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New Anti-Limbaugh-Beck Group Tied To Ex-Obama Czar Van Jones
A new left-wing organization created specifically to attack Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan, and Paul Brown has ties to ex-Obama green jobs czar Van Jones.As NewsBusters reported Thursday, StopTheWitchHunt.org was formed to "call out" what it considers "mischaracterizations and hate speech" by the aforementioned quintet.With the assistance of tipster Bret A. Gehring,…
November 1st, 2009 8:52 PM
WashPost Auto Columnist Hails $19k, 40-mile Range Electric Car As Choi
Although he spent 14 paragraphs fleshing out all the ways that lightning-fast (25 mph) $19,000 retail-priced Wheego Whip LSV is "a tough sell" to readers in the nation's capital region, Washington Post auto columnist Warren Brown concluded his November 1 review by hailing the electric car as a ride "meant for visionaries."That's right, although the Wheego is a puny two-seater that gets an average…
November 1st, 2009 7:07 PM
Newsweek Editor Calls Al Gore 'An Eco-Prophet
"Al Gore's views on climate change are advancing as rapidly as the phenomenon itself."Such was Newsweek science editor Sharon Begley's sub-headline of her proselytizing piece "The Evolution Of An Eco-Prophet."Fortunately for the Goracle's loyal followers, Begley didn't ask him how the planet could possibly have cooled the past eleven years despite his warnings about the plague "carbon dioxide."As…
November 1st, 2009 6:35 PM
White House's Media Attacks Part of a Troubling Trend
The White House is taking it upon itself to police the news media. The trend started of course with the Fox News Channel, but the administration has moved on to bash other organizations, most recently the Associated Press and car site Edmunds.com. It seems to believe that any criticism of its policies is worth attacking.The White House claims, in the words of Valerie Jarret, that it will go…
November 1st, 2009 4:36 PM
HBO To Air Documentary About Barack Obama Tuesday
On Election Day, HBO will broadcast a documentary about Barack Obama's presidential campaign.Though he's been in office for less than ten months, the cable network actually felt it was time: BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA is a moving record of the Obama campaign's history-making odyssey to the White House. Interwoven with the drama of the campaign is never-before-seen footage of…
November 1st, 2009 4:02 PM
CBS's Schieffer Accuses Limbaugh of Breaking White House's 'Truce' wit
Rush Limbaugh's tough criticisms of President Barack Obama on Fox News Sunday “broke” the White House's truce with Fox News, Bob Schieffer suggested during an interview with Obama's Senior Adviser, David Axelrod, on Face the Nation. After playing a clip of Limbaugh dismissing as “a photo-op” Obama's trip to Dover Air Force Base to witness returning casualties from Afghanistan and quoting…
November 1st, 2009 3:59 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Bill Owens
Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence Parties' candidate for the 23rd Congressional District of New York state who suspended her campaign Saturday, announced moments ago she was throwing her support behind Democrat candidate Bill Owens rather than the Conservative Party's Doug Hoffman.This should make liberal media members ecstatic for the next 48 hours.Scozzafava just released the…
November 1st, 2009 3:22 PM
Rush Limbaugh on 'Fox News Sunday
Chris Wallace's much-awaited "Fox News Sunday" interview with conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh began exactly as one might have expected with the guest stating right from the start:I'm really, really worried. We've never seen this kind of radical leadership at such a high level of power in the -- in the country. I believe that the economy is under siege, is being destroyed. Anybody with…
November 1st, 2009 1:26 PM
On This Week, Brownstein Frets Over 'Leash' Limbaugh and Fox Pull on
In the wake of liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava suspending her congressional campaign after polls put her behind the Democrat and New York's Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman who has earned support from many conservatives, Los Angeles Times veteran Ron Brownstein fretted over how it's “a sign that the leash that the base is holding on the party is tightening and that the Palins, the talk…
November 1st, 2009 1:04 PM
George Will: Obama’s Only Achievement -- People Like Us Better
A year after Barack Obama was elected President, one thing has become perfectly clear: George Will is THE mainstream media member who seems completely comfortable pointing out the new White House resident's shortcomings.Such happened again on the latest installment of ABC's "This Week" when host George Stephanopoulos began the Roundtable segment: George, let me just begin with a threshold…
November 1st, 2009 12:03 PM
NJ.Com Reporter Uses Offensively Childish Term 'Teabagger' 7 Times in
UPDATE: It appears that NJ.Com has pulled Jamie Duffy's incredibly juvenile "teabagger" story. To read the way Jamie Duffy of NJ.Com gleefully tossed around the crude and childish term "teabaggers" seven times in a local story about a tea party in Morristown, New Jersey, you would think she was some snarky teenage intern who enjoyed using that vulgar pejorative. However, according to her profile…
November 1st, 2009 10:47 AM