Flighty Celebs at the White House Party: Bennifer, Ashton and Demi, Wh

The White House Correspondents Dinner has become quite an occasion for Hollywood’s flightiest celebrities to bring their famous (or merely semi-famous) faces to the nation’s capital. WHC Insider has a list. For example, Fox News landed Chace Crawford – of the CW show Gossip Girl – and to balance out up and coming with down and going, they have...Matthew Modine. (Yes, the crazy liberal guy.) They…
Tim Graham
May 9th, 2009 3:01 PM

Olbermann Again Channels Media Matters, Calls For CBSer's Firing

Keith Olbermann, who in March scolded Fox News's Brit Hume for admitting that he often used information provided by the Media Research Center in his "Special Report" program, has once again channeled material taken directly from the far-left, George Soros funded, Clinton front-group Media Matters for America.Even better, the story was actually precipitated by an article read on the air Friday…
Noel Sheppard
May 9th, 2009 1:44 PM

WaPo Music Critic Accuses Country Musicians of 'Narrowcasting' to Smal

If you're a country music fan you might be advised to avoid reading the Washington Post Style section when its writers tackle country music. It might make you want to put your boot up the critic's posterior.The latest nuisance is J. Freedom du Lac's analysis of why country music radio is so chock full of songs about small town America. To you and me, the answer might be obvious, but du Lac set…
Ken Shepherd
May 9th, 2009 12:02 PM

Letterman Finally Makes Obama Jokes -- All Bashing Bush

As NewsBusters reported Monday, comedians just can't bring themselves to poke fun at Barack Obama.This problem apparently is troubling CBS "Late Show" host David Letterman:The challenge for us here at the "Late Show": what are we going to do to make fun of the President, because that's what we do, we take cheap shots at the President. And, we didn't know what to do the first four years of Clinton…
Noel Sheppard
May 9th, 2009 11:03 AM

Return of High Oil Price Predictions: CNBC Segment Warns of $300 Oil

If you want to know when the economy is making a comeback, keep a watchful eye on the frequency of high oil and gas price reports in the news. Throughout 2007 and the first half of 2008, viewers were inundated with high gas and oil price reports on cable and broadcast news. But since hitting $147 back in July 2008, oil prices have plummeted into the low-$40 range mid-January and so has the…
Jeff Poor
May 9th, 2009 11:02 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
May 9th, 2009 10:00 AM

White House Correspondents Dinner Tonight: Wanda Sykes Will Never Matc

Tim Graham
May 9th, 2009 7:40 AM

On PBS, Charlie Rose Urges Carville to Praise Obama's Hope and Centris

Tim Graham
May 8th, 2009 11:09 PM

CNN Treats Radical Father Pfleger as Less Controversial Than TV Priest

Two Catholic priests who appeared as guests during back-to-back segments on Thursday’s No Bias, No Bull program were treated noticeably differently by CNN’s on-air personalities. Father Michael Pfleger of the Archdiocese of Chicago, who is best known for his racially-charged rhetoric against Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Democratic presidential race, as well as his defense of former Obama…
Matthew Balan
May 8th, 2009 6:41 PM

Chris Matthews Omits Party Label of Prudish Congressmen Calling for Vi

Chris Matthews just can't get it up. The Democratic Party label that is.On the May 8 "Hardball", the MSNBC anchor noted in his Political Sideshow segment that  Reps. Jim Moran (Va.) and Bob Brady (Pa.), are up in arms about erectile dysfunction drug ads running on television and are sponsoring legislation before the House to ban television stations from running ads for drugs like Viagra and…
Ken Shepherd
May 8th, 2009 6:14 PM

Obama's 'Small Biz Owner' No Stranger to Government Programs - or Dem

This morning's remarks by Barack Obama on the latest unemployment figures included the usual self congratulations we've come to expect from The One.  CBS News quotes him as saying:Such hard-working Americans are why I ran for President. They're the reason we've been working swiftly and aggressively across all fronts to turn this economy around; to jumpstart spending and hiring and create jobs…
Mike Bates
May 8th, 2009 5:11 PM

Weekend Captionfest

Associated Press photo of Pres. Barack Obama, May 6, 2009.
NB Staff
May 8th, 2009 5:00 PM

Whoopi Goldberg's Mother of a Gaffe: A Man Invented Mother's Day

Mother's Day was invented by Anna Jarvis, a West Virginian who, from 1907 to 1914 devoted considerable energy to establishing state and national holidays marking Mother's Day. Jarvis's inspiration, of course, was her deep devotion to her late mother. But don't tell Whoopi Goldberg that. [audio for download here]"I feel like Mother's Day is a man's holiday. You know, because it was put together, a…
Ken Shepherd
May 8th, 2009 4:39 PM

PBS NewsHour Slants Story on GOP, 'Too Conservative and Unwilling to L

Tim Graham
May 8th, 2009 4:18 PM