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Inspired by Chris Matthews complaining about all the money spent on defense, instead of upgrading America's rail system, Michigan Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm endorsed the MSNBC host, on Tuesday's Hardball as she exclaimed: "You should run for office!" During a discussion about how federal money should be spent on essentially make-work jobs, Matthews cited his own children's love of high…

I just caught this a few moments ago perusing @APStylebook, the Twitter feed for the Associated Press Stylebook. It was tweeted at 12:02 p.m. EST yesterday:#APStyle tip: Global warming and climate change can be used interchangeably. Go behind the scenes in Copenhagen with @AP_ClimatePool. Now if only @FakeAPStylebook would spoof this. Might I suggest:#FakeAPStyle tip: Oh, why not: Global…

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at Gallup polling today for releasing poll data that the administration does not like. The most recent Gallup poll shows President Obama's approval ratings at 47 percent, the lowest rating on record at this point in any presidency."If I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I'd visit my doctor," Gibbs told reporters today, referring to…

If you go to Google today and search on the phrase "warmest decade" you will get a result set with thousands of breathless articles claiming that 2000 to 2009 is the warmest decade on record. This is on the cusp of an announcement from the UN climate talks in Copenhagen where world leaders are desperate to speed past Climategate and refocus the world's attention on their apocalyptic global…

On Tuesday's Today show, there was no mention of Climategate -- apparently the one mention of it on yesterday's show was enough for them –  but NBC's Ann Curry did pass along more global warming hysteria from the Copenhagen conference, including an admonition of the United States. During the 7:00am half-hour Curry noted, "Today at the climate summit in Denmark the head of the World Meteorological…

CNN made a real, day-long effort on Monday to address the climate-change debate as a debate, giving skeptics of manmade climate change a series of chances to match the leftist view, especially during its evening programming. CNN is also the only U.S. TV news outlet so far to send an anchor to the Climate Research Unit at the center of the ClimateGate controversy.International correspondent Phil…

ABC’s Good Morning America hosts continued to reminisce on Tuesday, preparing for co-anchor Diane Sawyer’s final show on Friday. Weatherman Sam Champion touted the morning show host’s 2004 defense of Howard Dean and his famous Dean Scream: Recounting the segment, Sawyer proudly asserted, "Howard Dean deserved that moment of correction. He did." [Audio available here.] Champion reconstructed the…

New York Times health care cheerleader-reporter David Herszenhorn seems unhappy that Republicans continue to oppose Obama-care -- especially John McCain, who Obama beat in the 2008 election. Herszenhorn really “cranked” up the melodrama (and old man insults?) in his Monday morning post on the Times's “Prescriptions” blog, “The Crankiness of the Defeated," turning a hum-drum event -- the 73-year-…

New York Times readers were treated to a rare dose of sympathy for Sarah Palin and her new book yesterday. Columnist Stanley Fish reviewed "Going Rogue", and cast it in a generally appealing light, while dispelling some of the most trumpeted criticisms of the former Alaska Governor's autobiography.Fish introduces his review with a humorous anecdote poking fun at some of the more deranged Palin-…

Prepare for more panic talk about the end of the world as Dr. James Hansen, a leading global warming alarmist whose temperature data has come under question, launches a media tour for his new book out this week, 'Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.'Hansen is director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New…

Here's another entry for the revolving door file: Politico's Jonathan Allen (pictured at right), formerly of Congressional Quarterly and former Sen. Paul Sarbanes' office, will take over as the top staffer at Debbie Wasserman Schultz's DWS PAC, according to Roll Call (h/t e-mail tipster Bob Foster). For his part, Allen, whose wife works as the communications director for freshman Sen. Kay Hagan…

While interviewing Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith referred to recent comments by Senator Harry Reid: “[He] said Republicans are on the wrong side of history when it comes to this health care bill and very soberly...compared those who opposed health care to those who opposed civil rights legislation....How would you respond to that?”Steele…

Time's Amy Sullivan has little use for moderate Senate Democrats throwing up any semblance of a road block, nay, even a speed bump, to ObamaCare, especially if it entails pro-life measures which would keep abortion from being covered by the taxpayer-subsidized government option. "What is it about those Nebraska governors-turned-senators?" Sullivan huffed in the beginning of her December 8…