Morning Show Anchors Marvel At Obama's Fly Swat

The common, everyday act of swatting a bug is something that happens countless times a day at picnics and ball games across the country, especially during the summer, but when Barack Obama was caught on tape by CNBC's cameras doing it, the fawning liberal press couldn't contain their excitement. All three broadcast network morning shows, on Wednesday, praised the presidential kill as they were…
Geoffrey Dickens

Obama Supports Defense of Marriage Act … but You Wouldn’t Know It

The Obama Administration's Justice Department threw a curve ball at the same-sex marriage movement last week, filing a 54 page-brief on Thursday in support of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. The Washington Times reported on June 16 that "Gay activists are fuming ... it represents a break in President Obama's campaign promise to repeal the 1996 legislation. The Justice brief upholding DOMA was…
Zoe Ortiz

The Incredible Disappearing Nobel Prize-Winner

North Korea imprisons his employees, but Al Gore doesn't seem inconvenienced.
Dan Kennedy

He's No Eliot Spitzer; ABC, CBS and NBC All Brand John Ensign a 'Repub

All three broadcast network morning shows on Wednesday made a point of labeling Nevada Senator John Ensign as a “Republican” after the Senator came forward last night to admit having an extramarital affair last year. NBC, which refrained for days from calling New York Governor Eliot Spitzer a “Democrat” after his relationship with a prostitute was exposed, called Ensign a “conservative…
Rich Noyes

Open Thread

NB Staff

Global Warmist Champion: 'Think Twice About Retiring To Florida

ABC Intern: Um, Mr. Champion, it's the head of the Florida Chamber of Commerce on the line for you, and he, uh, doesn't sound too happy.Sam Champion: Tell him to go soak his head.That apocryphal bit of dialogue might not be too far off the mark.  On today's GMA Champion warned Americans that "if you're thinking of retiring in Florida, think twice."  The ABC meteorologist made his dire suggestion…
Mark Finkelstein

Today Show: Don’t Stay Together for the Kids

Catherine Maggio

ABC Isn't First: NBC Hosted Prime-Time Clinton Health-Care Special in

Tim Graham

Olbermann: 'Neocon' May Be ‘Code’ for ‘Stupidity’ and ‘Indif

On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann slammed Jonah Goldberg of the National Review during the show’s "Worst Person in the World" segment because Goldberg complained about the treatment of neoconservatives by liberals, as the National Review Online editor recently charged that "mainstream liberalism and other outposts of paranoid Bush hatred have portrayed neoconservatives –…
Brad Wilmouth

ABC to Air Obama Health Special, Former ABC Staffer Runs Health Commun

ABC has made the unprecedented move of giving prime-time programing air time to President Barack Obama for a health care reform special to be aired next week. Perhaps it is not too surprising that Obama has landed himself some prime viewing time on ABC. After all, former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass is now the Director of Communications for the Obama White House Office of Health Reform.…
Warner Todd Huston

Name That Party: Dem Scandal, No Party Mention/GOP Scandal, Party Ment

And now another episode of Name That Party where the news customer reads a story and tries his darndest to discern from what party a scandal plagued politician hails. We have many times said that one of the main rules of the Name That Party parlor game is that if the Old Media is talking about a troubled Democrat, often times the pol's party is either not mentioned at all or is buried way down in…
Warner Todd Huston

Obama Supports Defense of Marriage Act … but You Wouldn't Know It

'Obama folks have gotten to the mainstream media,' according to gay activist.
Zoe Ortiz

'Today Show': Don't Stay Together for the Kids

NBC guest, ignoring evidence, suggests divorce is sometimes better for children.
Catherine Maggio

Bozell Column: Cheering For a Massive Deficit

Brent Bozell