Weekend Captionfest

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) chats with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner before a hearing on AIG chaired by Frank on March 24, 2009.
NB Staff
March 27th, 2009 4:00 PM

On 'Today': Actor Ed Norton Compares His 'Earth Hour' to March On Selm

NBC's resident Queen of Green, Ann Curry, welcomed actor Ed Norton and Carter Roberts of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to come on Friday's "Today" show to champion their cause to combat "global climate change" by getting everyone to turn off their lights for an hour as a symbolic move that actor Norton compared to the march on Selma, Alabama. Co-anchor Curry called Norton's cause, "really cool,"…
Geoffrey Dickens
March 27th, 2009 3:40 PM

US News's Erbe: Opponents of Obama Speech at Notre Dame 'Closed-Minded

Just over a week after blasting Pope Benedict XVI as being “horrifically ignorant” on the issue of HIV/AIDS (and thus exposing her own ignorance on the matter), US News & World Report contributor editor and PBS host Bonnie Erbe (at right, courtesy of Zap2it) labeled Catholics who object to President Barack Obama’s upcoming commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame as “closed-minded…
Matthew Balan
March 27th, 2009 3:24 PM

NY Times: OK to Defend American Taliban, But Defending Big Tobacco Ver

It's enlightening to see what topics New York Times editors find disturbing and newsworthy and which ones they shrug off or ignore.New York's new senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, is a Democrat who is nonetheless under strong suspicions at the liberal Times for her support of gun rights and her previous representation of a white conservative district. On Friday's front page, she came under fire via a…
Clay Waters
March 27th, 2009 3:11 PM

HuffPost: 'God Bless Bill Maher

Tim Graham
March 27th, 2009 2:41 PM

Olbermann Attacks Congressman for Climate Change Skepticism, Using Mat

Another episode of MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," another angry rant about a conservative disagreeing with liberal agenda - how predictable. On the March 26 broadcast of "Countdown," Olbermann set his sights on Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, for suggesting that nature adapts to a changing climate - even when the changes predate the theory that man possessed the ability to change the…
Jeff Poor
March 27th, 2009 1:23 PM

Climate Change Skepticism Earns Congressman Olbermann's 'Worst

MSNBC host, citing material from left-wing blog, asks the Texas congressman to repeat his skepticism when 'the sun has just lit your neighbor's roof on fire.'
Jeff Poor
March 27th, 2009 1:22 PM

MSNBC’s Brewer on GOP Budget: We Interrupted Obama For This

Reacting to a 12:30PM EST Thursday press conference in which House Republicans unveiled an alternative budget plan to President Obama’s, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer seemed to be annoyed that the GOP interrupted coverage of the President’s virtual town hall meeting: "And moments ago, Republican leaders got together for a news conference. They said they would unveil what they called their alternative…
Kyle Drennen
March 27th, 2009 1:07 PM

NB's Bozell Comments on Rush's Ratings and the White House Attack Back

Spreading the WordMedia Research Center Founder and President and NewsBusters.org Publisher Brent Bozell issued the following statement on the meteoric rise in the ratings Rush Limbaugh has enjoyed since the inception of the Obama White House and the Democrats' all-out coordinated attack against him.As announced yesterday, audience numbers surged for Rush-carrying stations across the country,…
NB Staff
March 27th, 2009 12:56 PM

MSNBC's David Shuster Again Slams Rove; Obsesses Over Fox News

"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" host David Shuster on Thursday intensified his obsession with former top Bush aide Karl Rove and made, for the fourth time, the political operative the subject of his "Hypocrisy Watch" segment. He also continued his habit of pointing out that Rove is now a paid contributor of Fox News. After noting that the ex-White House aide attacked Barack Obama in an op-ed for the "…
Scott Whitlock
March 27th, 2009 12:53 PM

BMI's Dan Gainor on Fox & Friends About Emanuel and Freddie Mac

Matt Philbin
March 27th, 2009 12:50 PM

Enviro Wikipedia Assault on Human Achievement Hour

Environmentalists are leading a worldwide hour of shame and darkness on Saturday, March 28. Invented by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007, the annual event has people and government turning out lights as an expression of angst over human energy use and global warming. USA Today reports that one of New York City's symbols of human achievement, the Empire State Building, plans to shut its lights off…
Christine Hall
March 27th, 2009 11:07 AM

CMI's Colleen Raezler on NRA News About Mexican Drug War

Culture and Media Institute staff writer Colleen Raezler was in studio with Cam Edwards of NRA News on March 26 to discuss media coverage of the Mexican drug wars.Responding to Paul Helmke's, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, claim that the U.S. should adopt Mexican gun laws Raezler told Edwards: "The really funny thing is that Mexico has very strict gun laws but that's not…
Julia A. Seymour
March 27th, 2009 9:59 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
March 27th, 2009 9:39 AM