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AP Bashes Obama: 'Can He Get Any Other Democrats Elected
If the folks at the Associated Press lose their loving feeling for Barack Obama, his presidency could be in a lot of trouble.Consider if you will an article the wire service published Thursday shockingly titled "Can Obama Get Any Other Democrats Elected?" "Barack Obama built a powerful campaign organization and got himself to the White House," Liz Sidoti's piece began. "Now, as head of the…
January 30th, 2010 11:33 PM
'Red Eye' Rips David Shuster Over Fox 'Most Trusted News' Poll
Greg Gutfeld and the gang from "Red Eye" tore David Shuster apart Saturday morning as they imagined how the MSNBCer must have reacted to Tuesday's PPP poll declaring Fox the most trusted name in news. After discussing some of the numbers, Gutfeld said he felt sad for the other networks, "especially for the folks at MSNBC like David Shuster.""I wonder how he took the news," Gutfeld said as the…
January 30th, 2010 10:41 PM
CNN Shocker: Hurricane Katrina Good For New Orleans Schools
Here's something you never would have heard from a mainstream media outlet when George W. Bush was President: Hurricane Katrina was a good thing for New Orleans.When it comes to the school system in the Louisiana city, that's exactly what CNN reported during Saturday's "Newsroom." After anchor T.J. Holmes read a statement from Education Secretary Arne Duncan -- "I think the best thing that…
January 30th, 2010 8:49 PM
Oy! Tracey Ullman Tells Rachel Maddow She Wanted to Avoid Looking Too
British-born comedian Tracey Ullman is quite the mimic.On "The Rachel Maddow Show" Thursday night, Ullman morphed into actress Halle Berry without realizing it.Berry landed in hot water back in October 2007 on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" when she told Leno that a distorted photograph made her look like her "Jewish cousin." Here's Ullman describing how she prepared to impersonate Maddow in…
January 30th, 2010 8:43 PM
Olbermann: Obama One of the 1000 Smartest People in America
"They had 140 players on the field and the other guy had one, other team had one guy, and they lost to him."So said Keith Olbermann Friday about President Obama's meeting with House Republicans earlier in the day.Shortly after Chris Matthews gushed on fawned over the President during MSNBC's two hour special on the event Friday, the "Countdown" host unashamedly uttered superlatives of his own.…
January 30th, 2010 6:39 PM
Matthews on Obama's GOP Event: 'I Don`t Know Anyone Else That Could Ha
It may not qualify as a tingle up the leg, but Chris Matthews gushed and fawned over President Obama's performance in front of House Republicans Friday like a teenybopper in the presence of a rock star.During MSNBC's two hour special about the event, Matthews told co-hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, "I don`t know anyone else in the country that could have done what the president did today…
January 30th, 2010 5:47 PM
Media Worried Corruption In N. Carolina Might Cost Democrats Votes
"Never before have you seen an allegation of corruption going that close to the governor's office in modern history." So said a Democratic consultant in North Carolina reacting to the latest casualty in the ongoing investigation of former governor Mike Easley. The scandal has brought down Easley's wife, bankrupted his coffers, disgraced a state university, and now, most recently, set federal…
January 30th, 2010 4:47 PM
Lundquist Trash-Talks B-Baller Obama: 'Problems Going To Your Right
Verne Lundquist, closet Republican? The sports announcer got in a bit of good-natured trash talking while interviewing Pres. Obama during this afternoon's game between Duke and Georgetown in DC that PBO attended. In a basketball-politics double entendre, Lundquist asked the left-handed Obama "do you have any problems at all going to your right?"When the president made his way to the announcers…
January 30th, 2010 3:08 PM
CBS Rejects Gay Dating Website's Super Bowl Ad
CBS on Friday rejected an ad submitted by a gay dating website to air during next Sunday's Super Bowl"The network shot down the commercial Friday in a letter to the site -- ManCrunch.com -- saying the 'creative is not within the Network's Broadcast Standards for Super Bowl Sunday,'" reported Jason Hibberd at The Live Feed. Hibberd cited a letter from CBS in which the network expressed concern the…
January 30th, 2010 2:53 PM
CBS Hails Obama’s ‘Command Performance’ and ‘Intimate Knowledg
“Tonight, the President takes on his Republican opponents face to face and fact by fact,” Katie Couric teased at the top of Friday’s CBS Evening News in setting up an anti-Republican zinger from President Barack Obama: “That's factually just not true. And you know it's not true.” Reporting on Obama’s appearance before GOP House members at their retreat in Baltimore, Chip Reid was in awe of Obama…
January 30th, 2010 2:00 PM
Rush Limbaugh Wins Dance Contest At Miss America Pageant
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh won the judges dance contest at preliminaries of the Miss America beauty pageant Thursday.This is sure to drive liberal media members crazy if his victory as "Judge of the Night" is revealed when the final program airs Saturday. As Limbaugh explained to listeners Friday:Last night was the final night of the preliminaries. Last night's emcee was Dena…
January 30th, 2010 1:14 PM
Glenn Beck Is 'Really' The Most Watched Cable News Host On TV
Is Glenn Beck the most watched cable news host on television today?According to Steve Krakauer he is. Although Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity typically have higher ratings than their Fox News colleague, Beck often garners a higher percentage of the people watching television during their respective time slots.Krakauer explained the math Friday:
January 30th, 2010 12:30 PM
Obama Pledges To Rein In Budget Deficits During Weekly Address
In his weekly address Saturday, President Obama promised to rein in the spiraling budget deficits citing three specific steps to meet this goal. Readers are encouraged to review his plan, and offer comments about its efficacy and probability of being implemented. An embedded video and full transcript of this address are below the fold:
January 30th, 2010 11:14 AM