Weekend Sports Open Thread

My apologies, sports fans. Between Palin, DNC, RNC, and Gustav, I forgot this was the opening weekend of college football.See how screwed up my priorities are right now?Pick your sport, pick your team, and go at it. 
NB Staff

Former DNC Chair Laughs About Gustav's Timing to Hit N'Orleans

For those unfamiliar, Donald Fowler was the national chairman of the Democratic National Committee between 1995 and 1997.According to the video embedded right, Fowler, on a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the recently concluded Democratic National Convention, was joking with Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) about the timing of Hurricane Gustav potentially hitting New Orleans when the Republicans…
Noel Sheppard

It's 10 AM. A Phone Is Ringing. And Obama Has to Apologize for 'Hair T

It was more like 10 AM than 3 AM. Somewhere, a phone was ringing, to announce the news that John McCain had selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. And the immediate response of Barack Obama's operation was intemperate and inappropriate. Obama found himself apologizing, calling the reaction "hair trigger." He and Biden subsequently made the more gracious kind of comment that should have been…
Mark Finkelstein

Michelle Obama's 'Sacred' Pro-abort Quote Apparently a Sacrilege to Re

The Obama-infatuated media knows a quote to ignore when it hears one. That Barack Obama and the Democratic Party is in trouble on abortion is inarguable. Obama has been caught red-handed lying about his past positions and votes on Illinois' Born Alive Infant Protection Act laws, appearing indifferent as to when anyone wishing to eliminate their baby completes the task. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
Tom Blumer

WaPo's Obvious Palin-Biden Contrasts on Page

Tim Graham

Maher: Matthews and Olbermann 'Were Ready to Have Sex' w/ Obama

The media in general, and MSNBC in particular, are so far into the tank for Barack Obama that even the far-left Bill Maher, on his HBO show Friday night, recognized “there is a problem...with the media gushing over him too much.” Specifically, though he didn't name co-anchors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, Maher pointed to MSNBC's coverage following Obama's acceptance speech: “The coverage…
Brent Baker

Will Media Credit Bush If Gustav Doesn't Destroy New Orleans

Unlike three years ago, the good folks of New Orleans are busily preparing for a hurricane days before it is scheduled to arrive. This includes massive evacuations transpiring even though the storm is not supposed to hit until Monday.Assuming these preparations are successful, and Gustav powers the same punch as Katrina without causing the same devastation to life and property, will the White…
Noel Sheppard

O'Reilly on MSNBC Graphic: 'One of the Most Outrageous Things I've See

Dave Pierre

No Labels for Liberal Joe Biden, But for Sarah Palin

Just as my colleague Brent Baker found on Friday night, the big broadcast networks on Saturday morning showed no shyness about labeling Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a “conservative,” with NBC Today co-host Amy Robach calling her “a staunch conservative,” CBS’s Chip Reid tagging her “reliably conservative,” and ABC’s Kate Snow finding Palin to be “quite conservative.”But…
Rich Noyes

Cafferty Insults Alaska: 'State That Has 13 People and Some Caribou

P.J. Gladnick

Michael Moore Calls Gustav Landfall on Day One of GOP Convention 'Proo

If you put controversial left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore and MSNBC "Countdown" anchor Keith Olbermann in the same setting - there's bound to be some sort of lunatic remark made. Their latest get-together, neither failed to disappoint. On the August 29 broadcast of "Countdown," Moore told viewers how Hurricane Gustav, a storm with the potential to be catastrophic, reaffirmed his faith in God…
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

NB Staff

ABC Anchor Impugns Sarah Palin As a Neglectful Mother

On ABC’s Good Morning America on Saturday, co-anchor Bill Weir bristled with hostility during an interview with a McCain campaign spokesman about the choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate, suggesting she was unqualified and too conservative. At one point, Weir even suggested that by running for Vice President, the Governor would be jeopardizing her…
Rich Noyes

Stay Classy Daily Kos: Accusations Palin 'Faked Her Pregnancy' of Down

Taking a look at the stories in the Old Media will show that the Media is turning attack dog ASAP on McCain's choice for vice president, Sarah Palin. Notice the main meme is her supposed "inexperience." Funny how Palin was the VP pick for about 15 seconds before the Old Media went after her "inexperience" while they have yet to hit Barry Obama on HIS inexperience at all and he's been running for…
Warner Todd Huston