Open Thread

Amazing football schedule today. What will be the game of the day, and what's this week's huge upset?
NB Staff

The Rather Suit: Settlement a Likelihood

As characteristically strange and bizarre as Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS is, chances are high that CBS is going to give him some kind of concession, monetary and otherwise.Neil Cavuto, host of FNC's "Your World" made this point earlier this week stating that CBS has no real alternative other than a long, dragged out court case that will rehash its worst corporate moment. He's right: Dan…
Matthew Sheffield

'Today': Being Tough on Crime Puts Rudy at Odds With NRA

At first I thought I might have misunderstood. Lester Holt surely didn't mean to imply that befriending the NRA jeopardizes a politician's reputation for being tough on crime, did he?Oh yes he did.View video here. On this morning's "Today," weekend co-anchor Holt introduced a segment on Rudy Giuliani's Friday speech to the NRA, in which Rudy tried to take some of the sharp edges off his prior…
Mark Finkelstein

Garofalo Backs Rather, Declares Petraeus 'Dishonest...He Is Betraying

Friday night on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, “actress/comic” Janeane Garofalo asserted she has “no doubt” that, on the Bush National Guard story, “there were executives at CBS that folded under right wing coercion” and she endorsed MoveOn.org's ad which maligned General David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” The tattooed Garofalo, who has joined the cast of Fox's 24, charged: “Petraeus has…
Brent Baker

Janeane Garofalo: 'Bush is a War Criminal,' 'O'Reilly Can Kiss My Fat

Noel Sheppard

Obama's $85-Billion 'Tax Cuts' Really a Massive Tax Hike

Liberal Democratic presidential hopeful proposes class-warfare tax policy to fight 'middle class squeeze.'
Jeff Poor

Jason Whitlock Says What Media Won't Regarding ‘Jena

In the midst of the media's typically one-sided view of Thursday's civil rights protests in Jena, Louisiana, Jason Whitlock, the black sportswriter who called Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton terrorists during April's Don Imus controversy, penned an op-ed in the Kansas City Star that should be must-reading for all Americans. Entitled "Lessons From Jena, LA," Whitlock's piece marvelously exposed a…
Noel Sheppard

Iran’s Ahmadinejad to Speak at National Press Club Monday

If you still weren't convinced about the media's bias, maybe this will change your mind: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking at the National Press Club on Monday. How delightful. As announced at PR Newswire Friday (h/t Charles Johnson):
Noel Sheppard

Reuters Misleads About Bush Saying 'Mandela's Dead

This one takes the cake as today, Reuters is trying to manufacture a controversy. Apparently Reuters doesn't understand the concept of "context" because they're idiotically claiming that in his Thursday press conference Bush said that Nelson Mandela is dead. Calling what Bush said "an embarrassing gaffe," Reuters took Bush's words out of context to make it seem as if Bush was talking about…
Warner Todd Huston

Weekend Captionfest

Original caption:Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather gestures during an interview on the Fox News Channel in New York, in this June 12, 2007 file photo. Rather filed a $70 million law suit Wednesday against CBS, Viacom and three of his former bosses.
NB Staff

Most Media Still Fail to Question Soros's Motivation in Gold Mine Oppo

Bill Hobbs

Unexpected: Rapper 'Ja Rule' Blasts MTV, Homosexuality

Here's something you don't see every day: A rapper condemning MTV for, of all things, promoting homosexuality. It makes a little more sense, though, when you realize that he only did so to shift the blame from the increased criticism that rap music has come under following the Don Imus "nappy-headed-hos" incident. In an interview with Complex magazine (h/t RightwingSparkle), rapper Jeffrey Atkins…
Matthew Sheffield

Walking Through August's Real Earnings Report for Old Media Outlets Th

I have to figure, after looking at the results of this Google News search on "real earnings" (in quotes), that Old Media business reporters found what came out in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Real Earnings Report too difficult to understand. The search shows that only the Providence Journal among Old Media outlets mentioned the report, which was released Wednesday. So in the interest of…
Tom Blumer

‘Nightly News’ Leads With ‘Jena 6,’ Ignores Beaten White Kid

When members of the Duke University lacrosse team were falsely accused of raping a black stripper last year, media focused great attention on the woman in the middle of the controversy, and the supposed crime. Yet, as pointed out Thursday by NewsBuster Matthew Balan, as the press report activities in Jena, Louisiana, the name of the white boy who was beaten by the "Jena 6," Justin Barker, is…
Noel Sheppard