WaPo Pens 2nd Editorial This Week in Defense of D.C. Gun Ban

Although it already weighed in on Monday about District of Columbia v. Heller, the Post is clearly worried that the Court will find, shockingly enough, an individual right to keep and bear arms in the text of the Second Amendment. So the legal solons at the Post penned a second layman's lame brief, "Judging Guns," in the March 20 paper (emphasis mine): BY THE END of oral arguments Tuesday in the…
Ken Shepherd

AP, FNC's Hume Pick Up Hillary's Bosnia Fib; Will Rest of Media Follow

  On Wednesday, Fox News became the first news network to pick up on the contradiction between claims made by Senator Hillary Clinton about her 1996 trip to Bosnia and the reality reported by journalists at the time. In a speech on Monday, Clinton asserted that “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran…
Rich Noyes

NASA's Hansen Calls for No Coal by

Global warming alarmist advocates complete eradication of coal-fired plants 'if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed.'
Jeff Poor

Sean Penn Attacks 'Too Stupid' O'Reilly, 'Butt Boy' Hannity

Tim Graham

Another 'Close Religious Adviser' to Obama Old Media Has Ignored

Illinois State Senator James Meeks has endorsed Barack Obama for president. Here is how James Meeks and his relationship with Obama were described in a 2004 Men's News Daily report during Obama's 2004 US Senate campaign: Obama’s closest religious advisers -- Fr. (Michael) Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who…
Tom Blumer

Jesse Jackson Refuses to Answer Fox News's Questions Concerning Wright

Since the Rev. Jeremiah Wright revelations first shook the Obama campaign, one of America's so-called foremost civil rights leaders has been conspicuously silent about the subject. With this in mind, Fox News producer Griff Jenkins went to the Take Back America convention in Washington, D.C., Wednesday to get Jesse Jackson's opinions about the controversy that virtually everyone in America is…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Tibet.Does the violence there concern you? Should this impact our most-favored nation trading status with China? How does this change the upcoming Olympics? Do you think America should consider boycotting the games, or is this not serious enough yet for such a measure?Are you paying much attention to events there? Do you feel media are…
NB Staff

Time Covers For Obama: 'The Incredible Ignorance of White Americans

Time editor Rick Stengel made his regular Thursday Morning Joe appearance today, revealing the magazine's cover to be published tomorrow. But while we learned that the Dalai Lama's photo will appear there, the bigger story is the "cover" Time is trying to provide for Barack Obama's Rev. Wright problem.Here's the gist of Time's defense of Obama, a distillation of Stengel's statements and Time…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC: Obama's Race Speech Doesn't Match Year of Wright Spin

Tim Graham

Did Obama Misrepresent Grandmother's Fear of Black Men on the Street

One of the more controversial statements from Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday was his reference to his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street."Curiously, his most recent account of her anxieties doesn't mesh with what he wrote about this subject in his 1996 book "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance."As neatly identified by Steve Sailer (h/t NB…
Noel Sheppard

ABC's Raddatz Recoils from True Political Leadership

Reporter is appalled that Cheney refuses to base Iraq strategy on public opinion polls, as network coverage of the war's fifth anniversary emphasizes costs, ignores benefits.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Scoring Points by Demonizing Falwell

Unlike Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell was no hater.
Robert Knight

Scarborough Notices Same Oddity in Obama's Speech as NB's Finkelstein

In today's great minds think alike moment, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein observed the same oddity in Barack Obama's much-publicized speech Tuesday.For those with short memories, Finkelstein noted that Obama's reference to his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street" was eerily similar to a statement Jesse Jackson made in 1996.On Wednesday…
Noel Sheppard

Hume Recites 'Rave Reviews' for Obama 'In Much of National Media

Reciting three quotes highlighted Tuesday night on NewsBusters (and the MRC's Wednesday CyberAlert), plus one from CNN's Campbell Brown which we missed, FNC's Brit Hume led his “Grapevine” segment Wednesday night by illustrating how “Barack Obama's speech on race yesterday played to rave reviews in much of the national media.” Hume recounted:On NBC, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart said…
Brent Baker