CNN's Analysis: At Saddleback, Obama Was 'Thoughtful

Mike Bates

Open Thread

NB Staff

Time: McCain Mocking Obama's Celebrity Is 'Unpatriotic' -- Like Al-Qae

Tim Graham

NBC Questions Kobe Bryant's Pride of Being on Team USA

**Video Below the Fold** In a recent interview with USA Olympics basketball team member Kobe Bryant, NBC Sports reporter Chris Collinsworth seemed to question Kobe's patriotism when the player said that he was proud to wear the team USA uniform. Wondering if it was "cool" to be proud of being on Team USA, Collinsworth seemed to surprise even Bryant with the temerity of the question. Why…
Warner Todd Huston

Is NYT Starting to Think Obama's an Empty Suit

Is the media's honeymoon with presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama finally over?When the New York Times begins questioning whether there's anything behind the junior senator from Illinois besides promises of change one has to seriously wonder.Such was the case in a Times piece published online moments ago -- that is scheduled to be on Sunday's front page! -- entitled "Allies Ask…
Noel Sheppard

New Film Spoofs Michael Moore and Hollywood Liberals

Here's something you don't see every day: a film spoofing revered Hollywood liberals such as schlockumentarian Michael Moore.Yet, that's exactly what David Zucker, the film director that has brought America such comedy classics as "Kentucky Fried Movie," "Airplane," and "The Naked Gun," will be offering viewers soon with a movie entitled "An American Carol" (trailer embedded right).On Monday, The…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Sports Open Thread

NB Staff

Open Thread

NB Staff

AP's Nedra Pickler Has Bigfoot in Mouth in Corsi Controversy

The back-and-forth over Jerome Corsi's book, "The Obama Nation," has been heated, largely unfair to the author, and predictably marred by attacks from allegedly "objective" journalists as well as Democratic mouthpieces (but I repeat myself). Blatant examples of media bias have been noted by several NewsBusters posters, including Tim Graham (here, here, and here), Geoff Dickens, Mark Finkelstein,…
Tom Blumer

Obama Goofs: Bob Beckel's a 'Republican

The liberal media tends to characterize Obama vs. Conservatives as Idealistic Truth vs. Cynical Falsehood. But at his terrific Campaign Blog at NRO, Jim Geraghty has exposed an embarrassing need for fact-checking in Obama's fact-checking "fight the smears" reports.   It would help Obama's campaign if they, while trying to refute Corsi, did not refer to Bob Beckel as a Republican strategist. Twice…
Tim Graham

Howard Dean Plays Race Card, Media Folds

**Video Below the Fold** Barack Obama has been fond of playing the race card in this campaign telling his enraptured audiences that Republicans will attack him because he's black, even though no GOP candidate or campaign has done so to date. But, Obama is a newcomer to the racemongering game when compared to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. True to form, in a recent interview…
Warner Todd Huston

Armed Citizen Causes Robbers to Flee in Ohio

Here's another armed-citizen story that the liberal media tends to ignore from our friends at the Cam & Company show on NRANews.com. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that deli operator Anis Cherradi fended off two young robbers with a gun he keeps under the counter.Cherradi was alone in his Beech Avenue store at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday when two robbers walked in. They appeared to be 18-22 years old…
Tim Graham

Not Green: NBC Beijing Olympic Set Air Conditioned -- Outdoors

'Green is Universal' network that dimmed set to push eco-programming gives cold shoulder to Chinese weather.
Jeff Poor

Nets Tout Warren's Wider Agenda; CBS: Conservatives 'Went Nuts

John McCain finally received some positive coverage Friday night from the broadcast networks as Barack Obama's vacation ended -- a couple of sentences on ABC and CBS about how he raised $27 million in July, the most ever. Then those newscasts, and NBC's, ran full stories trumpeting evangelist Rick Warren's Saturday “Civil Forum on the Presidency” featuring McCain and Obama, with CBS and NBC…
Brent Baker