Jon Stewart Slams Rachel Maddow (!) for Politicizing US Response to Ea
There's hope for Jon Stewart yet.Here's Stewart from Thursday's "The Daily Show" lambasting what he perceived as ideological responses to the cataclysm in Haiti (click here for link to video at Air America site) --STEWART: Clearly the story people care about right now is the earthquake that devastated Haiti. It is unspeakable as a tragedy. It's still unfolding. Aid groups are coordinating their…
Stewart Rips Maddow for Using Haitian Disaster to Bash Bush, Maddow Fo
Comedian Jon Stewart on Thursday mocked MSNBC's Rachel Maddow for using the tragedy in earthquake-rattled Haiti to bash former President George W. Bush.Not appreciating the ribbing, Maddow foolishly responded on her own program Friday proving once and for all that liberal media members love Jon Stewart -- as long as his target is conservatives, that is.Precipitating the spat was the MSNBCer on…
NFL Saturday Playoffs Open Thread
Saints are giving 7 points to the Cardinals. With the way the Saints finished the season, and how strong the Cards look, isn't that too much?Colts are giving the Ravens 6 1/2 points. Ditto?
Hope and Change? WaPo Highlights Left-Wing Predictions of Worsening Un
The Washington Post publicizing a report by the liberal Economic Policy Institute (EPI), written helpfully enough that the word "liberal" isn’t used, is usually a media-bias staple for economic gearheads. But Friday’s Post report by V. Dion Haynes might be seen by other Obama-helpers in the media as an unwelcome story. The headline: "U.S. unemployment rate for blacks projected to hit 25-year high…
Worst. 'Recovery.' Ever. Two Fed Charts Old Media Probably Won't Like
The Federal Reserve of Minneapolis has posted a series of charts (HT Ed Morrissey at Hot Air) comparing the current recession -- as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, not as normal people define it, a point I'll get to later in this post -- to previous recessions dating back to the end of World War II. The charts definitely show how utterly wrong reporters like the Associated…
Murder, Schmurder: KY Census Worker Planned Suicide, per AP, Yet Old S
Today, Roger Alford and Bruce Schreiner of the Associated Press, reporting from Frankfort, KY, are giving leftist bloggers, columnists, journalists who assumed or gave the impression of assuming that the death of Census worker Bill Sparkman was some kind of right-wing hit job another chance to come clean with an unconditional "I was wrong, I amy sorry." The list of those needing to post…
Ad for Chris Matthews Special Derides Tea Party Protesters Who Are
An ad for a new Chris Matthews special featured the MSNBC host complaining about tea party protesters who are "threatened" by an African American President. As pictures of protests appeared onscreen, Matthews derided, "For the first time, we have an African American head of state. But, there’s always going to be people who challenge it, who are threatened by it." The special, Obama’s America:…
Eleanor Clift: Pro-Choice Pelosi Is 'Unshaken... In Her Catholic Faith
Lamenting how Nancy Pelosi's archbishop has "slap[ped] her down," in an online statement addressing the House Speaker's excuse-making for her pro-abortion record, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift used a January 15 Gaggle blog post to praise Pelosi, no stranger to pastoral rebuke, as both a good pro-choice Democrat and a good Catholic: It's anybody's guess whether in the new world of Internet media the…
New Rasmussen Survey: Voters See Media As Liberal, Biased & Too Powerf
A new survey from Scott Rasmussen finds that more than half of all voters (51%) believe "the average reporter is more liberal than they are," and two-thirds (67%) think the media have "too much power and influence over government decisions."Rasmussen's poll was released Thursday. Perhaps proving the point, on Friday, MSNBC anchor Savannah Guthrie reacted to polls showing the Democrats losing…