Barbara Walters 'Not Responsible' for Rosie's Rants

Justin McCarthy

'Nightly News' Praises 'Victory' Over Home Depot

NBC News host lauds 'great story' about small-town hardware stores outlasting big box chain.
Nathan Burchfiel

Open Thread

NB Staff

AP's Crutsinger 'Clings to Recession' Despite Improving Data

The Associated Press's business writers just won't let go of their claim (or is it audacious hope?) that we are in a recession -- not heading towards one, but actually in one. Despite yet another decent economic report, this one on productivity, the AP's Martin Crutsinger downplayed a significant beating of expectations, and continued to invoke the R-word (bolds are mine): Worker productivity…
Tom Blumer

MSM's Obama-love: 'Like a 9th-Grade Boy Embarrassed to Stand Up

"Thrill up my leg"? Forget about it. Chris Matthews's famous description of the excitement he gets from Barack is nothing compared to the tumescent terms in which MSNBC senior campaign correspondent Tucker Carlson has depicted the intensity of the MSM's love affair with Obama. Tucker appeared on today's Morning Joe.TUCKER CARLSON: It's gonna be such a great election; it has been so far.JOE…
Mark Finkelstein

Kristof: Abortion Will Bring Dems Together

It was just another ho-hum piece by another liberal columnist. Hillary Clinton should get out now because staying in hurts Barack Obama against McCain. Yada yada yada.But in his column of today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times, almost in passing, makes what is, on reflection, a telling disclosure of what is truly the fundamental value, the uniting principle of the Democratic party:…
Mark Finkelstein

Veteran Washington Reporter: Media 'Took Much Too Long' on Wright

“It took much too long for major news media outlets to appreciate the importance of the Wright connection” to Barack Obama, Don Campbell, who spent “nearly two decades as a Washington reporter, editor and columnist for Gannett Newspapers and USA Today,” asserted in a Wednesday op-ed piece for USA Today. The headline over the piece by Campbell, now journalism lecturer at Emory University in…
Brent Baker

CBS Evening News Touts Financial Discipline Expert, but Omits Her Fait

Reporter Richard Schlesinger is surprised by the notion of giving 10% to charity, the Biblical principle of tithing.
Kristen Fyfe

NC-IN Primary Data the Media Won't Emphasize

There can be little doubt now that Old Media is applying full-court pressure to anoint Barack Obama with the Democratic nomination, and on Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race.The New York Times's stories for tomorrow's print edition ("Support for Clinton Wanes as Obama Sees Finish Line" and "Pundits Declare the Race Over") clearly point in those directions. The first describes North Carolina…
Tom Blumer

New Study: Conservatives are Happier Because They Hate Everyone

There is a news report starting to make the rounds amongst the MSM on a study that claims to have discovered why conservatives tend to be happier than liberals and it is just the sort of bilge that the MSM loves to promulgate. We may see more of it over the next several days because, while it is titled "Conservatives Happier Than Liberals," it is basically saying that the reason conservatives are…
Warner Todd Huston

Get Out! Network Morning Shows Dismiss Hillary's Race as 'Over

Tim Graham

Only NBC Reports Navy to Name Ship for Medal of Honor Recipient

Last October the NBC Nightly News was the first broadcast network evening newscast to highlight the first Medal of Honor award since Vietnam for a member of the Navy, Lieutenant Michael Murphy, a SEAL killed in combat in Afghanistan in June of 2005, and on Wednesday the newscast stood alone in highlighting the Navy's announcement that a guided-missile destroyer will be named the “USS Michael…
Brent Baker

Olbermann Missed Drive-By Memo on Admitting Limbaugh Effect

As reported earlier by Noel Sheppard, the drive-by media that previously downplayed Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos has changed it's tune now that Barack Obama's campaign is blaming the Limbaugh effect for keeping Hillary Clinton in the race. Too bad for Keith Olberman and MSNBC because they apparently missed the memo; instead choosing to do a segment refuting the effect altogether. Last night…
Terry Trippany

Wednesday Funnies: 'Halp Us Stevin Kenk

For Stephen King's benefit, our friends at Are We Lumberjacks have updated an hysterical picture from November 2006 which humorously mocked John Kerry's offensive anti-military remark:
Noel Sheppard