NBA's Charles Barkley Calls Fox News 'F***ed Up,' Prefers CNN

Former NBA star Charles Barkley followed up Monday's idiotic assertion that John McCain can only win the White House if he uses the race card by offering a rather vulgar opinion of Fox News Channel.According to Broadcasting & Cable, Barkley said, “I watch CNN, they’re not f***ed up like Fox.”A Fox spokesman shot back, "Charles is a shill for a Turner owned network."Honestly, folks, you can't…
Noel Sheppard

Higher Taxes Promote Eating the Rich

Former vice president is one of many who don't get that tax hikes hurt workers.
Dan Kennedy

MRC/NB's Motley on Fox News Discussing the LATimes Spiking Obama-Rashi

The Media Research Center's Director of Communications and NewsBusters.org Contributing Editor Seton Motley appeared on the Fox News Channel's America's Election HQ with Megyn Kelley to discuss the Los Angeles Times refusing to release a video of Illinois Democratic Senator and Presidential nominee Barack Obama attending the apparently anti-Israel going-away party for anti-Israel professor Rashid…
Seton Motley

Left, Media Try to Cook Up a New New Deal

BMI Staff

Left, Media Try to Cook Up a New New Deal

Attacks on capitalism, reverence for FDR bypass experts who say anti-market policies prolonged Great Depression.
Julia A. Seymour

WaPo Commemorates 79th Anniversary of 1929 Stock Market Crash

It's obvious The Washington Post's "Style" section is broadening it horizons beyond fashion, music, books and other fluff, plus of course - Howard Kurtz's media column and the comics. The editors of that section are tackling important events that changed history by commemorating them as milestones. The Post's Oct. 29 "Style" section allotted two-thirds of the front page to observing the 79th…
Jeff Poor

CNN's Campbell Brown Attacks Obama's 'Broken Promise' on Funding

On Tuesday's Election Center program, CNN anchor Campbell Brown criticized Barack Obama's decision earlier this year to break his November 2007 pledge to accept public financing of his presidential campaign: “For this last week, Senator Obama will be rolling in dough. His commercials, his get-out-the-vote effort, will, as the pundits have said, dwarf the McCain campaign's final push. But, in…
Matthew Balan

ABC's Claire Shipman Probes Voters for Racism: Is Obama 'Uppity

On Wednesday's "Good Morning America," reporter Claire Shipman used a test designed by a liberal professor to interrogate the supposedly unconscious racist views of a group of undecided voters. After taking the complicated quiz, which involved linking words with colors, Shipman grilled the men and women about whether negative advertising had changed their view of Senator Barack Obama. "Anyone…
Scott Whitlock

Whoopi Goldberg: Elisabeth Hasselbeck Gets the Most Death Threats

Which "View" co-host receives, on average, the most death threats? Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd coming from racially motivated individuals? Nope. Joy Behar coming from those evil right wingers? Nope. The correct answer is right-of-center co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck. This bombshell comes not from some anonymous "View" staffer, or Hasselbeck herself, but liberal co-host Whoopi Goldberg."The…
Justin McCarthy

Steve Forbes Out in Front of U.S. Media in Warning Over Fallout from W

Kevin Mooney

NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Even the Weather is Against McCain

NBC's Andrea Mitchell devoted virtually her entire story, on Wednesday's "Today" show, to jotting down all the negatives going against the McCain campaign including Obama's advantages in fundraising, ad time, the polls and even the weather as she passed along this omen: Still at a time when everything can be viewed as a sign of how things are going, they [McCain campaign] called off their midday…
Geoffrey Dickens

Stephanopoulos Notes McCain's Dramatic Gain on Economic Issues

ABC correspondent reports GOP presidential candidate improves on economy in ABC/WaPo poll, says Democrats must win on taxes.
Jeff Poor

Teaming Up With the Washington Examiner

I've dropped a few hints here and there about a new project that I have been working on but now I can finally put it all on the table.Starting November 10th, I will be working with the Washington Examiner to help take its web site to the next level through a managing editor position within the paper.I will still be continuing my efforts here at NB, however. To help ensure NB readers get the hard-…
Matthew Sheffield

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: the polls are tightening.Gallup calls it Obama by two. Rasmussen says Obama by three.Do we have a horse race, ladies and gentlemen? If so, what's responsible for McCain's surge? Is it Joe the Plumber, and all the information concerning Obama's socialist, redistribution of wealth ideas? Or is something else in play?
NB Staff