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Heads, Obama Wins; Tails, Bush Loses: AP's Inconsistent 'Recession' De
There are two different ways of defining a recession. The Associated Press is using one of them to define its beginning, and the other to define its end. Using the former makes George Bush look bad; using the latter makes Barack Obama look good. Imagine that. The traditional definition of "recession," which is used as the official metric in the vast majority of countries around the world, is…
July 16th, 2010 11:56 PM
At End of 'Seismic Week,' Nets Relay Frustration Public Not Giving Oba
“An earthquake hits Washington,” fill-in ABC anchor David Muir announced Friday night as he gushed that “it comes as the President wraps up a seismic week.” He soon noted how the First Family began a brief vacation in Maine which, he proposed, “comes after the President marked quite a week in Washington. The oil, for now, is finally stopped, and on the political front, his financial reform…
July 16th, 2010 8:57 PM
Jack Cafferty: Dems Should Be 'Euphoric' Over Sarah Palin's Popularity
It was only a matter of time before CNN's Jack Cafferty returned to bashing Sarah Palin, and he did just that on Friday's Situation Room. Cafferty hypothesized that the Republican's popularity was a good omen for the Democratic Party: "If anything could overcome the increasingly sour view of the Obama presidency, it might be this. Why, the Democrats should be positively euphoric."The commentator…
July 16th, 2010 7:16 PM
Introducing The Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit
For your entertainment pleasure this Friday evening, the folks at NewsBusters want to introduce you to "The Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit."Did you buy into Hope and Change a few years ago only to now feel embarrassed by what's adorning your wheels?If so, the folks at AmericanTees.com have a fabulous solution that's not only effective, but also darned funny.It even works on a Prius (video…
July 16th, 2010 6:19 PM
Far-left Think Progress Fabricates Examples of Tea Party Racism for Bo
Liberal activists are so desperate to paint the Tea Party as racist that some, apparently, are willing to fabricate evidence and fallaciously draw unsupported conclusions to support their point.Lee Fang, a writer for the far-left blog Think Progress, recently posted a video purporting to show racism at Tea Parties. But the video was a total fraud. It took statements out of context, claimed racism…
July 16th, 2010 6:14 PM
Reuters Editor Thinks Financial Regulation 'Still a Very Feudal' Syste
Chrystia Freeland, global editor-at-large for Reuters, believes the new financial regulations are still pretty loose."It is still a very feudal, very Byzantine regulatory system," Freeland complained on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, referring to the Senate's approval of a financial regulations bill yesterday.A radical policy, Freeland maintained, could have done away with the current "…
July 16th, 2010 6:01 PM
MSNBC's Ratigan: Tea Party 'Full of Crap;' Guest Compares It to Terror
On Friday's Dylan Ratigan show on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan reported on Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann attempting to form a congressional tea party caucus and proceeded to rant: "...the tea partiers were nowhere when it came to ending the mass extraction in Wall Street, so I think they're actually full of crap." [Audio available here]Ratigan then wondered: "...for a movement, however,…
July 16th, 2010 5:45 PM
CBS's Giles Tells Tea Party's Loesch 'Shut Your Mouth', Asks King to C
CBS News contributor Nancy Giles rudely told St. Louis Tea Party founder Dana Loesch to shut her mouth during a panel discussion on Wednesday's "Larry King Live." In the midst of a heated debate about allegations of racism within the movement, Giles asked, "Where is the Tea Party's outrage when members of their own party spit on members of the United States [Congress]?"Loesch accurately replied…
July 16th, 2010 5:44 PM
CBS: Financial Reform 'Big Win' for Obama, Adds to 'Long List' of 'Acc
On Thursday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric touted the just-passed financial reform bill as a "big win" for President Obama, "as was the passage of health care reform." She then lamented how despite that: "...there are rumblings he's in big political trouble as the midterm elections approach."In the report that followed, White House correspondent Chip Reid proclaimed: "...the President…
July 16th, 2010 4:21 PM
Mississippi Public Radio Drops 'Fresh Air,' Lefty Blogs Hysterical
Liberals always have a tendancy to assume that anything that happens in the South is either due to discrimination or out of the movie Deliverance. National Public Radio's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," a talk show focussing mainly on the arts with occasional ventures into politics, was dropped suddenly by Mississippi Public Broadcasting around Christmas of last year due to budget cuts, but had…
July 16th, 2010 4:00 PM
Behar Ridicules Christians, Insists She Doesn't Ridicule Christians
Joy Behar is no stranger to anti-Christian sentiments, except in her own mind. On "The Joy Behar Show" July 15, the host railed against Christians who defended actor and director Mel Gibson in the wake of drunken anti-Semitic comments in 2006, but are silent about his recent racist and sexist comments. Moments later, however, Behar claimed she doesn't hate Christians. Guest Rebecca Dana, a…
July 16th, 2010 3:34 PM
Newsweek Fawns Over Lady Gaga's Music Videos
Newsweek’s Ramin Setoodeh apparently really likes controversial pop star Lady Gaga, enough to praise her for revolutionizing music vidoes while ignoring her controversial "artistic" decisions. In a July 15 article, “I Want My Music Video,” Setoodeh gushed over Lady Gaga, as well as YouTube, for helping revitalize the dying art of the music video. But not once did Setoodeh point out how…
July 16th, 2010 3:19 PM
Former Hillary Clinton Finance Chairman Gets 12 Years for Ponzi Scheme
Yesterday Hassan Nemazee was sentenced to 12 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme some proceeds of which were funneled into Democratic campaigns. The New York financier was no stranger to liberal Democratic politics, having served as national finance chairman for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and New York state finance chairman for John Kerry's 2004 presidential run. He also…
July 16th, 2010 3:13 PM