NYT Takes on Al Gore and Climate Alarmists...Happy New Year

The new year is beginning with some very serious shots being fired across the bow of the manmade global warming myth and at alarmists using it to advance their deplorable agendas. Moments after Investor's Business Daily presaged that "2008 just might be the year the so-called scientific consensus that man is causing the Earth to warm begins to crack," the New York Times of all entities published…
Noel Sheppard
 

Triumph of GOP PC Guy

Mark Finkelstein
 

Milbank Moans: The Press Savages Hillary, 'No Matter What

Tim Graham
 

CBS Sees GOP 'Mudslinging,' Not 'Playing As Nice' As Dems

Brad Wilmouth
 

NBC's Taibbi Sees Obama 'Independent Streak' with Centrists

Brad Wilmouth
 

FNC Cites MRC Quotes, Matthews Has 'Man Crush' on Clinton

FNC's morning anchors highlighted a few of the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2007" on the Monday edition of "Fox and Friends." Included were a quote of MSNBC's Chris Matthews comparing Bill Clinton's speaking ability to that of "Jesus at the temple" when the former President spoke at Coretta King's funeral, and a quote of comedian Bill Maher commenting that if [Vice President Cheney] died, "…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Did Mike Huckabee Try to Pull a Fast One on the Press

John Stephenson
 

AP Writer Falsely Casts Voter ID Laws As a 'Mainly' Partisan Issue

The Associated Press's Mark Sherman, as noted by Jim Taranto at Best of the Web, "reports on a pending Supreme Court case in a way that seems to give both sides their due, but in substance does not." Here are the first three paragraphs of Sherman's report (bolds are mine): The dispute over Indiana's voter ID law that is headed to the Supreme Court in January is as much a partisan political drama…
Tom Blumer
 

Newsweek's Prophetess of Doom Wonders 'Why We Were So Stupid

Tim Graham
 

Chris Matthews: GOP Candidates Want to Kill Bugs Bunny

On Sunday’s The Chris Matthews Show, the host used one of Mike Huckabee’s Iowa photo-ops as an excuse to launch into an elitist attack on Republicans and hunters. “Who made killing small animals the test of Republican manhood?” Matthews challenged at the top of his show. Over a clip of a vintage Looney Tunes cartoon, Matthews further upped the ante: “Who declared war on Bugs Bunny?!”Later with…
Rich Noyes
 

British Paper Names General Petraeus Person of the Year

Here's some truly delicious irony: it took a British newspaper to name General David Petraeus "Person of the Year."As NewsBusters reported earlier in December, Time magazine shunned the General for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In fact, Petraeus didn't even come in second.I guess the Sunday Telegraph isn't constrained by Bush Derangement Syndrome like most American media as reported Monday (…
Noel Sheppard
 

Reuters: Will You People Stop Using 'Surge' and 'Post

This is the time of year for lighthearted fluff for most news agencies and it is usually a welcome respite from hard news as we all get ready to celebrate the arrival of "Baby New Year." The year-end list is a staple of that happy, fluff and we get them up the wazoo, for sure. The list of "overused words" is one of those that we see every year, as well, and Reuters gives us a list by which they…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Open Thread

Starter: Got any new year's resolutions for anyone in the media?
NB Staff
 

WSJ's Illegal Immigration Naivete Continues, with a Small Concession

A subscription-only editorial in the Wall Street Journal on Monday propagated a carefully-worded whopper, but at least made a small change to the paper's insufferable 23-year "There Shall Be Open Borders" mantra (bolds are mine): A recent paper by the Immigration Policy Center, an advocacy group, notes that "Numerous studies by independent researchers and government commissions over the past 100…
Tom Blumer