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Obama's False Family Drama: Ann Dunham Was Not Denied Health Insurance
As Clay Waters at the Media Research Center's Times Watch reported earlier today ("One of Obama's Emotional Arguments for Obama-Care Proven Wrong in NYT Staffer's New Book"), the New York Times's Kevin Sack ran a story yesterday which "reflects badly on Barack Obama and how he misled people in his campaign for Obama-care."
I'll say. As reported by Sack (bolds are mine throughout this post):
July 14th, 2011 10:31 PM
Only 2% of Reports on Debt Ceiling Battle Mention Public Opposition to
Network evening shows ignore polls showing deeper concern over rising federal debt than default; fail to debunk Obama's Social Security remarks.
July 14th, 2011 7:36 PM

Smug Ed Schultz Forced to Admit Huge Blunder About News Corp
A former gridiron star really ought to know better than to spike the ball in the wrong end zone.
Appearing more subdued than he had on "The Ed Show" just 24 hours earlier, MSNBC action hero Ed Schultz last night admitted making an embarrassing error about News Corporation, parent company of Schultz nemesis Fox News Channel.
On "The Ed Show" July 12, Schultz claimed he knew why Fox pundits…
July 14th, 2011 7:18 PM

CBS Gives Slanted Take on Minnesota as Model of Possible Federal Shutd
On Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Dean Reynolds highlighted sob stories surrounding the current shutdown of the Minnesota state government, providing a possible template of how the mainstream media would cover a potential federal government shutdown if the debt ceiling issue isn't resolved by August 2.
Before getting to Reynolds's report, substitute anchor Russ Mitchell played a clip from his…
July 14th, 2011 7:06 PM

Desperate Matthews Urges Viewers: Call Congress and Tell Them to Ignor
A desperate sounding Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, began his show by handing out the direct line to Congress as he urged his viewers to stand up against the "Tea Party members" and their "stay-at-home blogging cheerleaders."
Matthews warned his audience that these "blogging cheerleaders" and their GOP Representatives were all too willing to "embrace" economic "calamity" to show how…
July 14th, 2011 6:34 PM

Pelosi's Audacious Claim: Obama Has More Patience Than Biblical Job
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that President Barack Obama has shown a “level of patience” in debt limit negotiations with congressional leaders that does not compare to the biblical figure Job, known as the “Man of Patience.”
July 14th, 2011 6:29 PM

MSNBC's Martin Bashir: Obama Didn't Walk Out of Debt Talks, 'Childish
It has been widely reported that President Barack Obama walked out of Wednesday night's debt limit meeting, but MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Thursday was in complete denial that the Democratic president, who's merely "exasperated by Republicans playing this dangerous game," would conduct himself in such a way.
During his daily "Clear the Air" segment, Bashir offered mounds of incredulity but not…
July 14th, 2011 6:14 PM
Minn. Shutdown Follow-up: State Demanding MillerCoors Pull Product Ove
Last night (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that the State of Minnesota, where the government is shut down but spokesman for the Department of Public Safety Doug Neville is somehow still working, is demanding that MillerCoors pull its products from Gopher State store shelves within days, and identified a number of questions non-inquisitive Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Eric Roper…
July 14th, 2011 6:10 PM
A Religious Test for
The Constitution is specific when it prohibits a "religious test" for "any office or public trust" -- Article VI, Paragraph III
That doesn't mean that voters are prohibited from taking a person's faith (or lack thereof) into account when deciding for whom they will vote. No law could stop them.
July 14th, 2011 5:51 PM
The Kultursmog Against Rupert Murdoch
Do we need any other evidence that the Kultursmog exists and that it is international — at least in the English-speaking world — than the fact that the biggest news story in the United Kingdom today is also the biggest news story here. I have in mind the story that News of the World reporters in London listened in on private conversations and possibly bribed Scotland Yard. The Kultursmog is…
July 14th, 2011 5:20 PM
Joe Scarborough Hammers His Crew: 'Name One Tough Vote' the Dems Have
Joe Scarborough took Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski to task Thursday over the ongoing debt negotiations. "[Republicans] already have given specifics on the Paul Ryan Medicare plan which was political suicide for a lot of Republicans. They took that hard vote. What hard vote have Democrats made on the debt over the past year? Name one. Name one vote" said Scarborough.
[VIDEO BELOW THE…
July 14th, 2011 5:12 PM

MSNBC's Hall Notes 'Boom Towns' in South, Fails to Consider Low Taxes
MSNBC "NewsNation" anchor and Texas native Tamron Hall was delighted to find that four Lone Star cities made it to Forbes.com's list of "The Next Big Boom Towns in the U.S."
"Forbes [magazine] says many of the cities on the list have some of the best job creation records in the nation," Hall noted as she introduced contributor Joel Kotkin, who authored the July 6 piece.
Kotkin identified…
July 14th, 2011 4:33 PM
Media Focused on Big Bush Donors, Paying Little Attention to Obama's F
It's no secret that most campaigns are heavily funded by big checks from lobbyists, PACs, and rich donors, but President Obama's campaign team is turning away from that assertion, instead showcasing the claim that it is 98-percent-funded by grassroots support. Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager, said "we did this from the bottom up," pushing the idea that the $86 million fundraising figure…
July 14th, 2011 3:53 PM

NY Times Editor Bill Keller Wishes His Staff Would Stop Writing All Th
One has to wonder if departing New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller will leave behind many friends in the newsroom. First he bothered his media-beat reporters by writing of his dislike for new media like Twitter. It turns out he’s not crazy about old media (books) either – at least when writing them take his reporters away on book leave or detracts from their reporting.
His upcoming…
July 14th, 2011 12:35 PM