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It seems a metaphysical certitude that in the wake of Colin Powell's appearance on "Face the Nation" Sunday, most media outlets will pay great attention to the former Secretary of State's response to what Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh have said about his questionable Party allegiance.Here are some of the early headlines:Powell Still a Republican, Despite Party Differences -- New York TimesPowell…

A rather peculiar thing happened on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday: Bill Maher trashed liberals.Speaking with Howard Kurtz about how he always gets booed when he tells an Obama joke, Maher said "we get a very supersensitive liberal audience" on HBO's "Real Time," and "it's always that limousine liberal crowd that just has their finger on the politically correct button...That's what bugs me the…

(Oops! "Ugly reality" already seems to have contradicted the naive premise of this Newsweek editor. See update below.)I'm not sure what's scarier: the fact that Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria wants us to believe that Iran seeks nuclear power only for peaceful purposes or that President Obama might be seriously buying into this guy's delusions by reading his book, The Post-American…

With Saturday Night Live now in re-runs until September, my offering for a little Saturday night -- media bias-based -- humor. Nearly five years ago, when compliant journalists were touting then-vice presidential candidate John Edwards and admiring his supposed idyllic marriage to Elizabeth Edwards, Katie Couric celebrated the happy couple's annual wedding anniversary “romantic ritual” of eating…

The Politico's Jeanne Cummings, a veteran of the Wall Street Journal, fretted on this weekend's Inside Washington that former Vice President Dick Cheney has “changed this debate in a way that has made it much, much harder to close Guantanamo, which the President is already committed to doing.” So he's done an awful thing in daring to oppose something President Obama is “committed to doing.”…

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart on Thursday poked fun at the national security "debate" between President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney.In so doing, "The Daily Show" host also mocked how the media covered this event as if it was a boxing match.Although Stewart was certainly more critical of Cheney than Obama -- no surprise there -- readers should find this highly entertaining…

It’s uncommon for newspapers to hype Sunday morning TV interviews in advance, especially if presidents aren’t involved. But Saturday’s Washington Post carries this page 3 story: "In TV Appearance, Powell Plans to Answer Right-Wing Critics." Reporters Michael D. Shear and Perry Bacon Jr. play up a GOP feud: "Under intense fire from the right, former secretary of state Colin L. Powell is preparing…

For many years a common media meme has been that black people have to be Democrats and that African-Americans whose political views are even slightly right of center must either be addle-minded or crazy.Janeane Garofalo in her disgusting interview with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last month said anybody at April's Tea Parties that wasn't white had to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.  On Friday,…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Who's responsible for the growing credit card debt?Let's be frank here. In an embarrassing number of cases, cardholders blithely rack up charges without a thought to payment. Consumer plastic has become the perfect dance partner to our irrepressible need for instant gratification. I want it, I buy it, and some day I may pay for it. The…

There has been very little attention paid in the MSM to a meeting on Wednesday between President Obama and various leftwing "human rights" groups except for a brief mention at the CBS News Political Hotsheet. However, according to a detailed report provided by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show, Obama has revealed that there won't be any prosecutions of Bush administration…