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WaPo: Obama Administration To Sell 'Its' Stake in Citigroup
Did you know that the Obama administration owns stock in beleaguered financial giant Citigroup NOT the taxpayers?You might have gotten that impression from a Washington Post article published Saturday.Take a look at the second paragraph of David Cho's piece on speculation that there's an imminent stock transaction about to transpire involving Citigroup and the federal government (h/t NBer…
Barbour on ABC: Media’s Given Obama ‘Longest Wet Kiss in Political
Reacting to a newly released ABC News/Washington Post poll which found 50 percent opposed to the just-passed health bill versus 46 percent in favor of it, on ABC’s This Week, Mississippi’s Republican Governor, Haley Barbour, quipped:I am surprised that the numbers in the Washington Post poll weren't better. I mean, since this thing passed last weekend, we've been seeing the longest wet kiss in…
Governor: Media Giving Obama 'Longest Wet Kiss In Political History
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Sunday said that since healthcare reform legislation passed a week ago, the liberal media have given the Obama administration the longest wet kiss in political history.After ABC's Jake Tapper hosting "This Week" asked the Governor about a new Washington Post poll finding Democrats have become a little more popular since the bill passed, Barbour replied, "I am…
Tapper Asks WH Adviser If It's Appropriate To Raise Money Off Death Th
UPDATE AT END OF POST: CBS's Bob Schieffer asked DNC Chairman Tim Kaine about this issue.On Saturday, NewsBusters asked if journalists should find it interesting that President Obama's campaign arm is using alleged death threats against Democrats as a vehicle to raise funds to defend newly enacted healthcare legislation. On Sunday, ABC's Jake Tapper was up to the challenge not only addressing…
Media Forget Leftwing Violence at 2008 GOP Convention
As so-called journalists across the fruited plain hyperventilate about alleged death threats and future acts of violence they claim are being stoked by "hate speech" from the Right, they are conveniently ignoring how the Left behaved in this country when George W. Bush was in the White House.Case in point: the violent protests that occurred at the 2008 Republican National Convention in…
NCAA Elite Eight Open Thread
Another top seed falls as the Mountaineers stun the Wildcats. Duke is now the only #1 left.After today, will there be none? Has that ever happened?
Reid Goes Shooting While Palin In Town, But GMA Calls Him 'Man In The
This could do down as one of the more glaring MSM double-standards in recent times . . . Harry Reid chose the day Sarah Palin was in town to stage a photo-op of himself going shooting. But GMA called Reid the man "in the crosshairs" and as "doing his best not to seem threatened."Imagine if the tables were turned and on a day Reid visited Wasilla, Palin had publicly chosen to go shooting. Oh…
Rich And Blow: You Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Conservatives
Did Frank Rich read Charles Blow's column and sub-consciously subsume it? Rich's NY Times opus of March 27 is a virtual echo of Blow's item of March 26. Coincidence or not, the two Timesmen are very much on the same wavelength. Their shared theory: conservative opposition to Obamacare is fueled not so much by the substance of PBO's plans as it is by the racism, homophobia and sexism of people…
WaPo Seeks Out Pope-Hating Singer Sinead O'Connor to Trash Pope Benedi
To the Washington Post, it seemed like a natural progression. Pope Benedict apologized for priest sexual abuse found in Ireland, so the Post found Ireland's greatest Pope-hater for rebuttal: singer Sinead O'Connor, who infamously ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992 and said "Fight the real enemy."The headline is "Time to hear Pope Benedict's confession."…
CNN Convicts Palin and Tea Partiers of ‘Inciting Violence’ and Sto
CNN put “INCITING VIOLENCE?” on screen under video of Sarah Palin earlier in the day Saturday in Searchlight, Nevada, as anchor Don Lemon announced:Sarah Palin takes on one of the highest ranking Democrats right in his own backyard, all while causing another uproar by urging tea parties to quote “reload.” And the question is, are comments like that inciting violence and name-calling over the…
Colby King Charges Tea Partiers Are Descendants of George Wallace and
“Today's Tea Party adherents are George Wallace legacies,” the Washington Post’s Colby King charged in his weekly Saturday column, maintaining “they have been culturally conditioned to believe they are entitled to do whatever they want, and to whomever they want, because they are the ‘real Americans,’ while all who don't think or look like them are not” and so, “without folks like them, there…
CNN Lowballs Nevada Tea Party Event: 'Hundreds of People, at Least Doz
If the media outlets are going to report on tea party events, they're not likely to get any benefit of the doubt much of the time. Case in point - at the Tea Party Express event on March 27 in Searchlight, Nev., which former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin spoke, CNN's Fredricka Whitfield wasn't quite prepared to give the rally credit it was due as far as participation. She estimated that hundreds, but…
Obama Inaugural Ball Producer Joins DC’s All-News Radio Station
This week, Del Walters, a veteran local Washington, DC and Baltimore television reporter and anchor, who in January of 2009 served as executive producer of “Virginia's Inaugural Black Tie and Blue Dominion Ball” starring actress Jenna Elfman and the Commodores (NB item), joined the on-air anchor team for Washington, DC’s Bonneville International-owned all-news radio station affiliated with CBS…