Geithner Update: AP's Early-AM Revision Flushes Many Details, Calls Hi

In a post last night, I criticized the Associated Press for glossing over the 15 years of personal and domestic self-employment tax filing and payment problems of Timothy Geithner, Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury Secretary (pictured at right in an AP photo). It turns out that Brett Blackledge's Tuesday evening report was relatively hard-hitting in comparison to Julie Hirschfeld Davis's…
Tom Blumer
 

Barnicle: Blogging's Not Journalism—It's Therapy

My therapist told me to take two shots at Chris Matthews and call him in the morning . . . Mike Barnicle is back to looking down his nose at bloggers.  After Mika Brzezinski claimed on today's Morning Joe that "blogging isn't journalism," the former Boston Globe columnist declared that "95%, 99% of blogging isn't journalism. It's therapy for the blogger."The predicate was a provocative one. …
Mark Finkelstein
 

Lou Dobbs Tweaks CNN Brass by Hosting and Praising Ann Coulter

Tim Graham
 

Does Time Mag Think Politics is Unnatural

Apparently, Time Magazine doesn't think that politics is a proper subject for social-networking sites such as FaceBook. In fact, one almost gets the feeling that Time thinks the Internet would be wholly free of passion and even vitriol were it not for politics making its evil presence known in cyberspace. And whose fault is all this vitriol? Why it's the Jews, of course. At the very least, Time…
Warner Todd Huston
 

Olbermann: Unlike Palin, Pitbull Can Be Trained to ‘Occasionally Kee

On Tuesday’s Countdown on MSNBC, after a segment with the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson at the end of the program in which he and host Keith Olbermann lambasted Sarah Palin over her recent interview with Esquire magazine, the Countdown host made a crude joke at Palin’s expense as he introduced the Rachel Maddow Show. Olbermann: "But, apropos of Palin, I can’t remember who said this, but it…
Brad Wilmouth
 

Could Pro-Obama Bias Trump Media's Anti-American Bias

Brent Baker
 

Early Show: Abstinence Okay for Adults, Doesn't Work for Teens

CBS hosts a pro-abstinence relationship expert, but the morning show has a history of denouncing abstinence.
Erin Brown
 

Treasury Nominee Geithner's Tax Problems Getting the Glossover Treatme

Jan. 14 Update: "AP's Early-AM Revision Flushes Many Details, Calls His Tax Problems 'Goofs'" Timothy Geithner, pictured at right in an AP photo, is Barack Obama's nominee for Treasury Secretary. Mr. Geithner will, among many other duties, oversee the Internal Revenue Service.How odd, to say the least, that Mr. Geithner has had persistent tax filing and payment problems going back over 15 years…
Tom Blumer
 

Ed Schultz on How Dems Should Govern: Invite GOP But Tell 'Em to 'Shut

Jack Coleman
 

CBSSports.com Columnist Slams Worship of 'False Idol

CBSSports.com columnist Gregg Doyel has had it with all the hero worship, the idolatry, the 'canonization' of the guy: This one's going to hurt. It's going to hurt you, and it's going to hurt me..... It's directed at those who would beatify the man.... Because he's just a man. No, he's not referring to President-elect Obama but rather Tim Tebow, the University of Florida quarterback who led…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS’s Smith: No ‘Job Well Done’ on Bush Report Card

Reacting to President Bush’s Monday press conference, on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith remarked: "Not going to get a 'job well done'...on the report card, on the final report card." That observation was prompted by Republican strategist Ed Rollins declaring: "I think to a certain extent, we have a lot to be thankful to this president for his service, but he's not going to get a ‘…
Kyle Drennen
 

'The View's' Barbara Walters Derides Palin Interview as 'Disturbing

On Tuesday's edition of "The View," co-host Barbara Walters dismissed a series of interviews Sarah Palin gave to a conservative filmmaker as "disturbing." The veteran journalist stiffly claimed that "one is not sure why she keeps doing these interviews." The comment occurred while the women of the ABC program were debating an assertion by Palin that the media may treat possible New York Senator…
Scott Whitlock
 

CNN's Jim Acosta: Obama Inaugural Speech 'Could Be One For the Ages

CNN correspondent Jim Acosta hyped the forthcoming inaugural address of President-elect Barack Obama during a report on Tuesday’s American Morning: “...Barack Obama’s inaugural address may be more than the speech of his lifetime. Historians and speechwriters say it could be one for the ages, if he can rise to the occasion.” He reenforced this sentiment with clips from a former Clinton-Gore…
Matthew Balan
 

Helen Thomas Whacks Obama for Being Heartless as Israelis Starve the C

There is one famous journalist who’s unafraid to denounce Barack Obama’s agenda. Legendary left-wing journalist Helen Thomas appeared on Tuesday’s Democracy Now on radical Pacifica Radio, and denounced Obama’s acceptance of pro-Israel U.S. foreign policy: "I think that Obama, during the campaign, made many promises, as every president, potential president does to Israel, that they seem somehow…
Tim Graham