MRC VP Dan Gainor on FNC to Discuss Possible ACORN Fraud

MRC's Vice President for Business and Culture, Dan Gainor, appeared on Fox News Channel today to discuss a GOP Congressional Report that accused ACORN of political corruption and fraud. "Happening Now" host Jane Skinner asked: "Dan, boil it down into the simplest terms: what the main accusation is here." "Well, the main accusation is that they're breaking both election laws and tax laws…
Julia A. Seymour
July 23rd, 2009 3:37 PM

'The Secret Life of an American Teenager:' What a Great Show

Looking for a “great” television show that you can watch with the family? Then NBC’s “The Today Show” has a recommendation for you: “The Secret Life of the American Teenager!” Never mind that it’s about a pregnant fifteen-year-old. During the July 23 “Today Talk” host Kathie Lee Gifford and guest host Steve Schirripa were discussing the ABC family show “The Secret Life of an American Teenager,”…
Sarah Knoploh
July 23rd, 2009 2:19 PM

WaPo's Tom Shales: 'Barack Obama Still Seems Too Good to Be True

Tim Graham
July 23rd, 2009 1:32 PM

Stephanopoulos: ObamaCare 'Closer' After Presser; Gushes Obama 'Knows

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos giddily appraised President Obama during Thursday’s Good Morning America: “It’s clear, listening to the President last night, that he knows his stuff. He knows health care policy.” He also predicted that the passage of the Democrat’s health care “reform” plan was “closer” after the presser, despite his later admission that it had been delayed until after August.The…
Matthew Balan
July 23rd, 2009 1:07 PM

Two NJ Mayors Arrested in Major Bust, Party ID Ignored By AP

This morning, some 30 people were arrested in New Jersey, the fruit of a two-year federal investigation into a international money laundering scandal. Among those arrested were Democratic Mayors Peter Cammarano III (Hoboken) and Dennis Elwell (Secaucus), as well as Democratic deputy mayor of Jersey City Leona Beldini and Republican state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt. But if you only got your news…
Marie Mazzanti
July 23rd, 2009 12:58 PM

Just As Intended

'The Big Lie' and the gullible press.
Dan Kennedy
July 23rd, 2009 12:00 PM

Primetime Dud: Obama Disappoints with Long-Winded, Vague Press Confere

Broadcast nets could lose estimated $9 million; President took 41 minutes to answer only 11 questions that left liberal pundits discouraged.
Jeff Poor
July 23rd, 2009 11:28 AM

BMI's Gainor to Appear on FOX at 11:45 ET

Dan Gainor, vice president and T. Boone Pickens Fellow of the Business & Media Institute, will be appearing on FOX News Channel at 11:45 ET to discuss House GOP charges against ACORN.
Sarah Knoploh
July 23rd, 2009 10:57 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
July 23rd, 2009 9:56 AM

Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Arrest Report From Website

(UPDATE: The Boston Globe has now posted what it calls a redacted revised docket although it is described as a "police report" at the left side link on its site. And redacted it certainly is since it has redacted out almost the entire narrative section of the original report. To read the full highly revealing narrative, check out the original police report.) A little tip for anyone who gets…
P.J. Gladnick
July 23rd, 2009 7:45 AM

L.A.Times Still Calling it the ‘So-Called War on Terror

In the L.A. Times on July 22, writer Catherine Lyons again revealed a bit of her Bush Derangement Syndrome by calling the war on terror a “so-called war on terror.” What is with these people that simply cannot accept terms of reality? It’s like this every time they use the word terrorism, or “terrorism” as the Old Media so often terms it, and the war on terror. The Old Media simply refuses to…
Warner Todd Huston
July 23rd, 2009 7:05 AM

NBC's Snyderman: 'I Was Rooting for the President to Hit a Home Run

NBC's medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, was “rooting” for President Barack Obama to do well in selling his health care takeover during his Wednesday night press conference: “As a physician, you know, I felt like I understood the complexity of the problem. As an American citizen, I was rooting for the President to hit a home run.” On the 10 PM EDT Hardball an hour after Obama wrapped up…
Brent Baker
July 23rd, 2009 2:55 AM

NYT Shocker: 'Experts Dispute Some Points in Obama Health Care Talk

Shortly after Barack Obama finished his healthcare press conference Wednesday evening, the New York Times posted an article at its website refuting some of the President's arguments.Not only that, the Times chastized Obama for "claiming credit for not spending money that, under the policy he inherited from Mr. Bush, would never have been spent in the first place." Entitled "Experts Dispute Some…
Noel Sheppard
July 23rd, 2009 12:05 AM

Sen. DeMint Fires Back at Obama: 'President Obama has Lowered the Disc

President uses primetime press conference to complain about 'Waterloo' comments much cited by media.
Jeff Poor
July 22nd, 2009 11:40 PM