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Bachmann Responds to 'F--- Michele Bachmann' Concert Fliers: 'We Don
It is way beyond comprehension - the dislike, hatred for Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., a relative backbencher in terms of congressional clout, but a strong outspoken conservative leader. Fliers (posted below fold) have been surfacing around Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. advertising a "F--- Michele Bachmann 2010" tape party featuring the hip-hop artist G-Biz. And on Sean Hannity's June 17…
June 17th, 2010 6:14 PM
ABC Focuses Oil Spill Blame on BP and Coast Guard, Not Obama; CBS Give
On Thursday's Good Morning America on ABC, co-host George Stephanopoulos laid blame on BP and Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen for mishandling the Gulf oil spill response but depicted the Obama administration as having done everything it could. In contrast, on the CBS Early Show, guests from both sides of the aisle gave the President a 'C' grade for his response. At the top of Good Morning America…
June 17th, 2010 5:23 PM
MSNBC's Brewer Annoyed at Barton's 'Shakedown' Reference, But Colleagu
In a satellite interview with Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) held shortly before 1 p.m. EDT today, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer criticized Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) for denouncing the president for pushing BP to agree to a $20-billion escrow account for oil spill damages as a "shakedown": So, there's Joe Barton calling the $20 billion in escrow a shakedown, and as you point out, there are people in…
June 17th, 2010 5:12 PM
Tea Partiers Boycott MSNBC Advertisers Over ‘Slanderous’ Documenta
Some Tea Party leaders are calling for conservatives to boycott MSNBC's advertisers, after the network ran a documentary on June 16 that they say unfairly slandered the movement. Two of the Tea Party leaders interviewed in the Chris Matthews-narrated documentary are asking supporters to write, call and fax the offices of Dawn and its parent company Proctor and Gamble and request that they…
June 17th, 2010 4:40 PM
Scarborough Mocks Conservative Message: ‘Freedom Has Died Tonight! G
The oil is out of the well. Once again, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough's Republican viewpoint is anti-Republican. One could even say the host is hostile and abusive to any Republicans left in his audience. On the June 17th show, the panel was discussing the President's new escrow account for the victims of the BP oil spill and how criticism has come out from both sides.Scarborough…
June 17th, 2010 3:56 PM
AP: June Private-Sector Employment May Contract
It seems that when they saw today's today's disappointing unemployment claims report from Uncle Sam, the Associated Press's Alan Zibel, perhaps with the help of contributors Jeannine Aversa, Martin Crutsinger, and Tali Arbel, decided to start playing the expectations game with June's Employment Situation Report, which isn't due to arrive from the Bureau of Labor Statistics until July 2. If so,…
June 17th, 2010 3:55 PM
Rudy Giuliani, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Eviscerate Joe Scarborough for Bl
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and MSNBC anchor Dylan Ratigan on June 17 joined forces to lambaste "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough for continuing to defend President Barack Obama's handling of the BP oil spill.Scarborough presented a litany of arguments in Obama's defense, but Giuliani and Ratigan countered with specific examples of the president's failed leadership.…
June 17th, 2010 3:39 PM
Olbermann Quits Daily Kos After Being Bashed For Criticizing Obama's O
When the vitriol is too much for Keith Olbermann, something is seriously wrong.The MSNBC prime time anchor parted ways with the far-left Web site Daily Kos on Wednesday, citing the site's apparent unflinching, see-no-evil attitude towards President Obama, and the omnipresence of wild leftist conspiracy theories there."You want Cheerleaders? Hire the Buffalo Jills," Olbermann wrote. "You want…
June 17th, 2010 3:38 PM
ABC Touts Entrepreneur Seeking Backing of Government 'Lawyers and Lobb
The day after President Obama’s oil spill speech — in which the President pivoted from the ongoing mess in the Gulf of Mexico to his call for ending our “addiction” to fossil fuels — ABC’s World News obliged the White House’s agenda with a profile of solar cell manufacturer Natcore, whose president, Chuck Provini, says he can cut the costs of solar cells (which are right now too expensive to be…
June 17th, 2010 3:22 PM
Comedy Central Comic: 'The Pope F***ed Boys
Comedy Central just can't stop attacking Christianity. On June 16, comedian Louis C.K. appeared on the network's popular "fake news" program, "The Daily Show," where he launched into an attack on the pope over the sexual abuse scandal plaguing the church. "I was going to say that the pope f***ed boys and I didn't have time," C.K. blurted out as host Jon Stewart started wrapping up the interview…
June 17th, 2010 2:02 PM
USA Today Frets Obama Unable to ‘Infuse Courts with Women and Minori
The “deeply polarized confirmation process in the Senate” has “undercut Obama's effort to significantly infuse the federal courts with more women and minorities,” USA Today's Joan Biskupic fretted in a Wednesday front page article in which she refused to identify Obama's nominees as liberals as she attached the positive “diversity” patina to Obama's agenda without any regard for the irony such “…
June 17th, 2010 1:32 PM
Randi Rhodes: Conservatives Hate Cops, Fire Fighters, Teachers, and Fi
On Tuesday's Randi Rhodes radio show, Rhodes was complaining that the stimulus money is running out, leading to layoffs of public employees. She lamented that Colorado Springs is going without street lighting and selling police helicopters, and starving the public sector is what conservatives want, because they hate public servants. And this is exactly why the conservatives keep harping on…
June 17th, 2010 1:17 PM
Chris Matthews Crams Year's Worth of Anti-Tea Party Cliches into One H
What do Tea Partiers, Truthers, birthers, Birchers, militias, Pat Buchanan, Jerry Falwell, Barry Goldwater, Joe McCarthy, Father Coughlin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, Rand Paul, Alex Jones, Orly Taitz, and Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh all have in common? Approximately nothing, but don't tell Chris Matthews.The MSNBC "Hardball" host…
June 17th, 2010 12:16 PM
Obama Speaks At Lower Grade Level Than Bush, CNN Says He's 'Too Profes
You know why President Obama's Gulf Coast oil spill address from the Oval Office failed so miserably on Tuesday?It went over too many heads.At least that's what the folks at CNN.com believe.Maybe that's why the so-called geniuses at MSNBC didn't like it - it went over Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Howard Fineman's heads!Even more absurd in this piece by the CNN Wire Staff is that it…
June 17th, 2010 10:42 AM