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Kerry, Morning Joe Rock Audience . . . To Sleep
Enter Sandman . . . Sleep can be in short supply at conventions. So we can hardly fault DNC-goers who catch a few winks whenever and wherever they can.
Even so, perhaps an eagle-eyed director might have avoided camera shots revealing--for a moment during John Kerry's speech last night-- and for an extended period during today's Morning Joe, audience members deep in the arms of Morpheus. View…
September 7th, 2012 9:25 AM
7 Million Americans Not In Labor Force Want Jobs Now
The Labor Department released its highly anticipated jobs report for August Friday, and the numbers were lousy.
Although the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent, that's because another 368,000 Americans dropped out of the labor force.
September 7th, 2012 8:42 AM
Despite Convention Distractions, It’s Still All About the Economy
Mercifully, the political conventions have ended.
The political press will keep buzzing over whether Clint Eastwood's unconventional speech helped or hurt Mitt Romney and whether the snafu over Israel and God in the Democratic platform will do any lasting damage to President Obama. Republican reporters will think former President Clinton talked too long, and Democrats will note that New…
September 7th, 2012 8:30 AM
O'Reilly 'Stunned' At Caroline Kennedy's 'Catholic Woman' Abortion Rem
The O’Reilly Factor began last night by broadcasting the convention speech of Caroline Kennedy, who came out and declared “As a Catholic woman,” she supports Obama because “Now isn’t the time to roll back the rights we were winning when my father was president.” As if Roe vs. Wade was decided in 1963?
O’Reilly was blunt. “I have to tell you, I am stunned. I am stunned right now at what she…
September 7th, 2012 8:18 AM
The MRC@25: The Worst Media Bias of
Once a day for 25 days, NewsBusters is showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala on September 27. (Click here for ticket information)
So far, we’ve published the worst quotes from 1988 through 1992 (you can check those out here…
September 7th, 2012 8:03 AM
Matthews on Obama: 'The Fact That He's Black' Is Why 'They're Asking f
During the midnight hour of MSNBC's Thursday night Democratic National Convention coverage, host Chris Matthews managed to squeeze in another charge of racism against a black President by "right wingers" as he brought up the birther movement and asserted:
September 7th, 2012 8:02 AM
Daily Caller: Axelrod 'Attempting to Subtly Intimidate' Gallup
The Daily Caller published two troubling stories by Matthew Boyle yesterday. The first, referring to email evidence, contends that senior Obama reelection campaign adviser David Axelrod has attempted "to subtly intimidate the respected polling firm when its numbers were unfavorable to the president," and that in August, "After Gallup declined to change its polling methodology, Obama’s…
September 7th, 2012 7:49 AM
Ex-Newsweek's Fineman Sees Obama's Claim It is 'Unpatriotic' to Critic
During the midnight hour of MSNBC's Thursday night Democratic National Convention coverage, MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman -- formerly of Newsweek -- declared that it was "brilliant" for President Obama to suggest that Republicans are being "unpatriotic" in trying to make an issue of the economy's poor performance during his time in office.
Shortly past midnight, Fineman asserted:
September 7th, 2012 7:32 AM
CNN Hails 'Home Run Derby of Speeches' at DNC
The Democratic Convention produced a "home run derby of speeches," insisted CNN's John King early Friday morning on Piers Morgan Tonight. This came after CNN hailed Michelle Obama's DNC speech as "probably a grand slam" and Bill Clinton's DNC address as "one of the great modern political speeches I have ever heard."
"But over all, Democrats have to leave this town pretty happy. Still a close…
September 7th, 2012 6:02 AM
Breitbart's Shapiro Argues Even with 'Jerusalem' Re-added to Platform
While the liberal media have noted how little foreign policy was raised at the GOP convention and will surely play up President Obama's attacks on Republican opponent Mitt Romney as being weak on that issue portfolio, it's noteworthy how little media attention is being given to the Democratic Party's views on America's most reliable, democratic ally in the Middle East, Israel.
Even as…
September 7th, 2012 2:50 AM
Laugh Line of the Night: Chris Matthews Insists Obama Speech Shows He
During early Friday morning’s coverage of the Democratic Convention, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews decided to play a clip of the previous evening's acceptance speech by Barack Obama to demonstrate that he was a “moderate” and “certainly not a socialist.” (video after jump)
September 7th, 2012 2:31 AM
MSNBC's Perry and Matthews Continue With Birther Nonsense, Matthews In
During MSNBC’s Thursday night coverage of the Democratic Convention, Melissa Harris-Perry and Chris Matthews decided to further indulge in their unhealthy obsession with birtherism. You may recall that Matthews hijacked Andrea Mitchell’s interview of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ask a question about birtherism during the Republican Convention on August 29. On September 5,…
September 7th, 2012 2:22 AM
Brian Williams to Valerie Jarrett: Positive Media Coverage for Obama W
Brian Williams, on NBC’s Thursday night coverage of the DNC, unleashed the biggest howler of the night when he told White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett: “You, I guess have to play mistake-free ball now for 60 days, hope for nothing but positive coverage. That's a tall order.”
Delivering positive coverage for Obama was certainly not a "tall order" for Williams and his fellow NBC News…
September 7th, 2012 2:16 AM
ABC's Karl Hypes 'Vintage Obama' Conclusion to DNC Speech
Not all members of the media offered a "tepid" reaction to President Obama's DNC address. ABC's Jonathan Karl hyped that Obama's crescendo to his speech that the audience loved was "vintage Obama."
"But that last part of the speech was vintage Obama, trying to get these people here, to get the people that drove his campaign, talking about we have providence on our side. They loved it,"…
September 7th, 2012 1:47 AM