Clinton Criticizes Olbermann for 'Pimping' Petraeus Remark

MSNBC just can't catch a break.After NewsBusters created a media firestorm by exposing reporter David Shuster for his remarks that Hillary Clinton was "pimping" out her daughter, the network is again finding itself in hot water as former president Bill Clinton condemned host Keith Olbermann for saying that President Bush had engaged in "pimping General David Petraeus." Clinton condemned the…
Matthew Sheffield

ABC Goes to Yale for Sex Week

Nightline co-anchor to moderate debate on porn.
Kristen Fyfe

NYT's Online Video and Text Coverage of Terrorist's Death Differ Signi

First, give the New York Times credit for doing what NewsBusters' Ken Shepherd found Newsweek unable to do. The Times, in a report (link requires free registration) by Robert F. Worth and Nada Bakri, actually called the recently slain Hezbollah commander Imad Mugniyah a terrorist: A top Hezbollah commander long sought by the United States for his role in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds…
Tom Blumer

The BBC's Cynical Snark Fest Against Catholic Holy Site, Lourdes

One could feel the disdain that Emma Jane Kirby felt toward Catholicism in a recent travel piece by BBC News. Her disgust and utter dismissal of the Catholic holy site at Lourdes, France was so thick it verged on hatred. Knocking the sentiment behind Lourdes, slamming the "fusty" feel to the place, mocking its religious sincerity and, finally, ending in condescension, Kirby was so disturbed by…
Warner Todd Huston

Romney Endorses McCain Open Thread

NB Staff

Hillary, Please Check the Oil While You're At It

It's questionable whether Herbert Hoover actually ever promised to put "a chicken in every pot." But even if Hoover did, he was a piker compared to Hillary Clinton. Check out her remarks in a campaign speech today, as aired on this afternoon's Hardball. HILLARY CLINTON: Over the years, you've heard plenty of promises, from plenty of people in plenty of speeches. And some of those speeches…
Mark Finkelstein

New Orleans: 'The Vagina of America

At least according to "Vagina Monologues" playwright Eve Ensler, and Jane Fonda. Apparently the Today show had not had enough of this dynamic duo earlier in the program, when the fabulously classy Miss Fonda used another word for "vagina" that begins with the letter "c". So they brought the pair back for the 10 o'clock hour, and America was again regaled with their brilliant and insightful…
Seton Motley

Motion Picture Association Chief Wants 'Healthier' Food in Theaters

Former Agricultural Secretary Glickman carries on fight from the Clinton administration about what we eat.
Jeff Poor

Sarandon: Obama's Like A Pregnant Woman at an Abortion Rally

Tim Graham

CNN Fires Ranting Liberal Producer for Blogging

CNN has fired producer Chez Pazienza after the network brass realized he had been blogging at his own left-wing site and several others over a period of years: In a phone interview this morning, Mr. Pazienza, 38, said he joined CNN as a senior producer in January 2004 and has consistently received positive performance evaluations of his work. He spent his first year at CNN at the network’s…
Matthew Sheffield

Contessa Coaxes Jesse Jackson Into Ripping Rendell

A couple days ago, speculating that Contessa Brewer might be a closet conservative, I expressed the hope that I wasn't making trouble for her at MSNBC. Maybe I did. For the anchor now has gone out of her way to express PC sentiments that almost make you wonder whether she wasn't trying to prove her liberal bona fides to her MSNBC honchos. Jesse Jackson would normally be the last person who'd…
Mark Finkelstein

David Shuster's Suspension Has An End: February

Tim Graham

CBS: Republicans Did a ‘Terrible Job’ at Roger Clemens Hearing

On Thursday’s CBS "Early Show," while covering Roger Clemens’ testimony before Congress, co-host Maggie Rodriguez talked to sports radio talk show host, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, who said of the hearing: "I thought the panel for the most part did a pretty good job on the Democratic side. And I'm not really a party politic guy, but the Republicans did a terrible job." Russo went on to bash…
Kyle Drennen

ABC Investigates Bugs Bunny-Killing Palestinian Kids Show

ABC's "Good Morning America" should be commended for a segment on Thursday's show that actually turned attention to the face of radical Islamic fundamentalism on Arab television. GMA correspondent Lama Hasan reported on a Hamas children's program entitled "Tomorrow's Pioneers" that routinely "murders" cartoon look-alikes of Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse and blames their deaths on Jews. Co-host…
Scott Whitlock