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Contessa Brewer: MSNBC Audition Like 'Marine Corps Obstacle Course;' W
In an interview on MediaBistro.com's 'Media Beat,' MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer told TVNewser editor Kevin Allocca about the cable network's high standards in its audition process: "...it's got to be like the Marine Corps obstacle course in order to land this job." She later complained about "difficult" guests: "When someone comes on with an agenda and their agenda is to take you down."Allocca…
USA Today Spins Liberal Lincoln Chafee as a 'Centrist' and a 'Moderate
According to USA Today's Susan Page, Lincoln Chafee, a Republican who left the party and voted for Barack Obama in 2008, is simply a "moderate." A cover story for Tuesday's print edition of the paper featured the misleading sub-headline: "Centrists Fuel Big Crop of Contenders This Year." Nowhere in the 1800 word piece did Page describe Chafee as a liberal. Instead, the politician, now running for…
Washington Post: Independence Day an Atheist Holiday
Someone get Lee Greenwood on the phone; he's going to want to know about this. In a front-page Style section report July 5, The Washington Post breathed a sigh of relief that Independence Day gives Americans a break from those God-heavy holidays like Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. "The trouble with most major holidays in the United States, if you're an atheist, is that it's difficult to…
Arianna Huffington Whines When PolitiFact Doesn't Support Her Half-Tru
In today's "Careful What You Ask For" segment, liberal publisher Arianna Huffington is crying at her website because the folks at PolitiFact didn't back up her claim that Halliburton has defrauded American taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars in Iraq.Making this most delicious, Huffington asked to be fact-checked by the group!For those that have forgotten, the former outspoken…
Larry King as Mr. Civility? 'The Term Wacko Right-Winger Is Redundant
For those who think Larry King is the sweet saint of the sensible center, we can always draw up from our Notable Quotables archives some of King's conservative-bashing venom from the Clinton impeachment period for a rebuttal. Take a look at these: "Shouldn't someone tell President Clinton that one of his archenemies, Rush Limbaugh, actually said the following last week, speaking in defense of…
GMA Panelist: 'No Spanking, Never
ABC report highlights anti-spanking position, downplays pro-discipline position
Decline of Larry King, Rise of TV 'Cretins and Crackpots' Is Blamed on
The decline and fall of Larry King Live on CNN is depressing Washington Post TV writer Tom Shales, who lamented on Tuesday that "Larry King's show got to be an increasingly lonely outpost of humane civility in a mephitic menagerie of hotheads, saber rattlers, cretins and crackpots.""Mephitic" is a ten-dollar word for "sulfurous stench." Shales predicted: "What we'll probably see more of in the…
Krauthammer Rips NASA Chief for Declaration to Improve Relations with
If you haven't heard the report of the remarks recently made by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden over what the role of his agency, it's a little troubling. And it hasn't gone unnoticed, at least not by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer Recently, Bolden, in an interview with Al Jazeera English, said that the "foremost" mission of NASA is to improve relations with the Muslim world. This…
WaPo Art Critic Slams Norman Rockwell as Lacking 'Courage
Artist Norman Rockwell's thought crime seems to be that he wasn't a kneejerk liberal. And for that, he has earned an angry leftwing rant from Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik who claimed that Rockwell lacked "courage" for not glorifying leftwing causes. Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" series? It disgusts Gopnik because it "doesn't invoke a communist printing his pamphlets or an atheist on a…
CNN Editor Mourns Death Of Hezbollah Cleric Possibly Responsible for
CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs on Sunday publicly expressed regrets for the death of Hezbollah's Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah the cleric that possibly orchestrated the 1983 bombing of two Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. According to the New York Times, he also "justified suicide bombings and other tactics of asymmetrical warfare by arguing that if Israel and its allies used…
CNN Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs Mourns Loss of 'Hezbollah Giant
They're a militant Shiite Muslim organization defined by the U.S. government as a terrorist group, but don't tell that to CNN senior editor of Middle Eastern affairs, Octavia Nasr. In a July 4 post on her Twitter account, Nasr openly admitted to mourning the loss of Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah: Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.. One of Hezbollah's giants I respect…
Malveaux Hates Fourth of July - Reminds Her of Slavery and Economic In
If you were African-American living in the era of President Barack Obama, would you hate the Fourth of July because it reminded you of slavery and economic inequality?You would if your name was Julianne Malveaux and you were the syndicated columnist that also serves as the president of Bennett College, the historically black women's school in Greensboro, North Carolina.So disdainful of America's…
Oh, No! On Independence Day, CBS Frets Congress Becoming 'Paralyzed' O
West coast viewers got to see a July 4 CBS Evening News on Sunday, and those who tuned in saw CBS's interim "report card" on Congress's performance so far. Under the headline of "unfinished business," correspondent Wyatt Andrews and his sole expert, Politico's Jonathan Allen, both fretted how Congress is now "paralyzed" due to a "growing fear of the deficit."Many Americans are probably wishing…
Progressive Mag Editor Hates Fourth of July: Patriotism Leads to Fasci
Imagine being an American that hates the Fourth of July.Seems impossible, right?Apparently not for the editor of the uber-liberal magazine The Progressive proudly wrote Saturday, "It's July 4th, my least favorite holiday...You see, I don't believe in patriotism."As amazing as it might seem, the 27-year-old Matthew Rothschild was just getting warmed up (h/t Weasel Zippers):