Open Thread

NB Staff
September 23rd, 2009 11:28 AM

Obama Speeches: The 'I's Have It -- Nearly 1,200 Times

Sunday marathon reinforces president's focus on self while the media ignore it.
Dan Gainor
September 23rd, 2009 10:38 AM

Mythbuster: Calling the President Hitler Isn't Inciting Assassination

Since the Tea Parties began and the anti-government sentiment boiled over into town hall meeting protests, a consistent media meme has been that some of the signs present as well as the rhetoric have been inciting violence against Barack Obama.As my colleague Geoffrey Dickens previously reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews Tuesday actually warned talk radio hosts that they would pay if anything…
Noel Sheppard
September 23rd, 2009 10:36 AM

It Has Come to This

Get Everything. Pay Nothing. The sign of our times.
Dan Kennedy
September 23rd, 2009 10:32 AM

Cafferty: When DeLay Goes to Prison They Can Show His Dance Video

In today's "When Are You Going to Realize the Democrats Control Congress?" moment, CNN's Jack Cafferty attacked Tom DeLay Tuesday in a segment that had absolutely nothing to do with the former House Majority Leader.In fact, his piece during the 4PM installment of the "Situation Room" dealt with whether it was more important for a president to be liked or feared outside the country.Unfortunately…
Noel Sheppard
September 23rd, 2009 9:41 AM

Audio: FCC's Diversity Czar: 'White People' Need to be Forced to 'Step

One Giant Censorship Step Down For Personkind Mark Lloyd is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Chief Diversity Officer, a.k.a. the Diversity Czar. And he has in a recently discovered bit of archive audio goodness detailed his rather disturbing perspective on race, power and the American system.(Audio located below the fold, courtesy of…
Seton Motley
September 23rd, 2009 8:38 AM

ABC Notices Obama Administration's Effort to Suppress Criticism of Oba

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to go to the Senate floor on Tuesday to call out the Obama administration for using the full power of a federal regulatory agency to suppress free speech -- specifically, to silence Humana's predictions about the impact of proposed ObamaCare cuts to the Medicare Advantage program -- led ABC, but not CBS or NBC, to air a story on the “gag order…
Brent Baker
September 23rd, 2009 2:04 AM

Media Dozes While Social Security Is on the Verge of Negative Annual C

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air had the catch of the day yesterday when he revealed, based on Congressional Budget Office internal projections distributed to Congress during the summer, that the Social Security system will spend more cash than it takes in during the government's next fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. Read about it there, or here, because you won't see the establishment media…
Tom Blumer
September 23rd, 2009 1:28 AM

GMA Questions Appropriateness of 'Skimpy Bikini' PSA Yet Shows Clip Si

ABC repeatedly shows controversial breast cancer ads while expressing disapproval.
Carolyn Plocher
September 23rd, 2009 12:00 AM

Bozell Column: Omnipresent Obama

Brent Bozell
September 22nd, 2009 10:55 PM

Obama Disappoints NBC By 'Falling Short' on 'Climate Change,' Fret Exp

A lover's quarrel emerged Tuesday night in the media's love affair with President Barack Obama. He disappointed NBC by failing, at the UN's “Summit on Climate Change,” to go far enough on global warming. “President Obama's being accused of falling short on the environment today with the whole world watching,” Brian Williams teased NBC Nightly News. Williams framed his lead story through the prism…
Brent Baker
September 22nd, 2009 10:23 PM

CNN's Blitzer: 'Health Care Executives Making Billions at Your Expense

On Tuesday’s Situation Room, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer used a left-wing talking point on the health care debate during a brief about a web ad made by comedian Will Ferrell and other celebrities: “One of the most famous comedians joins some of your favorite actors to promote health care reform. So why are they defending health care...executives making billions of dollars at your expense?” [audio…
Matthew Balan
September 22nd, 2009 6:51 PM

Matthews Warns Talk Radio 'Gonna Pay' If Any Anti-Obama Violence

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's "Hardball," ominously warned that the "activists on the radio," are "gonna pay," if "we have violence in this country against our president of any form," for having "encouraged the craziness." Matthews made that charge in a segment, with NBC News' Chuck Todd and the Politico, that began by the MSNBC host wondering if the GOP was "jumping the shark," with "these crazy…
Geoffrey Dickens
September 22nd, 2009 6:13 PM

Conservative Blogosphere Wins Again, White House Issues New NEA Guidel

As the Obama-loving media continue to abdicate their journalistic responsibilities in order to blindly support the President's agenda, the conservative blogosphere has for the third time in as many weeks uncovered dirty little secrets that have precipitated immediate action from the White House or entities close to it.In response to revelations published Monday by Big Hollywood, the Obama…
Noel Sheppard
September 22nd, 2009 5:30 PM