Not So Undecided: Obama Voter Allowed to Ask Question

Remember those fake "undecided voters" during the Democrats' town hall debates last year?Looks like they're back. Turns out at least one of the questioners in Tuesday's presidential debate actually told event organizers that he would "most likely be voting for Obama" but was allowed to continue participate just the same.Townhall's Amanda Carpenter caught the admission from Oliver Clark, the man…
Matthew Sheffield

NewsBusted 2-08: The Age Factor

Topics in today's show: Democrats tell voters McCain may die in office, Detroit radio reporter gets fired for wearing Obama t-shirt to cover a rally, Kim Jong Il finally makes a public appearance, and Kathy Griffin sues website named after her.
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: irrational pessimism!Markets are now back to where they were in March 2003, and close to their lowest levels in more than a decade. A gentleman on CNBC just called this "irrational pessimism."Are we close to the bottom, or are prices irrelevant, and we're seeing a mad dash for cash?Finally, does anyone want to talk credit default swaps…
NB Staff

Will MSM Challenge Obama Assumption That Bill Ayers Was 'Rehabilitated

P.J. Gladnick

Larry King Kept Asking Michelle Obama: 'Attack Dog' Palin Doesn't Make

Michelle Obama was interviewed on CNN’s Larry King Live on Wednesday night, and while no one expects King to offer a hard-hitting interview, he seemed eager to underline Republican meanness.The theme was "how can you not be mad yet?" Network TV producers just plucked out Michelle's above-the-fray Clintonesque quote about people not liking the bickering in these hard times, but some Web sites…
Tim Graham

Under Obama, Unions Could Do To Rest of Economy What They Did to GM: W

Labor costs the Detroit Three substantially more per vehicle than it does the Japanese. Health care is the biggest chunk. GM, for instance spends $1,635 per vehicle on health care for active and retired workers in the U.S. Toyota pays nothing for retired workers - it has very few - and only $215 for active ones . . . Contract issues like work rules, line relief and holiday pay amount to $630 per…
Mark Finkelstein

'American Carol' Filmmakers NOT Proclaiming Conspiracy

Once again, we see the long knives sharpened against the right by employing innuendo and outright lies. This time it is against the movie "An American Carol." On Tuesday, I reported that there was some concern that ticket sales for the movie were being diverted to other movies at certain theaters across the country. But, I never said there was a "conspiracy" to do so. The filmmakers also…
Warner Todd Huston

Newest Left Attack on GOP: Rallies are 'Inflammatory' and 'Violent

For the last few days various groups like MoveOn.org, and the folks at Huffington Post, DailyKos and DemocraticUnderground have been beating the drum of a new theme to attempt to undermine the McCain campaign among the media. The newest claim from the extreme left is that McCain's focus on the Obama/Ayers connection is responsible for fostering "threats" and "violence" to be ginned up among…
Warner Todd Huston

Fox's Lying, Slacker Jesus

The people at Fox Entertainment clearly don't care one iota about offending the millions of Christians who see Jesus as the central figure in their hopes for eternal salvation. To them, God is just an empty punch line.
L. Brent Bozell III

Media Ignore Pro-Family Victory in McDonald's Boycott

The fast-food giant has withdrawn from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
Colleen Raezler

WaPo's Eli Saslow Offers Obama a Sugary Springfield Tale

Tim Graham

Gibson Cues Up Obama Refutation on Ayers But Demands McCain Justify To

For ABC's World News on Wednesday and Thursday, Charles Gibson conducted interviews with Barack Obama and John McCain aboard the ABC News bus, but on McCain's “line of attack” against Obama he shared Obama's annoyance (“Are you going to have to address that again?”) while he pushed McCain to justify the criticism: “You're comfortable that this should be a focus in the last days of the campaign?”…
Brent Baker

NYT Blogger Discovers Another 'Lifelong Republican

Attention all you liberal journalists out there, including Timothy Egan blogging at the New York Times! You really do need to come up with a better descriptive term than "lifelong Republican" which is the most obvious "tell" of all that the person in question is not quite what they claim they are. In the case of Egan, trying very hard to project "Republicans" as drifting away from John McCain, he…
P.J. Gladnick

Michelle Obama Enjoys Jon Stewart's Loving Liberal Interview

On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart interviewed Michelle Obama and insisted the Obama family has been "vetted about as much as a family can be vetted." Mrs. Obama insisted their Democratic primary opponents "dug through every piece of everything. If something was coming out, it would have come out." When Stewart asked if (if?) there was a "real…
Tim Graham