CBS: Obama’s ‘Fist Bump’ with Michelle ‘Is Generating A Lot of

On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez highlighted Barack Obama’s "fist bump" with his wife Michelle during his victory speech on Tuesday night: "A simple fist bump between Barack Obama and his wife Michelle the night that he secured the Democratic nomination is generating a lot of buzz." [audio available here] Correspondent Priya David then reported: "It was a historic night for…
Kyle Drennen

CBS 'Early Show' on Obama/Clinton Meeting: ‘Was the Dream Ticket On

On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Maggie Rodriguez speculated on the reason for Barack Obama secretly meeting with Hillary Clinton late Thursday: "Breaking news overnight. Obama and Clinton sneak off for a secret meeting. Was the dream ticket on the agenda?" Co-hosts Harry Smith and Julie Chen then simulated what the meeting may have been like:HARRY SMITH: I'm tired. You must be tired. JULIE…
Kyle Drennen

Jake Tapper's Top 10 Most Unlikely Obama VPs: Ayers? Wright

Reporter Jake Tapper provided some refreshing balance to ABC's "Nightline" on Wednesday with a snarky, sarcastic look at the people least likely to be chosen as vice president by Barack Obama. He presented a top ten list that included many controversial figures that Democrats would rather ignore. (One such person was Tony Rezko, whose corruption conviction was only mentioned in passing on the…
Scott Whitlock

Israel-Iran Tension Causing Oil Price Surge, CNBC Analyst Says

John Kilduff says early spike in oil stems from Israeli Transport Minister calling attack on Iran's nuclear facilities 'unavoidable.'
Jeff Poor

Townhall Blogger Leaves on High Note with Humorous Obama Parody

Ken Shepherd

The Next European Fad: Knife Control

Tim Graham

Latest Obama Boosterism: Time.com's 'Brief History of the Fist Bump

Is it merely a slow news day for Time.com, or perhaps the latest example of the media's agenda to present Barack Obama as a breath of fresh air in American politics? Using a now-famous fist-bump between Sen. Barack Obama and wife Michelle as the news hook, Time magazine's M.J. Stephey sought out yesterday to explore the history of the greeting. The story is now teased on the magazine's Web page…
Ken Shepherd

Commemorating D-Day, June 6, 1944 Redux

Last year at this time, I had a lot of requests to post videos commemorating the anniversary of D-Day. This was hugely popular, receiving over 60,000 reads. As such, it seems fitting to revive it on the 64th anniversary. First up, a new one, embedded right, FDR's speech to the nation that day. Next up, this one was supposedly created by an eighth-grader for a history project. Really fabulous.…
Noel Sheppard

AP Frets Over John McCain’s New Slogan

The article is simply headlined “McCain alters Obama slogan to his own liking“. At first I had expected the report to be a complaint along the lines that John McCain was using Barack Obama’s own slogan against him in a critical manner. When I read the article however I learned that the AP is claiming that John McCain not only took Barack Obama’s slogan and transformed it into his own but that he…
Terry Trippany

Open Thread

NB Staff

Gibbs-erish

"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country."—attributed to Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), British diplomat.If Sir Henry were around today, he might offer a corollary: a communications director is a man sent to meet with the media to fib for the good of his candidate. In the current campaign, the tactic's most transparent practitioner would seem to be Robert…
Mark Finkelstein

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode: Fidel Castro endorses Barack Obama, a Woodstock museum, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on marijuana, an opera version of "An Inconvenient Truth, and Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood feud over Eastwood's new movie.Like the show and want more conservative comedy? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace or subscribe to our YouTube channel, or embed today's show on your blog!
NB Staff

Many Recognize Media's Pro-Obama Bias, Democrats Prefer CNN

“Far more Americans believe that the press coverage has favored Barack Obama than think it has favored Hillary Clinton,” a just-released survey, from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, discovered in determining 37 percent recognize a bias in favor of Obama. Even 35 percent of Democrats “see a pro-Obama bias” compared to 45 percent of Republicans and 40 percnt of independents.…
Brent Baker

Nightmare on Prom Street

Since when do principals ask their students not to simulate anal sex in public dances?
L. Brent Bozell III