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Rachel Maddow Building a Money-for-Nothing Reputation
Patrick McGeehan of The New York Times reported that several Air America radio talkers didn't get all their pay before the network went belly-up -- including Rachel Maddow, who wasn't even producing a show any more (just a simulcast of her MSNBC hour):But when the lefty chatter stopped, some of the talkers had not been paid for the last of the airtime they filled. Ms. Maddow was due $3,952 for…
February 4th, 2010 6:59 AM
Planned Parenthood Strikes Back at Tebow Ad with Pro-Abortion Video
Planned Parenthood has just released a video in response to the upcoming Super Bowl ad featuring the pro-life birth story of college football star Tim Tebow. The pro-abortion group's ad includes Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner and former NFL football player Sean James promoting what they call "respect for women's choices." James said in the ad that he "respects and honors Mrs. Tebow's…
February 3rd, 2010 5:23 PM
ABC’s Robin Roberts Lauds Pay Czar for Slamming CEOs: ‘We Can Feel
Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts didn’t even try for objectivity on Wednesday when she talked to pay czar Kenneth Feinberg about his attempts to stop AIG CEOs from receiving bonuses. "We can feel the fire in your belly," she enthused after Feinberg touted the administration’s efforts at reining in bonuses. "And that's great to see," Roberts opined. After Feinberg proudly told Roberts, "…
February 3rd, 2010 5:05 PM
Limbaugh: Miss America Contestants Know More About Politics Than Elect
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes that many of the Miss America contestants he met last week know more about politics than elected officials he's spoken to."I've really been impressed with all of them," Limbaugh told Fox News's Gretchen Carlson in a segment that aired on "Fox & Friends" Tuesday.In his first interview since being rushed to the hospital in December, Limbaugh…
February 3rd, 2010 4:12 PM
CNN's Acosta: Tea Partiers are 'Recession-Raging Conservatives
[Update, 5:24 pm Eastern: Audio and video clips from Acosta’s report added.]CNN’s Jim Acosta continued his network’s bias against tea party protesters on Wednesday’s American Morning by depicting them as “recession raging,” and questioned one participant over her depiction of President Obama as the personification of death: “Do you think having the President dressed up as the Grim Reaper is a…
February 3rd, 2010 3:54 PM
Santelli: Media's Coverage of Economy, Tea Parties 'Very Much Lacking
Rick Santelli is the star of perhaps the most politically consequential online video, viral to the extreme, of the past year (right). On February 19, 2009 he let loose on the Obama administration's economic policies on CNBC's "Squawk Box", calling for a "tea party", and inspiring millions of Americans to speak out against what he and many others see as collectivist economics policies pursued by…
February 3rd, 2010 3:46 PM
Financial Times Reporter: Is Next Year Too Soon to Address Deficit
Only a liberal could imagine that addressing the federal deficit and creating jobs might be mutually exclusive. On MSNBC's Feb. 3 "Morning Joe," Chrystia Freeland of The Financial Times asked Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., whether she agreed with President Obama's stated intention of addressing the deficit next year. "Senator, we've also heard from the president that next year - in his budget…
February 3rd, 2010 2:22 PM
NYT Lauds Obama Lobbyist Regulations, Ignores Numerous Lobbyists in To
For much of the liberal media, President Obama operates in a vacuum. In their minds, if he says he will do something, he will most likely do it, even if he has a blatant record of not following through on similar promises.
Take Obama's lobbyist rhetoric, for instance. When the President claimed the White House has "excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs" he was telling the truth, sort of.…
February 3rd, 2010 1:33 PM
Washington Post's Thomson the 14th Journalist to Join Obama Administra
Not a move by a political correspondent, but it counts nonetheless. “Former Washington Post film critic Desson Thomson will join the Obama administration and head to London as a speechwriter for Ambassador Louis Susman,” a big Obama fundraiser, Washington Post “Federal Eye” blogger Ed O'Keefe reported on Monday in a post I saw highlighted on DCRTV.com. O'Keefe elaborated: “Thomson, who grew up in…
February 3rd, 2010 1:04 PM
CNBC's Santelli Brandishes Hammer to Illustrate Obamanomics
As the old cliché goes, you don't use a sledgehammer to crack a nut, but according to Rick Santelli, that's exactly what it appears the Obama administration is doing terms of financial regulation and fiscal discipline. On CNBC's Feb. 2 broadcast of "Fast Money," host Melissa Lee proposed that taxing the wealthy is not the path to "economic prosperity and fiscal stability." Santelli, the network'…
February 3rd, 2010 11:40 AM
CNBC's Santelli Brandishes Huge Hammer to Illustrate Obamanomics
Reporter warns government should take a more surgical approach to regulation and slow spending growth, not raise taxes and fees.
February 3rd, 2010 11:40 AM
CNN Boosts Repeal of 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' 11 to
There are at least two sides to every argument, unless the issue is homosexuality. Then, according to CNN, there's only one side and it's the homosexual activists who get to tell it. CNN advocated a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy in 12 different reports between Jan. 28, the day after President Barack Obama reiterated his pledge to end the current military policy of banning…
February 3rd, 2010 11:08 AM