CNN Guest Promotes Euro-style Pay Caps

Daily Beast's William Cohan suggests U.S. needs 'backbone' to limit executive compensation.
Julia A. Seymour
September 3rd, 2009 3:46 PM

CBS: Levi Johnston Claims May ‘Shatter’ Palin’s ‘Conservative

Teasing an upcoming segment on Thursday’s CBS Early Show about new attacks on Sarah Palin by the father of her grandson, Levi Johnston, co-host Maggie Rodriguez exclaimed: "And shocking allegations that could shatter former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s conservative family image. If she chooses to believe what Levi Johnston is saying." In the later report on Johnston’s Vanity Fair rant against…
Kyle Drennen
September 3rd, 2009 3:33 PM

WaPo Continues Relentless Attacks on McDonnell; Nine Stories in Five D

The Washington Post continued to attack Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell on Thursday, highlighting the Republican’s 1989 thesis three times and bringing the paper’s grand total to nine articles in five days. The Post, which recycled George Allen’s "macaca" moment 112 times in the 2006 campaign, featured this headline in the Metro section: "McDonnell's Thesis Is Relevant, Deeds Says…
Scott Whitlock
September 3rd, 2009 3:18 PM

Unwillingness to Have Obama in Classroom Symptom of Why Schoolchildren

Once again, one of the masters of the universe trotted out on MSNBC has discovered the cure to one of society's ills - more Obama. Daily Voice editor and CNBC contributor Keith Boykin waved off the reservations of some parents about President Barack Obama addressing their children in the classroom. Boykin appeared on MSNBC on Sept. 3 in a segment about the classroom controversy and added his…
Jeff Poor
September 3rd, 2009 3:17 PM

Just Abstain from CNN? Costello Favors Left-Wing Voices on Sex Educati

CNN’s Carol Costello report on Thursday’s American Morning about the end of abstinence-only sex education in North Carolina leaned to the left in the featured sound bites. Three clips came from those who endorsed “comprehensive” sex education, including one who worked for an organization that promotes abortion overseas, as opposed to only one clip from a conservative who favored the old program.…
Matthew Balan
September 3rd, 2009 3:04 PM

CBS/AP Story: Docs Concerned Terminally Ill May Prematurely Die Under

"U.K. Docs Worry Patients Dying Prematurely," reads a headline featured this afternoon in CBSNews.com's Top News menu. The link brings readers to a CBS/AP story with the same headline. But when one reads through the article, it becomes clear the matter at hand may have some bearing over a controversial issue in America's current health care reform debate (emphasis mine):A group of British doctors…
Ken Shepherd
September 3rd, 2009 2:58 PM

WaPo Blogger: Kennedy Grandkid Prayers for Socialism the 'Most Catholi

Anthony Stevens-Arroyo, the "Catholic America" blogger for the Newsweek-Washington Post "On Faith" blog, lauded the "most Catholic" section of the Ted Kennedy funeral Mass: the grandkids asking for nationalized health care. The overt political statements came from the mouths of children who paraded before the microphones at the Prayer of the Faithful. Each petition was worded with quotes from a…
Tim Graham
September 3rd, 2009 2:26 PM

Time's Brief History of the Deficit: Reagan Tax Cuts Bad, Clinton Tax

The September 7 edition of Time magazine features a brief article up front on "A Brief History of the U.S. Deficit." Writer Claire Suddath claims that the quadrupling of the deficit under Obama is somehow a good news/bad news story: The good news is that the Obama Administration has scaled back its estimate of this year's budget deficit to an estimated $1.58 trillion (down from $1.84 trillion in…
Tim Graham
September 3rd, 2009 12:23 PM

CNN's Borger: 'Republican PR About President Obama Being Big Governmen

On yesterday's The Situation Room, CNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger spoke with host Suzanne Malveaux about polling done on ObamaCare:MALVEAUX: Gloria, I want to start off with you.One thing that the polls were showing is that most Americans, they support this idea of this public option, but they also believe that the president wants the government to take over the health care system.…
Mike Bates
September 3rd, 2009 12:20 PM

Are You Ready For a TEA Party? Hank Williams Jr. Sure Is

A country boy can survive the Obama administration. Just ask Hank Williams, Jr.The country music artist --  best known to millions of Americans regardless of their musical taste for his "Are You Ready For Some Football?" theme to Monday Night Football -- was profiled yesterday by Bill Lynch of the Charleston [W.V.] Gazette (h/t my NB colleague Tim Graham).Lynch spent a considerable portion of his…
Ken Shepherd
September 3rd, 2009 12:01 PM

ABC Again Touts Toilet Paper-shunning Environmentalist; Downplays Libe

On Thursday’s Good Morning America, for the third time in two years, Sam Champion interviewed an extreme environmentalist who shunned toilet paper for a year as part of a project to be carbon neutral. Colin Beavan, also known as "No Impact Man," appeared on the show to promote a new documentary and book on his experience. This time, however, Champion downplayed the bizarre elements of Beavan’s…
Scott Whitlock
September 3rd, 2009 11:46 AM

Essay: The President Without a Country

"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President Barack Obama, June 2007 "America has been arrogant." - President Barack Obama "After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama "You might say that America is a Muslim nation."- President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009 Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president. I…
Pat Boone
September 3rd, 2009 10:59 AM

'Today' Touts Photo of 'Crying' Glacier as New Face of Global Warming

Move over Al Gore, NBC's Meredith Vieira and Natalie Morales have discovered the new face of global warming and it's a glacier. In the latest bit of goofy global warming nonsense Morales reported, on Thursday's "Today", that a photographer in Norway caught a picture of "what appears to be a face crying a river of tears as a glacier melts into the sea." To which "Today" co-host Vieira exclaimed, "…
Geoffrey Dickens
September 3rd, 2009 10:47 AM

Flashback 1991: Gephardt Called Bush's Speech to Students 'Paid Politi

As Barack Obama prepares a nationwide broadcast to America's students next Tuesday, it has been revealed that Democrats complained in 1991 when then President George H. W. Bush broadcast a speech from a Northwest Washington junior high school.In fact, the House Majority leader at the time, Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.), said "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising…
Noel Sheppard
September 3rd, 2009 10:45 AM