ABC and CBS North Carolina TV Stations Refuse to Air Anti-Obama Ad

Charlotte ABC affiliate WSOC-TV channel 9, and Raleigh CBS affiliate WRAL-TV channel 5, have both refused to air the new ad from North Carolina's Republican Party which declares that two Democratic gubernatorial candidates “should know better” than to endorse Barack Obama since “he's just too extreme for North Carolina,” as evidenced by his long association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The ad…
Brent Baker

Chris Claims GOP Wants to Run Against Hillary, Plus—Johnny Sack Live

You're a member of the MSM and a Barack Obama backer. But I repeat myself. More specifically, you're Chris Matthews. What better way to promote your guy's candidacy than to claim that Republicans would really rather run against Hillary? That's just what the Hardball host did on this afternoon's show. Here's his exchange with the–in my opinion–very impressive Republican strategist Todd Harris,…
Mark Finkelstein

Medill News Service Highlights Religious Left

ABCNews.com today is featuring an article by Lillian Cunningham of Medill News Service about "The Young and the Religious." Cunningham sought to look at how "[s]ome young religious voters shun the religious right, focus instead on social justice." Of course Cunningham ignored how these young voters might not just be liberal in politics but theology.After all, liberal Christianity is not a…
Ken Shepherd

Daily Show Hits New Low

Melissa Lopez

Cynical NYT Spouts About John McCain's 'Privileged Past

Clay Waters

Ted Turner's Next Prophecy: Food Riots 'Going to be More Commonplace

After forecasting cannibalism from global warming, media mogul-turned-U.N. Foundation chairman appears on CNBC and ties 'global climate change' to 'an ever-increasing population.'
Jeff Poor

Chris Matthews: White People Willing to Pick Up Black Heroes, If They

John Stephenson

More than 33,000 People Send Petition with 'Outrage' Over Time's Docto

Media Research Center petition demands apology from magazine for 'offensive cover demeaning World War II vets.'
Jeff Poor

Weekend Captionfest

Interviewed by Bill Moyers for a PBS show to be aired on the night of April 25, 2008, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. accused people of trying to paint  him as "un-American" or "some sort of fanatic" for purposes of harming the candidacy of Barack Obama. (AP Photo/PBS, Robin Holland, HO)
NB Staff

Meredith Vieira Hits McCain from the Left

Justin McCarthy

CNN’s Larry King Fails to Ask Pelosi About Fake Bible Quote

During a taped interview with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi which aired on Thursday’s "Larry King Live," Larry King did not bring up the California Democrat’s longstanding use of a fictional quote from the Bible, which CNSNews.com chronicled in a report on April 23. During the interview, which totaled just under 19 minutes, King asked Pelosi about a variety of topics, such as the race between…
Matthew Balan

NPR Plugs Chafee's Bush-Bashing Book, But Not His GOP Opponent

Republicans are welcome on National Public Radio – especially if they’re former Republicans who think the Bush-Cheney administration is a reckless disaster. On April 17, NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross interviewed former Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who’s now left the GOP and gone independent. He has a new book titled "Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless…
Tim Graham

Harrison Ford Gets Chest Waxed to Promote Environmentalism

When I saw the headline in the NewsBusters' ad section for Deceiver's website "Harrison Ford Waxes Off His Man Fur for Mother Earth," I was expecting something tongue-in-cheek. To my amazement, this was serious: one of my favorite actors of all time was actually waxing the hair off his chest to bring attention to deforestation.Think I'm kidding, and participating in the joke?Think again, for…
Noel Sheppard

God and Grammar at the Chicago Tribune

In her April 24 post at The Seeker blog, Chicago Tribune's Manya Brachear asked readers how they would keep the peace between Armenian and Greek Orthodox priests that maintain the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Brachear also noted the concern at least one reader of the Tribune expressed as to the grammatically, historically, and theologically sloppy way in which the print edition…
Ken Shepherd