CNN's Velshi Bullies National Review Contributor for Factual Statement

Matt Hadro
June 2nd, 2011 5:56 PM
When National Review's Jim Geraghty noted on CNN Thursday that the national unemployment rate has been higher through Obama's two years in office than at any time during Bush's two terms, and that the news could hurt Obama in the upcoming election, CNN's Ali Velshi would have none of it. Velshi interrupted Geraghty and sternly rebuked his premise, decreeing that "with all due respect, that's…
 

Dan Rather Has Cameo in Forthcoming Alien Invasion Flick 'Skyline

NB Staff
August 11th, 2010 5:04 PM
It may well be Dan Rather's finest hour. Make that his finest five seconds.The disgraced former "Evening News" anchor apparently has a brief cameo in "Skyline," an alien invasion flick landing in theaters on November 12. Rather isn't the only liberal journalist featured in the film. Self-described socialist and sometime "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" guest host Lawrence O'Donnell is also…
 

Bill Press: Beck a 'Ticking Time Bomb'; Warns Ailes Will 'Be Sorry' Th

Jeff Poor
November 29th, 2009 4:38 PM
Glenn Beck - he has one of the highest-rated shows on the top cable news network. He's had a number of bestselling books and he's called attention to some unsavory characters working in the Obama administration. Yet - he's somehow considered to be a risky business decision for the powers in charge at Fox News. On CNN's Nov. 29 "Reliable Sources," host Howard Kurtz pointed out Glenn Beck accusing…
 

Kurtz and 'Reliable Sources' Panel Agree: Blaming Shooting Sprees on C

Noel Sheppard
June 14th, 2009 6:52 PM
When four members of the media, only one of them decidely right-leaning, agree on something, viewers should pay heed: blaming conservative talk show hosts whenever someone goes on an unprovoked shooting spree is wrong.Such was the unanimous conclusion reached on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" when host Howard Kurtz and his guests -- Mark Halperin of Time magazine, Ana Marie Cox of Air America Radio…
 

Independent's 'Great Depression' Photo Was From 2005 Coat Drive

Ken Shepherd
April 2nd, 2008 3:41 PM
The April 1 Independent story about a looming "Great Depression" in the United States was positively risible. But as Jim Geraghty at National Review Online noted yesterday, the stark-looking photo for the paper's story (at right via Getty Images) was three years old.:Their caption: "Disadvantaged Americans queue for aid in New York."Here's the actual caption from Getty Images: