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NBC News Shows Young Teacher Touching 'Third Rail' Complaining About U
Network airs taboo talk from frustrated educator.
CBS Ignores Obama's Attacks on Tea Party and Fox News in Rolling Stone
At the top of the 8PM ET hour on Tuesday's CBS Early Show, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante touted President Obama's comments about the midterm elections in a recent interview: "[He] told Rolling Stone magazine that for those people not to come out, those so-called 'surge voters,' would be 'inexcusable and irresponsible'....'people need to shake off this lethargy and buck up.'" News…
Obama: FNC Part of 'Destructive' Media Tradition That Doesn't Parrot L
UPDATE (6:30 pm): As if to illustrate this post's argument that Obama objects not to Fox's opinionated style, but rather to the content of its opinions, WH spokesman Bill Burton heaped praised on MSNBC libtalkers today. Details below the fold. President Barack Obama has gone on the attack against the Fox News Channel again, this time labeling it "destructive" to the health of the nation.Obama…
On ABC, Bob Woodward Sympathizes With 'Intellectual' Obama and His 'In
According to Bob Woodward, Barack Obama is an "intellectual" who has agonized over Afghanistan. The Washington Post author appeared on Good Morning America on Tuesday and touted his new book, Obama's Wars, as a way of getting inside the President's "internal struggle" over military action in that country. During the segment, it was co-host George Stephanopoulos, who actually pressed Woodward on…
Cleanup at AP: Report on Serious Consumer Confidence Drop Omits Its Si
Today's report from The Conference Board shows that consumer confidence fell steeply in September: The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had improved in August, retreated in September. The Index now stands at 48.5 (1985=100), down from 53.2 in August. In a report issued in the run-up to the Board's release (go to the text which follows the "Breaking News Update" here; saved at…
NBC Nightly News Shows Young Teacher Touching ‘Third Rail’ Complai
It's not quite "earth shaking," but we can be sure it caused a tremor at the National Education Association office in downtown D.C. On Sept.27, President Obama admitted on NBC's "Today" show that Washington, D.C.'s "struggling" public schools wouldn't educate his daughters as well as the posh, private Sidwell Friends school they currently attend. That night, NBC Nightly News delivered the…
Ann Coulter Tells Larry King Why People Think Obama Is A Muslim
Ann Coulter on Monday explained to Larry King why so many Americans think Barack Obama is a Muslim.Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" with Professor Marc Lamont Hill, Coulter pointed out how odd it is that this number has increased since Obama was elected, "Usually the truth moves in the opposite direction."She continued, "The answer is because he seems foreign to them, that he's pushing this…
Sawyer and Woodward in Awe of Obama Protecting Nation, Fret He’s Sad
Acting as if President Barack Obama is uniquely burdened by the responsibility of protecting the nation from a terrorist attack or overseeing a war, Diane Sawyer and Bob Woodward marveled at how he’s taken on the job despite the terrible world George W. Bush left for him, in awe of his recognition that terrorists setting off a nuclear device in U.S. city would be a “game changer” and how he…
Video Flashback: In 2008, CNNers Derided Eliot Spitzer as a ‘Self-Ri
Monday brings the debut of CNN’s new “Parker Spitzer,” an 8pm ET political discussion program hosted by columnist Kathleen Parker and the ex-Democratic Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer, who resigned two years ago in the midst of a prostitution scandal.The new show was championed by then-CNN President Jonathan Klein, who was fired by the network on Friday. “Eliot Spitzer still has a lot of ideas…
Sly Scarborough Shot At Olbermann Over Sarah
Gee, I wonder which "cable news show" Joe had in mind . . . In a seeming shot at Keith Olbermann, Joe Scarborough has predicted that "certain cable news shows" will stir up a "fake controversy" tonight over whether Sarah Palin was booed on Dancing With The Stars [she wasn't].Here's the background: Bristol Palin performed on DWTS last night, and Sarah was there in the front row to support her. …
Huffington Post Worries About Book Banning
Liberals are never so alive as when they’re speaking out against anachronistic straw men. That’s why, in their estimation, the Tea Parties are racist lynch mobs and conservatives who wonder about President Obama’s ties to anti-American radicals are sinister McCarthyites.So it’s not surprising that The Huffington Post is making a big deal of “Banned Books Week.” The house organ for the self-…
Beckel to Geller: 'You’re a Woman, You Better Be Careful
Eric Bolling's new show on the Fox Business Channel, Money Rocks, saw a significant display of fireworks this evening. During a discussion of some already controversial statements made by Democratic strategist, Bob Beckel, a very heated exchange developed involving Beckel and Atlas Shrugs publisher, Pamela Geller.The controversy started when Bolling played a clip of Beckel's previous appearance…
USA Today Disappointed Abortion Pill Not as Popular as Expected
At 10-year anniversary, 'little white bombshell' hasn't lived up to the hype.
Matthews: Businesses Sitting on Trillions of Dollars to 'Screw' Econom
Chris Matthews thinks American businesses are refusing to spend money in order to intentionally harm the economy as part of a long-term plot to "screw" President Obama.Such political paranoia was actually uttered on Monday's "Hardball" as the host chatted with Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and Charles Mahtesian of Politico.Readers are strongly advised to prepare themselves for the kind…