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With each passing day, more and more media members are taking shots at the Obama administration's strategy of attacking Fox News.On Sunday, one of the best observations yet came from Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable magazine: "[Obama] can talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but he can't talk to Chris Wallace."Such was stated on CNN's "Reliable Sources" after host Howard Kurtz played a video of…

Last week's best game ended up being the Jets-Dolphins with likely the biggest surprise being how the Falcons absolutely demolished the Niners. What will this week's best games be, and what's the upset of the week?

In the midst of this week's controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh's failed bid to become a part owner of the St. Louis Rams, one liberal media member has been pounding the table concerning some of the hypocrisy involved: National Public Radio's Juan Williams.On Sunday, Williams continued to expose the media's double-standard by pointing out how absurd it is that Limbaugh isn't allowed to be an…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Rush Limbaugh post mortems.What is the lasting legacy of this week's controversy surrounding Limbaugh's failed bid to become an owner of the St. Louis Rams?

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Sunday made one of the most absurd comments to date about the Administration's fight with the Fox News Channel.In his "State of the Union" interview with CNN's John King, Emanuel said, "It's not a news organization so much as it has a perspective."Maybe more importantly, Emanuel told King that the White House doesn't want other news outlets to emulate Fox…

After participating in a smear campaign that removed Rush Limbaugh from possible ownership of the St. Louis Rams, Al Sharpton is threatening the conservative talk radio host with a defamation lawsuit for his op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Saturday.In the article titled "The Race Card, Football and Me," Limbaugh wrote:In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to…

Here's something virtually every American likely thought they'd never see: the New York Times declaring Fox News the winner in a fight with Barack Obama.Yet, that's what David Carr declared in "The Battle Between the White House and Fox News." In his piece published at the Times website Saturday evening, Carr almost seemed disgusted with all the attention the White House is giving to a cable…

Leftwing anarchist Noam Chomsky believes conservative talkers like Rush Limbaugh are blaming America's problems on "rich liberals" in much the same way the Nazis blamed Germany's problems on Jews.I kid you not.Speaking in front of the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on October 6, Chomsky told attendees that Americans "who for the last 30 years have seen their wages, income stagnate or decline…

Back on October 7, when the Congressional Budget Office reported that the federal deficit had ballooned to a massive $1.4 trillion during President Obama’s first year on the job, Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News did not tell viewers. But Couric finally caught up to the bad news after the Obama White House put out its final numbers on Friday afternoon.Couric disclosed the news in a brief item that…

Can you say "bitter"? That's the vibe Slate.com Editor-in-Chief Jacob Weisberg gave off in an Oct. 17 column, which will appear in the Oct. 26 issue of Newsweek, about Fox News headlined "The O'Garbage Factor." Weisberg, who once diagnosed former President George W. Bush with a learning disability, contends the Fox News Channel goes beyond just making liberal media elitist like himself cringe -…

In an October 16, 2009, article in the Boston Globe, staffer Andrea Estes makes the eye-opening assertion that the economy in Massachusetts is "generally improving." Facts and reality suggest otherwise. Consider:In 2009 alone, unemployment in Massachusetts has swelled from 7.4% (Jan. 2009) to 9.3% (Sept. 2009)."[L]ocal aid to cities and towns [is] already down more than $700 million from the…

Once again, the nightly train wreck known as CNN Headline News "The Joy Behar Show" took another jab at conservatism, particularly Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Only this time, Behar threw in a couple of old standbys for whom lefties are fixated upon assaulting - former President George W. Bush and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Behar, on her Oct. 17 CNN HLN program, suggested to radio show…