Simon on CBS: 'Obama Won Over His Base...the American Media

Roger Simon, chief political columnist for The Politico and former White House correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and political editor of U.S. News & World Report, acknowledged on Sunday's Face the Nation that Barack Obama won over “his base,” which he identified as “the American media,” in his Tuesday speech in reaction to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's anti-American rants: Obama really won…
Brent Baker

Jewish Man Attacked in Brooklyn By Muslims Yelling 'Allahu Akbar,' Med

On March 19th, I found a story on The Jerusalem Post detailing an attack by Muslim youths on a rabbinical assistant that occurred at a Brooklyn, New York subway station. The youths grabbed Uria Ohana's yarmulke off his head then ran off yelling "Allahu Akbar," which is Arabic for "God is great." I have waited four days to report this story myself to see what other news outlets decide to cover…
Warner Todd Huston

Hillary Nutcracker: Like a Stepin Fetchit Doll for Obama

Tim Graham

Spreading the Gospel of Godlessness

The media gave atheism a free ride – and at times, outright promotion – in 2007.
Kristen Fyfe

Networks Spurn Clinton-Obama Spat over Character and Values

Reporters are more concerned about Democratic prospects in November than in telling the American people who Clinton and Obama really are.
Brian Fitzpatrick

ABC's Global Warming Hit Piece "Welcome to 'The Denial Machine

*****Critical update: Dr. Singer responds at end of post.Climate alarmism reached a new low Sunday as ABC's "World News" featured a hit piece on Dr. S. Fred Singer, the esteemed Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia.In a segment disgracefully entitled "Welcome to 'The Denial Machine,'" anchor Dan Harris disparaged Singer at every turn.With a picture of Singer…
Noel Sheppard

Newsweek Editor Hints at Democrat Party Split if Clintons Steal Nomina

On Sunday's "Meet the Press," Newsweek editor Jon Meacham hinted that if the Clintons were to execute a "corrupt bargain" which gave Hillary the nomination, it could lead to a split in the Democrat Party akin to what happened in 1824.In that election, only one Party, the Democratic-Republicans, ran presidential candidates. Although Andrew Jackson won the most popular and electoral votes, he didn'…
Noel Sheppard

Chinese News Agency Pounds Pelosi's Hypocrisy and Double Standards

It should go without saying that I by no means support China's recent position on Tibet.However, it is nonetheless delicious to read an international opinion piece depicting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as a "muckraker of her own hypocrisy" whose "double standards reveal her motives and those of her kind" that "[refuse] to check their facts and find out the truth" about issues before…
Noel Sheppard

Wright Replacement Calls NPR 'National Publican Radio

It would be enough to make Rev. Jeremiah Wright's accusation that the government created AIDS for purposes of perpetrating a black genocide sound almost rational. OK, scratch that. Nothing will render reasonable that morsel of moonbattery. But has the Rev. Wright's replacement suggested that NPR is . . . a Republican front operation?As per this Fox News article, the theme of today's Easter…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC's Claire Shipman Blames Republicans for Current Financial Crisis

As media continue to report current economic conditions as being almost Depression-like, they conveniently forget which political party has controlled both chambers of Congress since January 2007 as well as who was in the White House when key financial services deregulation was enacted.Such a well-timed amnesia hit ABC's Claire Shipman Sunday when during the panel discussion segment of "This Week…
Noel Sheppard

Kyl Spikes Schumer's Bush=Hoover Shtick

With Eliot Spitzer gone, Chuck Schumer moves to the head of the list of smugly self-righteous New York pols. So it was particularly satisfying to see Sen. Jon Kyl [R-AZ] put Schumer is his place on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today. A guest with Kyl for purposes of discussing the economy, Schumer clearly came in with a game plan: to analogize President Bush to the man who presided over…
Mark Finkelstein

Media Wrong Again: Poll Finds Most People Didn't Like Obama's Speech

One of the constants espoused by conservative media analysts is that the views of most mainstream press members are not shared by the majority of Americans.This week represented a fabulous example of this assertion as media member after media member gushed over Barack Obama's performance in Philadelphia on Tuesday while a majority of citizens in a recent poll said that they were less likely to…
Noel Sheppard

Sunday Sports Open Thread

Does anybody else thinked the Aggies got hosed last night? It seemed to me that in the last three minutes or so, the Bruins could foul at will with nary a whistle, while by comparison, if an Aggie breathed too heavily, a Bruin was shouting free throws. Anybody else see it that way, or am I just too enamored with underdogs?Today's schedule looks fun. Can Davidson continue its run? Any upset…
NB Staff

Global Warming Update: Ann Arbor Has Snowiest Year on Record

This certainly hasn't been the winter climate alarmists wanted to prove that global warming is destined to destroy the planet if we don't immediately cease and desist emitting that awful carbon dioxide into the air. After all, not only has the cooling trend continued, but despite warnings that America was going to have so little snow that ski resorts across the fruited plain would all go bankrupt…
Noel Sheppard