Bozell on 'Family Guy' Creator's 'Hitler' Hate Mail

Tim Graham

Will MSM Ignore Rap Song Promoting Maturity, Responsibility

Will this rap song with a positive message get any play in the MSM? Will a rapper that is telling kids to quit acting like a punk and grow up resonate? Okay, I'm a nearly 50 year-old white dude, so you won't catch me trying to be "all that" with the kid's rap music. In fact, I hate the stuff. [I was listening to Beethoven, Glenn Miller, U2 and The Police today, if that helps pinpoint me] HOWEVER…
Warner Todd Huston

Weekend Captionfest II

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) talks with Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) as they wait for President Bush to deliver the final State of the Union address of his presidency at the Capitol building, January 28, 2008. [Reuters] 
NB Staff

Slap at Daily Kos From the Left: 'Hope Trumped Kos for Democrats

Well, this will send the Kossacks into a tizzy! The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed by Dan Gerstein, "Decline of the Angry Left." Gerstein, a senior adviser for Joe Lieberman's various national campaigns, claims that the Daily Kos is finished as a mover and shaker in Democratic politics. After reading it over I think he is dead on with much of his analysis. The anger of the extremist, left as…
Warner Todd Huston

LAT Endorses McCain: Weak on Fences, Strong on Global Warming

The LA Times has endorsed John McCain in the GOP primary, and at least two of its reasons for doing so should give conservatives pause: the liberal paper likes McCain because he's weak on border fences and strong on global warming.Excerpts [emphasis added]:As the Republican field indulged this campaign season in an orgy of ignorance on immigration, McCain stood his ground, sponsoring legislation…
Mark Finkelstein

New Republic Editor: McCain Could Be 'Nixon-to-China' on Global Warmin

Liberal magazine's Foer says stance on climate has 'virtues', but he must cope with conservative 'lunatics' in base.
Jeff Poor

Super Bowl Eve Open Thread

For those folks that aren't at the Frank Sevigne Invitational in Lincoln, Nebraska, to see Brandon Sheppard compete against the nation's best high jumpers, here's your chance to discuss tomorrow's Super Bowl, or any other sporting event.To get the ball rolling, is Tom Brady the best quarterback ever?
NB Staff

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Ann Coulter says she'll campaign for Hillary if McCain wins GOP nomination: Is she being serious, or intentionally provocative?
NB Staff

Leno Prompts Brokaw to Reminisce About Reagan-Bashing

Jay Leno on Friday night reminisced about admiring Tom Brokaw for appearing on the cover of the far-left Mother Jones magazine back in 1983, an interview in which Brokaw denigrated then-President Reagan from the left for “pretty simplistic” values and over how he didn't understand “the enormous difficulty a lot of people have in just getting through life, because he’s lived in this fantasy land…
Brent Baker

NYT Downplays Al Qaeda Use of Mentally Impaired Suicide Bombers

Yesterday, NewsBusters' Kyle Drennan noted how CBS used the news of two coordinated and related suicide bombings in Baghdad to declare that "the new Baghdad feels a lot like the old Baghdad," and as a platform for a far-left guest to declare that "the surge isn't working."Drennan's first commenter noted the mentally impaired state of the women who blew themselves up -- something CBS "somehow"…
Tom Blumer

'Today' to McCain: Why Move Right

Mooch-a-mas grassas! That was Ted Kennedy -- the man who brought you "Mike McGwire and Sammy Sooser" -- thanking a California crowd. View here. Now we know why he paid someone back at Harvard to take that Spanish exam.John McCain might want to borrow that snippet of smashed Spanish from his amnesty bill buddy to thank Today. The NBC show this morning depicted the Republican primary race as all…
Mark Finkelstein

Fred Barnes 'Eats Children's Arms and Legs for Afternoon Snacks

Tim Graham

ABC Champions Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton 'Dream Ticket

ABC on Friday night decided to devote an entire story to speculating about what is supposedly “the talk of the town” -- a potential Democratic “Dream Ticket” of Clinton and Obama or Obama and Clinton. With “Dream Ticket?” on screen, anchor Charles Gibson set up the piece by pointing out how, during the debate on CNN the night before, Clinton and Obama “were asked if they might run together -- one…
Brent Baker

AP Finally Reports Party Label Over Corruption... Guess Which Party

Imagine this! We get to play our favorite game twice in the same day! Yes, it's time once again for "Democrats or Not," where we read an MSM story about corruption in politics and try to determine which party the perp is from... because the MSM won't tell us -- usually, that is. This is a very special edition of "Democrats or Not," because this time we don't have to guess which party the…
Warner Todd Huston