CNN's King Played Softball With Gore, But Pressed Cheney With Hard Que

Matthew Balan

Environmentalists Sign Petition Banning Water

On a regular basis, anthropogenic global warming skeptics wonder how folks like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and his band of not so merry climate change sycophants can so easily get seemingly intelligent people to buy their junk science hook, line, and sinker. With this in mind, the comedy duo of Penn and Teller set out to see whether they could get people at an Earth Day rally called "WorldFest" to…
Noel Sheppard

Wacky Dem Mike Gravel Rants Against Iraq, Crashes Cab

Video (0:55): Real (1.51 MB) or Windows (1.74 MB), plus MP3 audio (305 kB)As part of a new segment on the "Today" show called "Candidate Cribs," NBC's Jonathan Alter went on a cab ride, with Democratic candidate Mike Gravel behind the wheel. However, Alter received more than a calm cruise through the city from the former Alaskan senator. In a gimmicky stunt, meant to showcase the candidate's past…
Geoffrey Dickens

Murdoch Purchase of Journal Is about Stocks not Bonds

News Corp. purchase of Dow Jones shows owner is savvier than competition or critics.
Dan Gainor

ABC’s Popularity Advice to Dick Cheney: Reach Out and ‘Talk to Doo

On Wednesday’s "Good Morning America," ABC reporters offered advice to Dick Cheney on how to resuscitate his "rock bottom poll numbers." The network featured clips from a Bush-bashing cartoon and correspondent Cokie Roberts even suggested that if the Vice President wants to change his image, he needs to do it on "Jon Stewart and maybe talk to Doonesbury." The Claire Shipman-hosted segment, which…
Scott Whitlock

NYT Court Reporter: Will Justice Roberts' Seizure Make Him More Compas

Clay Waters

Whoopi Goldberg to Replace Rosie O'Donnell on 'The View

Justin McCarthy

CAIR Photo for American Muslim Survey Uses Brunei Mosque Picture

Update/retraction (13:11): Missed the update on LGF. It is in fact an image of a mosque in Brunei. My apologies to CAIR and to NewsBusters readers. "Little Green Footballs" noticed yesterday that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is cheering the impending crimes prosecution of a Pace University student for putting a Koran in a toilet, depicted the US Capitol dome as though…
Ken Shepherd

Malkin: Media Ignore Christian Missionaries Brutalized, Killed by Isla

Ken Shepherd

Genie Out of the Bottle: 'U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Cou

Climate change alarmism met the infamous Oil for Food scam at the United Nations Tuesday.As a result, if you had any questions regarding why the U.N. has been the point-man on driving global warming hysteria throughout America and around the world, they were all answered. In fact, the genie was let out of the proverbial bottle by this Reuters headline: "U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at…
Noel Sheppard

Today's WSJ Tweaks Liberal Critics of Sale to Murdoch; 'Can't Decide W

Rich Noyes

Open Thread

Wonderful Wednesday.Something possibly to discuss: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said yesterday that the U.S. should be willing to attack al Qaeda inside Pakistan with or without Pakistan's permission. This from someone that wants an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Any thoughts?
NB Staff

Seized in a Coup? Tabloid Headlines for Murdoch's Dow Jones Deal

Rival newspapers are not calmly reporting the news that Rupert Murdoch has sealed the deal to buy The Wall Street Journal for a royal sum. The Washington Post front page headline today makes Rupert sound like he came in with tanks, not just cash: "Murdoch Seizes Wall St. Journal In $5 Billion Coup." Liberals must really see this tycoon as some sort of press-baron version of Pinochet.In New York,…
Tim Graham

Huffington: Hillary 'Swiftboated' Obama

Don't look for Arianna Huffington to be sitting down to a chummy luncheon with Hillary Clinton anytime soon. Huffington has been no fan of Clinton for some time, considering her insufficiently, and inauthentically, anti-war. But on today's "Morning Joe," Huffington took her animus to another level, accusing Hillary of an ultimate Dem sin: "swiftboating" an opponent, namely Barack Obama.…
Mark Finkelstein