Katie Couric Paints Gov. Jindal, State of Louisiana As Foes of 'Scient

"Well, the saints might go marching into New Orleans, but the scientists are marching right on out. A group of more than two thousand biologists have decided NOT to hold their 2011 annual meeting in the Big Easy," "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric noted at the open of her  February 18 video blog entry. Couric proceeded to turn a biologists convention's PR stunt into evidence that Gov. Bobby…
Ken Shepherd
February 19th, 2009 12:30 PM

Journalists Insist Media-Obama Revolving Door Due to Economy, Not Bias

In one of the most comical Politico stories I have ever encountered, several prominent journalists insisted that the revolving door between the media and liberal Democrats, especially Team Obama, is not a symptom of bias. Instead, they blamed the trend on the economy:In three months since Election Day, at least a half-dozen prominent journalists have taken jobs working for the federal government…
Stephen Gutowski
February 19th, 2009 12:03 PM

CNN/HLN Anchor A.J. Hammer 'Dares to Ask' If Bristol Palin's 'Glamoriz

Tim Graham
February 19th, 2009 12:00 PM

ABC Frets That NY Post Comic Could Harm 'Post-racial Glow' of Obama

"Good Morning America" reporter David Wright on Thursday worried that a comic strip appearing in yesterday's New York Post could harm the "post racial glow" that America has been enjoying since Barack Obama's inauguration. Wright recounted the outrage expressed by the Reverend Al Sharpton and others over an editorial cartoon depicting a chimp shot by police and connecting it to the just passed…
Scott Whitlock
February 19th, 2009 11:51 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
February 19th, 2009 10:18 AM

Bozell Column: We're Not All Socialists

Brent Bozell
February 19th, 2009 9:17 AM

Kmiec in Chicago Trib: GOP Shows 'No Interest in Family, Work or Neigh

For the Chicago Tribune, Romney supporter turned Obama man Douglas Kmiec indulged in quite a litany of name-calling, finger pointing and demagoguery against the GOP that would have been amazing from the same man only one year ago. Hopefully questioning "The Death of the GOP," Kmiec has shown that he no longer cares much how he is viewed, going full Democrat Partisan at this point.In his Tribune…
Warner Todd Huston
February 19th, 2009 6:42 AM

Matthews Suggests Water-Boarding Libby to Get Truth About Cheney's Mis

In a Wednesday segment on worries President Obama, in not ruling out renditions and water-boarding, may be “slipping back into the dirty old ways” of “torture” supposedly employed by the Bush administration, Hardball host Chris Matthews blurted out: “Do you think if we water-boarded Lewis 'Scooter' Libby he'd tell us the role that the Vice President played in the outing of Joseph Wilson's wife?”…
Brent Baker
February 19th, 2009 12:48 AM

Cleveland Plain Dealer's 'Housing Experts': Two Community Organizers a

So where did the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Sabrina Eaton go for opinions on what Michelle Malkin earlier today called "the massive mortgage entitlement campaign launched by President Barack Obama"? Why, they went to "housing experts," of course. But the people she quoted aren't builders, realtors, mortgage lenders, mortgage brokers, or economists. Nor, based on the area's results, are they experts…
Tom Blumer
February 19th, 2009 12:30 AM

'The View' Repeats Media Myths About Catholic Church

Whoopi Goldberg asserts 'intolerance' is the greatest sin.
Matthew Balan
February 19th, 2009 12:00 AM

Maureen Dowd: Bush Didn't 'Want to Add a Marc Rich Blot' With Libby Pa

Maureen Dowd's New York Times opinion piece yesterday was "Cheney and the Goat Devil."  The mainstream media are reveling in the purported falling out between former President George Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.  Supposedly the two disagreed over granting Cheney's previous chief of staff, Scooter Libby, a pardon.  Dowd joins in the fun:There were clues in the last couple of years…
Mike Bates
February 18th, 2009 8:28 PM

The View Repeats Media Myths About Catholic Church; Labels 'Intoleranc

A discussion on The View on Wednesday about sin quickly devolved as the hosts reiterated common media myths about the Catholic Church and its teachings. Elisabeth Hasselbeck read a bogus list of seven “new” sins that the Vatican supposedly came up with, while Joy Behar misrepresented the Catholic Church’s teachings on papal infallibility. When Barbara Walters later asked what the “biggest sin”…
Matthew Balan
February 18th, 2009 6:45 PM

Matthews Dares GOP Guest: 'Say Something Nasty About Rush Limbaugh

Chris Matthews is so obsessed with Rush Limbaugh's influence within the Republican Party, that he repeatedly dared, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," GOP strategist Todd Harris to speak ill of the radio talk show host as he mockingly challenged: "Would you live in a country where he wrote the Constitution?...Would you live in a country where he wrote our rights?...Say something nasty about Rush…
Geoffrey Dickens
February 18th, 2009 6:07 PM

CBS Praises Big Government, Offers No Opposing View

On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid described Barack Obama’s signing of the massive "stimulus" spending bill into law: "After a mere four weeks in office, the President today signed what he called ‘the most sweeping economic recovery plan in American history’...A new law that he described as a new beginning...In Missouri, the reaction was instantaneous. As the bill was signed,…
Kyle Drennen
February 18th, 2009 5:49 PM