NFL Wild Card Sunday Open Thread

First, how 'bout Joe Concha absolutely pegging the first game score yesterday: Cards 30, Falcons 24? Nice job, Joe.Second, anybody want to talk about the horrid officiating in the Bolts-Colts game? Almost started a fight in my house...how 'bout yours?Below the fold, Joe returns to preview Wild Card Deux:
NB Staff
January 4th, 2009 10:52 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
January 4th, 2009 10:39 AM

What Rathergate? WaPo Lauds Credibility of 60 Minutes (Now Working wit

Tim Graham
January 4th, 2009 9:26 AM

CNN Places Sarah Palin With 2008's Criminals, Sex Addicts, and the Cor

**UPDATE** CNN Removes Palin From Criminals List Showing they have no sense of morality, no grasp of corruption and no understanding of what defines a criminal, CNN gives us another one of those ubiquitous year in review stories, this one titled "Politicians who fell from grace in 2008." In this one, CNN has decided to reveal for us their top eight politicians that found 2008 to be a "career-…
Warner Todd Huston
January 4th, 2009 7:06 AM

Saturday Night Comedy Video Open Thread

Tonight's Comedy Video Open Thread will feature only your recommendations. Readers are encouraged to submit suggestions to Noel and Warner via PM or EM (nsheppard@newsbusters.org, igcolonel@hotmail.com).Our first offering comes from NBer R D Helm:
NB Staff
January 3rd, 2009 8:27 PM

HuffPo: Gore Should Apologize for Spreading Climate Hysteria

Did you ever in your wildest dreams imagine seeing an article at the liberal website the Huffington Post that not only refuted the anthropogenic global warming myth, but also asked Nobel Laureate Al Gore to apologize for the climate hysteria he's caused?No...neither did I.Unfortunately, Harold Ambler's "Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted" wasn't featured on HuffPo's home page when it was published late…
Noel Sheppard
January 3rd, 2009 5:29 PM

Flashback: E Magazine Predicted Winter's Demise Last January

If media could be found legally liable for worsening the current economic crisis, mightn't they be similarly prosecuted for exaggerating anthropogenic global warming if it leads citizens, companies, and governments to waste money solving a problem that doesn't exist?  Consider if you will a January 2008 cover story by E magazine which predicted the end of winter as we know it.Given the often…
Noel Sheppard
January 3rd, 2009 2:58 PM

Film Critic: USA Is Nazi Germany, Iraqi Insurgents Are Defiant Jews

How would you like to wake up New Year's day to read an opinion piece in your paper's entertainment section equating the United States of America to Nazi Germany and depicting Iraqi insurgents as being akin to a little known group of Polish Jews who rescued over a thousand people from Hitler's concentration camps?That's a great way to start the New Year, dontcha think?Well, the good folks at the…
Noel Sheppard
January 3rd, 2009 2:09 PM

Reuters: Lowering Expectations for Obama

Reuters ran a little flak for Barack Obama trying to help dull the outrageous expectations placed on The One by his irrationally exuberant adherents in theirs headlined "Congress faces historic challenges" -- As if no other Congress has faced "historic challenges" before? Reuters assures us, though, that times are so bad that we should not expect Obama to live up to any of his outlandish promises…
Warner Todd Huston
January 3rd, 2009 1:15 PM

Will Media Report Reid Pressuring Blago Not To Pick Black Senators

Imagine for a moment the Senate was currently controlled by Republicans, and the white male majority leader advised Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich not to pick a black candidate to fill president-elect Barack Obama's vacated seat instead pressuring the governor to choose between two white candidates, do you think this would get some media attention?Probably every hour on the hour until the white…
Noel Sheppard
January 3rd, 2009 12:43 PM

Saturday Sports Open Thread

Before we get to today's games, how 'bout them Utes? Does last night's stunning and decisive victory of 'Bama by Utah make it clear to even the staunchest supporters of the BCS that this system doesn't work, and only a playoff can really determine who the top team in the nation is? (BTW: we knew the Utes had an offense, but did anyone think they could hold the Tide to 17 points?)On to today's…
NB Staff
January 3rd, 2009 11:45 AM

Open Thread

NB Staff
January 3rd, 2009 11:34 AM

WaPo Shocker: Conservatives Think Obama 'Advisers Are Alarmingly Liber

Stop the presses.  After an exhaustive investigation, the Washington Post has exclusively learned that "some" conservatives believe that "some" advisers to Barack Obama are too liberal.  The newspaper's Web site yesterday included the article, "Obama's Team Rankles the Right: To Some Conservatives, Advisers Are Alarmingly Liberal."  The piece begins:To some staunch conservatives watching…
Mike Bates
January 3rd, 2009 10:14 AM

HuffPo Hugs a Domestic Terrorist: Bill Ayers Has a Column at Huffingto

How do you elaborate on a headline like this? (HT Hot Air Headlines)The mainstreaming of a domestic terrorist continues apace. Of course, Huffington Post isn't "mainstream" in any real sense, but is considered as such by out-of-touch Old Media, which (post-election, of course) has frequently feted the 1970s Pentagon bomber. Here's the Huffington Post URL in case you wish to visit (I'd rather not…
Tom Blumer
January 3rd, 2009 8:59 AM