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July 15th, 2009 7:31 PM | Matthew Balan
During CNN’s coverage of the Sotomayor hearings on Wednesday, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin implied that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to uphold the Second Amendment was revolutionary: “When I was…
July 15th, 2009 2:02 PM | Dan Kennedy
Rejoice! The Amazing Ozbama is slowly disintegrating into OOPS-Bama.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the quietly growing, simmering buyers’ remorse - the realization that the President…
July 15th, 2009 12:11 PM | Matthew Balan
Keith Olbermann, one of MSNBC’s resident leftists posing as anchors, named Jim Robinson, the founder of FreeRepublic.com, as his runner-up on his “Worst Person in the World” feature on his…
July 15th, 2009 10:51 AM | Brent Baker
CNN's Wolf Blitzer late Tuesday afternoon characterized it as “an incredibly important exchange” and a “very, very dramatic moment” when Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor “concurred” with Senator…
July 15th, 2009 7:00 AM | Tim Graham
I don’t judge a president by his ceremonial pitching. (I'd have to hire a stunt president.) But the Yahoo Sports! blog Big League Stew thought the Fox camera shot of President Obama’s St. Louis…
July 14th, 2009 8:44 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN on Friday turned again to The Daily Beast’s John Avlon for his designated “wingnuts”on the left and right, but he was much more critical of his right-wing selection. Avlon picked Rep. Henry…
July 14th, 2009 2:46 AM | Warner Todd Huston
**Video Below the Fold**
If you want to see how liberals in the media “do” their thing, nothing has been a better example than the analysis by CNN’s Jeffery Toobin. We’ve highlighted some…
July 13th, 2009 7:13 PM | Matthew Balan
On Monday’s Newsroom program, CNN’s senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin stuck with his analysis of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor from late June- that the judge was “mainstream,” and that it…
July 13th, 2009 4:45 PM | Clay Waters
On Saturday Barack Obama visited the West African nation of Ghana, held up as a standard of good government (by regional standards) and delivered a "tough love" speech to the entire continent.…
July 13th, 2009 2:10 PM | Matthew Balan
[Update, 2:34 pm Eastern: Audio and video clips from the report posted.]
Despite the change in administration, CNN’s Michael Ware, who regularly issued doom-and-gloom reports on Iraq in past…
July 11th, 2009 8:42 PM | Noel Sheppard
Future attorneys are taught in law school to never ask a witness a question they don't already know the answer to. On Saturday, CNN's Don Lemon learned this lesson the hard way.
Well after…
July 10th, 2009 10:27 AM | NB Staff
Topics in today's show: Iraqis take over security in Iraq, North Korea's nuclear program, CNN's ratings continue to fall, and a Ukrainian village wants to name itself after…
July 9th, 2009 11:26 PM | Tim Graham
John Cook of the gossip website Gawker discovered that the White House press elite partied down with President Obama on ahem, Independence Day:
Reporters from roughly 30 television…
July 9th, 2009 9:36 AM | P.J. Gladnick
When last we left CNN co-founder, Reese Schonfeld, he was in a deep funk over the horrible ratings of the network he helped create. He had hoped that the election of Barack Obama as president…
July 8th, 2009 7:39 PM | Matthew Balan
Wednesday’s Situation Room program on CNN devoted nearly three times as much time to clips from advocates of overturning the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy than the one sound bite from…
July 8th, 2009 5:56 PM | Colleen Raezler
There's no doubt about it. Celebrity is the media's top priority.
Michael Jackson's June 25 death overshadowed all other news for almost two weeks.
Nightly news programs on ABC, CBS…
July 7th, 2009 2:39 AM | Brent Baker
Two days after Sunday's Washington Post carried a letter from a woman who asked “where was the coverage of my nephew or the other soldiers” who were killed in the days after Michael Jackson died,…
July 6th, 2009 11:41 PM | Tim Graham
CNN sent its deputy political editor Paul Steinhauser to Capitol Hill on Saturday morning to file a few reports from a Fourth of July Tea Party protest at Upper Senate Park. In no way did he…
July 6th, 2009 6:32 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty revisited his favorite punching bag on Monday’s Situation Room: Sarah Palin. After referring to one of Palin’s reasons for her resignation, that she wanted to avoid…
July 6th, 2009 4:03 PM | Mike Sargent
On July 6, CNN’s American Morning may have positioned themselves as a fly in the White House’s public health-care ointment. In a story on Senator Mitch McConnell’s recent comments regarding…
July 5th, 2009 11:40 PM | Ken Shepherd
MSNBC anchor and Keith Olbermann wannabe David Shuster is so beside himself with glee over Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation that he's eager to let the whole world -- or at least some 18,000+…
July 5th, 2009 11:01 PM | Tim Graham
CNN daytime anchor Don Lemon appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday to come strongly to the defense of Michael Jackson, whom he saluted twice as an "accidental civil rights leader." Lemon…
July 5th, 2009 5:19 PM | Noel Sheppard
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell apparently can't do a television interview anymore without going after conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Unfortunately, Sunday wasn't any…
July 5th, 2009 2:08 AM | Brent Baker
A new low for ABC News? ABC decided Saturday to bump its daytime soap operas (and, in the MDT/PDT, a re-run of The View -- so that's an upside) to provide live coverage at 1 PM EDT/12 PM CDT/11 AM…
July 4th, 2009 8:53 PM | Brent Baker
Picking up on how CNN anchor Suzanne Malveaux hailed, as “a bold display of presidential concern,” President Obama hugging a woman at Wednesday's health care forum, Jim Pinkerton, on FNC's Fox…