Behar Goes Palin Bashing; Likens Her to Other 'Mental Midgets' Reagan

HLN continues left's line of denigrating the intelligence of conservatives ahead of the release of Sarah Palin's book.
Jeff Poor
October 20th, 2009 12:00 AM

Year-end Deficit Report, Part 1: AP's Crutsinger Ignores Effect of Acc

Though its $1.4 trillion red-ink result was mostly known well ahead of its final issuance, the Treasury Department either conveniently got its year-end accounting work done in time for a Friday afternoon release of the final Monthly Treasury Statement, or held it until that time. Last year's report was released on Wednesday, October 15. The final statement shows receipts of $2.105 trillion, "…
Tom Blumer
October 19th, 2009 11:17 PM

CNN's Sanchez Likens Arpaio to Bull Connor

On his segment of today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Rick Sanchez went for the hat trick, likening Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the infamous Theophilus “Bull” Connor, Birmingham, Alabama’s late segregationist police commissioner who ruthlessly used police attack dogs and fire hoses to thwart 1963 civil rights demonstrators, no fewer than three times.[SEE also Matt Balan's related post, with…
Mike Bates
October 19th, 2009 9:36 PM

ABC Uses Obama's '9-Month Anniversary' to Tout Popularity Over Republi

Demonstrating the media never tire in coming up with new rationales to tout President Barack Obama's popularity, ABC led Monday night with a poll timed to the night before Tuesday's nine-month mark of the Obama presidency -- as if that's some kind of important anniversary, and spent as much time on how it found record low affinity for Republicans. Anchor Charles Gibson announced “the President…
Brent Baker
October 19th, 2009 8:52 PM

NY Times Accuses Giuliani of 'Incendiary' Comments on Crime, Flips Rac

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was out campaigning this weekend with current NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is running for a third term. The New York Times loathed Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign, and has run several revisionist articles suggesting his mayoralty, during which the city's crime rate plunged, was ridden with racial demagoguery and racist police brutality.Monday…
Clay Waters
October 19th, 2009 6:59 PM

Krugman: Liberals Need to Learn from Conservatives How to Attack

Paul Krugman attacked the authors of the soon-to-be-released book SuperFreakonomics today for their audacious attempts to question the left's conventional wisdom on global climate change. He then touted the danger of attacking conservatives, and contended that liberal-bashing has always been the safer political and professional move.I have a theory here, although it may not be the whole story: it…
Lachlan Markay
October 19th, 2009 6:50 PM

Time Promotes Green Sex Toys, Like Whips That Are ‘Cruelty-Free (to

Tim Graham
October 19th, 2009 5:17 PM

ABC Features Liberal NYT Columnist to Lament Lack of Universal After-s

Liberal New York Times columnist Gail Collins appeared on Monday’s Good Morning America to complain that one of the biggest unresolved issues for women is a lack of government-provided pre and after-school care for children. She complained, "And we still have not come near dealing with the question of who takes care of the kids if both parents are out working." Highlighting the favorite bogeyman…
Scott Whitlock
October 19th, 2009 4:48 PM

On ‘View’ Goldberg Holds up Cronkite as Paragon of Unbiased Report

So Whoopi Goldberg is a fan of the "We Report, You Decide" school of TV journalism. Who knew? Unfortunately, her choice of "fair and balanced" news icons leaves much to be desired. On ABC's "The View" Oct. 19, Goldberg said,  "I don't get my news often times from any of the networks because, ya know, I'm from the Walter Cronkite generation, where they told you what was going on and you were…
Carolyn Plocher
October 19th, 2009 4:13 PM

Donny Deutsch Blasts White House on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' for Fox Feud

Donny Deutsch said something on MSNBC's Morning Joe that was worth listening to.I'll give you a moment to scrape your jaw off the floor.Donny Deutsch, in addition to being a former CNBC host, is also a former advertising executive.  So when the following exchange takes place, you know he's actually speaking from some experience:JOE SCARBOROUGH: Donny Deutsch, when I was running for office, in…
Mike Sargent
October 19th, 2009 4:00 PM

Helen Thomas Warns White House to Quit Attacking Fox News

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who has covered every president since Jack Kennedy, advised the White House to abandon their attacks on Fox News today. She attributed the administration's visceral reaction to the cable outlet to a naive sense of invincibility generally held by new presidents (video embedded below the fold).Asked by Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' what "we…
Lachlan Markay
October 19th, 2009 3:38 PM

CBS’s Smith Discusses Obama’s ‘Long Contemplation’ on Afghanis

On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith glossed over President Obama’s indecision over sending more troops to Afghanistan by describing it this way: “...there are so many moving parts in this part of the world. And here is President Obama in this long contemplation about what to do next in Afghanistan with our troops.”Smith discussed the war in Afghanistan with the president of the…
Kyle Drennen
October 19th, 2009 2:41 PM

CNN Psychoanalyzes Talk Radio Listeners, Cites Liberal Study on Format

CNN’s Carol Costello began a new series on political talk radio on Monday’s American Morning, suggesting it was unfairly dominated by conservatives, and brought on a liberal psychiatrist who theorized that Rush Limbaugh has an audience because he’s “operating like the bully, and if you’re on the playground...you want to be...under the bully’s wing and go along with him and get...some power by…
Matthew Balan
October 19th, 2009 1:38 PM

New Columbia J-School Report Advocates Government Support for News Med

Bemoaning the decline in advertising for newspapers, two leading media figures, in a report from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the bastion of establishment liberal journalism, call for taxpayer spending on the news media, advocating that public radio and television be “substantially reoriented” to “provide significant local news reporting” and for the creation of a “a…
Brent Baker
October 19th, 2009 1:24 PM