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Worried Lauer Presses First Lady On Health Care: 'Can Your Husband Get
Michelle Obama sat down for an exclusive, multi-part interview with NBC's Matt Lauer on Wednesday's Today show and as expected with any Q&A with a First Lady the co-host tossed the perfunctory softballs on topics like family life in the White House and her cause of childhood obesity, but Lauer also extended the favorable treatment when discussing health care reform as he pressed: "Will it…
ABC Cheers 'Dramatic' and 'Truly Historic' JCS Opposition to 'Don't As
ABC, CBS and NBC all aired full stories Tuesday night on Admiral Mike Mullen’s testimony against “don’t ask/don’t tell” before the Senate Armed Services Committee, but only ABC led with the comments from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) as anchor Diane Sawyer called it “a dramatic day on Capitol Hill” and reporter Martha Raddatz trumpeted: “This will be dramatically-debated for…
WaPo's Saslow Claims Obama's a 'Rare' President With a Middle-Class Ch
Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow (of "The sun glistened off his chiseled pectorals" fame) is back on the Obama beat and on the front page Wednesday, with a story headlined "A middle-class president's paradox." Some think Obama's an elitist. Imagine that. But do they have fact-checkers? Saslow wrote: His first year in office was defined in part by a paradox. He is a rare president who comes…
Newsweek's Alter Called Bush a Dictator, But Says GOP Emboldens Terror
When The New York Times broke open the story of NSA monitoring of overseas phone calls to terrorist cells at the end of 2005, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter proclaimed "We’re seeing clearly now that Bush thought 9/11 gave him license to act like a dictator, or in his own mind, no doubt, like Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War." He suggested the story could lead to Bush’s impeachment. But on Tuesday…
Susan Estrich: 'Lack of Diversity' at Apple Caused 'iPad' Name
There are some stories that make you cover your eyes with your hand and groan. And this column by Susan Estrich about what she thinks is the poorly named Apple iPad is definitely one of those. Here is Estrich putting on her feminist cap and making a very long stretch on blaming the name "iPad" on a "lack of diversity" at Apple:Is there a woman in America who did not laugh, or at least roll her…
Bozell Column: A New Abortion Scandal
In his book "The Courage to Be Catholic," author George Weigel surprised readers by insisting that the very secular and liberal Boston Globe and the New York Times had done the Lord’s work in rooting out the story of child sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church.Weigel is correct, and never mind that the newsies at the Globe and the Times were relishing making the Church cringe. But these…
Broadcasts Networks Lead Cheers for JCS Opposition to 'Don't Ask, Don
ABC's Diane Saywer calls testimony 'dramatic' and 'truly historic.'
CNN Boosts Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Gay activists in favor of changing military policy outnumber others 11 to 1 in coverage.
Beck Demolishes Huffington: She's 'Media Matters After a Few Drinks
Glenn Beck on Tuesday addressed recent attacks by liberal publisher Arianna Huffington and in so doing thoroughly demolished the proprietor of the Huffington Post on national television.Beck did such a good job that even the left-leaning website Mediaite took his side.As NewsBusters reported Sunday, Huffington went on ABC's "This Week" and accused Beck of "inciting the American people" to commit…
Jack Cafferty: 'Abstinence-Only Sex Education Might Just Work
CNN's Jack Cafferty, during a commentary on Tuesday's Situation Room, fairly presented the results of recent "landmark" study which indicates abstinence-only sex education has better results than "safe sex" classes in preventing teenagers from having sex : "This just in: abstinence-only sex education might just work... [The] study...could have huge implications on the national debate over…
Schultz Still Accusing O'Keefe Of Trying To 'Tap' Phones
MSNBC reprimand coming for Ed Schultz? Five full days after MSNBC rapped David Shuster's wrists for improperly accusing James O'Keefe of attempting to "tap" Sen. Mary Landrieu's phones, Ed Schultz has pulled the same stunt.Here was Schultz, teasing an upcoming segment on his show tonight:
WaPo's Paul Farhi Dismisses 'Blind Side' As Trite Movie with 'Magic Ne
Why let facts get in the way of a good liberal meme?Paul Farhi sure didn't when he panned Oscar-nominated movie "The Blind Side" during a special "Hardball on Hollywood" segment with Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff and host Chris Matthews on the February 2 program.The Washington Post media critic slammed the Best Picture-nominated drama -- based on a true story -- as just another movie in which the…
