Making It Up to Obama? ABC Touts: 'Campaign Firing on All Cylinders

A day after Barack Obama and many of his liberal media compatriots complained about ABC's Wednesday debate questioners daring to ask him about William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and not wearing a flag pin, Friday's World News featured a story championing Obama's “bandwagon” momentum with his campaign “firing on all cylinders.” Anchor Charles Gibson teased, “Obama Bandwagon: The candidate picks up…
Brent Baker

Scarborough Has Enough of Air America's Maddow, Walks Off MSNBC Set

For those that are luckily unfamiliar, Rachel Maddow is one of the darlings of the extreme-left in this country. A regular on MSNBC's "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, the Air America Radio host is also a panel member on that network's "Race for the White House" with David Gregory.Another panel member is Joe Scarborough, and those that have watched this program since its inception know that he…
Noel Sheppard

William Ayers' Blog: Reparations for Iraq, Afghanistan; Pull Out of En

Weather Underground leader turned-academic William Ayers is now so docile that it never really "bothered anyone in Chicago," that Sen. Barack Obama had any connection to him, wrote Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet in the April 18 paper. Along those same lines the Washington Post's Peter Slevin argued that the '60s radical was now "considered so mainstream" in Chicago "that [Mayor Richard]…
Ken Shepherd

With Ultra-Competent Hillary Skit, Colbert Betrays His Fake Image

Comedy Central is usually the network that rips on President Bush -- including its nasty cartoon "Lil Bush." But it's not the network that tries to present equal satire on Hillary Clinton. Stephen Colbert hosted Hillary on "The Colbert Report" on Thursday night, and as he often does, he did a terrible job of even pretending to be a conservative as they portrayed Hillary as ultra-competent. Did…
Tim Graham

MoveOn.org Creates Petition to Protest ABC's Debate

The liberal outrage over Wednesday's Democrat presidential debate on ABC continues to mount.On Friday, billionaire George Soros's MoveOn.org published a petition at its website, along with a video (embedded right), asking Americans to protest "[debate] moderators [that] abuse the public trust every time they ask trivial questions about gaffes and 'gotchas' that only political insiders care about…
Noel Sheppard

Weekend Captionfest

British PM Gordon Brown and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy talk upon Brown's arrival at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in Boston, April 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
NB Staff

ABC's Walters Praises ABC's Debate Performance

Justin McCarthy

NYT: Ben Stein's 'Sleazy' Evolution Documentary an 'Unprincipled Propa

Clay Waters

Did Barack Obama Flip Off Hillary Clinton

Did Barack Obama intentionally make a one-finger gesture when referring to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton? Quite possibly, yes. The evidence is in a video filmed April 17th from a Raleigh, N.C., speech that Obama gave. "Hillary Clinton, she looked in her element, you know," Obama says right before reaching up and scratching his face with one finger à la Will Smith in "Men in Black." Note…
Matthew Sheffield

'World News' Scaremongers Over Artificial Turf

They had to really be looking for this, but ABC's April 17 "World News with Charles Gibson" has found something else for parents to be concerned about. This time it is artificial turf on sports fields. "It's become part of the American landscape - synthetic turf, durable and soft," ABC correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said. "It's everywhere, from stadiums to neighborhood soccer fields. But now,…
Jeff Poor

Disney-owned ABCNews.com: All the News Fit to Strip

Earlier this week we documented how ABCNews.com used a photo illustration in its top headlines lineup that pictured a Bible, a rosary, and a bare-shouldered woman apparently in the throes of passion. Well, in this morning's ABCNews.com lineup of top stories: John and Cindy McCain's tax returns, Hillary Clinton bashing Barack Obama, Pope Benedict at the UN, and how a company plans to make a…
Ken Shepherd

Time Magazine Cover Sparks Outrage from Iwo Jima Vets

The powers at Time magazine, who now approach reporting the issue of climate change with a holier than thou persona, as blogged yesterday by NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein, have ruffled the feathers of a few Iwo Jima veterans. The Time cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green "the new red, white and blue." But Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, said this goes a little too far. He told the…
Jeff Poor

ABC, Brought to You by Honda, Says Don't Buy Stuff

Left wing environmentalist Sam Champion continued to push his eco-agenda on Friday's edition of "Good Morning America." The liberal weatherman enlisted the help of IdealBite.com, a web page devoted to "green living." One of the site's founders, Heather Stephenson, lectured a family interested in going green about the evils of buying new toys for their children. She explained, "'Cause the best…
Scott Whitlock

ABC's Artificial Turf Scare: 'Virtually a Hazardous Waste Dump

'World News' report claims artificial turf poses a chemical threat despite no cases of health problems ever reported.
Jeff Poor