Flashback: Excited by 'Major' Edwards Endorsement to 'Create One Ameri

Originally posted on Wednesday, May 14: Trumpeting the “major endorsement” from John Edwards for Barack Obama, the day after Obama was trounced by 40 points in West Virginia all three broadcast network evening newscasts led Wednesday night with the “dramatic” announcement of the “political prize” that gives Obama a “major boost.” Katie Couric returned at the end of the 6:30 PM EST CBS Evening…
Brent Baker

Edwards Affair Rules the News Cycle for Three Days

After weeks of ignoring the story, networks can't stop talking about it.
Kristen Fyfe

ABC Disparages Pro-Life Pharmacist's Choice to Have Large Family

World News correspondent Gigi Stone slants her story against pharmacies that refuse to fill certain prescriptions on moral grounds.
Matthew Balan

George Clooney to Make Film About Bin Laden's Driver

With all the topics out there to make a movie about, would you ever want to spend money on and appear in a film focusing on Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard?If you're one of the most liberal actor/director/producers in Hollywood, and your name is George Clooney, the answer is apparently "Yes."As reported by the British Guardian Sunday (emphasis added, h/t Ace, photo courtesy Daily…
Noel Sheppard

FNC Discusses NBC's Coverage of China

Brad Wilmouth

Sunday Funnies: Hysterical Television Commercial

Noel Sheppard

Neuharth: Olympics Beat Naziism & Communism, Now Ping-Pong

USA Today founder Al Neuharth suggested in his weekly column for the paper on Friday that, as the 1936 Olympics in Berlin preceded the rise of the German democracy and the 1980 Olympics in Moscow preceded Russia's move toward democracy, the Olympic games this year in Beijing “will bring 1.3 billion closer” to the end of communism. In the “Other Views” below Neuharth's column, Foundation for…
Brent Baker

CNN Anchor: Edwards 'Much Loved,' 'All About Integrity and Honesty

Just hours after ABC's Nightline broadcast an interview in which former North Carolina Senator John Edwards confessed an extramarital affair, CNN Saturday Morning co-anchor Melissa Long spoke of the ex-Democratic candidate in glowing terms, calling Edwards someone who was "much loved, worked for the poor, a man who was self-made, and all about integrity and honesty." [UPDATED 4/11, video added]…
Rich Noyes

CNN's Yellin: Edwards Story Unimportant -- He Wasn't a Contender

Now that the National Enquirer has been vindicated for revealing John Edwards' affair last October, liberals in the media are having to explain why they ignored this story for many months.Some truly extraordinary hypocrisy was onstage for all to see Sunday when Howard Kurtz invited CNN's Jessica Yellin and Salon's Joan Walsh on "Reliable Sources" to discuss why the press boycotted the Edwards…
Noel Sheppard

NYT: Edwards Scandal Not Our Style, Unproven McCain Affair Is

Astounding hypocrisy alert!Although the New York Times published a lengthy front page hit piece in February alleging without any proof that John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist eight years ago, it is now claiming that it chose not to report on the John Edwards love child scandal because it's “classically not a Times-like story.” I guess sex scandals are only "Times-like" when they're about…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Edwards Furious ABC Broke Affair Story Before 'Nightline' Aired

John Edwards is apparently furious with ABC News for releasing information concerning his affair with former campaign staffer Rielle Hunter before "Nightline" aired Friday evening.In fact, it appears the reason Edwards agreed to the interview was in the hopes that Americans would be so involved in watching the Olympics his confession would go largely unnoticed.Such was reported Saturday by…
Noel Sheppard

Miami Herald Reacts to Cuban Spy Charges Against Contributor

P.J. Gladnick

Is Amazon.com Deleting Conservative Book Reviews

So, here is a curious thing. I have been reviewing books at Amazon for a few years now and never had the occasion to have been censored by Amazon.com. But, I just had two reviews in a row deleted by Amazon and it has caused me to wonder how often other conservatives have their reviews summarily eliminated from the Amazon site? I have noticed, of course, that leftists use Amazon quite well to…
Warner Todd Huston