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Camille Paglia Explains Palin Derangement Syndrome
Salon's Camille Paglia has regularly chided the press for their obvious Palin Derangement Syndrome, and on Wednesday tried to once again explain the malady:As a Democrat, I detest the partisan machinations that have become standard in Northeastern news management and that are detectable in editorial decisions at major metropolitan newspapers nationwide. It's why I, like a host of others, have…
Huff-Po: Democrats Proving Again That Compromise is Not an Option on H
In this report we get a nice one-two punch. Not only are we seeing Democrats once again refusing even a tiny compromise with Republicans on Obama's takeover of nearly 20% of our economy with his healthcare plans, but we also get to see another example of why Huffington Post is not journalism. I like a nice one-two punch for a Wednesday. For one thing, the HuffPo article hilariously calls Democrat…
Olbermann: We Have To 'Legally Stop' Glenn Beck
Noted free-speech champion Keith Olbermann has declared that we have to "legally stop" Glenn Beck. The Fox News host's crime? Not reacting strongly enough for Olbermann's taste when a guest made an over-the-top remark. [H/t reader JKF.]On the June 30 editon of Beck's show, former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer said: "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to detonate…
AP, Reuters Go Full Tilt in Spinning Latest Writing of Pope
[Please see update below.]Two major wire services- AP and Reuters- cherry picked excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI’s latest encyclical (a teaching document of the Catholic Church) on Tuesday to support left-wing economic and political positions, and all but ignored the pontiff’s traditional stances on the family, bioethics, and the environment. The AP also went so far to bring up “the state of the…
NYT Called Obama 'Man of Experience' During Campaign -- Yet Palin Stil
Chief New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney emphasized the negative in his Sarah Palin-based "Political Memo" on Sunday, "If Presidency Is Goal, Palin Has Chosen A Risky Route," suggesting that the Alaska governor, who ran for the vice presidency in 2008, has few political credentials toward making a possible presidential run in 2012.By stepping down before finishing her term, she…
MRC's Bozell: 'No Justification' for Soldier Deaths Getting 1/20th Cov
Reacting to Media Research Center (MRC) analysis showing the deaths of seven U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan recently has received just 1/20th of the network coverage devoted to Michael Jackson, NewsBusters Publisher and MRC President Bozell Bozell released the following statement earlier today:This is a prime example of why network television news audiences are disappearing before our eyes…
CBS: Palin Resignation Source of ‘Frustration’ In Alaska and GOP
On Monday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Terry McCarthy described reaction to Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as governor of Alaska: "After her bombshell announcement Friday, Sarah Palin has essentially vanished, to the frustration of some Alaskans...Even her allies in the Republican Party are perplexed."The story featured a clip of one Alaskan resident declaring: "I don't think it's right…
Time's Klein Slams 'White-Bread Fantasy' of Reagan's 'Morning in Amer
Republicans, particularly those who are the biggest fans of Gov. Sarah Palin, are stuck in the vestiges of the 1984 "white-bread fantasy" of Reagan's "Morning in America," huffs Time magazine's Joe Klein in a July 6 Swampland blog post on "Sarah Palin's America":All this talk about Sarah Palin's constituency being "real Americans" raises the question, yet again, of who the unreal Americans are.…
Tough Jake Tapper Interview With Obama Fails to Hold Interest of Jacks
Despite devoting almost the entire Good Morning America program on Tuesday to Michael Jackson, ABC could only find three minutes for a hard-hitting Jake Tapper interview with Barack Obama. And even though co-host Diane Sawyer promised at the close of the piece, "And we'll have more of the President's interview with Jake Tapper later in the broadcast," the segment never returned. Tapper, who was…
Santelli Attacks Biden's Claim Economy Is Worse Than Expected
Why is CNBC's Rick Santelli one of the few press members willing to point out when the emperor isn't wearing any clothes?As you ponder that important question, consider how Santelli on Tuesday morning recognized how absurd Vice President Joe Biden's Sunday comments were concerning the Obama administration misreading how bad the economy was.After all, as Santelli marvelously asked: "How many…
'Nightly News' On Board with Putin's Business Bullying
TASS probably couldn't have done it better. And NBC correspondent Jim Maceda seemed to be channeling that Soviet Russia official state-run news agency in his glowing account of Russia Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's heavy-handed dealings with some small businesses. Putin was, he said, "combating Russia's deep recession hand-to-hand." Maceda, in a July 6 "Nightly News" segment, spoke admiringly…