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Multimillionaire Tim Robbins Tells Protesters 'You Can't Rip People Of
October 13th, 2011 12:34 PM
NewsBusters on Wednesday shared a list of the top ten richest celebrities that have so far expressed their support for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Currently in ninth place is actor Tim Robbins who recently told protesters, "You can't rip people off that long and expect to get away with it," (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Fareed Zakaria Agrees With Obama: America IS Getting Soft
October 9th, 2011 11:37 AM
Barack Obama took a lot of heat last week for saying America has "gotten a little soft."
Not from Fareed Zakaria who when not advising the president on foreign policy acts as one of his propaganda czars every Sunday on CNN (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Cavuto Corners Dem Congressman Supporting Wall Street Protesters: Why
October 5th, 2011 11:55 PM
A number of Democratic members of Congress came out Wednesday throwing their support behind the protest known as Occupy Wall Street.
Fox News's Neil Cavuto interviewed one of them on Your World marvelously asking Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.), "So why didn’t you celebrate when Tea Partiers were running around the country and protesting all the spending and protesting the budget and the debt…

The Idiocy of the Media, Michael Moore and Occupy Wall Street
October 4th, 2011 1:03 AM
As young, foolish, unemployed Americans Occupy Wall Street, liberals in the media have predictably cheered the protests.
Some, like schlockumentarian Michael Moore, participated in the goings on, telling the crowd last week that the folks inside the buildings surrounding them were solely responsible for the nation’s economic woes (video follows with transcript and extensive commentary):

Bill O'Reilly Scolds Jon Stewart for Not Knowing About Government's
September 29th, 2011 11:30 AM
Liberals love to put comedian Jon Stewart up on a pedestal as being the most intelligent man on television aware of all that's impacting the nation.
On Wednesday's "Daily Show," guest Bill O'Reilly of Fox News exposed the host for having missed a major story last week about almost unthinkable waste in government spending (video follows with transcript and commentary):

CBS Tries Its Darndest To Get Gov. Daniels To Trash GOP Field
September 26th, 2011 6:36 PM
On Monday's Early Show, CBS's Jim Axelrod pressed Gov. Mitch Daniels to anything derogatory about the Republican presidential field, leaving the Indiana politician little time to say anything about his new book. Axelrod also devoted a significant amount of time during the interview to the question of whether New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would get into the presidential race.
The…

CNN’s King Forwards Bush 41’s ‘Courage’ to Hike Taxes as Model
September 23rd, 2011 1:54 AM
Interviewing former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Reagan library, CNN’s John King recalled how former President George H.W. Bush “made an incredibly tough personal and political choice” to raise taxes. King touted how Bush “had the courage knowing it might cost him re-election.”
As he and Cheney sat overlooking the Air Force One Pavilion, King pointed to Bush as a model for Republicans…
Albany Times Union: Obama Tax Hikes Not Class Warfare, Just ‘Fairne
September 21st, 2011 1:11 AM
It’s good to see the editorial board at the Times Union isn’t even bothering to mask their liberal bias these days. Via a blog known as The Observation Deck, which boasts some of the more prominent members of the newspapers staff, including editor and vice-president, Rex Smith, editor-at-large, Harry Rosenfeld, and publisher George R. Hearst III, the Union has been printing some of the most…

ABC Trumpets ‘Fairness’ of Obama’s ‘Buffett Rule’ Tax Hike Q
September 20th, 2011 8:43 AM
“President Obama has declared it is time to take action on taxes because people in the middle class are paying a larger percentage of income tax than the super-rich,” ABC anchor Diane Sawyer announced Monday night without bothering to note, as neither did CBS nor NBC, that the super-rich are already paying a disproportionate share of income taxes.
ABC reporter Bianna Golodryga, who is…

After Hitting GOP Candidates from Left, NBC’s Williams Presses Obama
September 13th, 2011 3:44 AM
A few days after he hit Republicans from the left when he moderated a presidential candidates debate on MSNBC, NBC’s Brian Williams pressed President Barack Obama with the concerns of Obama supporters to the President’s left (“Members of your base are asking: ‘When are you going to get your Harry Truman on?’” and “What do you say to those Americans who voted for that man on the poster that said…

CBS Grants All Its 'Jobs Bill' Air Time to Obama and DNC, Skips GOP
September 12th, 2011 4:46 PM
CBS's Early Show on Monday devoted two segments and a news brief to the Obama "jobs bill," but in none of the three stories did they allow a single Republican to speak. Correspondent Bill Plante filed a report that was almost all Obama soundbites -- and to make the sound of a sales job complete, it even included a clip of a TV ad from the Democratic National Committee to help push the $447…

Fareed Zakaria: In Fifty Years 9/11 Might Be Seen As Beginning of Amer
September 12th, 2011 12:21 AM
It certainly wasn't a Paul Krugman moment, but is the tenth anniversary of the biggest attack on our mainland a good time to say, "Fifty years from now, we might even look at 9/11 as simply the beginning of the decline of America?"
That's what Fareed Zakaria said Sunday on the CNN program bearing his name (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Tom Friedman: The World Would Be a Better Place If Bush Had Raised Tax
September 7th, 2011 10:03 AM
America was in a post-stock market bubble bursting recession, had just suffered its worst mainland attack in its history, and New York Times columnist Tom Friedman believes ten years later all would have been made right if the President of the United States on September 12, 2001, had raised taxes.
This is what Friedman, in his most recent blame all the troubles of the world on George W. Bush…