ABC Reporter Kate Snow Continues to Smile and Spin for Hillary

On Friday's "Good Morning America," reporter Kate Snow continued her habit of happily spinning Hillary Clinton's campaign maneuvering as nothing less than brilliant politics by the presidential candidate. She parroted talking points from the '08 contender's campaign about how smart it would be to target South Carolina voters who frequent hair salons. Sitting in a sylist booth, a smiling Snow…
Scott Whitlock

Economy Grew More than We Knew, but Networks Barely Notice

CBS, NBC do find time to report Bush administration's reduced growth forecast.
Jeff Poor

Erin Burnett Calls Bush AND Angela Merkel a 'Monkey' on Morning Joe

With embedded video below the fold On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a "monkey" during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China. During the news piece, Burnett said that she couldn't see how anyone couldn't have a "man-crush on that man," in an apparent…
Warner Todd Huston

ChiTrib Blogger Asks if Sudan Teddy Bear Case Sent 'Fair Message' to B

"Should all have been forgiven or does the teacher's sentence send a fair message that foreigners sholud [sic] be more sensitive when it comes to religion?"Thus concludes Manya Brachear's November 29 post to the Chicago Tribune's "The Seeker" religion news blog. Brachear was opening discussion up in her comments thread to the case of British subject Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old private school…
Ken Shepherd

Countries Missing Kyoto Targets, Taxpayers to Foot the Bill

As climate alarmists around the world head to a tropical paradise on Bali next week to discuss how developed nations should pay to solve global warming, an inconvenient truth has emerged: many countries that are part of the Kyoto Protocol are going to dramatically overshoot their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits. While it seems a metaphysical certitude that America's green media will…
Noel Sheppard

'Dead' Iraqis Show at Press Conference Smiling, Waving

Jim Hoft

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Will there be any fallout from CNN's debate debacles, or will they go largely ignored by the mainstream media and get swept under the rug?
NB Staff

CNN's Sam Feist Attacks Michelle Malkin As A Fox Stalking Horse

Tim Graham

Work Nights, Eat Salt and Die

So that's why they call it "the graveyard shift."There's little the MSM likes more than to report the latest thing that's bad for us. Today's news brings a double-header of doom: night shifts and salt.First, the AP reports that the UN's World Health Organization will soon list working the night shift "as a 'probable' cause of cancer."Then Reuters informs us that the Center for Science in the…
Mark Finkelstein

'Knight Rider' Rides Again-- This Time Fights Military Contractors

UPDATE BELOW: See the the new KITTWho's Hollywood's latest Big Bad Villain? Private military contractors--giving rise to a new version of Derangement Syndrome: Blackwater Derangement Syndrome or BwDS.Echoing lefty rage at Blackwater, TV shows from “Boston Legal” to “Jericho” have turned contractors into the bad guys.NBC's upcoming two-hour movie/backdoor pilot “Knight Rider” is no different, but…
Lynn Davidson

MSM Laughs Along As Chris Rock Tells Harlem Crowd Not to Vote for 'Tha

A conservative comedian [yes, there are some], appears at a venue in a heavily-white suburb at a campaign event for a white candidate and tells his audience composed overwhelmingly of people of pallor they'd be embarrassed if they supported a black candidate and the white candidate won, saying "Oh no. I can't call him now. I had that black guy. What was I thinking?"What are the odds the MSM…
Mark Finkelstein

Phil. Daily News: Blaming Verizon Phone Co. for Dog's Death

Apparently Stu Bykofsky, columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks that cell service giant Verizon Wireless is somehow at fault for the death of a doggy. Or, if not guilty for the actual killing of the creature, Stu imagines that Verizon is somehow guilty of aiding and abetting those who killed the kidnapped pup of getting away with the horrid act. How is it that, as far as Bykofsky is…
Warner Todd Huston

Fred Barnes: CNN's Debates 'Screw Republicans...Boost Democrats

Describing the agenda of questions CNN chose to pose, during its Wednesday night Republican presidential debate with YouTube, as “completely different” from those forwarded to Democrats in July, Fred Barnes, on Thursday's Special Report on FNC, cited the contrast in questions about the military and Iraq as demonstrating how CNN picked the questioners to “screw Republicans” and “boost Democrats.”…
Brent Baker

NewsBusted Comedy, Episode

It's Friday which means another episode of our political comedy show "NewsBusted" has arrived! Topics in this show: the United Nations, NASA debunking global warming, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Click the "Play" icon in the video to the right to watch. If you like the show, please subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new webcasts. Subscribing also…
Matthew Sheffield