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ABC's George Stephanopoulos Touts Negative Poll Numbers for GOP, Spins
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday spun a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, emphasizing problems for the Republican Party over dour news for Barack Obama. The co-host ignored a finding that likely voters want the GOP to take control of Congress by a margin of 56 to 41. He did, however, repeat the lower number of registered voters who prefer the Republicans, 51 percent.…
CBS Continues to Pressure Congress to Extend Unemployment Benefits
On Saturday's CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor decided what should be at the top of Congress's agenda as it returned from the July 4th recess: "Congress returns to Washington next week to face a big backlog of unfinished business, and topping the list is the future of unemployment benefits."In a report that followed, senior White House correspondent Bill Plante chided elected officials for…
CNNMoney Promotes ‘Other Kinds of Government Assistance
While Washington lawmakers may be deadlocked over extending unemployment benefits, the liberal media are picking up the slack and helping unemployed individuals find more government help. In a July 13 story on CNNMoney.com, reporter Hibah Yousuf profiled two individuals who've been unemployed for over 99 weeks, the maximum number of weeks a person is eligible for unemployment benefits. Yousuf…
CNN Money Promotes 'Other Kinds of Government Assistance
Report advertises federal aid, downplays individual spirit in addressing unemployment.
As Laura Ingraham Sells New Book, NBC's Lauer Sells Idea That Dems, GO
Laura Ingraham was invited on Tuesday's Today show, to plug her new book The Obama Diaries, and predict how the midterm elections will go but she couldn't get out of the segment without Today co-anchor Matt Lauer suggesting Republicans are just as unpopular as the Democrats. During the segment Lauer read from a Washington Post poll that stated 6 in 10 Americans don't have faith in President Obama…
ABC Uses Michelle Obama's NAACP Speech to Accuse Tea Party of Racism
ABC News on Monday used Michelle Obama's speech before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to accuse the Tea Party movement of racism.The news network prominently featured at its website a story with the headline "Michelle Obama Rouses NAACP Before Vote Condemning 'Racist' Elements of Tea Party."The problem is the First Lady didn't talk about the Tea Party at her…
Video: Jimmy Kimmel's Rent-A-Cops Pose as Active Duty While Film Crew
Read backstories here, here, and here. In my last post I said Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust would soon upload video of retired and off-duty rent-a-cops posing as on-duty cops at the Jimmy Kimmel stunt shoot, when cameramen turned their spotlights on a teen pro-life protester. Following are a couple. In this 1st video Troy Newman of Operation Rescue realizes the pretense and calls the…
Conflict of Interest: After Lobbying for Gay Rights on MSNBC, Contessa
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, who on Monday argued that overturning Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a "civil rights issue," will appear at a July 24 fundraiser in Kentucky to support gay rights in the state. According to a press release: "As the evening’s featured guest, MSNBC’s Brewer, who has several family ties to Kentucky, will speak on the need for a statewide anti-discrimination Fairness law in the…
MarketWatch Writer Praises Maddow as ... Wait for It ... 'Voice of Rea
I'm fairly confident but not certain this didn't initially come from The Onion -- a fawning profile of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow written by MarketWatch's Jon Friedman."This is the rare 21st-century TV news star," Friedman writes, "an un-self-absorbed celebrity.""Maddow, 37, is the voice of reason at MSNBC," Friedman elaborates. "Notable for their verbal brawn, the hosts of cable news shows often…
The F-word Habit: AP Reports on Death of 'Fetus' in Boston Nail-Salon
Last year, Brent Bozell lamented the murder of Darlene Haynes in Worcester, Massachusetts, with her baby cut out of her womb, and how the media called it a "fetus" -- even after the baby was born in a violent kidnapping. Now there's a Massachusetts repeat, except this time, it was the baby that was killed in a Boston-area nail salon assault. On the Boston Herald website, the AP headline was "…
Japanese Voters Reject Ruling Party and Doubling 'VAT Tax'; AP Calls I
An outraged electorate has just handed Japan's ruling party its hat in elections for half of the seats in the upper house of that country's parliament in a direct reversal of election results from a year ago. Opposition parties made major gains. The results constitute a resounding rejection of a massive value-added tax increase proposed by a guy whose immediate predecessor of the same party…
Environmentalists Using Religion, Oil Spill to Promote Green Agenda
Media see 'opportunity' to push cause, suggest embracing environmentalism as faith-based response to disaster.
Matthews to Democrat: What Percentage of Republicans Would You Put In
Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, brought on his own personal congressman, Maryland Democrat Chris Van Hollen, to review how his party was going to distinguish themselves from the GOP in the midterms with Matthews asking the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee head if they were focusing on all the "crazy" Republicans, or in other words "nut collecting." Matthews, after playing a clip…