CBS’s Smith: Most Blacks ‘Feel Discrimination’; Wonders ‘Is Th

On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked to two liberal politicians, the black Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, and black mayor of Washington D.C., Adrian Fenty, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and asked Fenty: You know, if we look at this statistically, it's not a particularly bright picture. I want to just put up a couple of statistics very quickly here. The…
Kyle Drennen

CNN: Media Deserve 'Shame' for 'Complicity' w/ Dems Ignoring Immigrati

Brad Wilmouth

Hillary: I'm 'Blessed' Bill is 'Passionate

Did Hillary Clinton really claim to be "blessed" and "grateful" to have a "passionate" husband? Yes. Freudian slip or part of a calculated strategy to curry the women's vote by reminding people of the indignities she's suffered at the hands of her wayward spouse? In any case, Hillary deployed the intriguing double-entendre to defend Bill's recent attacks on Barack Obama.View video here.
Mark Finkelstein

Brokaw: Limbaugh's Hurting GOP As Voters Reject Reagan 'Dogma

Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw dismissed Rush Limbaugh as wrong-headed on Sunday’s Meet the Press. Not only did Brokaw pound the narrative that Reaganism is dead or dying within the Republican party, with a "nomadic herd" of voters "rejecting dogma," but he said Limbaugh trying to debate which candidate is truly conservative "is not going to help the Republican party." As if Tom Brokaw was really…
Tim Graham

AP Talks MLK's Forgotten 'Complexity' Forgets his Plagiarism & Communi

On the national holiday that celebrates the birth of famed civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the AP decided to remind us all that there was more to King than the popularized view of him affords. AP says that it is a shame that King has been "frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message." Who can disagree with this? After all, very often…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

NB Staff

ChiTrib Blogger Notes Reagan's Signing of MLK Day Law

Ken Shepherd

GMA: Bill's Fib Leaves Steph Shaking His Head

Battered by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama might be up against the ropes, but he can count on having Good Morning America in his corner to apply a refreshing sponge and send him back into the ring. Check out Robin Roberts's softballs to the Illinois senator this morning, followed by even more surprising comment -- and body language -- from George Stephanopoulos.View video here.The focus was the way…
Mark Finkelstein

Frightening Canadian Free-Speech Suppression Ignored by US Old Media

My my, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is busy these days -- aiding and abetting those who wish to suppress the human right of free speech and expression. Even though (or is it because?) the vehicle that enabled and emboldened the CHRC's thought police and those who complain to it was the passage of the kind of "non-discrimination" legislation Congress has considered passing for…
Tom Blumer

Obama Teens, Page One; Pro-Life Teens, Page Four

One of the standard MRC categories of bias is bias by placement. In Monday’s Washington Post Metro section, an article profiling students traveling to Washington for the annual March for Life was placed on page B-4. But a 17-year-old activist who wanted to make sure she could vote for Barack Obama in Maryland was on B-1. (This is in my Virginia edition. In Virginia and now in Maryland, 17-year-…
Tim Graham

Sixth Poll in a Year Finds Public Recognizes Liberal Tilt to News Medi

For the sixth time in a year, a national survey has found many more Americans see a media bias to the left than to the right, and the latest poll released earlier this month by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute, discovered “significantly declining percentages of Americans saying they believe all or most of media news reporting,” with MSNBC (at a piddling four percent) and PBS (three…
Brent Baker

To the Washington Post, Bill Clinton is a Man of Character

The article gives an overall impression of a good man wronged, but still fighting for his valiant, equally wronged wife's name and campaign prospects. It's not that the Clintons lack character, the article implies, it's that their opponents are out to get them.
Robert Knight

Zakaridicule: Newsweek Editor Compares Huckabee to Ahmadinejad

Tim Graham

Albright Critical of Presidential Campaign Media Coverage; Blames Minn

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn’t impressed with the blow-by-blow horse race coverage of the primary season and blames the media.Albright revealed that to an audience January 19 at a Borders bookstore in Tysons Corner, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., to promote her new book “Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.”She said the media…
Jeff Poor