September

NB Staff

Coffee, News and S-bombs

Another guest's use of an expletive on the Today Show highlights the need to use time delays during live broadcasts.
Colleen Raezler

Salon: Palin Church One of the Most Extreme, But Jeremiah Wright Not

File this one under ‘Are you serious?' Salon writer Sarah Posner offers a scathing commentary on Sarah Palin's former church, the Wasilla Assembly of God.  In fact, the sub-title itself spells out her opinion in plain language. The church where Sarah Palin grew up and was baptized preaches some of the most extreme religious views in the nation. Yet it was only a few months ago that Posner ran…
Rusty Weiss

CNN's Chetry: 'Please Tell Me It's Not Lipstick Again

 On CNN's American Morning today, White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux reported on Barack Obama's campaigning in Virginia.  Afterwards, anchor Kiran Chetry had a question:CHETRY: All right. And Suzanne, what's on tap for the campaign today? And please tell me it's not lipstick again.MALVEAUX: Let's hope not. He's going to be in Norfolk, Virginia. That is in southeast Virginia, and it's home…
Mike Bates

MSNBC's New Star: Dems Have Never Fought the Culture War

Tim Graham

Couric Uses Sex Scandal to Illustrate Bush Admin 'Close' to Big Oil

CBS's Katie Couric on Wednesday night used an Interior Department sex and drug scandal to snidely frame a story around how “the Bush administration has long been accused of having too close a relationship with the oil industry. Just how close is documented in new reports just out today.” The ABC and NBC evening newscasts also ran full stories on three new reports from the Interior Department's…
Brent Baker

CNN’s Toobin: Palin ‘Very Extreme’ on Embryonic Stem Cell Resear

CNN’s senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin criticized Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s Election Center program for having a "very extreme" position on the issue of embryonic stem cell research: "By excluding that entire scientific method, it seems like you're an extremist, and frankly, her position is very extreme in the American spectrum. And I think that is the…
Matthew Balan

Matthews: Obama's 'Pig' Not Sexist but Palin’s 'Community Organizer

Chris Matthews spent the entirety of Wednesday night's "Hardball," debunking the idea that Barack Obama was referring to Sarah Palin, when he made his "lipstick on a pig," remark as the MSNBC host questioned if it "insults...everyone's intelligence?" But didn't Matthews insult his viewers' intelligence, on Monday, when he accused Palin and Rudy Giuliani of using coded racist language when they…
Geoffrey Dickens

Wednesday Funnies: Biden Says Hillary A Better VP Pick Than Him

Whether it's the suddenly surging McCain-Palin ticket, or Joe Biden doing what he does best -- shooting from the hip when he should be tight-lipped! -- the Democrat vice presidential nominee made a statement on the stump today that will make conservatives giggle, liberals cringe, and media members pray nobody sees it (transcript after the jump):
Noel Sheppard

CNN Labels Palin’s Environmental Stances as ‘Outside-the-Mainstrea

Two segments on Tuesday’s Election Center program, which were promoted by host Campbell Brown as having ‘no bias, no bull,’ actually tried to paint Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin as having a "very extreme" and "outside-the-mainstream" viewpoint on environmental issues, since on the issue of global warming, she’s "not one... who would attribute it to being man-made." Brown herself…
Matthew Balan

Brian Ross Investigates Angry Librarians Opposed to Palin

Wednesday's "Good Morning America," featured a one-sided segment on whether Sarah Palin, as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, tried to have some books banned from the town's library. Despite the fact that no one featured in the segment could cite a specific book, co-host Robin Roberts labeled the event "a battle that brought her toe-to-toe with a local librarian over which books were appropriate and…
Scott Whitlock

'Showbiz Tonight' Trumpets Hasselbeck 'Controversy

Is an implicitly mild anti-Michelle Obama comment worse than an overt anti-Catholic remark? According to the CNN Headline News show "Showbiz Tonight" on Monday September 8, they apparently are. While they ignored Joy Behar’s inflammatory remarks comparing the saints to mental patients, they were all over Elisabeth Hasselbeck for revealing that Michelle Obama provided a list of forbidden questions…
Justin McCarthy

Bozell Column: MSNBC's Doomed 'Experiment

Brent Bozell

Energy Analyst Forecasts $300 Oil by

Weeden & Co. expert says OPEC production cuts will send prices soaring.
Jeff Poor