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Nearly Half of United States Considering Arizona-Style Immigration Leg
Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona's law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of that law - a ruling that is now being appealed. Next month, two Rhode Island state lawmakers, a…
Todd: 'Anthropological' Obama Didn't Mean To Demean With Bitter-Clinge
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not."And it’s not surprising then they get…
ABC Portrays For-Profit Colleges as Schoolyard Bullies
'Nightline' follows government marching orders and attacks for-profits, never question inflating public university subsidies
George Stephanopoulos Actually Grills Dem Politician on Ethics Violati
George Stephanopoulos on Friday showed that it is possible to force a Democratic politician to answer tough questions. The Good Morning America host grilled Representative Maxine Waters over allegations that she misused her office for personal gain. Every single one of Stephanopoulos' questions was hard hitting, including this query: "The ethics committee is bipartisan. Five Democrats and five…
Like Father Like Son, NBC's Today Show Covers Ben Quayle Like He's a J
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, in a story aired on Friday's Today show, traveled to Arizona to profile Republican Ben Quayle's run for Congress and in the process gave Dan Quayle's son the same sort of treatment the former Vice President received from the media, as the NBC correspondent treated him like a joke. While O'Donnell briefly mentioned that Ben Quayle is a small business owner, the thrust of her…
CNN Veteran Andrew Breslau Takes Helm at Far-Left Nation Institute
Andrew Breslau, who for eight years ending in 2006 toiled at CNN “as a senior manager and producer,” has been named President of New York City-based The Nation Institute, affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine run by frequent MSNBC guest Katrina vanden Heuvel, and home to Christopher Hayes, Rachel Maddow's fill-in host.The institute's August 18 press release described Breslau's CNN…
WaPo's Eugene Robinson: Obama Is On A 'Winning Streak
What kind of shameless shill do you have to be to claim the President is on a winning streak as his poll numbers plummet, the economy teeters on a double-dip recession, and his Party is facing historic losses in both chambers of Congress?A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former managing editor of the Washington Post, that's who.Consider that just days after numerous polls were released…
N.Y. Times Recirculates Supermarket Tabloid Story in Sympathetic Story
The New York Times prizes itself as the newspaper of record, as the very definition of prestige media. So it's a little shocking to see them spreading the latest headlines from the Globe supermarket tabloid. Sheryl Gay Stolberg's mournful story about Obama's "otherness" and how "Misperceptions Stick" about the president began:Americans need only stand in line at the grocery checkout counter to…
CNN's Jack Cafferty Openly Criticizes Mosque Developers
On Thursday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty questioned the motives of the planners behind the proposed New York City mosque near Ground Zero: "The developer... has said the proximity of the planned mosque and center is not an issue. Really?...It's simply unrealistic to think you can build a Muslim house of worship two blocks from where this awful thing happened, and not get a negative…
Grayson On 9-11: Bush 'Let It Happen
Alan Grayson didn't quite go Rosie-O'Donnell-fire-doesn't-melt-steel demento, but he did his best . . . Appearing with guest-host Cenk Uygur on The Ed Show, the denatured Dem congressman from Florida, speaking of 9-11, claimed that Pres. George W. Bush "let it happen."With Pres. Obama heading out to Martha's Vineyard for his sixth vacation this year, Grayson, of all things, berated Bush for…
NBC's Todd Frets Obama's Effort to 'Tackle' Nation's Problems Allowed
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams cited a “stunning number” from “a reputable pollster” (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press) – which discovered “just under 20 percent of the American people believe the President is a Muslim” when “he is not” – to justify a full explanation from Chuck Todd on the mischaracterization of Barack…
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Predicts 'Certain Networks' Will 'Maul' Haley
The co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough, strongly believes certain networks would play the race card big time against southern Republican Haley Barbour, if he runs for President in 2012.[see related post with video here]Scarborough predicted on Thursday that if the Mississippi governor is the Republican Presidential nominee in 2012, the media would smear him as a racist white man…