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MSNBC Hosts and Guests Lobby: 'Time to Move On' From ACORN; Dismiss Sc
On Monday’s Morning Meeting, MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan and his journalist guests expressed frustration that the ACORN scandal hasn’t gone away. Politico correspondent Mike Allen lobbied, “...It's time to move on." Ratigan highlighted other groups and offered moral equivalence: “And are all of these organizers ultimately guilty of some sort of shady activity or another?” Following a reading of the…
September 21st, 2009 1:15 PM
Confess Your Biggest 'Eco Sin' to the Baltimore Sun, Win a Green Prize
Who said the secular liberal media don't have religion? Just ask the Baltimore Sun, which is offering eco-absolution of a sort for readers who confess their greatest "eco sin" to the editors of their environmentalist blog.What follows is Kim Walker's September 18 entry, "What's your biggest eco sin?" at the Sun's B'More Green blog:I wrote earlier today about being initially hesitant about…
September 21st, 2009 12:20 PM
Breitbart on ACORN: Big Media Would Have Worked to Kill Story, Attack
Much of the reaction in the blogosphere to Andrew Breitbart's column yesterday at the Washington Times has to do with the BigGovernment.com proprietor's promise that "It ain't over yet." Fair enough. But Breitbart asserted what I believe is a bigger point. It isn't just that the establishment media would have ignored the story if James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles had attempted to put it out there…
September 21st, 2009 12:09 PM
Late Night Production Exec: 'Dave Is Wearing His Views on His Sleeve N
In case you hadn't gotten enough of Barack Obama plugging ObamaCare on any of the five Sunday talk shows yesterday, your eyes can continue to glaze over tonight when the President appears on David Letterman tonight to continue his seemingly endless shill routine. And if you think Letterman somehow bowed to White House pressure to allow Obama on to continue talking about a subject that many are…
September 21st, 2009 9:43 AM
U.S. News' Erbe Equates Conservative Christians with Radical Terrorist
New data about religiosity and teen birth leads columnist to imply red states are breeding grounds for terrorism.
September 21st, 2009 12:00 AM
Sports OT: Bob Costas Interviews John Madden
During halftime of tonight's Sunday Night Football game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys, NBC aired part of an interview Bob Costas did with the legendary coach and now retired sportscaster John Madden.As many probably missed it, and few have seen it in it's entirety, the complete interview is embedded below the fold:
September 20th, 2009 10:47 PM
Matthews Disagrees With Guests Who Think Obama Protests Aren't About R
Something truly shocking happened on Sunday's "The Chris Matthews Show": three out of four of his guests said the current anti-government sentiment sweeping the nation is not because Barack Obama is black, and that the news media are actually responsible for exacerbating the suggestion that protesters are racist.There was even some consensus that the same kind of dissent would be happening if…
September 20th, 2009 7:31 PM
Obama Blitz Roundup: 'Meanness' on Right, Pelosi's Warning, Only ABC R
In the series of network interviews recorded Friday at the White House for airing on the ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC Sunday morning interview shows, all highlighted Jimmy Carter's charge that racism is fueling the anti-Obamacare protests – with CNN's John King and NBC's David Gregory following up with Nancy Pelosi's claim the heated rhetoric may incite violence – and CBS's Bob Schieffer asserted the “…
September 20th, 2009 5:57 PM
Sunday Obamathon Turns Into Media Critique; Says Press is Perpetuating
They say you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you. But the 44th President of the United States doesn't seem to be worried about that. President Barack Obama, still with no fear of being overexposed, made the rounds on five Sunday morning talk shows on Sept. 20 to make another attempt at winning the hearts and minds over on his vague health care proposal. According to Obama, alleging he wasn't…
September 20th, 2009 5:37 PM
Sunday NFL Open Thread
Game schedule below the fold. Other sports topics welcomed.
September 20th, 2009 2:02 PM
George Will on 'Liberal McCarthyism': 'When In Doubt, Blame Racism
Leave it to George Will to perfectly explain in just two words all the recent accusations by Democrats and their media minions that anti-government sentiment sweeping the nation is caused by racism.Liberal McCarthyism.Delicious. Fortunately for those not understanding the reference, Will explained further when the Roundtable discussion on Sunday's "This Week" turned to all the recent…
September 20th, 2009 12:47 PM
Kurtz Accidentally Exposes Hypocrisy In Media's Race Baiting
On Sunday, Howard Kurtz accidentally exposed how poorly the media report on issues of race, and how they not only use implications of prejudice to "[pump] steroids into an ordinary story," they also either ignore important events or badly misreport them due to their own biases.In the first segment on the most recent installment of CNN's "Reliable Sources," Kurtz and his panel discussed comments…
September 20th, 2009 11:51 AM