ABC's Sawyer Hails 'Dashing' 'Rock Star' Fidel Castro

While covering the breaking story on Tuesday of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's decision to step down from power, various "Good Morning America" anchors and reporters soft peddled the communist leader's crimes. In a profile piece that narrated a brief history of his life, co-host Diane sawyer enthused, "Castro knew life is a stage and played the part of the dashing revolutionary coming to New York…
Scott Whitlock
 

Google De-Lists Prominent UN Critic Blogger

Warner Todd Huston
 

NYT Gives 'Charismatic' Castro Credit for 'Great Social Achievements

Clay Waters
 

Washington Post Pimps MSNBC

Noel Sheppard
 

Taylor Marsh Criticism of Margaret Carlson Illustrates Larger Point

I'm in the unusual position of defending uber-liberal Margaret Carlson. Carlson, formerly of Time and CNN's old Capital Gang, now with uber-liberal Al Hunt's Bloomberg News, was unfairly ripped by Taylor Marsh over at Huffington Post Saturday. Carlson sent an e-mail to someone suggesting that, as far as Hillary Clinton's candidacy is concerned: ..... I covered the Clinton White House for 8…
Tom Blumer
 

Open Thread

NB Staff
 

Lauer to Obama: Ready for Racist, Swiftboating Republicans

In MSM circles, "swiftboating" is shorthand for false attacks on Democrats, even though John O'Neill and other members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth stand adamantly behind their allegations about John Kerry's war record.In an interview of Barack Obama conducted yesterday and aired on this morning's Today, Matt Lauer employed the "swiftboating" code to ask whether the candidate is prepared for…
Mark Finkelstein
 

The Clintons: More Pro-Life Than Pro-Lifers

Tim Graham
 

Scarborough Won't Smile at Mika's Michelle Obama Defense

Update | 3:50 PM: Obama Campaign Clarification: As predicted, the Obama campaign has clarified Michelle's remark. See text at foot.I sense there's often more than a bit of theater in the arguments between Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Not to say Morning Joe's the WWF of political talk, but a little conflict never hurt the ratings.But there was evidence that this morning's dust-up between…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Conservatives Told they Must Throw Away Principles

Scripps Howard Editor: Conservatives Should Be Like JFK It is getting tiresome already, but we are starting to see a new kind of story on this issue of McCain and his tiff with the conservative wing of the GOP and that is the shut-up-and-take-it style of commentary, the style were conservatives are told to throw away their principles and just vote McCain anyway. I am sure that you all have…
Warner Todd Huston
 

NewsBusted

Topics in this episode: The Cuban flag in a volunteer Obama office, Chris Matthews and the "thrill" in his leg, will the economy head south, and Grammy grumbling from Aretha Franklin.Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, subscribe to our YouTube channel or embed today's episode on your blog. We can always use help spreading the word!
Matthew Sheffield
 

YouTube Reinstates Pro-life Show After Removal

After provoking a small scandal among pro-lifers, YouTube has restored a video which it had previously removed from its database. The show, produced by the American Life League, was originally yanked by YouTube after being "flagged" as inappropriate by YouTube viewers.Now that the video has been restored, it seems that this was yet another case of liberals abusing YouTube's flag feature.…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Olbermann Admits 'Deep Affection' for Clintons, Bush 'Worst Person

Brad Wilmouth
 

Nets Ignore Michelle Obama's Lack of Pride in America

News shows do cover Barack Obama's insignificant plagiarism spat with Hillary Clinton.
Kristen Fyfe