Saturday Sports Open Thread

Wow, wow, wow! Was Friday exciting or what?After Western Kentucky took down Illinois Thursday, Dayton shocked West Virginia Friday followed by Wisconsin felling FSU and Cleveland State dunking Wake Forest.How are YOUR brackets doing?Some really great games today:
NB Staff
March 21st, 2009 10:45 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
March 21st, 2009 10:35 AM

Time Celebrates Arianna Huffington, Internet 'Oracle

Time magazine celebrated Arianna Huffington, the new queen of the left-wing blogosphere, as "The Web’s New Oracle." (The Webster's dictionary definition for oracle is ""a person (or a priestess of ancient Greece) through whom a deity is believed to speak," or "a person giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions." Despite the Huffington Post’s reputation for rabid left-wing celebrity hate…
Tim Graham
March 21st, 2009 10:13 AM

Hypocritical Olbermann Maligns Hume for Using 'Lunatic-Fringe' MRC

The Media Research Center's annual “DisHonors Awards,” held Thursday night, furnished MSNBC's Keith Olbermann with comments to ridicule, but his rants exposed his own hypocrisy. As Brit Hume accepted our “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” he thanked the MRC for providing information he could use, leading Olbermann to denounce Hume at the top of Friday's Countdown: “Brit Hume's…
Brent Baker
March 21st, 2009 9:10 AM

NYTimes' Cooper Somehow Misses Obama 'Special Olympics' Jab

All day Friday the newspapers, TV stations, radio, and the Internet were abuzz with Barack Obama's failed joke about the Special Olympics Thursday night on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. In shades of John Kerry's failed joke about the unschooled being "stuck in Iraq," the president's apologists said he was merely joking and didn't mean to say anything disparaging about people with developmental…
Warner Todd Huston
March 21st, 2009 6:00 AM

Bozell Column: 'South Park' vs. Purity

Brent Bozell
March 20th, 2009 9:45 PM

CNBC Host Accuses Dem Congressman of ‘Witch Huntery’ on AIG Retroa

For the second day in a row, CNBC "Squawk on the Street" co-host Mark Haines took on a Democratic congressman over the issue that American International Group (AIG) paid out too much in bonuses for a company that received federal bailout money. On March 19, Haines took on alleged tax cheat Charles Rangel, questioning whether or not he should be dictating tax policy while the House Ethics…
Jeff Poor
March 20th, 2009 7:09 PM

Highlights of Mark Levin's Humor at MRC's 2009 Gala and DisHonors Awar

Ken Shepherd
March 20th, 2009 6:16 PM

Andrew Breitbart: Chris Matthews Nothing More Than a Reality TV Star

Andrew Breitbart, the founding editor of the conservative Big Hollywood blog, described MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews as a reality TV star trying to keep his short-lived 1990s celebrity status alive.BREITBART: Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann are basically Gary Busey and Jeff Conway.[...]BREITBART: My friend's a Beverly Hills psychiatrist who deals with the neuroses of the stars every…
NB Staff
March 20th, 2009 6:07 PM

ABC's Diane Sawyer Presses Carville on 'Mixing Messages,' Leno Joke

On Friday's "Good Morning America," co-host Diane Sawyer actually provided some skepticism about the actions of the Obama administration over the last week and wondered if the White House has "been knocked off its stride this week." This piece was GMA's third segment of the day on the controversy the President created on Thursday when he told "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno that his bowling skills…
Scott Whitlock
March 20th, 2009 5:06 PM

Brit Hume Accepts William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence

NB Staff
March 20th, 2009 4:55 PM

Adventures in Context-ripping; WaPo's Seizes on Joe the Plumber 'Horny

As if out to prove our point about media bias, the Washington Post's Mary Ann Akers seized on a one-liner by Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher made last night at the MRC Gala and DisHonors Awards. Wurzelbacher, accepting the "Obamagasm Award" on behalf of ABC's Bill Weir, made a crack playing off the orgasmic delight that Chris Matthews and others in the media expressed after watching then-candidate…
Ken Shepherd
March 20th, 2009 4:26 PM

Weekend Captionfest

Pres. Obama and Jay Leno share a laugh on the Tonight Show, March 19, 2009. Photo Reuters/Larry Downing
NB Staff
March 20th, 2009 4:12 PM

MSNBC: AIG Saga Could Get Out of Control Like Schiavo Story

Afraid that the AIG executive bonus bailout just may be the demise of the Democratic Party, MSNBC’s Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd trivialized the death of Terry Schiavo by suggesting the fight over Schiavo’s life was the demise of the Republican party. Host Andrea Mitchell, Gene Robinson, and Chuck Todd were discussing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s survival of the AIG scandal…
Erin R. Brown
March 20th, 2009 4:09 PM