CBS's Julie Chen Endorses Leonardo DiCaprio's Alarmist Film

Justin McCarthy
 

CBS ‘Evening News’ Accuses Recently Bankrupt Airline of Being Stin

Paul Detrick
 

Meredith Vieira Blames Lack of Health Insurance for Americans' Shorten

Geoffrey Dickens
 

ABC's Cuomo Bemoans 'Crashing' of Stock Market – er, 'Legalized Gamb

Julia A. Seymour
 

Blogger Takes on WashPost's Juvenile Style Section Item on Fred Thomps

I saw this yesterday but didn't work up anything on it. Basically it's a lame Style section front-pager from Sunday that fixates on how dull/boring/lame/stupid-sounding the name "Fred" is, and what that means for presumptive GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Fortunately Myra Langerhas of "Snarking Dawg" worked up a snarky blog post and so I thought I'd share that with you. Below is the…
Ken Shepherd
 

NYT's Poster Child for Islamic Moderates Falls off the Poster

NYT May 4: "The principal, Debbie Almontaser...has been vilified on Web sites as having an 'Islamist agenda.'" NYT August 11: Almontaser "resigned under pressure after she was quoted defending the use of the word 'intifada' as a T-shirt slogan."
Clay Waters
 

Upcoming Health Hazard Alert: Hide Your Coffee, Girl Overdoses on Espr

Alert, Alert!! Hide your grinders, pack up those coffee makers and throw away those grounds. Coffee may be hazardous to your health!Is anybody willing to take bets on how long it will take before the food intake police call on the coffee and refreshment industry to place warning labels on products containing caffeine? A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.Jasmine…
Terry Trippany
 

Seven Astronauts' Lives Hang in Global Warming Balance

The screaming left is always going on about the lives that will be lost from the global warming boogeyman, yet I can't find a single newspaper willing to confront the seven lives that may be lost on Wednesday because of it. You may recall how Clinton/Gore EPA regulations forced NASA to switch to a freon-free foam, one that doesn't stick to the tanks, one that causes up to 11 times more damage to…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Chris Matthews Hungers For Karl Rove's Scalp

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Network Look at Markets: 'Armageddon' or 'Nearly 3 Percent' Drop

NBC's Cramer continues his agenda, CBS provides the temperate voice.
Jeff Poor
 

How Important Was NASA’s Change to Historical Climate Data Last Week

Last week's revelation by Climate Audit's Steve McIntyre of a serious mistake and subsequent changes made by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the temperature history of America has created quite a debate in the new media. While conservative bloggers were quick to point out the hypocrisy regarding the lack of an official announcement from GISS chief James Hansen as well as the…
Noel Sheppard
 

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate...
NB Staff
 

NY Times Provides Cover for Dem Shift on Iraq: 'U.S. Can't Walk Away

Mark Finkelstein
 

Margaret Carlson: 'Democratic Base Is Really the Middle American Base

The left-wing AFL-CIO union labor and Human Rights Campaign gay rights forums with Democratic presidential candidates held last week “suggest to me that the Democratic base is really the middle American base now,” former Time magazine Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Margaret Carlson declared on Sunday's Meet the Press. During the roundtable, Carlson, now a columnist for Bloomberg News and…
Brent Baker