Perfect Job for Sheryl Crow: Montgomery County, Md. Jailor

"Toilet Paper Rationing Proposed for Inmates" read the teaser headline in the sidebar of my Metro section front page for the April 25 Washington Post. "Since when did Sheryl Crow become a jail warden?" I wondered. Much to my chagrin, I found it was not such a green story after all, unless the green we're talking about is the budget for the Montgomery County, Maryland budget:Montgomery County…
Ken Shepherd

ABC Defends 'Soft-Spoken,' Patriotic Jeremiah Wright

In an attempt to rehabilitate Jeremiah Wright and, by extension, Senator Barack Obama's connection to the man, Friday's "Good Morning America" featured two segments on the "soft-spoken," patriotic pastor, a man who urged God to damn America. Reporter David Wright, a well-known Obama partisan, described an appearance Pastor Wright made with liberal PBS journalist Bill Moyers. Wright cooed, "But…
Scott Whitlock

Nets Stress Wright's Claim His Remarks Distorted, Not How Obama Agrees

Barack Obama's pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, suggested in an interview with Bill Moyers that Obama agreed with his comments which stirred a furor in March, but instead of framing their stories around evidence Obama may be in sync with Wright's paranoid and America-hating rants, the network evening newscasts on Thursday stressed Wright's claim his sermons were unfairly distorted. CBS's Jim…
Brent Baker

Nancy Pelosi's Promiscuous Definition of 'Holiness

Tim Graham

CBS’s Rodriguez Pushes McCain to Do More to Ban NC GOP Ad

On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez interviewed John McCain and asked about the recent ad put out by the North Carolina Republican Party that criticized Barack Obama’s relationship with his pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "The Republican Party of North Carolina is planning to run an ad bashing Senator Obama. I know that you oppose that ad, but they're running it anyway. So what does…
Kyle Drennen

CNN’s Sanchez Asks Young Muslim Voters Leading Questions on War, Oba

CNN’s Rick Sanchez, who is interviewing apparent first-time voters as part of CNN’s series titled “The League of First Time Voters,” featured a group of young Muslim voters in a segment that aired on “American Morning” and CNN’s “Newsroom” program on Thursday, and asked them a series of questions that seemed tailored for the American Islamic community. In his first question, Sanchez asked, “When…
Matthew Balan

Green Is Universal: Corporate Shilling at Its Finest

As you pretty much have to know by now due to the fact that they won't shut up about it, NBC Universal's "Green Is Universal" campaign is winding down. Begining next week, we'll no longer be hearing the media giant's numerous television properties spreading feel-good environmentalism to viewers and promoting allegedly earth-friendly policies (ethanol, anyone?). I, for one, couldn't be more happy…
Matthew Sheffield

Cramer on Ethanol: 'Drop the Mandate, Prices Plummet

CNBC host one of few journalists to connect food inflation to government intervention in market.
Nathan Burchfiel

Gore Ducks Questions About Food Crisis, Ethanol and Climate Alarmism

A remarkable thing happened Thursday: a press member wanted to ask Nobel Laureate Al Gore about the growing international food crisis and how it relates to ethanol and global warming hysteria.Not surprisingly, the man who cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate fourteen years ago mandating the use of ethanol wasn't available, and a spokesman for his hysteria-driving Alliance for Climate…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

NB Staff

Time Laments Katie Couric's Exit, Mourns TV Reign of 'White Dudes

Tim Graham

ABC News Puts Gun Dealer in Cross Hairs

If you are a major network and want to 'target' gun owners and gun dealers in a story, what would you do? Why you would write a story about a gun dealer offering a steep discount on firearms for college students, and then only interview the dealer and those who oppose his business and his special offer.According to an ABC News story covering Eric Thompson, owner of TGSCOM Inc., Thompson is "…
Vivian Lee

Mitchell Recycles 'Out of Context' Rev. Wright Defense

It is NBC Green Week, after all, so who can blame Andrea Mitchell for recycling two dilapidated defenses of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?Mitchell's heart didn't seem wholly in it, but like a burned-out public defender going through the motions, Andrea apparently felt constrained to mount some kind of defense of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's controversial remarks. And so she trotted out two hoary chestnuts…
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusted

Topics in today's show: Barack Obama's wealth, Paul Krugman's booboo, Jimmy Carter's Israel trip, and Renee Zellweger.We reached a milestone for our last episode which became the 10th NewsBusted video to reach over 100,000 views on YouTube, a record for a right-leaning channel. Thanks for your help spreading the word, adding NewsBusted to your Myspace, and doing battle with the far-left haters…
Matthew Sheffield