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Even the MSM Notices TV Getting Really Raunchy
If you thought that last year's TV shows were scandalous, the ones lined up for this year are going to make your eyes burn. It's going to get so bad, in fact, that even the mainstream media is calling it out. On Jan. 20, USA Today ran this article on their front page: "Sex on TV: It's Increasingly Uncut - and Unavoidable" written by Gary Strauss. "Viewers are about to see," Strauss warned, "full…
January 21st, 2010 11:10 AM
Companies Donate $83 Million to Haiti, Get Less Than Three Minutes of
ABC, CBS and NBC briefly mention corporate donations in wall-to-wall Haiti reporting.
January 21st, 2010 8:49 AM
Liberal Evangelical Christian Jim Wallis Rips Banks; Calls Bonuses 'Si
When you breach the sacrosanct wall between church and state, and use religion to promote policy, bad things happen. At least, that's what the left has been telling us for years. But Rev. Jim Wallis, editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine and author of "Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street," sees it differently. Wallis used his interpretation of religion,…
January 21st, 2010 8:30 AM
Newsweek's Adler Waxes Poetic About How Brown Got the 'Shmuck' Vote In
Newsweek's Jerry Adler often waxes poetic on the magazine's The Gaggle blog in a feature called "newsverse." His most recent entry published yesterday evening deals with Tuesday's historic special election in Massachusetts, where Ted Kennedy's old seat went Republican for the first time in 58 years.But in the midst of his poorly-metered albeit rhymed verse, Adler set about labeling Scott Brown…
January 21st, 2010 8:23 AM
NBC's O'Donnell Refuses to View Scott Brown Win as a Victory for GOP
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, over the last three days on the Today show, has refused to acknowledge Scott Brown's success as something for the GOP to celebrate. On Tuesday she accused Brown of ducking the GOP label throughout his campaign, then on Wednesday's show she noted that in Brown's victory speech "Interestingly, Senator-Elect Brown did not talk about being a Republican, instead, he framed this…
January 21st, 2010 8:12 AM
CBS: ‘Capitol Hill Chaos’ In Wake of Scott Brown Win
On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith introduced a segment on the future of ObamaCare in the wake of Scott Brown becoming the 41st Republican senator: “Democrats are trying to figure out their next move after Tuesday’s stunning loss of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. The big question continues to be what will it mean for President Obama’s agenda? Especially health care reform.” In the…
January 21st, 2010 7:34 AM
Irony Alert: Ex-Clinton Aide Stephanopoulos Wonders How Edwards Though
With a complete lack of irony, Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos on Thursday commented on the revelation that John Edwards had fathered a love child. The former top aide to Bill Clinton marveled, "How did he ever think he was going to get through a presidential campaign sitting on all this?" Stephanopoulos, perhaps not thinking of his old boss and the Gennifer Flowers scandal during…
January 21st, 2010 7:12 AM
Companies Donate $83 Million to Haiti, Get Less Than Three Minutes of
Americans are generous people, and they prove it every time a disaster strikes like last week's earthquake in Haiti. They have donated more than $275 million to relief efforts in the Caribbean nation in the week since the quake. Nearly one-third of that money came from U.S. companies, a point rarely mentioned on the broadcast news. According to the Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC), 203…
January 21st, 2010 4:39 AM
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: DoD's Fort Hood report makes some, er, strange omissions.Frustrated by the Department of Defense's description of the Fort Hood rampage as an "incident" by an "alleged perpetrator," several members of the House Armed Services Committee wondered if political correctness is besting common sense as the US tries to understand the nature and…
January 21st, 2010 4:16 AM
Factcheck: Olbermann Repeats Incorrect Anti-Scott Brown Claims of Raci
On Wednesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann defended his recent attacks on Massachusetts Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown by insisting that some of the incorrect claims he made are true when, in fact, two are factually without merit while the third represents one of Olbermann’s typical episodes of distorting the words of a target. Among other complaints, Olbermann on Wednesday…
January 21st, 2010 1:33 AM
Post-Coakley Lib Crack-up: Matthews, Dean Call Each Other Crazy
The super-sized, take-out-a-second-mortgage-to-pay-for-it bushel basket of movie popcorn just might not be big enough. War is breaking out among liberals, and the entertainment value might make Avatar look like a test signal. Just make yourself comfortable, sit back, and watch Chris Matthews and Howard Dean go after each other on this evening's Hardball. Dean was floating the absurd argument…
January 20th, 2010 8:28 PM
Stephanopoulos Frets Obama Too Ambitious, Seeks Confirmation He's Had
The day after President Barack Obama's policies were rebuked by the voters of one of the most liberal states when Massachusetts picked a Republican to replace Ted Kennedy, the White House turned to former Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos as their preferred vehicle to forward their spin as Obama sat down for an interview with the ABC News journalist. An accommodating Stephanopoulos, in…
January 20th, 2010 8:15 PM
Obama Idol: 'American Idol' Goes Out of the Way to Pay Tribute to Curr
Has it come to this that now even pop culture platforms like "American Idol" are in the tank for President Barack Obama? It appears so.Season nine of the popular Fox show "American Idol" found itself in Chicago where nearly 12,000 people auditioned to become the next winner of the singing talent show. But the "Idol" producers took the opportunity to link the Chicago auditions with the most…
January 20th, 2010 6:29 PM
Downplaying Brown's Win: Newsweek's Stone Says It's Just a Washington
Move along folks, nothing to see here.Is that the impression you're getting from some in the media regarding the results of yesterday's special election in Massachusetts? That's definitely the one Newsweek's Daniel Stone wants to leave his readers.From his The Gaggle blog post "Does Most of America Even Care About the Mass. Election?":
January 20th, 2010 6:28 PM