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Journalist Emails Republican Aide: Right Wing Wants Obama Killed
The underlying goal of the right wing in America is to get President Obama killed.So amazingly wrote a Florida journalist a few months ago in a truly offensive e-mail message to a reader.Even more disgraceful, Key West Citizen reporter John Guerra sent this abomination to Stephanie Dubois who so happens to be the press secretary for Congressman Connie Mack (R-Fl.). Her crime? Sending a press…
October 24th, 2009 11:27 AM
Saturday Sports Open Thread
I don't find any must-see games today in College FB. Anyone see it differently?Anything else grabbing sports enthusiasts today other than Yanks-Halos?
October 24th, 2009 10:52 AM
AP Waters Down Impact of Romer's 'Stimulus Has Had Biggest Impact' Rem
It would appear that the Apparatchik Press -- er, the Associated Press -- thinks that part of its job is to soften the impact of embarrassing admissions made by Obama administration members. Take the wire service's Thursday afternoon AP report by Jim Kuhnhenn on Council of Economic Advisers' chair Christine Romer's observations about the stimulus package. Romer said (in AP's words) that "the…
October 24th, 2009 10:35 AM
Covering for Obama Media Play Vietnam Defeat Song in Afghanistan
Three weeks after their gushing praise of President Obama's meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the media have taken a cue from the lack of action that followed. It was a good run while it lasted. Word from the conflict became more dire almost by the day as Obama's cabinet squabbled. The American media, having sensed Afghanistan could be lost without action, chose to cover for their…
October 24th, 2009 10:27 AM
Totenberg: Bush White House 'More Like the Mob' in Freezing Out Media
Discussing the Obama White House's quest to discredit and banish the Fox News Channel, NPR's Nina Totenberg declared going “on the offensive publicly against Fox was not too bright” and she recalled how, in contrast, the Bush White House “just cut people dead, it froze them out, you know it froze whole institutions out, didn't talk about it.” Putting it in the most-nefarious light, she charged on…
October 24th, 2009 2:55 AM
Maddow’s Hypocrisy: Fox Not a 'Normal News Channel' Due to Tea Party
Big shock here - MSNBC's Rachel Maddow agrees with the White House, which is the Fox News Channel is not really a news organization. Sarcasm aside, on her Oct. 23 MSNBC program, Maddow attempted to justify the Obama administration's tack over recent months with Fox News. She laid out a series of events over the past few days that indicated an escalation of the feud between Fox News and the White…
October 24th, 2009 2:02 AM
CBS Takes Up White House Quest to 'De-Legitimize' Fox News, 'Irony' FN
“They report and the White House decides it's not fair. The President's feud with the Fox News Channel,” Katie Couric teased at the top of Friday's CBS Evening News in the first broadcast network newscast foray into the subject. Plugging the story before an ad break, she flipped the emphasis on which party is acting unfairly: “The White House singles out and freezes out the Fox News Channel. Is…
October 23rd, 2009 8:34 PM
Matthews: 'What G--D--- Award' Does Dick Cheney Deserve
Is Chris Matthews feeling pressure to keep up with the Olbermanns when it comes to flinging invective at conservatives? On this evening's Hardball, discussing Dick Cheney's statement—-made at a dinner at which he received an award—that Pres. Obama is dithering on Afghanistan, an apparently incensed Matthews spluttered [unexpurgated in the original]:"What G--D--- award . . . are they giving these…
October 23rd, 2009 7:04 PM
CNN's Sanchez Blasts America First, Asks Questions Later in Chevron/Ec
If MSNBC is the "place for liberal politics," CNN is the place for latent America bashing, especially its corporations. On his Oct. 22 CNN program, Rick Sanchez wore his American guilt like a badge of honor and said he wasn't going to stand for America to look bad because of what a corporation had been accused of doing, in this case Chevron (NYSE:CVX), whether they did it or not. "We do a lot…
October 23rd, 2009 5:12 PM
NYT: White House Attacking Fox Because It Is News, and That's the Prob
The cat is out of the bag at the New York Times. The Times has exposed, albeit passively, the true motivation behind the White House's Fox News attacks. Contrary to the administration's claims, it is deriding Fox not because it doesn't report the news, but rather because it does.It is news, after all, when an organization potentially receiving billions in federal funds aids and abets what it…
October 23rd, 2009 5:02 PM