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Kathleen Willey Warns Obama About the Clintons, Will Media Notice

Kathleen Willey, the former White House volunteer who claimed in 1998 that President Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her, has written a letter warning Barack Obama about the former first couple.Published at World Net Daily Monday, the letter outlined some of the tactics Willey believes the Clintons might use against Obama to thwart his presidential candidacy.Will media, that have recently been…
Noel Sheppard

Recession Skeptics – The Side Unheard in the Media

Recession stories have a lot in common with global warming stories - there are a lot of them and you hear only one side. And like global warming, recession is the subject of a Newsweek cover story, appearing on the front of the magazine's February 4 issue. The story, "The U.S. Economy Faces the Guillotine," written by Daniel Gross, takes a one-sided gloomy approach to reporting on the U.S.…
Jeff Poor

A "Cruel" Arizona Law Means Illegals No Longer Get Money for College

How dare they: A new Arizona law limits financial assistance for college to actual citizens!
Clay Waters

Smith to Kennedy: 'Agents of Change End Up Being Targets, As You Well

I'm measuring my words carefully. Harry Smith has raised the possibility that Barack Obama's life could be in danger.The Early Show anchor interviewed Ted Kennedy this morning in the wake of his endorsement of Obama yesterday. Smith's initial broaching of the subject of danger to Obama was very cryptic:HARRY SMITH: When you see that enthusiasm [for Obama] though, and when you see the…
Mark Finkelstein

Andy Card Calls Out MSNBC 'Cynicism,' Bush Like Fibber McGee

Brad Wilmouth

NewsBusted

Topics in this show: John McCain and Hillary Clinton get endorsements from New York Times, Bill Clinton falls asleep during MLK speech, Kucinich and Thompson drop out of presidential race, Britney Spears vs. the paparazzi.Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace or subscribe to our YouTube channel and do battle with hate-filled lefties who like to give bad ratings to…
Matthew Sheffield

Editor: Bush Is a Failed President, Boring and Untrustworthy

Washington Post associate editor Robert Kaiser took his usual turn answering reader questions after the State of the Union Monday night, and he seemed eager to echo the Post line that the Bush presidency was "out of public support (32 percent approval), out of ideas and out of gas. It is fascinating to me how difficult it is for politicians (and journalists too, to be fair) to say publicly what…
Tim Graham

CBS: 'Bush Redux,' Bad Legacy; CNN's Toobin: No 'Humanity' In GOP

ABC and NBC pivoted almost immediately from President Bush's State of the Union address to the 2008 presidential campaign, but CBS stuck to Bush's speech in its post-coverage in which Katie Couric complained “a lot of it was Bush redux,” Bob Schieffer kvetched that Bush “did not say what his assessment of the state of the union was until the next to the last sentence” and historian Douglas…
Brent Baker

Take Two Pills and Reserve Your Place in Rehab

NBC highlights prescription drug abuse, but only in the wake of tragedy.
Colleen Raezler

'Mystique' Means 'Audacity of Hope' Has 'Rendezvous with Destiny

The broadcast network anchors and reporters were almost as giddy as Barack Obama over liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy's endorsement of the presidential candidate. ABC, CBS and NBC all led Monday night with it and ABC's David Wright adopted campaign slogans as he enthused about how “today the audacity of hope had its rendezvous with destiny. The Kennedy clan anointed Barack Obama a son of Camelot.”…
Brent Baker

AP Echoes: McCain May Prove Talk Radio 'Having Little Effect

Tim Graham

More Tolerant Left Squelches Free Speech... Again

Warner Todd Huston

'Hardball' Crew Gives Rave Reviews to Teddy's Obama Endorsement

Geoffrey Dickens