Bush Gets Tremendous Crowds in S. Korea, US Media Ignores Story

Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft introduces us to Amy Proctor's report on the amazingly large crowd of South Koreans that came out to welcome George W. Bush to their country. It's a good thing that Amy clued us in here in America, because our media sure ignored the story of this large turnout. Amy directs our attention to The Korea Times report that revealed that 374 "conservative groups"…
Warner Todd Huston

Fox Host Neil Cavuto Rejects ABC's Economic Pessimism

ABC’s “Good Morning America” hosted Fox Business anchor/managing editor Neil Cavuto on Wednesday morning — by himself with no liberal counterpart! While co-host Diane Sawyer peppered Cavuto with questions based on the idea that the economy was a disaster and Barack Obama was being unfairly attacked by John McCain, Cavuto offered a healthy alternative not typically seen on ABC. Sawyer suggested…
Peter Sasso

Fearful Publisher Drops Novel About Mohammed's Wife

Self-censorship toward radical Muslims continues to be a problem in corporate America. The latest casualty: a book by author Sherry Jones about Aisha, the favored wife of Islam's founder Mohammed, whom he is said to have betrothed when she was less than ten years old.Writing in today's Wall Street Journal,  Asra Q. Nomani tells how the book,  "The Jewel of Medina," got canceled by would-be…
Matthew Sheffield

Worldwide AIDs Progress: No Credit to Bush, No Matter What

E-mailer and frequent NB commenter Gary Hall sent me a link to a July 30 LA Times article about how worldwide AIDS deaths are down 10%. In discussing the improvement, it's hysterical in one sense, but very sad in another, to watch how reporter Thomas H. Maugh II studiously avoided using the word "abstinence" (the A-word), which does not appear even once in his entire piece. Just to be sure no…
Tom Blumer

Obama Accuses Reporter of Serving as McCain's 'Proxy

Aside from being tagged a racist, it now appears that any press member who dares ask presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama a tough question will be accused of acting as a proxy for John McCain.Such was the case Tuesday when the junior senator from Illinois was being interviewed on Las Vegas's CBS affiliate.The video embedded right along with the following transcript show a very…
Noel Sheppard

Gallup: Congress as Much to Blame for Oil Prices as Gouging

Noel Sheppard

Time to Bury Fannie & Freddie, Not Praise Them

Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for corruption, bad business decisions and lobbying.
Pete Sepp, Special to BMI

Open Thread

NB Staff

Mika Warns: 'We'll Get a Call' for Mocking Olympics

Could the NBC honchos be a tad touchy about criticism of the Beijing Olympics—especially when it comes from its own talent pool?  Was there a kernel of truth in Mika Brzezinski's light-hearted warning that MSNBC's Morning Joe crew would "get a call" if it persisted in its mocking of the games for whose broadcast rights the Peacock Network has over the years paid billions?When the subject of the…
Mark Finkelstein

AP Headline Asserts VP is 'Unpopular Cheney

Well, the Associated Press is certainly living up to its new rules of being opinion editorialists instead of reporters if the following headline is any indication: "Obama links energy troubles to unpopular Cheney." This was unleashed on the world by the AP on August 5. So, I ask you, does "unpopular Cheney" sound more like opinion than it does simple news reporting? Certainly we can face facts…
Warner Todd Huston

Cafferty Highlights Viewer Who Wants Bush 'Executed for Treason

Deciding to showcase the allegations in Ron Suskind's new book which “says President Bush committed an impeachable offense” by ordering “the CIA to forge a letter to bolster his case for the war in Iraq,” CNN's Jack Cafferty posed as one of his “Cafferty File” questions on Tuesday: “What does it mean, do you suppose, if the White House did, in fact, order the CIA to forge a letter in order to…
Brent Baker

Solzhenitsyn: A Prophet Honored in His Own Country, but Not in the U.S

The great writer's commencement address at Harvard in 1978 was a powerful indictment of elitist liberalism.
Brian Fitzpatrick

ABC Tells Story of Faith in Tragedy

Good Morning America explores how religious belief is helping the Steven Curtis Chapman family cope with the death of their daughter.
Julia Seward

Gateway Pundit Escapes Truck Accident

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft got in an car accident Tuesday when his vehicle was rear-ended by a semi truck in St. Louis, Missouri. Luckily he was not injured. That's pretty amazing when you see the damage to his car.Glad you're still out there, Jim!
Matthew Sheffield