Low Rated Ed Schultz Engages in 'Psycho Talk

What do you do when your TV show is flopping in the ratings department? If you're Ed Schultz, you desperately attempt to draw attention to yourself by engaging in "Psycho Talk" which, ironically is a segment of MSNBC's The Ed Show that Schultz uses to supposedly demonstrate "Psycho Talk" from conservatives. However, take a look at the crazed Schultz in this video slamming Hugh Hewitt for stating…
P.J. Gladnick
June 13th, 2009 10:38 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
June 13th, 2009 10:31 AM

Rev. Wright Says He Meant to Say 'Them Zionists' Keep Him Away from Ob

Tim Graham
June 13th, 2009 7:30 AM

Sotomayor's Puerto Rican Legal Group Opposed All Abortion Restrictions

Tim Graham
June 13th, 2009 6:38 AM

Bozell Column: Will the FCC Press Hollywood

Brent Bozell
June 12th, 2009 10:08 PM

CNN Talking Head Panel Mostly Sides With Letterman versus Palin

[Update, 7:40 pm EDT: Audio and video from segment added.] Another discussion panel on CNN’s Campbell Brown program on Thursday leaned to the left, this time on the Letterman/Palin controversy. Air America’s Sam Seder defended the raunchy “joke” about one of the Palin daughters. VH-1’s Janell Snowden supported the host’s “job to make fun of people.” CNN analyst Jeff Toobin thought Bristol Palin…
Matthew Balan
June 12th, 2009 6:45 PM

Yahoo's 'Daytime In No Time' Bashes Palin and Prejean

This could be a world record: a news outlet on Friday thoroughly bashed two prominent conservative women -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Miss California Carrie Prejean -- in only two minutes.Two minutes.In a new online program Yahoo launched in May as a daytime TV recap for women on the go, "Daytime In No Time" host Nikki Boyer disgracefully attacked Palin and Prejean (video embedded below…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2009 5:15 PM

MSNBC'S Brzezinski Breaks Cover, Says Media's Palin Hatred 'Rabid

**UPDATED WITH VIDEO** This morning on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough broke the news that – are you sitting down? – the media are biased against Sarah Palin.The comic potential for this revelation is nearly unlimited.The Morning Joe Brew Crew provided some very interesting insight, however.  Scarborough led Brzezinski into talking about the insider’s view of the main-…
Mike Sargent
June 12th, 2009 5:14 PM

Weekend Captionfest

Pres. Obama speaks at the American Memorial in Normandy, June 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monisvais)
NB Staff
June 12th, 2009 4:06 PM

An Instructive Episode at What Remains of the Boston Globe

Some of us have speculated that many newsrooms in America are so hell-bent on maintaining their supposedly hallowed positions -- and that by their way of "thinking" they are exempt from the normal laws of economics -- that they will have be dragged kicking and screaming from their keyboards when the repo men come around to turn out the lights. This week's events at the Boston Globe give validity…
Tom Blumer
June 12th, 2009 2:20 PM

NYT's Paul Krugman: Conservative Media Laying Ground for Next Terror A

Friday's column by New York Times alleged economics columnist Paul Krugman, "The Big Hate," is a quintessential example of his modus operandi: Parrot the left-wing blog argument of the day in slightly varnished form in the august pages of the nation's most influential newspaper. The text box works as a topic sentence: "The conservative establishment and right-wing extremism." He warned that right…
Clay Waters
June 12th, 2009 1:27 PM

Today Show Defends Letterman’s 'Joke

Catherine Maggio
June 12th, 2009 12:55 PM

Bozell to Letterman: Apologize to Sarah Palin and Her Family

MRC President Brent Bozell appeared on FNC’s America’s Newsroom this morning to weigh in on CBS late night host David Letterman’s tasteless jokes about Sarah Palin’s teenage daughters. Bozell said Letterman’s explanation -- that he was really referring to Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, not the 14-year-old who actually went to Yankee Stadium with her mother -- was “worse than the joke.”Bozell…
NB Staff
June 12th, 2009 11:35 AM

NOW Bashes Limbaugh While Putting Letterman in Hall of Shame

In a fine example of liberal hypocrisy, the National Organization for Women placed "Late Show" host David Letterman in its Media Hall of Shame Thursday, and took the opportunity to bash conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.In its admonishment of Letterman's now infamous jokes about Sarah Palin and one of her daughters, NOW oddly felt the need to balance their indignation with a reference to an…
Noel Sheppard
June 12th, 2009 10:22 AM