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Here is video from the Today Show this morning where the "Balloon Boy" Family was on air. The father, Richard Heene, denied that the whole bizarre episode that unfolded yesterday was a "hoax." Meredith Viera asked him to clarify why son, Falcon, said hid in the attack because "we did this for a show." The father essentially said his son was "confused," and shortly after he gave that answer, the boy got sick to his stomach on camera. When asked directly if this was a "hoax," Richard Heene acted indignant and said he was tired of hearing that question. He...

Below is the transcript, followed by the video of today's Today Show interview with conservative icon, Rush Limbaugh. One of the hightlights of the interview was Rush's comment about Sarah Palin: "She's got more of a backbone than any man in the Democrat Party." If you missed part one of Rush Limbaugh's Today Show interview, you can view it here. Scroll to the end of transcript to view recorded video.

Rush Limbaugh, probably the most influential voice in the cause of conservatism, appeared on The Today Show on Monday, October 12. Part 2 of Rush's Today Show interview, which was conducted by Jamie Gangel, will be broadcast tomorrow. Below is the complete transcript of Part 1, preceded by a short exchange between Matt Lauer and Gangel, then followed immediately by the video:

Here is video of a Today Show report discussing whether a British "Texting While Driving" Ad that shows he graphic results that can happen goes too far. The report shows the ad, and then discusses the impact it can have on people, particularly young people, to convince them not to text while driving. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Obama interview on the Today Show this morning with Meredith Viera.

Sarah Palin: Hey Matt... Matt... OK Matt I would say that you and anybody else are extremely naive to believe that very convenient excuse of David Letterman. Sara Palin Was on the Today Show and when Matt Lauer began to look stupid (as he usually does) she made him look worse. Take a look at the video below :

VH1 comedian Chuck Nice appeared on Tuesday's "Today" show and compared Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the sexually transmitted disease herpes. He mocked, "But, Sarah Palin to the GOP, this is what I've got to say, she is very much like herpes, she's not going away." The "Best Week Ever" host amazingly preceded his comments by instructing the show's hosts and his fellow guests, who were there to discuss news events in the 10am hour of the show, "...Please don't take it the way it sounds." Amazingly, no one on the program really challenged Nice on his ugly remark. NBC...

Is NBC re-thinking its ways to take some viewers away from FOX news?

Check out the expression on Brian Williams’ face, and if you have time, view the video. You can almost hear him thinking “yeah, that’s what I’m talking about! Me and The Man in the presidential limo!” There was plenty of time on Today this morning for Barack and Brian’s Excellent Adventure, as they went out for a burger and discussed the constraints of presidential life–he can’t take the girls for an ice cream on a whim, etc. But when it came to reporting on the murder of one US soldier and the wounding of another, time was suddenly short at...

Jessica Valenti, founder of the vaguely pornographic sounding Feministing.com, has decided that there is no such thing as virginity in America's young girls and the Today Show is entirely pleased with itself to give her a national TV venue from which to say so. Never mind how silly it all sounds. On April 22 Valenti and Today pushed the idea that sexually active girls should not be thought of as a problem, that an expectation of virginity is harmful, and that religion is a baneful influence on young women today. Valenti says that if young men can have their sexual...

On Wednesday's "Today" show, NBC's Chuck Todd called the decision of Arlen Specter – a Republican senator who has such a liberal voting record and has been such a constant-thorn-in-the his party that he faced probable defeat in his own primary – to leave the GOP, "devastating." In a piece about Barack Obama's first 100 days that trumpeted his own network's new poll showing high ratings for Obama, Todd buried the GOP: "But for the Republican Party it's devastating, not just to their hopes of slowing President Obama's agenda in Congress but for what it says about the future of...

Transcript of Obama's Interview on Leno 'The Tonight Show'We all are aware of Obama joking about "special olympics"... but it's worse. Leno asked him about the presidential dog (official transcript): Q Wow. And it's, what, a Portuguese water head? (Laughter.) What is it, what kind of dog is it? THE PRESIDENT: It's not that. (Laughter.) Q It's not that. THE PRESIDENT: It's not a "water head." (Laughter.) Q Whatever they are, I don't know what they are. THE PRESIDENT: That sounds like a scary dog. (Laughter.) Sort of dripping around the house. (Laughter.) ... Perfunction blog reports:Except it sure didn't...

Another day, another round in the battle between Jim Cramer and Jon Stewart. Let’s do a quick recap before proceeding to today’s skirmish. As reported here, last week on Today Cramer accused Pres. Obama of the “the greatest wealth destruction I’ve seen by a president.” In retaliation, Jon Stewart, playing the good Obama foot soldier, has tried to undermine Cramer’s credibility by playing clips on the Daily Show of Cramer’s less-than-spot-on stock recommendations. Cramer has fired back, including in this lengthy column. OK, stage set. With Cramer and fellow CNBCer Erin Burnett as guests this morning, Meredith Vieira observed that...

Is Hillary Clinton still feeling defensive about the decision her husband made, and she supported, to return Elian Gonzalez to Cuba? Why else would she make a grotesque analogy between that case and the situation of a boy being kept in Brazil against the wishes of his American father? The Today show highlighted the case this morning of Bruce Goldman and his biological son, Sean. The boy’s mother, then Goldman’s wife, took Sean to her native Brazil in 2004. She divorced Goldman, married another man, then died. The second husband refuses to return Sean to Goldman. Andrea Mitchell interviewed Clinton,...

Governor Bobby Jindal On The Today Show February 25, 2009

Defending himself against Steffie.

After his top-of-Drudge-worthy remarks [video] yesterday on CNBC, you knew Rick Santelli would be on NBC’s Today this morning. Perhaps equally predictable was that the man who argued against making the 92% of responsible Americans paying their mortgages bail out the 8% who aren’t would be subject to the third degree. Or in this case, a triple team. Steve Liesman, also of CNBC, was there to take the other side, but he was clearly playing for the home team alongside Matt Lauer and Brian Williams, pinch-hitting for Meredith Vieira. Neither Lauer nor Williams hit Liesman, who favors the huge mortgage...

MATT LAUER: I sat down with the president at the White House for a wide-ranging conversation. First up, the economy. After failing to win a single House Republican vote for his stimulus plan, I asked the president if he's worried about his promise to build bipartisanship in Washington. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Oh, listen, it's only been ten days. People have to recognize that it's going to take some time for trust to be built, not only between Democrats and Republicans but between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we've had a dysfunctional political system...

Blago was the last person I expected to turn up on Today this morning. But there he was at the end of the first half-hour. And it seems like he might have broken some news. He twice told Meredith Vieira that members of the Illinois state senate offered him a deal that would have allowed him to serve out his term as governor if he agreed to act as a “ghost” governor, and in particular would not appoint a replacement to Barack Obama’s US senate seat. ROD BLAGOJEVICH: "I don’t see myself at all as being shamed or disgraced. I...

The link for this thread goes to The Today Show video.This Link goes to the Jan 5th Hannity & Colmes Coulter interview which You Tube refused to upload, and Google (You Tube's Baby Daddy) removed.This site seems to be a good video repository.

Ann Coulter on the Drudge Story about her being banned for life from NBC: That was from a reliable news report that, by the way, had never, has never had to retract a report on exploding GM trucks. But I do know that, like NBC. Um, it apparently took-It apparently took eight hours for the "Today" show to remember that there was a Wednesday show that I could be invited back to. It took the Drudge Report posting that, for the Wednesday invitation to appear. OK maybe it's the equivalent of taking candy from a baby, but Ann Coulter made...

Here is video from this morning where Ann Coulter took on The Today Show's Matt Lauer. It was fireworks from beginning to end! Classic Ann! . . . . (watch video)

Wait a minute.When NBC’s Today Show – or any of a number of left-leaning main-stream media morning excrement-fests – had on author after author demonizing President Bush during his eight years in the White House, that was perfectly acceptable.When these masters of journalism interviewed endless lefty whinycrat pundits who couldn’t race to the guest chair fast enough to blast the President that was more than reasonable.The fact that we were (and still are) a nation at war would never keep the morning TV video rags from booking as many Bush-slammers as possible.Hey, they're entitled. Free country.(That they call themselves "objective"...

Rosie O'Donnell, right, does a high-five with co-host Meredith Vieira after her interview on the NBC 'Today' television, in New York Monday Nov. 24, 2008.

You might have thought the Freddie/Fannie debacle would have chastened people about government meddling in free markets. But no. NBC would like government to do for health insurers what it's already accomplished in nearly destroying the financial system. What's got the Peacock Network up in arms? Health insurers are charging single women more than men for individual policies. Sounds sexist, no? Perhaps, until you learn the reason: the younger women purchasing such policies use a lot more health care services than their male counterparts. So their insurers wind up paying out a lot more in claims. Simple as that. Under...

Here is video of Gov. Sarah Palin talking with Matt Lauer on The Today Show from Alaska, which aired this morning. More of Lauer's interview with Gov. Palin will air tomorrow on The Today Show. (Earlier, someone posted a link to one part of this interview, but there are two parts. The complete video is found here) . . . (Watch Videos)

If Obama wins on Tuesday night, Chris Matthews's mocking this morning of the notion that the polls are tightening will be soon forgotten. But if McCain pulls off the upset, Matthews's show of smirking triumphalism will take its place in the halls of journalistic hubris near the famous photo of Harry Truman holding up the Dewey Defeats Truman front page. Just before Matthews came on, Andrea Mitchell ended her set-up segment by mentioning that the McCain campaign had released internal polls showing the race tied in the battleground states. When Meredith Vieira opened the Matthews interview by asking him to...

<p>NEW YORK — NBC News reporter Luke Russert said he made a "dumb" misstatement on the "Today" show Wednesday when he suggested that smart people supported Barack Obama for president.</p> <p>Almost immediately, Russert took a hazing in the Web world. Wrote Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center on the NewsBusters blog: "Out of the mouths of young, untrained reporters come the unspoken beliefs of the liberal media."</p>

NBC's "Today Show" this morning covered the battleground state of Virginia, and interviewed a family named "The Jansen's" from Leesburg, VA. Until recently, Ann Jansen and her husband Stacey (sp?) had been 'undecided' between Obama or McCain, but have now opted on voting for Obama. What the piece fails to point out is that Ann Jansen is a bigtime Democratic campaign official/contributor in Loudoun County, VA, or as someone in the D.C. Radio & Television blog pointed out this morning: "Today show gets duped!!! On the Today Show they highlighted a Leesburg, VA family who claimed to be a family...

He may have lost his Today Show gig but it was probably worth it.

Add Monica Conyers's name to that list of Dems run afoul of the law whose party affiliation the MSM fails to mention. The Detroit City Council President Pro Tem, a Democrat and an Obama supporter, has made unwelcome headlines before, from getting into an argument with an eight-grader to allegedly threatening to shoot an aide to the Detroit mayor. Now things have taken a turn for the worse. According to the Detroit News in an article today entitled Bribe probe ensnarls Conyers: "Federal investigators have electronic surveillance evidence that allegedly links Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers with...

Thursday’s "Today Show" gave yet another demonstration that the mainstream media can’t get over the success of Rush Limbaugh. NBC correspondent Michael Okwu, reporting on Limbaugh’s new contract, which the New York Times has indicated is worth $400 million, "reminded" viewers of three past "controversies" involving the talk radio host: his 2003 resignation from ESPN after remarking on the sport media’s coverage of NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb; how Limbaugh mocked Michael J. Fox, "accusing the actor of exaggerating symptoms of Parkinson's Disease;" and the legal trouble he faced in Florida related to his addiction to prescription painkillers. On this "doctor...

If you would like to see the whole video of Scott McClownan reminding us all just what a shaky and incompetent public speaker he always was, please click on the link. He claims to still have great affection for President Bush. Good luck with that. I'd like to hear Ari make the rounds to talk about what a liar his deputy press secretary is.

What legitimate journalistic purpose did this serve? In a segment narrated by Pete Williams on the apparent suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called DC Madam, this morning's Today played the tape of the 911 phone call made by Pelfrey's 76-year old mother, who had discovered her daughter's body. Of all the 911 calls I've heard, this was the most anguished and heart-rending.

NEW YORK - First lady Laura Bush will be "guest host" for an hour of NBC's "Today" show next week. The network said she'll host the 9 a.m. EDT hour April 22, the morning of the Pennsylvania primary. By that time in the four-hour morning show, politics is usually set aside for issues that affect women, who make up the majority of the audience during that time period. Mrs. Bush will participate in several segments and interviews, NBC said Tuesday.

When is a billion-dollar loss a bonanza? When the person suffering it is one of those greedy Wall Street types the MSM loves to hate. Check out how, in opening this morning's show, Today cast the situation of Bear Stearns Chairman James Cayne: MATT LAUER: Payday! His company imploded and thousands of stockholders went bust, but the Chairman of Bear Stearns cashes in and gets $61 million dollars. Will there be a backlash? Watching the intro, I assumed the Chairman, despite Bears' fall, had received some kind of bonus or golden handshake. But it wasn't until Maria Bartiromo came on...

Here in Ithaca and no doubt in other liberal bastions across the land, you can still see cars festooned with those bitter bumper stickers: "Re-Defeat Bush!" and "Bush: Selected, Not Elected!" Those sentiments remain reflected in an MSM still smarting from Florida 2000. All of which made Ann Curry's words on this morning's Today, announcing the ascendancy of Raul Castro in Cuba, so ironic. ANN CURRY: In the news this morning, we begin with Cuba and its new president in nearly half a century. Raul Castro was officially chosen on Sunday to take over from his brother Fidel who announced...

"It's not a very long run. It'll be over by February 5." -- Hillary Clinton, 'This Week,' Dec. 30, 2007. That was Hillary less than two months ago. Here she was on this morning's Today. MEREDITH VIEIRA: So no matter what happens in Texas and Ohio, you will go on. HILLARY CLINTON: Well Meredith, I don't make predictions. I never have, I never will. I just get up every day and, you know, do the best I can to let people know what I have done and what I am doing and what I will do. If it's true, as...

Call it Today's homage to John Lennon: imagine there're no conservatives. The NBC show so much enjoyed the conservative-free citizens panel it hosted back in November that it brought it back this morning. As I wrote about at the time, two timid Republicans were pitted against two partisan Dems. In November, one of the "Republicans," Susie O'Neil, claimed that the country is in decline due to the war "and because corporations are totally influencing our Members of Congress and the Senate." Call Susie a Michael Moore Republican. The other Republican on the panel back then, Sarah Hungerford, said she was...

On this Super Sunday, it's fitting I suppose that Mike Huckabee would be out there blocking and tackling for Team McCain. Appearing on this morning's Today show, the former Arkansas governor made a pro forma claim that he's still running for president and not the veep slot. But Huckabee certainly seemed to be acting as what Mark Steyn described in a recent Hugh Hewitt interview as McCain's "wing man." Consider Huckabee's reply to a question from Sunday co-host Jenna Wolfe [a resident, coincidentally, of Chappaqua, NY, home to Bill and Hillary.] Video at link.

On this morning’s Today show, NBC’s David Gregory challenged Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards about his vote for the Iraq war, his relative lack of experience, and his divisive us-vs-them rhetoric. But Gregory had absolutely no reaction when Edwards grandly claimed that his phone call to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in the hours after the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto “was a calming influence” that helped stabilize an “international crisis” and was proof he is “ready for the Presidency.” “We just had this, this international crisis in Pakistan that is still ongoing. And my response to that was...

Could it have been just a couple days ago that Chris Matthews claimed that the media had made a "mascot" out of Mike Huckabee? You wouldn't know it from this morning's Today show. Weekend host Lester Holt kicked off the show's political segment by implying that among presidential candidates, Huckabee was the big loser in his handling of the Pakistani situation. LESTER HOLT: The murder of Benazir Bhutto is having a big impact on the presidential race here in this country, where we now stand just five days from the first contest, in Iowa, and it's forcing Republican Mike Huckabee...

NBC says some find bookcase and Christmas lights offensive Candidate wishing voters Merry Christmas upsets some folks The latest effort to spread the idea that religion has no place in the public square comes as a response to a TV spot produced by presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. I urge you to watch the two video clips I have placed in this e-mail. First, is the ad by former Governor Huckabee wishing people a Merry Christmas. Click here to watch the 30-second ad. Next, is a clip from the Today Show (Dec. 18), hosted by Meredith Vieira, on which Governor...

When David Gregory grilled Hillary Clinton on Today on December 17th, the challenges to her came from his own mouth. Not once was a statement by Barack Obama used to confront Hillary. But when Barack Obama made back-to-back appearances this morning on Today and Morning Joe, again and again tough questions were posed not in the first person but as coming from Hillary Clinton or her surrogates. View video here.

Discussing the controversy surrounding his latest campaign ad and the broader issue of his invocation of religion in his political campaign, the normally good-natured Mike Huckabee turned . . . cross on this morning's Today. And while contending he wanted to promote a kinder tone at this time of year, the candidate came prepared to take some pointed shots at Mitt Romney. View video here.

It's official: Time magazine hates Dick Cheney. Last week, I noted here that two of Time's Top 10 Editorial Cartoons of 2007, including it's # 1 pick, took shots at the Vice-President. This morning, two Time editors turned up on the Today show to discuss more picks from Time's collection of 50 Top 10 lists and, speaking of taking shots . . . . View video here. Today weekend anchor Amy Robach's guest was Time's Arts & Entertainment Editor Belinda Luscombe [pictured below]. After discussing the Top Song of the year ["Rehab" by defiant druggy Amy Winehouse] and Top Gadget...

A Google alert this morning brought an article about a speech in which NBC's Lester Holt claimed that he and his MSM colleagues "are perfectly capable of putting [their] personal bias aside." Holt went to state that "the level of organized attacks against news organizations from the blogosphere and even from competitors in recent years is unprecedented and disturbing." Less than an hour later there was Holt on the Today show . . . which proceeded to run a segment typifying the very kind of bias he claims the MSM is "perfectly capable" of putting aside.

How overmatched were the two lukewarm-at-best Republicans that "Today" threw in against two partisan Dems this morning? If NBC Sunday Night Football scheduled this unfair a fight, Al Michaels would be calling the play-by-play of the Little Sisters of Mercy against the New England Patriots. The Today show's farce of a "voter panel" was invited to discuss politics and the state of the country this morning. With tens of millions of voters to choose from, NBC can of course contrive any cross-section it wants. So the views expressed by the participants say relatively little about the mood of the country...

Quick -- somebody check. Did Al Gore win his Nobel prize for "peace," or did it perhaps come in a new Nobel category: comedy? You really have to wonder in the wake of his side-splitting appearance on this morning's "Today." Al, that inveterate card, actually claimed that the MSM's coverage of global warming is . . . too balanced. View video here.

Given his show's modest ratings, it's unlikely that Keith Olbermann would be in a position to make a multi-million dollar donation to charity anytime soon. But let's imagine he did. Do you think that, in a segment on a related subject, NBC might find a moment to mention Olbermann's generosity? So do I. But "Today" managed to get through its report this morning about Rush Limbaugh's auctioning off of the Harry Reid letter . . . without mentioning that Rush has publicly pledged to match the $2.1 million winning bid. View video here.