ABC's Sawyer: Press Using 'Boxing Gloves' on Hillary

Thursday's "Good Morning America" featured a group of liberals talking about whether the press favored one liberal over another liberal and several leftist journalists were cited as proof. Specifically, co-host Diane Sawyer continued the program's self flagellation over whether the media is biased in favor of Barack Obama and against Hillary Clinton.The ABC anchor discussed the issue with Arianna…
Scott Whitlock

John McCain: Disqualified at Birth

Just the latest flaky, negative story on McCain since he apparently clinched the GOP nomination.
Clay Waters

Media Revelation: Ethanol is Causing Inflation

CNBC's Cramer confronts Clinton on ethanol fallacy in interview; 'Nightly News' admits corn is causing higher food prices.
Jeff Poor

CNBC's Burnett: Recession vs. Slowdown is Only 'Semantics

'Today' contributor claims there's no real difference between recession and slowdown, despite the fact that worried talk contributes to economic woes.
Nathan Burchfiel

Presidential Press Conference Live Blog

What follows is coverage of the February 28 presidential news conference. I focused mostly on the questions posited by the media. Video of the most biased questions should be posted shortly thereafter. Bottom line: Most of the really biased questions came down on the economy, particularly with regard to gas prices. Other than that and a question by Bill Plante about FISA immunity for telecom…
Ken Shepherd

Global Warming Update: Snowfall Records Being Broken in New England

Noel Sheppard

Time Writer Sneers at William F. Buckley Jr

P.J. Gladnick

Time's Prez Warning: 'Nurse With 35 Yrs. Experience Killed Patient Fas

Not that Time's in the tank for Obama or nuthin'. Not that its new cover merely depicts Barack with an other-worldly aura, asks the question whether experience matters and answers it largely in the negative.No, it gets much better. The magazine's editor goes on Morning Joe and cites a study comparing a new nurse with a nurse who has 35 years of experience. And he lets us know that not only did…
Mark Finkelstein

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking points:Drudge is reporting (via Rasmussen) that Obama's now ahead of Clinton by four points in Texas. Meanwhile, Rasmussen shows Hillary's lead in Ohio slipping. Is Tuesday the end of the road for Hillary's presidential run this year? Will she concede next week, or continue to hang in the race despite the futility? Assuming the former, are you…
NB Staff

Not-So-Great Depression Coverage: All of the Hype, but None of the Bre

Unsatisfied by characterizing economy as in recession, networks try comparing current situation to the Great Depression.
Nathan Burchfiel

Obama Received $80,000 From Firm Of Abramoff Notoriety

The title to this article is exactly how I'd write it if I were a political hack trying to drum up a faux controversy for use by other political hacks in the mainstream media. Which is exactly what Sam Stein of the Huffington Post did on February 12th as he broke out the yellowkid journalistic mold for a fantasy leftist hack attack on John McCain headlined in giant font, McCain Received $100,000…
Terry Trippany

Liberal ChiTrib Blogger Pays Homage to Bill Buckley

Ken Shepherd

NYT Has 24% Approval Rating

The New York Times's attempt to insinuate a romantic relationship between John McCain and a lobbyist has apparently backfired. In a poll released today by Rasmussen Reports, the American public holds a strongly negative view of the story and of the paper that released it: Just 24% of American voters have a favorable opinion of the New York Times. Forty-four percent (44%) have an unfavorable…
Matthew Sheffield

Buckley Hailed, But NBC Chastises Him on McCarthy, Race & AIDS

ABC, CBS and NBC on Wednesday night delivered laudatory tributes to the late William F. Buckley, Jr., but while ABC's Charles Gibson, as well as Katie Couric and Richard Schlesinger on CBS, stuck to the positive and his many achievements as an editor, author and TV show host, NBC anchor Brian Williams couldn't resist including a political slap from the left on the day Buckley passed away at age…
Brent Baker