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Blatant vs. Balanced: CNN, MSNBC Played Faves With Mass. Election Nigh
Building on Brad Wilmouth's critique at NewsBusters of Keith Olbermann's disgraceful treatment of Scott Brown's U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts, Johnny Dollar (HT Taxman Blog) measured the coverage of the victory/concession speeches of Brown and his opponent Martha (or is it Marcia?) Coakley. Imagine my non-surprise when I saw the results (graph follows the jump): During Tuesday night's…
New MRC Report: How the Networks (and Even Newspapers) Spiked or Skimp
Brand new at MRC.org today: a new Special Report titled "Omitting for Obama: How the Old Media Deliberately Censored New Media Scoops in 2009." A few weeks of digging into just how little the Old Media covered these stories -- and how they often tried to explain them away as distractions caused by Obama's enemies -- showed me that conservatives who are very well-versed in New Media scoops might…
Democrats Turn Letters to Editor into Talking Points Repository, Media
If Ellie Light is indeed a Democratic operative, she is only the proverbial tip of the party's astroturfing iceberg. Patterico's investigative work, which was also at the forefront of the blogosphere's efforts to expose Light, have revealed an even greater effort at manufacturing the appearance of public support for Democratic policies.Organizing for America and the Democratic Party each have…
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Nails Carville on Prediction of Years of
Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos on Monday did not go easy on his friend and former colleague James Carville. Discussing the Massachusetts Senate election, he quoted Carville’s words from his 2009 book 40 More Years: "Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on. It's time to call T.O.D., time of death, on…
Time's Joe Klein: What's the Matter with You Morons
Poor Joe Klein wishes he could give a lecture to average Americans -- the "Too Dumb to Thrive" who probably don't read his magazine's Swampland blog anyway -- on the virtues of Obamanomics. Of course, they'd probably be too stupid to understand the enlightened Mr. Anonymous, especially Fox News viewers. Indeed, at least in Klein's mind, these alleged ignorant boobs are practically an existential…
People Magazine Asked Obama If the Undie-Bomber Would Make Him 'Recons
Everyone expects a People magazine interview with the Obamas is going to be about what's on the i-Pod and the president's New Year's resolution for "resisting pie." But in addition to those items, People's Sandra Sobieraj Westfall (formerly of AP) did lob a couple of adult pitches in their January 25 issue: PEOPLE: Mr. President, after the events of Dec. 25, do you want to reconsider your B-plus…
Fox Reporting $25 Mil No-Bid Contract Went to Dem Donor
I don't know why I'm relaying this to readers. After all, according to former White House Communications Director Anita "Mao Inspires Me" Dunn, it's not coming from a real news organization. Her successor, Dan Pfeiffer, agrees. So does David Axelrod. But on the off chance that what follows might actually mean something, here is an excerpt from a lengthy piece of investigative journalism from Fox…
Liberal Columnist Slams Olbermann Over 'Crazy, Sick' Scott Brown Attac
Margery Eagan, a liberal columnist for the Boston Herald, ripped MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Sunday’s Reliable Sources on CNN over his “homophobic, racist, reactionary” label of Senator-elect Scott Brown on the night of the Massachusetts special election: “This is crazy...it’s sick.”Eagan appeared during the lead segment of the CNN program with Jonathan Martin of Politico and conservative CNN…
Save the Date: MRC Live with Brent Bozell Wednesday
Don't forget to mark your calendars to join our MRC Live discussion with MRC founder and president Brent Bozell and CNSNews.com editor-in-chief Terry Jeffrey this Wednesday, January 27 at 7:00 PM ET. To participate, just go to http://live.mrc.org a few minutes before 7 PM on Wednesday. We hope you can join us for this informative session. Please mark this date on your calendar.
UPDATED: White House Responds | Obama Uses Teleprompter To Address Six
UPDATES AT END OF POST: White House says teleprompter only in room for press event, not address to students. Last Tuesday, President Obama spoke to a group of sixth graders and apparently brought his trusty teleprompter along to make sure he didn't make any mistakes.As the Washington Post reported Wednesday, "'We're going to raise the bar for all our students and take bigger steps towards closing…
Whoops: Boston Globe Political Writer Took Vacation on Last Days of Br
Democrats now routinely say Martha Coakley was a bad candidate who took too much for granted in Massachusetts, even taking a vacation after winning the nomination for Ted Kennedy’s place in the Senate. But would they say the bad candidate was also failed by bad reporters who took too much for granted? On Monday, Washington Post reporter Howard Kurtz found a bigwig at the Boston Globe who…
AP: Both Brown Win and Obama Anti-Bank Attacks Examples of 'Populism
It's amazing how Bernard Condon and Tim Paradis of the Associated Press managed to hang the same label on totally opposite political positions in their report on the situation in the stock market late this afternoon.According to the AP pair, Scott Brown's U.S. Senate win in Massachusetts was due to a "wave of populism," at the same time as President Obama is supposedly planning to use "populist…
Daily Kos: A Grandma Handing Out Pro-Life Pamphlets Is a Terrorist
There are times you read blog posts at the Daily Kos and genuinely think the writers are secret saboteurs trying to make the left look ridiculous. Take the blogger "Angry Mouse" on Sunday morning, who insists a grandma handing out pamphlets outside an abortion clinic is a terrorist, a regular al-Qaeda equivalent: A distinction is often made between the violent and non-violent members of this "…