Weekend Captionfest

\Pres. Obama reacts after Wanda Sykes says of Rush Limbaugh: "I hope his kidneys fail.  How about that?"  Washington Correspondents' Association dinner, May 9, 2009.
NB Staff
May 15th, 2009 5:00 PM

ABC Offers Four Days and Almost 20 Minutes of Fawning 'Angels & Demons

"Good Morning America" on Thursday capped off four days and nearly 20 minutes of fawning coverage of "Angels & Demons," the just-released film that features the Catholic Church participating in a brutal massacre. On Thursday, co-star Ayelet Zurer appeared to promote the movie, whose main villain turns out to be a priest who murdered the previous Pope and is also his son. And just like with…
Scott Whitlock
May 15th, 2009 3:47 PM

New York Times Bolsters Ecuador's $27-Billion Shake Down of Chevron

Story employs anti-oil company talking points blaming former energy giant Texaco for nation's woes.
Jeff Poor
May 15th, 2009 3:44 PM

Actor Claims to Newsweek His Evil-Priest Character Suggests Nothing An

Tim Graham
May 15th, 2009 3:14 PM

Resigned Miss California Director Claims National Organization for Mar

On May 15. Julie Chen, co-anchor of CBS' "The Early Show" glossed over a declaration from former Miss California co-executive director that the National Organization for Marriage is a hate group After her resignation from her Miss California position, Moakler went on the show in an exclusive interview to discuss her departure. Donald Trump's announcement in a press conference on May 13 that…
Iris Somberg
May 15th, 2009 2:34 PM

CNN's Kiran Chetry Uses Left's Spin on Rush Limbaugh and Wanda Sykes

On Friday’s American Morning, CNN anchor Kiran Chetry used the liberal talking points about Wanda Sykes and Rush Limbaugh, the two “Wingnuts of the Week,” according to John Avlon of The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s Huffington Post knock-off site. After playing clips from Sykes’ now-infamous routine which bashed the talk show host and wished him dead, Chetry replied, “So, some would say, wait, she’s…
Matthew Balan
May 15th, 2009 1:22 PM

SF Chronicle's Morford Defends Teen 'Sexting

There's a legitimate debate to be had about the media's coverage of the alleged epidemic of "sexting" -- teenagers sending pornographic or suggestive photos of themselves nude or semi-nude via cell phone.*After all, the media are well-known to glom onto a few anecdotes and drum up a "growing trend" without the benefit of empirical data to back up the alarming claim. That being said, San Francisco…
Ken Shepherd
May 15th, 2009 12:45 PM

NYT Makes EU And Other GDP Contractions Look Less Awful By Comparing T

I had no idea the financial situation at the New York Times was so desperate. Somebody, anybody -- Please spring for a $3.49 calculator like the one pictured at the far right for Times reporter Matthew Saltmarsh. And if you've got another few bucks, pass them on to the Times's home-page headline writers, so they can present something more understandable to US readers than what you see to the left…
Tom Blumer
May 15th, 2009 12:25 PM

CBS’s Smith Hits Obama From Left On Military Tribunals

On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith took a critical tone against the Obama administration’s decision to reinstate military tribunals for terror suspects: "President Obama will resume the controversial military tribunals for some terror suspects." Smith later discussed the decision with John Dickerson from Slate.com and wondered what the hard left would think: "Let's talk about this…
Kyle Drennen
May 15th, 2009 11:50 AM

NBC's Answer to Irresponsible College Student Borrowing: More Governme

Another day with Barack Obama as President of the United States, and another media report on how he is going to save us from ourselves. On NBC's May 14 "Nightly News," NBC identified a new problem facing society: credit card companies that use marketing gimmicks and low interest rates to lure in young borrowers. The solution, of course, is to continue the evolution toward a government that…
Jeff Poor
May 15th, 2009 11:26 AM

Chrysler Closes 789 Dealerships, Yet ABC, CBS and NBC All Feature Same

File under: “Insular world of the news media.” Chrysler announced plans to eliminate 789 Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep dealerships across the nation, yet on Thursday night ABC, CBS and NBC all showcased the very same upset Long Island dealer, Jim Anderer of Island Jeep in Lindenhurst, New York, while two other dealers also on the closing list were each featured on two of the three evening newscasts…
Brent Baker
May 15th, 2009 10:54 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
May 15th, 2009 10:16 AM

Gallup: More Americans Pro-life Than 'Pro-choice' for First Time; Fore

What a difference a radical, in your face, abortion-promoting president makes. Pro-lifers can savor this graphic for a few minutes before returning to the trenches to work on persuading what Gallup says is, for the first since it began surveying the question, a clear minority of Americans who are still euphemistically "pro-choice" on the question of abortion. I have posted it here because the…
Tom Blumer
May 15th, 2009 9:36 AM

Will The Networks Dare to Find Division Between Democrats

Tim Graham
May 15th, 2009 9:01 AM