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GOP-Bashing Authors on CNN: Press Not Hard Enough on GOP
The GOP-bashing tag team of Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann was once again welcome on CNN on Sunday. Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz did challenge the duo's leftist indictment of the media, but Ornstein and Mann had plenty of time to insist the press has "embarrassingly failed" to hold Republicans accountable.
When Kurtz posed "Most people think the press does lean to the left," AEI's…
January 7th, 2013 12:41 PM

MSNBC's Roberts Looks at Obama’s Vacation ‘By The Numbers;' Ignore
Only at MSNBC would you see a segment entitled “by the numbers” that left out the most important figure: the price tag to the American taxpayer. Such was the case on Monday morning, with MSNBC Live host Thomas Roberts gushing over the different activities the President Obama and his family participated in during their Christmas vacation in Hawaii.
The “numbers” Roberts referred to was not…
January 7th, 2013 12:36 PM

Networks Ignore CIA Nominee Brennan 'Let the President Down' During Ch
Exactly three years ago, on January 7, 2010, during a press conference regarding the 2009 attempted bombing of an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan declared to reporters: "I told the President today I let him down." That admission of responsibility for a major intelligence failure was completely absent from Monday's network morning show…
January 7th, 2013 12:14 PM
ABC's Martha Raddatz: 'Perfect Choice' Chuck Hagel 'Dared' To Oppose T
Good Morning America's Martha Raddatz on Monday seemed perplexed as to why conservatives would oppose Chuck Hagel's nomination for Secretary of Defense. According to the journalist, one might think the former Republican senator is the "perfect choice," a man who "dared [to] speak out" against George W. Bush's troop surge in Iraq -- the same surge that candidate Obama later admitted had "…
January 7th, 2013 11:56 AM
WashPost Laments 'Lost' Inauguration Day Holiday for Federal Employees
Because this year's presidential inauguration happens to fall on a federal holiday -- Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- Washington, D.C.-based federal employees this time around will not find the "extra paid holiday" that they enjoyed four years ago. Reporting this development, Washington Post writer Josh Hicks lamented in a January 7 The Fed Page article that [emphasis mine] "the historic event…
January 7th, 2013 11:11 AM
David Limbaugh: The Right's Unwitting Obama Apologists
I hate to break it to those deniers who believe that President Obama's tax-guzzling capacity has somehow been diminished by the fiscal cliff provision to fix "permanent" tax rates. You're dreaming.
Several smart columnists and respected conservative editorial pieces tell us that a major silver lining in the crisis deal just concluded is that by agreeing not to reinstitute the Clinton tax…
January 7th, 2013 10:24 AM
'Hate Speech' Hypocrisy: Wash. Examiner's Kane Compares Treatment of L
In a Washington Examiner column last night, Gregory Kane made several quite valid points in comparing the media firestorm over Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sarah Fluke to the virtual silence over Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul, who, if he were in charge, "would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner ... to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they…
January 7th, 2013 9:35 AM
Oscar-Winning Director: HBO's Liberace Movie 'Too Gay' For Theaters
Is there anything that's "too gay" for Hollywood?
The answer is "Yes" according to Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh who recently told the New York Post that studios throughout tinseltown had no interest in his biopic about Liberace despite it starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
January 7th, 2013 9:25 AM

Howard Kurtz: 'Al Gore's Al Jazeera Deal Doesn't Seem Right
CNN media analyst Howard Kurtz isn't happy about Al Gore selling his failing Current TV to Al Jazeera.
In a piece published minutes ago at CNN.com, Kurtz elaborated while he missed potentially the greatest hypocrisy in the deal.
January 7th, 2013 8:46 AM

Letterman Admits He Apologized to Palin So He Could ‘Go Forward Maki
Sounds like a personal vendetta ahead of genuine regret. CBS Late Show host David Letterman admitted to Oprah Winfrey, in an interview first aired Sunday night, that he backtracked after outrage erupted following a sex joke he told involving Sarah Palin’s then-14-year-old daughter Willow, not because it was highly inappropriate, but primarily so he could continue ridiculing Willow’s mother…
January 7th, 2013 3:21 AM

George Will: People Will Look Back On Fiscal Cliff Deal As Point When
George Will had an interesting take on the fiscal cliff agreement reached by Congress and the White House last week.
Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Will said, “I think people will look back on this deal as where liberalism passed an apogee and went into decline” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
January 7th, 2013 12:12 AM
Cal Thomas Column: What Price U.S. Citizenship
HONG KONG -- We read about famous people like French film star Gerard Depardieu, who moved to Belgium to avoid a 75 percent income tax on millionaires proposed by France's Socialist government (a measure rejected last week by a French council, though French leadership has vowed to resubmit a similar proposal). Then there is Eduardo Saverin, who took the extreme step of giving up his U.S.…
January 6th, 2013 10:44 PM

Biden to Libtalker Bill Press: 'You're the Only One That Makes Any F'i
Aww, I bet Joe Biden says that to all the moonbats.
Liberal radio host Bill Press is boasting of a recent encounter with Biden in which the vice president graced him with the f-bomb, according to Press, in a characteristically Bidenesque manner. (audio clip after page break)
January 6th, 2013 9:11 PM

George Will: ‘The Journalistic Narrative About Washington Today Is
George Will spoke an inconvenient truth about the media Sunday that should have everyone of its members sitting up and taking notice.
Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Will said, “The journalistic narrative about Washington today is 180 degrees wrong” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
January 6th, 2013 7:25 PM