Fox News Follies: Shep Smith Ad Libs During Fire Alarm

Nothing biased here, just an amusing video to kick off your weekend. Yesterday shortly after 3:30 p.m. Eastern on "Studio B," Fox News anchor Shep Smith cracked up his guests and crew by joking about the all-too-frequent incidence of false fire alarms at Fox News Headquarters in New York.Enjoy the YouTube video embedded below the fold.
Ken Shepherd

Open Thread

Thank God it's...well, you know...
NB Staff

Krauthammer's Wisdom on 'Malevolent Clown' on Display at 'Today

Scanning the columns at Townhall.com is part of my early-morning routine, and it was at about 6 A.M. today that I read Charles Krauthammer's "Obama Bombing." I marveled at how perfectly the Pulitzer Prize-winning author had captured the essence of Hugo Chavez, calling the Venezuelan thug "a malevolent clown."Krauthammer's words obviously impressed Matt Lauer, too. For barely an hour later, I was…
Mark Finkelstein

Newsweek of McCain's Implosion: America 'Won't Listen to a Military Ma

One of the chief reasons that Republicans in general and Conservatives in particular were always wary of John "the maverick" McCain is the slobbering love that the MSM so constantly lavished upon him. The MSM is so distrusted that their love for McCain relayed to the country that there must be something wrong with him. As his campaign descends into ever lower depths of disarray, we may begin to…
Warner Todd Huston

John Edwards Poverty Tour Bombed? Shame, It's a 'Nation's Inability to

Newsweek’s Jonathan Darman lamented this week that the John Edwards poverty tour/publicity tour didn’t passionately grip America, that it did not immediately become a mythic event, like filthy-rich Bobby Kennedy's poverty tour in 1968. In a dramatic flourish, the young Harvard-educated whipper-snapper blames this tragedy on not-very-compassionate America: "There is something tragic about Edwards'…
Tim Graham

The Gentleman and the Juicer

Cal Ripken Jr. is a striking contrast to Barry Bonds.
Robert Knight

Media Give Short Shrift to Pro-Illegal Alien Judgment

Nearly every news organization that covered the court decision voiding Hazleton, Penn.'s immigration laws sided with the illegals.
David Niedrauer

Paying it Forward, One Organ at a Time

ABC's feature on an organ donor's generosity brightens a dreary news week.
Kristen Fyfe

Out This Weekend: The Simpsons Movie

Grownup cartoon satire often imitated, but never equaled.
Colleen Raezler

Old Media Again Claim Declining New-Home Prices by Ignoring Changes in

Yesterday, Brent Baker at NewsBusters caught the Old Media emphasis on the decline in existing-home unit sales, even though the median existing-home price went up. CBS and Katie Couric apparently invoked the Great Depression in their existing-home sales commentary (I think any number of those 90 and older could say: "I knew the Depression, and Katie, this is no Depression."). Today we have the…
Tom Blumer

NBC Nightly News Profiles Female Sergeant Fulfilling 'Dream' of Servin

Thursday's NBC Nightly News combined the usual with the unusual for an evening newscast story: A breast cancer survivor story which would appeal to woman and a look at an Army Sergeant who has now fulfilled her 'dream' of getting to serve in Iraq, hardly a view expressed very often on network news. Anchor Brian Williams introduced the profile: “Tonight we have a story of a woman who is serving…
Brent Baker

Sally Quinn: 'If You Talk to Dictators You Can Immediately Get Them on

Mark Finkelstein

EPA to Probe Threatening E-Mail Sent to Global Warming Skeptic

On July 13, NewsBusters reported that Michael T. Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, sent an e-mail message to Dr. Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute threatening to destroy his career: If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. During a hearing of the Senate Environment and…
Noel Sheppard

Don't Inhale -- Obesity's Contagious

Media take obesity study seriously, worry that extra pounds are 'spreading' 'like a virus.'
Jeff Poor