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Chuck Todd: Blame Obama, Not His Staff, for Keeping Press at a Distanc
Deep in a Chuck Todd profile by Howard Kurtz in Monday's Washington Post, Todd says blame President Obama, not his staff, for his press aversion: Despite his newfound prominence, Todd, like his colleagues, has limited access to the man he is covering. "Obama himself is the one who doesn't like dealing with the press," he says, exonerating the White House staff. "You can't even do shouted…
MRC-TV: Bozell Discusses Media Lack of Interest in Blumenthal's Lies
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) "loves to prosecute businesses for potentially misleading advertising" but when he's exposed as a serial liar about his Vietnam War service, the media refuse to hammer him for the scandal, NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell told viewers of the Saturday, May 22 "Fox & Friends."While credit is due the New York Times for breaking the story,…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Fawns Over Democrat Caroline Kennedy's Awa
Former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos gushed over well known Democrat Caroline Kennedy on Monday as she touted the latest recipients of the Profile in Courage Award. The current winners include two California state Republicans who bucked the vast majority of their party to support tax increases in the 2009 budget. In addition to Kennedy, Stephanopoulos also…
Goldman Sachs Connections Toxic for Republicans, No Big Deal for Dems
Meg Whitman's poll numbers hurt by 'ties to a controversial Wall Street firm,' yet Elena Kagan's connections nothing more than 'possible thorny issue.'
Hit Job: ABC News Attempts to Align Climate Change Skeptics with White
At first, Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal, but best known for his discredited "hockey stick graph" didn't like being mocked in a YouTube video. Now Mann is alleging he's a victim of hate groups. On ABC's May 23 "World News Sunday," a segment from anchor Dan Harris alleged that threatening e-mails Mann received were part of a "spike" in…
ABC Runs Hit on Climate Change Skeptics, Attempts to Align Them with W
'World News' segment tags discredited 'hockey-stick graph' professor Michael Mann as victim of hate groups.
NewsBusters Analysis: One in Four Guests on Ed Schultz Radio Show Are
A question for frequent listeners of libtalker Ed Schultz's radio show -- ever notice how often he books the same guests?Mark Graff, for example, founder of a company called Bio Green Clean, has come on the show 11 times -- in the last two months.Or Ted Massinello, president of USA Coffee Company -- 10 appearances since March 23.Radio host and legal analyst Norman Goldman dropped by six times in…
Seething Scarborough Hits Harwood's Blumenthal Backing
Joe Scarborough was on fire this morning, his ire trained on twin targets: Dick Blumenthal, and the New York Times' John Harwood, who casually dismissed the candidate's lies about having served in Vietnam as just a case of getting "a little carried away." At one point, Scarborough claimed he wasn't calling Blumenthal a "scumbag"—but it sure sounded like it.Harwood began his Blumenthal defense…
NPR Snob: Populist Palin 'Talks Like She's Translating Into Korean and
Novelist Marc Acito offered a perfect elocution of National Public Radio snobbery on Thursday's All Things Considered. In defending the defensible cause of proper English, Acito equated Palinesque populism with a complete lack of respect for the intellect. Acito even sang (badly) from My Fair Lady to illustrate his point: You see, My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and both…
Comedy Central's Anti-Semitic Video Game: 'You Lied To Me, Jew Produce
Around the same time they were caving in to pressure to delete all Mohammed references from an episode of "South Park," the geniuses at Comedy Central posted an online video game containing truly staggering anti-Semitic images.This abomination was originally called "I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack!" due to the lead character being a murderous robot named "I.S.R.A.E.L." -- "Intelligent Smart Robot Animation…
Lefty Rev. Attacks Beck for Crying 'Socialism
Jim Wallis, who believes the Gospels are redistributionist, calls out Glenn Beck for questioning Obama's faith-based initiative act to merge EPA with churches.
Back to Violence at Daily Kos: Talk About Punching Rand Paul In the Fa
While liberals consistently worry out loud that conservative talk radio inspires violence, they're still avoiding blogs like the Daily Kos, which posted an item on Sunday headlined "I don't want to punch Rand Paul in the face, but...." This tongue-in-cheek lameness unfolded: ....but if someone happens to punch him in the face, I believe that this is their right and that we as a people should not…
ABC News Absolves Obama of Oil Spill Blame by Bashing Sarah Palin
ABC News on Sunday marvelously absolved President Obama of any blame concerning the Gulf oil spill by bashing former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.After "World News Sunday's" opening segment about the crisis and how local citizens are being impacted, anchor Dan Harris said, "As we reported, the President is turning up the heat on BP, but the President is also feeling some heat himself with many…
Name That Party, RIP-Style: AP Runs National Story on Death of 'Disgra
When I saw the Associated Press's headline ("Disgraced former Ohio congressman dies at 79"), I started thinking about whom the wire service might be referring to. Of course I knew he would be a Republican, because the establishment media never treats Democrats, even those who leave women who aren't their wives to drown in a submerged car, as "disgraced." But even I never thought that the AP…