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Beck Should Be Institutionalized, 'Abusive' to Have Him on TV Says 'Da
Don't have the clout to get "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart on your primetime program like Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly? You can always opt for Lizz Winstead. Appearing on HLN's Feb. 4 "The Joy Behar Show," Winstead - co-creator Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," host of a show for the now-defunct Air America radio network and former executive producer for MSNBC's "Weekends with Maury and…
UPDATED: Bozell to Discuss on Hannity | MRC's Bozell, Other Conservati
UPDATE (11:57 a.m. EST): Brent Bozell is confirmed to appear on "Hannity" tonight to discuss this. He should appear around 9:10 p.m. Eastern time. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has joined Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) and a coalition of Catholic leaders today in an open letter to the White House demanding that President Obama fire Harry…
Predictable: CNNMoney.com E-mail Alert Notes Unemployment Rate Drop, I
My supposedly informative but in reality selective CNNMoney.com E-mail just alerted me to the fact that the unemployment rate dropped in January, but "somehow" forgot to reveal that 20,000 seasonally adjusted jobs were lost (see related post by BMI/NB's Julia Seymour): CNNMoney.com also "forgot" to say anything about a downward 900,000-job revision (actually, even worse) to previous data (text is…
N.Y. Times Skipped March for Life, Highlights Leftist Critics of Natio
When tens of thousands gather in Washington to protest legalized abortion, The New York Times has in recent years mostly ignored it – which seems especially odd when they spotlight tiny liberal protests as newsworthy. It happened again on Thursday, as the Times ran a photograph of about ten protesters of the National Prayer Breakfast – outside the Capitol Hill house of "The Family," the secretive…
For Third Time in Less Than a Week, MSNBC Tries to Link Conservatives
On Thursday, MSNBC continued its quest to link conservatives with the birther movement- people who don't believe Barack Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as President. Previewing an unrelated segment on this weekend's tea party convention, Norah O'Donnell played a clip of Obama criticizing those who raise the issue. She then compared, "President Obama sends a message to those who…
FNC’s Baier Corrects Washington Post’s Claim Obama ‘Rare’ Prod
File under: you read it here first. “The Washington Post ignored a few historical facts when it proclaimed in a front page article Wednesday that President Obama is quote, ‘a rare President who comes from the middle class,’” FNC’s Bret Baier pointed out during his Thursday “Grapevine” segment. Baier explained what escaped Post reporter Eli Saslow:There have actually been many Presidents who…
Sportswriter Dan Graziano Claims Tim Tebow 'Made a Poor Decision' in A
Writer characterizes Focus on the Family as 'an extremist organization that aggressively preaches hate, intolerance and anti-intellectualism.'
Franken Bullies Comcast, NBC on Merger: 'I Don't Trust These Promises
After hearing the wit and wisdom of Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., one has to wonder how modern media corporations could stay in business without the expertise and guidance of those elected to the U.S. Senate.Sarcasm aside, Franken did admit during a Feb. 4 hearing he didn't necessarily have legal expertise to address the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, but he could more than make up for that…
Franken to Comcast, NBC on Merger: 'I Don't Trust These Promises
Minnesota junior senator claims merger could prompt higher cable rates and force cell phone carriers to own a TV network in order to compete.
Maddow Excels as Exemplar - of Intellectual Dishonesty
An old joke comes to mind -- a man hiring for an accountant interviews two applicants. He asks the first applicant, two plus two, what's the answer? Four, the applicant responds.Second applicant, same question. The response -- what do you want it to be? You're hired, he's told.After watching Rachel Maddow's default tendency toward deceit for more than a year, I wonder if those seeking work at…
Piling On: 6 of 12 Vids in AP's Web Site Rotation are About Toyota
Why are the Associated Press's video people piling on Toyota? Moments ago, in going to business-related stories at hosted.ap.org (example here), I found that the rotation of video teases the AP is presenting to readers has 12 items. Six of them, presented consecutively, relate to Toyota. Each is negative. No doubt the situations in which the company is involved are newsworthy, but is one…