NYT's Timothy Egan: Middle Class Too Easily 'Distracted' To Know Own B

Timothy Egan, liberal New York Times reporter turned ultra-liberal nytimes.com "Outposts" blogger, titled his Wednesday night entry "Working Class Zero," a condescending, stereotypically liberal attack on blue-collar folks too ignorant and easily "distracted" to fight for their own interests, which Egan defined as government-controlled health care. Egan was vexed that many middle-class Americans…
Clay Waters
September 17th, 2009 2:30 PM

87% of Employers to Reduce Benefits if Health Care Reform Increases Co

Will The MSM Notice? A Towers Perrin Survey came across the Business Wire on Reuters this morning stating that a majority of employers surveyed will reduce benefits resulting from the proposed Democrat Health Care Reform bill that is working its way through Congress if it increases costs.
Terry Trippany
September 17th, 2009 1:38 PM

Time Magazine Asks 'Is Glenn Beck Bad for America

As Glenn Beck's popularity and ratings increase, so does the attention he's getting from the Obama-loving media.To be sure, most of the recent articles and news reports have been scathing, especially after his comment on FNC's "Fox & Friends" this summer about President Obama being a racist.Yet, despite the headline, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?", Time magazine's David Von Drehle…
Noel Sheppard
September 17th, 2009 1:37 PM

Weekly Standard: Obama Honeymoon Not Over -- at Least at Washington Po

Brent Baker
September 17th, 2009 11:18 AM

Atlantic Mag Names Paul Krugman Most Influential Commentator

When you think of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a man who has been found by his own public editor to actually make up economic data when it fits his agenda, do you consider him to be the most influential commentator in America?Well, hold on to your chair, for the Atlantic magazine does.According to the Atlantic, Krugman is more influential than Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Glenn Beck,…
Noel Sheppard
September 17th, 2009 10:06 AM

Tasteless: Olbermann Guest Invokes 'Special-Needs' Children to Bash Pa

Keith Olbermann is not one to pass up an opportunity to attack anything that even hints at being right of center. The repugnant MSNBC host devoted some three-quarters of his Sept. 16 show to claim criticism of President Barack Obama had to have elements of racism, no matter how you sliced it. And therefore, those critics were all despicable human beings, end of story. However, he did manage to…
Jeff Poor
September 17th, 2009 9:58 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
September 17th, 2009 9:35 AM

NBC Invites On Radical Professor to Compare Joe Wilson's Two Words to

NBC spotlighted radical black Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson to rail against President Bush as a "clueless patrician" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and then Brian Williams threw those words in Bush's face. On Wednesday, they spotlighted Dyson’s vicious attack on Rep. Joe Wilson and other conservatives as comparable to terrorists, like the suicide attackers of 9/11. Matt Lauer didn’t…
Tim Graham
September 17th, 2009 8:46 AM

Miller Notes Gibson Quizzed Palin on Bush Doctrine, But Is Himself Obl

In light of the revelation that ABC News anchor Charles Gibson had not even heard of the recently revealed evidence of corruption by ACORN, comedian and FNC contributor Dennis Miller zinged Gibson as he alluded to the fact that the ABC anchor had famously quizzed Sarah Palin on her knowledge of the Bush doctrine during the 2008 campaign, but himself is now failing the test of keeping abreast of…
Brad Wilmouth
September 17th, 2009 4:39 AM

Greens Promote New Film 'The Age of Stupid

Tim Graham
September 16th, 2009 10:24 PM

NBC: 'Blunt' Carter 'Prompted Us to Reexamine Our Assumptions About Ra

An evening after trumpeting President Jimmy Carter's racism charge (“An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man”), NBC led Wednesday night with the “fallout” as Andrea Mitchell proposed that though “many thought” the “racial divisions” were “healed by the election of the first African-American President…
Brent Baker
September 16th, 2009 9:48 PM

RNC's Steele Rebukes CNN’s Blitzer on Race

RNC Chairman Michael Steele shot back at CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after the anchor tried to smear conservatives with racism on Wednesday’s Situation Room. The CNN anchor pointed out a racist sign at a Tea Party, and Steele replied, “Don’t hold up one person as an example of behavior by everyone.” The RNC chairman also rebuked Blitzer after the anchor pointed out the GOP’s dearth of minorities in…
Matthew Balan
September 16th, 2009 9:08 PM

Guardian Writer: If Obama Can't Defeat the Republican Headbangers, Our

It is a post-apocalyptic world. The oceans are a grayish brown, not blue. No green vegetation. In fact, no life on the planet at all. Just heat, wind, and dust. The movie on how this happened could be called Terminator 5: Rise of the Republicans.This is pretty much the scenario that Jonathan Freedland of the U.K. Guardian paints in his article laughably titled If Obama can't defeat the Republican…
P.J. Gladnick
September 16th, 2009 7:49 PM

Rep. Maxine Waters Wants Journalists to Interview ‘Teabaggers

Do Democrats actually believe referring to Tea Party attendees by a provocative sexual term will help bring the country together?And why would a member of Congress need journalists to find out what's on the minds of her constituents? Such questions seem quite important as more and more leftwing politicians refer to folks whose opinions they disagree with as "teabaggers." Most recent on…
Noel Sheppard
September 16th, 2009 6:29 PM