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Red Eye's Robot Theater Rips Garofalo, O'Donnell and Olbermann
Greg Gutfeld and the "Red Eye" gang struck back at comediennes Janeane Garofalo and Rosie O'Donnell Wednesday for their attack on Fox News hosts last week. As NewsBusters reported, the pair were on O'Donnell's radio show last Tuesday bashing Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Greta Van Sustern, and Brit Hume just to name a few.With this in mind, Gutfeld and Company decided to use Robot Theater to…
February 24th, 2010 1:46 PM
ABC Touts Mostly Liberal Examples of 'Enraged' and 'Livid' Health Care
Good Morning America's Claire Shipman on Wednesday highlighted "enraged" and "livid" health care protesters, but mostly offered examples of angry liberals lobbying for a bill. After video of demonstrators chanting "Stop Blue Cross!" played, Shipman touted, "California demonstrators, livid over a huge increase in insurance rates." The ABC reporter described the preparations for the upcoming health…
February 24th, 2010 12:27 PM
'Morning Joe': Internet and New Media Are Dividing America
If you're reading this or spending time at politically oriented, new media websites, you are adding to the caustic tone in Washington, D.C.Such was discussed on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday during a roundtable segment wherein no one disagreed with this premise.Joining Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were conservative contributor Pat Buchanan, Time's Peter Beinart, and NBC's Savannah…
February 24th, 2010 12:20 PM
WaPo's Jacoby: American Coverage of Olympics 'Profoundly Anti-Intellec
It's no secret that America's going through a difficult time - sky-rocketing debt, a struggling economy, and the highest unemployment rate in two decades - but, according to Susan Jacoby, we have bigger problems. Our nation's "greatest failing" - our nation's "social disease," she says, is our patriotism.On the blog "The Spirited Atheist," which is co-hosted by the Washington Post and Newsweek,…
February 24th, 2010 10:40 AM
MSNBC's Shuster Lists 'Best Congressional Hearings;' All Liberal High
Near the end of the Tuesday 3 p.m. EST hour on MSNBC, anchor David Shuster invoked the riveting “Toyota hearings” currently taking place on Capitol Hill as an excuse to compile a grab-bag of liberal gotcha moments – consisting of Joe McCarthy, Iran-Contra, and Watergate – and ignore historical events unfavorable to liberals.He also seized upon the opportunity to chide Fox News in the context of…
February 24th, 2010 10:29 AM
CNN Perpetuates Dangerous Tuskegee Myth
On February 14, CNN aired both segments of its special series “Black in America," and used the opportunity to perpetuate a harmful racial myth.In the first installment, reporter Soledad O’Brien took viewers to Project Brotherhood, a clinic in the south side of Chicago offering free medical care and advice to its black residents. “We are seeing an increasing amount of men with resources, who are…
February 24th, 2010 10:04 AM
Armey: Dems Should Realize People Are Getting Info From Some Place Oth
Dick Armey on Wednesday took a shot at MSNBC calling the cable television network a soft news source that panders to the Left.The former House Majority leader was a guest host on this morning's "Squawk Box," and during an interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) about a number of issues before Congress including healthcare reform, Armey took the opportunity to make a media bias comment.Speaking…
February 24th, 2010 9:34 AM
Norah Still Mocking Palin Hand-Notes
It's been almost three weeks since Sarah Palin addressed the Tea Party convention. More than two weeks since Andrea Mitchell did her taunting little imitation of Palin's hand notes. But there was Norah O'Donnell today, still milking the moment to mock Palin.O'Donnell worked her hand-note reference into a discussion on today's Morning Joe of Scott Brown's vote for the "jobs bill." Later, on a…
February 24th, 2010 8:12 AM
D'oh! Streisand Says 'Elections Should be Won -- Not Bought' But Has G
Really Barbra Streisand, you didn't think anyone would check? Perhaps she is worried about having her influence diminished now that there are players on the block that can match her wealth and then some. But Streisand in a 682-word screed published on the Huffington Post on Feb. 23 railed against "entrenched special interests" that can now give money to political campaigns. "Over the last year…
February 24th, 2010 8:01 AM
FNC: Feinstein Cheated in Debate Using Palin-Like Hand Notes
Catching up on an item from the February 13, Fox and Friends Saturday on FNC, the show hosted California-based media performance coach Terry Anzur, who took part in moderating a debate in 1990 between Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein – then a mayor – as she ran for governor against former Republican Governor Pete Wilson. Anzur recounted not only that Feinstein had several words written on her…
February 24th, 2010 6:47 AM
Olbermann: Limbaugh ‘Putting on Sheet’ and ‘Dropping Guise of No
Update further down in bold recounting that House Democratic Whip James Clyburn once described health care reform as being part of "rectifying effects of past discrimination," which Chris Matthews referred to as "reparations."On Tuesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann picked up on an item from the far left Media Matters for America to charge that conservative talk radio host Rush…
February 24th, 2010 5:05 AM