Hypocritical Media Bashing of Mrs. Fred Thompson

A very peculiar thing is happening with a normally feminist media that has the potential to have a huge impact on the 2008 presidential campaign.As press outlets go out of their way to advance the presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton, and laud the first female Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, attacks on Jeri Thompson, the wife of soon-to-be candidate Fred Thompson, are quite in vogue.It…
Noel Sheppard

Name-Calling Cafferty Criticizes Boehner's ‘Wimp' Comment on CNN

Matthew Balan

Cindy Sheehan Confronted by Bush Supporter, Gets Booted By Daily Kos

Thursday was a bad day for anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.First, she got booted from the ultra-liberal website Daily Kos (h/t Ace) due to her decision to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California).Then, during a visit to Montgomery, Alabama, as part of her “Summer of Love 2007” tour, Cindy was confronted by a Bush supporter who actually asked a rather cogent question that frankly few…
Noel Sheppard

Open Thread

Happy Friday!
NB Staff

Charlie Gibson Recycles Joke About Amateurish Bloggers As 'Citizen Sur

Tim Graham

Good Grief. Time Magazine Calls Democrats 'The New Moral Majority

Time magazine has a lengthy piece on Democrats and religion called, "How the Democrats Got Religion." (HT: Drudge) (Btw, the original title on the web yesterday was "Leveling the Praying Field.") It focuses on efforts by Democrats (most notably, Sens. Obama, Clinton, and Edwards) to attract voters who are religious. There is certainly an attempt at balance in the article, but the folks at the DNC…
Dave Pierre

'Today': Natalie Knocks W for Reminding Congress He's Commander-in-Chi

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States. -- U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 2.The faces occasionally change at "Today," but the bias remains the same. Natalie Morales sat in for Meredith Vieira this morning, but the show didn't lose a liberal beat…
Mark Finkelstein

Party Label Disparity in AP Coverage of Crooked Politicians

So let's see, a Democratic former North Carolina state House Speaker gets sentenced to prison for five years and fined $50,000 for bribery. The Associated Press covers the story and doesn't give readers his party affiliation until the 6th paragraph.But a Florida Republican state legislator is only arrested for solicitation of oral sex from an undercover male police officer, and his party…
Ken Shepherd

MSM Highlight GOP 'Defections', Ignore Dems Voting Against Their Own

We are seeing all over the MSM the reports highlighting the Republicans in the House and Senate who are turning away from the Party line and voting against -- or at least seeming to vote against -- the President's Iraq war policies. The MSM is presenting this revolt as a momentous thing, unprecedented and presenting it as a loss for the President's ideas. Yet, even as a small number of…
Warner Todd Huston

Don't Use the 'A' Word

Media tout condom use, ignore increase in abstinence to explain record low teen birth rate.
Kristen Fyfe

Irresponsibility and the Internet

Miss New Jersey pays a price for juvenile shenanigans.
Colleen Raezler

Perturbed Reid Chastises ABC's Tapper for Questioning Withdrawal: 'Thi

ABC's Jake Tapper on Thursday night raised the prediction “genocide” will result after a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, a forecast Tapper put to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at a Capitol Hill news conference: “Do you think the Iraqi people will be safer with U.S. troops out?” Reid didn't respond to the point, leading Tapper to retort in the exchange played on World News: “You didn't answer my…
Brent Baker

'World News' Ga-Ga Over Penguin Protection

Julia A. Seymour

Banks Draw Fire from CBS for Charging Fees

Apparently, “CBS Evening News” thinks it shouldn’t be your responsibility to remember to balance your checkbook. Anthony Mason’s July 11 report bashed banks for *GASP* profiting from overdraft fees.“Banks are cashing in on overdrafts, raking in more than $17 billion in fees last year, according to the Center for Responsible Lending” said Mason.The segment, called "Hidden Charges," did not include…
Julia A. Seymour