Chicago Sun-Times's Mitchell: 'Things That Only Oprah and God Can Make

In today's Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Mary Mitchell elevates talk show host Oprah Winfrey to a new level:You might not think you're going to miss Oprah, but you are. There are stories that only Oprah can do, and there are things that only Oprah and God can make happen.Mitchell's adulation for Oprah is shared by many in the mainstream media.  From early shows devoted to male-bashing through…
Mike Bates

Savannah, Georgia CBS Affiliate Takes Political Correctness to Task in

Bill Cathcart, Clearing Away the PC Clutter Bill Cathcart, Vice President and General Manager for CBS affiliate WTOC in Savannah, Georgia, took to the airwaves on November 9th with a blistering video editorial excoriating the hold political correctness (PC) has on our society (video and transcript below the fold).It is certainly refreshing to hear…
Seton Motley

ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox

The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing ClimateGate scandal.Despite last Friday morning's bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists -- many with direct ties to the United Nations'…
Noel Sheppard

Olbermann Complains Media Focused on Beck Instead of His Astroturf Hea

Envy is a form of flattery, but don't tell MSNBC "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann. Olbermann, on his Nov. 23 broadcast, didn't stray from his usual shtick of character assaults and name-calling for his "Worst Person in the World" segment. But he did hint his feelings were hurt after he named Fox News host Glenn Beck the third place recipient in this "Worst Person" contest. "The bronze, to ‘…
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

Philbin Column: Iowa Parents Lose to Sex Ed Lobby

Matt Philbin

NBC Takes Up Kennedy vs. The Bishop, Implies Church is 'Crossing the L

Tim Graham

Tina Brown: Palin's Confidence Based On 'Total Ignorance

Tina Brown is the very avatar of elite MSM opinion.  So when the Daily Beast creator, late of the New Yorker and Vanity Fair, derides Sarah Palin as ignorant, it's safe to assume she's expressing a view harbored in many a liberal media breast.On today's Morning Joe, while admitting a grudging regard for her appeal, Brown claimed Palin's confidence is based on "total ignorance."Hosts Joe…
Mark Finkelstein

CBS Catches Up with Conservatives and Realizes Obama Has 'Credibility

Long after conservatives and the American people figured it out, CBS on Monday night came to the realization President Barack Obama has a “credibility” problem fueled by the “disconnect” between Obama's promise to reduce the deficit as he pushes for massive new spending. Back in August, the CBS Evening News denigrated the town hall questioners as “unruly protests,” but on Monday reporter Chip…
Brent Baker

G-Warming Promoter 'Dismayed and Deeply Shaken' by ClimateGate

One of the world's leading promoters of the anthropogenic global warming myth claimed Monday he is convinced the e-mail messages involved in the growing international scandal ClimateGate "are genuine," and he's "dismayed and deeply shaken by them." So said George Monbiot, a writer and environmental activist many consider to be Great Britain's Al Gore.Contrary to what newspapers like the New York…
Noel Sheppard

Chris Matthews Brow-Beats Catholic Bishop Over Abortion

MSNBC host lectures Thomas Tobin about Kennedy communion issue.
Colleen Raezler

CMI Commentary: Iowa Parents Lose to Sex Ed Lobby

Ames library will keep distributing sexually explicit teen magazine that politicizes adolescence.
Matt Philbin

Glenn Beck Skewers Scientists Involved In ClimateGate

Fox News's Glenn Beck took on the global warming e-mail scandal known as ClimateGate Monday, and really laid into all the high-profile scientists involved.As NewsBusters reported Friday, hacked e-mail messages to and from folks with direct access to the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show a concerted effort on the part of these powerful scientists to manipulate…
Noel Sheppard

Oprah Sells 'Sexually Charged' Show to HBO

Tim Graham