Weekend Captionfest

CIA Director Leon Panetta and Pres. Obama at the Central Intelligence Agency, April 20, 2009.
NB Staff

Soldier-slandering, Radical Left-wing Cartoonist Rall Laid Off

Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" -- was recently laid off. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article:NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy.“I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American…
Ken Shepherd

Chris Dodd Thanks CBS For Biased Coverage

On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked Democratic Senator Chris Dodd about efforts by Congress to pass legislation that would punish credit card companies for charging higher fees and interest rates: "Senator, yesterday President Obama says that he wants legislation to stop credit card abuses. This is something that you have been pushing for, for years. And I don't have to…
Kyle Drennen

MSM Ignore Obama DOJ Urging Court to Drop Iran Hostage Lawsuit That Im

While President Obama was extoling the virtues of wind power in an Earth Day speech, his Justice Department lawyers were attempting to scuttle a lawsuit filed in federal court against Iran by former U.S. embassy hostages. The lawsuit alleges that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage-takers who interrogated the captives. Two days after the story broke on the Associated…
Ken Shepherd

Did CNN's Paul Begala Mangle the Facts on Waterboarding History

Tim Graham

Open Thread

NB Staff

NBC's Brian Williams on '30 Rock':The Eliot Spitzer of TV News

"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams appeared in a brief cameo for Thursday night's edition of the sitcom "30 Rock" and spoofed himself as someone interested in trolling for anonymous sexual hook-ups. The scene revolved around characters "Jack Donaghy" (Alec Baldwin) and "Tracy Jordan" (Tracy Morgan), an actor on the show within the show. (The episode involved Baldwin's character, a network…
Scott Whitlock

'Conservative' David Brooks: Obama Running a 'Professional, Smoothly F

Let us give the Barack Obama administration credit. They have run a "professional, smoothly running operation" in setting David Brooks' mind right. Back in early March, Brooks demonstrated a bit of independence from the liberal party line in his role as "house conservative" for the New York Times with this outburst:Those of us who consider ourselves moderates — moderate-conservative, in my case…
P.J. Gladnick

Dennis Miller Quips: Impeach Prez If Chooses Losing L.A. Over Waterboa

On Wednesday’s The O’Reilly Factor, comedian and FNC contributor Dennis Miller quipped that any President who chose to let Los Angeles get attacked by terrorists instead of using information obtained from waterboarding should be "impeached because you’re crazy at that point." He also optimistically theorized that "I don't think Barack Obama is anywhere near crazy." Miller: "But if you're telling…
Brad Wilmouth

NewsBusted

NB Staff

Obamideal: Magazine Photoshops Prez Image for Cover, Is It Ethical

Warner Todd Huston

Biden's Approval Lower than Cheney's in 2001, Obama Below Reagan

CNN's Lou Dobbs on Thursday night highlighted how a new poll discovered Vice President Joe Biden is presently “less popular than Vice President Cheney was in July of 2001.” Indeed, a survey of 1,500 conducted for the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press to assess where President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Biden stand with the public as the administration's 100-day mark…
Brent Baker

Sebelius' Controversial Veto takes Back Seat to Stories about Bo Obama

Broadcast news, major papers barely mention Obama nominee's protection of late-term abortion procedures.
Iris Somberg

Obama's Oil Tale Wrong on Timing; Today's Government Would Have Stoppe

In addition to his abuse of the word "exploration" and his false claim that he has "often said" that he supports additional drilling for oil and natural gas within the U.S. and off its shores, President 'Prompter Barack Obama misstated the timing of his tale of a pioneering oil man by a "only" a century (picture at right is from "The Story of Oil in Pennsylvania").Beyond that, his fond recounting…
Tom Blumer