Obama's Transition Website Censoring Questions About Blagojevich

President-elect Barack Obama's transition website Change.gov is censoring questions offered by readers about disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.Although the "Open for Questions" page was launched Wednesday stating "The Obama-Biden Transition wants to hear from you," readers have been quick to shelter the president-elect from inquiries relating to Blago.  I guess this is change you can…
Noel Sheppard
December 11th, 2008 10:54 AM

'Nightly News' Finds Libraries 'Popular,' but Suffering from Economy

NBC News went out of its way this time to show how the American public relies on government Dec. 10 by focusing on the public library in it's "Hard Times" series. The broadcast examined the hardships public libraries are facing in the economic downturn - at a time when people are flocking to libraries instead of the local bookstore. "These tough economic times, as we have been saying, have…
Jeff Poor
December 11th, 2008 10:42 AM

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NB Staff
December 11th, 2008 10:32 AM

NBC Finds Libraries 'Popular,' but Suffering from Economy

'Nightly News' segment laments government cuts for library funding, includes a man crying over library closure.
Jeff Poor
December 11th, 2008 10:20 AM

Sobbing Jesse Jackson, Jr. Embraced Blagojevich at Surreal Hugfest Las

We've already seen how the media is covering up for Barack Obama to the extent of removing any information on the web that would show he met with Rod Blagojevich recently as chronicled by NewsBusters editor Tom Blumer. And now we have evidence that Jesse Jackson, Jr. "misspoke" when he claimed yesterday that the meeting he had with Monday Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was the first time the…
P.J. Gladnick
December 11th, 2008 10:17 AM

Oliver Stone Making Film About Hugo Chavez

How does a liberal, America-hating movie director follow-up a hit-piece on a sitting United States president?With an adoring documentary about one of our nation's greatest enemies of course.I mean, what else should Oliver Stone create as an encore for his box office failure "W" but a love letter to America-hating tyrant Hugo Chavez (as reported by Variety, h/t NBer Wilbur747, picture courtesy…
Noel Sheppard
December 11th, 2008 10:13 AM

Name That Party Parade: ABC's 'Faces of Political Scandal' Labels Most

A collection of "The Faces of Political Scandal," assembled by ABC News yesterday (HT to an e-mailer), once again demonstrates the media's relative reluctance to identify the membership of Democrats involved in scandal.Of the 14 politicians identified, seven are Democrats and seven are Republicans. Five of the seven GOP members are identified as such, while only two of the seven Democrats were…
Tom Blumer
December 11th, 2008 9:04 AM

Al Franken Creates 'Queen for a Day' YouTube Video for Minnesota Canva

Al Franken has discovered a new use for YouTube: uploading a video to that site in order to emotionally influence the Minnesota Canvassing Board to count the disputed absentee ballots in that state. Here is how Yid With Lid describes the Franken video:Looking to put more pressure on the canvassing board who will determine the fate of the absentee ballots, Minnesota Senate Candidate Al Franken …
P.J. Gladnick
December 11th, 2008 8:24 AM

I'll Say They Did! GMA Graphic: Governor's Family FUED

A simple typo, or has all the bleeping news out of Chicago liberated ABC to start using some salty language its own?   Check out the screengrab from this morning's Good Morning America.As correspondent Jim Avila came on to narrate a segment about Blago's wife Patty and the conflicts among her, her powerful Chicago pol father, and her husband, the screen graphic read, as you see, "GOVERNOR'S…
Mark Finkelstein
December 11th, 2008 7:51 AM

Howard Fineman: Obama Hermetically Sealed Off From Chicago Corruption

Corruption to the left of him. Corruption to the right of him. Corruption right in front of him. Yet in spite of all this, Howard Fineman of Newsweek maintains that Barack Obama has been somehow hermetically sealed off from Chicago corruption throughout his political career. Fineman is merely echoing the premise currently being promoted by much of the media in his Newsweek article about Illinois…
P.J. Gladnick
December 11th, 2008 7:04 AM

AP: 'America's Battered Image Among Muslims' All Bush's Fault -- But W

The Associated Press is as much as blaming the victim for the attack again with theirs headlined "Obama says he wants to 'reboot' America's battered image among Muslims." In this report we get the AP saying that the reason the Muslim world is mad at us is because of George W. Bush. But not a word is mentioned about why Bush might have been in a position of interacting so heavily with the Muslim…
Warner Todd Huston
December 11th, 2008 5:36 AM

CBS Serves Up Soft-Core Porn for Breakfast

The Early Show hosts laugh off celebrity nudity to promote their interviews.
Erin Brown
December 11th, 2008 12:00 AM

PBS's Smiley Tells Arianna of His Joy When the N.Y. Times Quotes the H

Tim Graham
December 10th, 2008 8:27 PM

Matthews to Ayers: 'I Agitate My Way, You Agitate Your Way

Chris Matthews invited Bill Ayers on Wednesday night's "Hardball," and actually confronted him about his bombing of Capitol Hill during his days as a member of the '60s terrorist group Weather Underground, as the former Capitol Hill police officer emotionally observed: "I was a Capitol policeman at the time, so I was one of the guys that could have been killed obviously at the time you put that,…
Geoffrey Dickens
December 10th, 2008 7:04 PM