORN Ties in NY-23 Story

In an October 20 The Gaggle blog post, Newsweek's David A. Graham sought to explain to readers why the New York 23rd Congressional District special election on November 3 "is more important than" the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races.Graham portrayed the race -- pitting liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava against Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman and Democratic candidate Bill…
Ken Shepherd
October 22nd, 2009 2:52 PM

MSNBC Colleagues Mock Contessa Brewer Over Sharpton/Jackson Mix Up

In the 9AM ET hour of Morning Meeting on MSNBC Thursday, host Dylan Ratigan teased his colleague Contessa Brewer over her confusing Jesse Jackson with Al Sharpton on Wednesday: “And did you call Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton the other day?....Can we talk about that later?.... I think there’s some humor to be had in all this.” An embarrassed Brewer sarcastically remarked: “I would love to talk about…
Kyle Drennen
October 22nd, 2009 2:36 PM

Michael Moore: Take All Your Money Out of Banks and Stocks

Schlockumentary producer Michael Moore Thursday advised his readers to take all their money out of banks that received bailout funds AND divest themselves completely of American stocks.Such lunacy was posted at Moore's website as part of a list of things he recommends people do "to fight back and try to fix this very broken system."Moore began by listing five truly hysterical demands of the…
Noel Sheppard
October 22nd, 2009 1:59 PM

Anderson Cooper Compares Obama to Nixon, Spotlights Declining Approval

How do you know that the White House's anti-Fox News campaign has gone seriously wrong? When CNN, let alone Anderson Cooper, begins to compare the Obama and Nixon administrations (video embedded below the fold, h/t Mediaite's Colby Hall).On last night's "360," Cooper stated that "this White House is starting to look like another White House and the comparison is not flattering." He showed a clip…
Lachlan Markay
October 22nd, 2009 1:58 PM

In the Wake of Philly ACORN Vid, BigGov Calls Out Big Media's Follow-u

As noted early this morning, BigGovernment.com posted James O'Keefe's and Hannah Giles's latest video yesterday. That video totally nuked claims by ACORN National and ACORN Philly that O'Keefe and Giles had been "shown the door" and "kicked out" after a "few minutes" in their Philly Office visit -- claims that establishment media outlets continued to repeat even, as shown in the excerpt that…
Tom Blumer
October 22nd, 2009 1:56 PM

'Early Show': Why Not Limit Compensation for Non-TARP Companies Too

The Federal pay czar announced that executives in companies that took bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Recovery Program should not receive the bonuses that were announced recently. And there are rumblings about extending government reach into the executive compensation at all publicly traded companies. That would be just fine with Harry Smith at CBS's "Early Show." On Oct. 22, Smith…
Carolyn Plocher
October 22nd, 2009 1:32 PM

Maddow Runs What Passes for Correction on MSNBC About Limbaugh

As to be expected from a person who plays a journalist on TV -- a correction more accurately described as a "correction".With forced ebullience, Rachel Maddow sought to set the record straight on her MSNBC show Monday about a dubious quote from radio host Rush Limbaugh, which Maddow claimed back on June 3 that Limbaugh had once stated. As in, last spring. It's now autumn. In fairness to Maddow,…
Jack Coleman
October 22nd, 2009 12:58 PM

WaPo Lashes Out Against ‘Militant,’ ‘Provocative,’ ‘Bizarre

The liberal Washington Post, which for months has been running a seemingly endless series of attack pieces on Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, appears to have moved on to a new target, the GOP’s choice for Attorney General. On Thursday, the Post featured a column by Robert McCartney on nominee Ken Cuccinelli and included this ominous headline: "Cuccinelli: In your heart, you know he…
Scott Whitlock
October 22nd, 2009 12:19 PM

Networks, Newspapers Ignore Partisan, Racially-motivated Obama DOJ Act

The Obama ascendency, the president's acolytes have been keen on telling us, is the dawn of a new post-partisan era. But a development that undercuts that fiction -- the Obama Justice Department's recent move to scuttle non-partisan local elections in Kinston, North Carolina, on the basis of racial and partisan considerations -- has escaped the interest of the mainstream media.Both the Washington…
Ken Shepherd
October 22nd, 2009 11:53 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
October 22nd, 2009 10:07 AM