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Beware Reporters Who Say 2010 Voters Didn't Like GOP, Were Saying 'End
One of the themes we're going to see going into the New Year is suggesting that the voters in 2010 weren't sending an anti-Big Government message -- they were sending an end-gridlock message. That sounds more than odd, considering the Democrats had little fear of gridlock with the size of their majorities in the last two years. But there was Gloria Borger on the Christmas Eve Washington Week on…
Savannah Guthrie: 'I Know' Obama Sees Middle-Class Tax Cuts As 'Moral
Next time Barack Obama is looking for a character reference, there's at least one person he can count on: Savannah Guthrie . . .
On Morning Joe today, the NBC White House correspondent personally vouched for PBO, saying "I know the president looks at [middle-class tax cuts] as a moral issue."
View video after the jump.
How Nice: Justice Sotomayor 'Alert to the Humanity' of People in Her L
After a couple of long, cautionary front-page stories documenting the Supreme Court’s “sharp jolt to the right,” New York Times legal reporter Adam Liptak on Tuesday took a shorter, mostly sympathetic look at the empathy and “humanity” shown by Obama’s liberal pick, Justice Sonia Sotomayor in “Sotomayor Guides Courts’ Liberal Wing.”
Liptak’s overall report was pretty balanced in its labeling…
NYT Post-Christmas: 'Americans Are Splurging As If It's 2007,' But Was
Not that it's a big surprise, but it seems that the answer to "How do we spin Christmas shopping season?" at the New York Times depends on which party occupies the Oval Office in Washington.
Monday, The Times's Stephanie Clifford, with the help of two other reporters, blew the holiday sales horn. Here are the first few paragraphs of her report, entitled "Retail Sales Rebound, Beating…
CNN Reporter Gushes to Lorena Bobbitt: 'Are You Finally Able to Laugh
On Tuesday morning, CNN anchor Alina Cho interviewed Lorena Bobbitt – who unsurprisingly goes by her maiden name, Lorena Gallo – to discuss her recent efforts to reach out to domestic abuse victims and combat spousal abuse. However, the network not only failed to explain the specifics of her 1993 domestic dispute – where she infamously severed her then-husband John Bobbitt's penis with a…
David Shuster, the Man Who Slammed 'Nutty,' 'Far-Right' Conservatives
Former MSNBC journalist David Shuster, who used his position as a supposedly straight-forward journalist to slam "nutty," far-right" conservatives, will return to the airwaves Wednesday night, guest hosting the Jim Bohannon radio show.
Shuster was "suspended indefinitely" on April 06, 2010 after it was revealed that he was shooting a pilot for CNN, despite still being under contract at MSNBC…
N.Y. Times Downplayed Clapper ABC Gaffe -- No Critics, Only Pals Who F
Yesterday, we reviewed how other national networks skipped out on ABC’s accidental discovery in an interview last week that James Clapper, Obama’s director of national intelligence, had no clue about London terror arrests that had been splashed all over TV that day. Several newspapers picked up the story on December 23, but they were all stocked only with chummy Clapper supporters trying to…
ABC Scolds 'Rising Star of the Republican Party' Chris Christie for Mi
Of the three morning shows, only ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday singled out New Jersey governor Chris Christie, chiding the "rising star of the Republican Party" for being out of the state when a blizzard hit. At the same time, reporter Sharyn Alfonsi praised Newark's Democratic Mayor Cory Booker for helping with the clean-up. She enthused, "Wow! A mayor with a shovel." Regarding…
Open Thread: Olbermann Continues Losing Viewers
Today's starter topic: Left-wing MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann's ratings continue to drop:
Olbermann, Couric and Amanpour Won't Advance Our Efforts, Will You
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Time Mag Headline 'Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming
In today's "Everything Is Caused By Climate Change" segment, the folks at Time magazine offer a howler destined to start your morning off right with a chuckle: "Holiday Blizzard: More Signs of Global Warming."
The contents were even more hysterical:
Dignified Newsweek? They Print 'F--k John McCain,' Scalia a 'C--ksucke
Newsweek's year-end Interview issue is "graced" on the cover by lesbian "Glee" actress Jane Lynch. We'll put "grace" in quotes since the interview inside with Lynch and well-named sex columnist Dan Savage is rude and hateful. Apparently, gay activists are encouraged to put on a bullying tone and spray hate at conservatives. Savage would say something vulgar, and then Lynch would chime in…
Barney Frank's Cuts: NATO 'Serves No Strategic Purpose
In the Bush years, liberals worried out loud about how our war on terrorism was destroying our reputation among our noble socialist allies in Europe. But in the Obama years, they are showing their old colors. The Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel delighted in Barney Frank's idea that our NATO alliance with Europe is strategically worthless and our spending on it should be slashed:
"These kind…
AP’s Fram Charges GOP ‘Defied’ Public by Passing (Non-Existent
Catching up with a distorted news report from Christmas Day, the AP decided to distribute a particularly tendentious piece of “reporting” by the news service’s Washington, DC-based Alan Fram and Jennifer Agiesta, who misleadingly charged House Republicans “defied” public will on “tax cuts for the wealthy,” which were non-existent. They led:
Republicans say they will follow “the people's…