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NBC’s David Gregory Spikes Rev. Wright/Clinton Story; Cites Jewish B
Has NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory turned over a new leaf? Gregory, who has earned a lot of critics for having an anti-Bush/liberal bias, made it seem that way during a discussion about ethics in politics and journalism Thursday. He claimed to struggle with Jewish teachings about saying bad things about others - at least when it comes to Democrats. Gregory, who is Jewish, said…
House GOP Leader: FCC Proposing Government Takeover of Broadcast Media
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent a letter to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday urging him to drop recent proposals which amount to "a sweeping takeover by Washington bureaucrats of broadcast media."In his correspondence, Boehner claimed the "proposals and recommendations for Commission action contained in the NPR amount to the stealth enactment of…
Obama VP Committee Member Helped Enable 2000 Elian Gonzalez Seizure
Now that Jim Johnson has quit Barack Obama's vice-presidential candidate selection team, maybe somebody, anybody, in the media, instead of making "He's havng a bad day" excuses, might focus on the questionable judgment of Barack Obama in having Eric Holder serve on that team. Besides his already-known role in facilitating the Clinton pardons, including that of fugitive billionaire financier…
Barnicle: 'Hillary Like First Wife Outside Probate Court' Taken 'Out o
Q. What's weaker than playing the "taken out of context" card?A. Digging yourself deeper with the supposedly exculpatory explanation.Mike Barnicle managed the Daily Double today with his mishandling of the flap over the way he described Hillary back in January. Barnicle was on Morning Joe, and discussion turned to a New York Times article, Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage, that…
Cafferty Scolds House Democrats for Not Pushing to Impeach Bush
Six months after he chastised Congress for not following George McGovern's advice to impeach President Bush, CNN's Jack Cafferty on Thursday scolded House Democrats for disposing of the latest impeachment effort by the far-left Dennis Kucinich (earlier NB post on Cafferty's blog entry). Fretting that “the House of Representatives voted to send an impeachment resolution against President Bush to a…
Stephanopoulos: Obama Attacks Are Similar to 'Untrue' Kerry Charges
On Friday's "Good Morning America," former top Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos attacked criticism of Barack Obama as comparable to "the experience of the Michael Dukakis Democratic campaign in 1988, of John Kerry's campaign in 2004." In an apparent dig at the Swift Boat veterans and their criticism of John Kerry, the ex-Democratic official-turned journalist maligned, "In both those cases, the…
Dan Abrams Miffed That Hannity Supports John McCain
We've seen Chris "Thrill Going Up My Leg" Matthews. Keith Olbermann admits to MSNBC viewers that his network doesn't give a "hard time" to Democratic candidates. Olbermann defends Barack Obama by humilating Matthews. Democratic stalwarts Lanny Davis and Ed Rendell blast MSNBC for not being fair to Hillary Clinton and for [Keith Olbermann] saying things that should put him on the Obama campaign…
ABCNews.com: 'Are We Living in the Last Century of Our Civilization
On Thursday, ABC News took global warming hysteria to a new level.After Chris Cuomo and Bob Woodruff previewed an upcoming environmental scare piece on "Good Morning America" as previously reported by my colleague Scott Whitlock, an article was posted at the network's website asking (emphasis added throughout):Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our…
NYT Doesn't Cite Anyone in Assertion That 'Some' Say Obama's Plans Don
New York Times's Larry Rohter today asked the question "Will the Real Tax and Spender Please 'Fess Up?" Fortunately, he tells us what the answer is, even though he has no facts to support it. He has this wonderful little nugget, in which he tries to refute John McCain's statement with two points: Some question whether Mr. Obama’s tax plan can even be characterized as an increase. Some also argue…
NBC's Gregory: Knowledge of Journalist Votes Would Compromise Reportin
White House correspondent says media expansion, including talk radio, has had a 'corrosive' effect on political discourse.
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