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On Today: Fill Out Census or You Won't Get Government Goodies
NBC's Today show invited on Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Census Bureau Director Robert Groves to promote their Portrait of America road tour as a way to encourage people to fill out the Census forms or risk, as Locke warned, miss out on "$400 billion of federal funds," to which Matt Lauer underlined, "This is vitally important to communities." The entire Today cast braved 20 degree weather…
January 4th, 2010 4:57 PM
Bonnie Erbe: Kennedy Townsend 'Crusader,' Modern-Day 'Joan of Arc
Bonnie Erbe of U.S. News and Report praised Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s efforts to change the Catholic Church’s perennial teaching against abortion in a December 23, 2009 blog entry, calling her a “modern-day Crusader of sorts” and outlandishly predicted that the Church would eventually “recognize the wisdom of...[her] approach.” Erbe would even go so far as to liken Townsend to St. Joan of Arc.…
January 4th, 2010 4:51 PM
George Stephanopoulos Touts Democratic Spin: Obama Doing More to Fight
Former Democratic operative turned Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos prompted guest Bob Woodward on Monday to repeat Democratic spin that Barack Obama is doing more to fight terrorism than George Bush did. The famous D.C. journalist backed up claims first made by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Woodward asserted, "...It's very clear that the new administration is…
January 4th, 2010 4:42 PM
'Nonsense, Ridiculous': NBCer Blasts DeMint For Opposing TSA Unionizat
Imagine it being as hard to fire an incompetent airport screener as it is to fire an incompetent teacher. Think that might have any implications for our safety and security? Evan Kohlmann apparently doesn't. In fact, the NBC terrorism consultant thinks opposition to unionizing the employees of the Transportation Safety Administration is "nonsense" and "ridiculous."Kohlmann made his comments on…
January 4th, 2010 4:22 PM
Hot Weather Convinces Media of Climate Change; Cold Weather Ignored
The news media constantly misuse extreme weather examples to generate fear of global warming, but when record cold or record snow sets in journalists don't mention the possibility of global cooling trends. While climatologists would say weather isn't necessarily an indication of climate, it has been in the media, but only when the weather could be spun as part of global warming. In Iowa,…
January 4th, 2010 3:13 PM
Saint Gore and God's Gardeners: Greens Get Their Bible
Lefty author Margaret Atwood has created, in the form of a novel, the environmentalist's bible. "The Year of the Flood", as it is titled, is not merely a figurative bible for a dispersed and sporadic collection of greenies, but rather a sacred testament (the author says as much) for a movement that, every day, looks more like a church--complete with sin, salvation, and saints (one of whom is--…
January 4th, 2010 3:04 PM
ABC Highlights Democrat James Carville to Tout Brilliance, Sexiness of
On Monday’s Good Morning America, ABC featured Democratic aide James Carville to sing the praises of former Democratic aide George Stephanopoulos, now the co-host of the ABC program. Carville cooed, "I once said, 'If you converted his IQ to Fahrenheit, you could boil water.'" An ABC graphic reinforced this by proclaiming, "George Is Smart." The outspoken political operative later commented on the…
January 4th, 2010 12:47 PM
CBS: ‘Rolex’ Swiss Health Care System a ‘Model for America
On Saturday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Jeff Glor teased an upcoming story on Switzerland’s health care system by wondering: "Could Switzerland’s health care be a model for America?" He later introduced the segment by claiming that the Swiss system could be "a glimpse of what the U.S. health care system of the future might look like." Correspondent Richard Roth touted the Swiss "love of capitalism…
January 4th, 2010 12:38 PM
AJC Blogger Slams Hume for Counseling Tiger Woods to Turn to Jesus for
Tolerance is a virtue the Left loves to trumpet, except when the intolerable is set forward. In this instance, the intolerable is a gentle Christian evangelistic overture to a celebrity caught in sexual scandal.Yesterday, Fox News analyst and professing Christian Brit Hume expressed his spiritual concern for Tiger Woods and urged the golf superstar to turn to Christianity for grace and…
January 4th, 2010 11:51 AM
Lauer Presses DeMint To 'Come Around' On Obama's TSA Nominee
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Monday's Today show, used the occasion of the bombing attempt of Northwest Flight 253, to press Republican Senator Jim DeMint to stop being the last "hold-out" and "come around," on approving Obama's pick for TSA director Errol Southers. However Lauer failed to mention Obama took eight months to make his choice as well as the fact that DeMint is concerned that Southers'…
January 4th, 2010 11:04 AM
Flight 253: AP Ignores Own Christmas Dispatch to Pretend Obama's Jan
In a report time-stamped January 2, the Associated Press's Philip Elliott relayed what was supposedly important news: Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday. You don't say?…
January 4th, 2010 9:24 AM
John McLaughlin: Freedom is 'Most Overrated' Political Concept
How out-of-touch is the D.C. pundit class with the rest country? Look to John McLaughlin for the answer. During part two of "The McLaughlin Group 2009 Year-End Awards," McLaughlin, who has hosted the program since 1982, declared the concept of freedom, at least from a political standpoint in the United States, is overrated. "The most overrated is freedom," McLaughlin said. "When faced with…
January 4th, 2010 9:03 AM