Open Thread

NB Staff
June 3rd, 2009 10:28 AM

Reid Hasn't Read One of Sotomayor's Opinions, Media Mostly Mum

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) admitted Tuesday that he "[hasn't] read a single one" of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's opinions despite praising her as "the whole package."Not surprisingly, the Obama loving media gleefully reported the latter while almost completely ignoring the former.What a shock, huh?Here's how Reid on Tuesday responded to the questions: "Is there anything…
Noel Sheppard
June 3rd, 2009 10:09 AM

ABC Rues 'It's a Lot Easier to Make Cuts Than It is To Raise Taxes

Two weeks after ABC's Laura Marquez blamed California's budget deficit on an “unwillingness to raise taxes” tied to 1978's Proposition 13 “mandating an almost unachievable two-thirds vote by the legislature to raise taxes,” on Tuesday night she repeated herself as she lamented “education and social services continue to end up on the chopping block” because “it's a lot easier to make cuts than it…
Brent Baker
June 3rd, 2009 10:07 AM

Biased PolitiFact.com Covers for ACORN, Attacks Michele Bachmann

Matthew Vadum
June 3rd, 2009 10:03 AM

Inhofe: Senate Will Not Pass Cap-and-Trade

Oklahoma senator cites recent trend against global warming legislation; dismisses House efforts and claims EPA action to impose it can be stalled.
Jeff Poor
June 3rd, 2009 9:49 AM

'State-Run' Media of North Korea and USA Eerily Similar in Fawning Lea

Rush Limbaugh has recently begun referring to the mainstream media as the "state-run" media. Think he is exaggerating? Well, compare what we know to be the state-run coverage of the Korean Central News Agency of North Korea reporting on their Dear Leader with the coverage of Barack Obama by our own media and you decide. First let us take a look at Brian Willams gushing over Obama munching on M…
P.J. Gladnick
June 3rd, 2009 9:32 AM

MSNBC's Wolffe: Abortionist Murder Has 'Direct Link' to 'Kill Him' Cal

Tim Graham
June 3rd, 2009 7:24 AM

FNC's O'Reilly Interviews Liberal Attorney Who Witnessed Black Panther

On Friday’s The O’Reilly Factor on FNC, host Bill O’Reilly interviewed liberal civil rights attorney Bartle Bull about the Justice Department’s recent decision to drop charges against Black Panther members who engaged in voter intimidation in Philadelphia polling place last November. Bull – who worked for both Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter – was an eyewitness to some of the intimidation, and…
Brad Wilmouth
June 3rd, 2009 4:59 AM

Journo Award Goes to... Arianna Huffington

Well, I am just as shocked as Simon Dumenco over at AdvertisingAge.com is that the leading anti-journalist of our day, Arianna Huffington, was just awarded the Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award. I mean, Huffington a "journalist"? Come on, isn't that stretching things just a tad?Dumenco is flabbergasted that Huffington won this award even though she "thinks journalists should work for free…
Warner Todd Huston
June 3rd, 2009 1:50 AM

Kos Kids Back at it – Wishing Death upon Michelle Malkin

Wasn't it just a couple of days ago that the crew over at the Daily Kos was fretting about how conservatives as a whole are equally as complicit in the murder of George Tiller as the shooter himself?  And of the details being reported to better understand the background of the actual killer, Scott Roeder, doesn't one major detail involve the posts that he left on anti-abortion Web sites? With…
Rusty Weiss
June 3rd, 2009 12:16 AM

Bozell Column: A Pro-Life 'Jihad

Brent Bozell
June 2nd, 2009 11:03 PM

ABC and CBS Spike Muslim Convert's Politically-Motivated Murder of U.S

The networks, which saw the apparently politically-motivated murder of a Kansas doctor who performed late term abortions as a major story, haven't been so interested in a Muslim convert who specifically targeted and shot two Army privates outside a Little Rock recruiting office, killing one, William Long. None mentioned it on Monday night and on Tuesday evening, as all aired follow-up pieces on…
Brent Baker
June 2nd, 2009 10:55 PM

President Obama Rejects Brian Williams' Dig at Bush

In an interview excerpt aired on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, from the NBC News special, 'Inside the Obama White House,' set to air at 9 PM EDT/PDT tonight (Tuesday) and Wednesday, Brian Williams used President Barack Obama's upcoming speech to Muslims in Cairo to take a dig at former President George Bush, as he contended: “It's a speech that your predecessor perhaps could not have given…
Brent Baker
June 2nd, 2009 8:47 PM

Chicago Tribune Religion Reporter Wonders if Murder Is 'Inevitable' in

"Has the non-negotiable stance and rhetoric against abortion rights strayed from the Scripture’s call to choose life and led to a grave disrespect for life even inside our houses of worship?"So asks Chicago Tribune religion reporter/blogger Manya Brachear in a June 1 The Seeker blog post, headlined "Is abortion inevitable consequence of abortion debate?" It followed in the wake of the May 31…
Ken Shepherd
June 2nd, 2009 6:01 PM