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MSNBC: The Place for Made-Up Numbers of Uninsured Women
Update below the fold.This is just a small entry, a blog-lette, if you will. Because I happened to have seen this bit of broadcast flapdoodle live, which you now have before you at right (with the audio available here).On this morning's MSNBC News Live, co-host Angela Burt-Murray - the Editor-in-Chief of Essence magazine -uncorks this absolutely wild pitch to Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md):…
August 12th, 2009 2:46 PM
Tina Brown Defends Hillary: She Was Just Having a Bad Hair Day
“My husband is not the Secretary of State. I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.”So said Hillary Clinton at a town hall meeting in Africa Monday when a college student through an interpreter asked her what former President Clinton thought about the economy (video embedded right).According to The Daily Beast editor Tina Brown, Mrs.…
August 12th, 2009 2:12 PM
VFW: Woodstock Wasn't the Only Thing Happening 40 Years Ago
While some in the media have been dusting off their love beads, bell-bottoms and broomstick skirts in an effort to wax nostalgic about Woodstock, the VFW has reminded its members that the world did not stop for those four days in August 1969. In fact, for 109 American soldiers, the world ended that weekend. VFW Magazine honored those soldiers in the August 2009 cover story, "While…
August 12th, 2009 1:47 PM
Obama's Big Slush Fund
The community organizer now has $800 billion in walking-around money.
August 12th, 2009 1:39 PM
Time's Klein Complains of 'Cruelty' of 'Scaring the Elderly to Score P
"The cruelty inherent in scaring the elderly to score political points is beyond reprehensible.... [T]he sort of scurrilous campaign they are conducting--the seditious fear-mongering that is the main staple of their public diet--is a matter of profound disrespect and incivility toward the individuals whose rights they claim to cherish."So huffed Time magazine's Joe Klein, in an August 12…
August 12th, 2009 1:22 PM
CBS Early Show Again Fears Rise in ‘Right-Wing Extremists
On Wednesday, the CBS Early Show once again feared a rise in right-wing extremism as co-host Russ Mitchell cited a report from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center: "A report out this morning says anti-government and white racist militias are regrouping around the country. The Southern Poverty Law Center says it is in part a reaction to the election of America’s first black president." […
August 12th, 2009 11:45 AM
Race-Baiting Group Hitting TV's Glenn Beck Was Founded By Obama's Comm
President Obama's controversial green jobs czar --a self-described “rowdy black nationalist” and "communist"-- is a co-founder of the same unsavory left-wing pressure group that is urging an advertiser boycott of Glenn Beck's TV show after Beck did several unflattering news packages on the czar. Not surprisingly, Big Media haven't noticed the connection.The czar in question is Van Jones, a…
August 12th, 2009 11:34 AM
C-SPAN's 'Leah from New Hampshire' Speaks Out On ObamaCare
On Sunday, NewsBusters introduced you to a C-SPAN caller named "Leah from New Hampshire."
Leah is a high school biology teacher.
On Tuesday, she attended President Obama's healthcare town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and was interviewed by a website called GraniteGrok.
Those interested in hearing more of Leah's views on this controversial subject should take nine minutes out…
August 12th, 2009 10:47 AM
Did Teens Choose a Pole-Dancing Hannah Montana
An iconic child (now teen) star performs a pole dance at an awards show aimed at teens. Most of the media shrug. Welcome to Hollywood 2009. At the Teen Choice Awards, which took place Aug. 9 and aired Aug. 10 on Fox, Miley Cyrus, the 16-year-old Disney-created star of the wildly popular "Hannah Montana," franchise performed "Party in the U.S.A." Clad in short-shorts, high-heeled boots and a…
August 12th, 2009 9:59 AM
When the Right Protests, It Must Be Wrong
For eight years in America, protest was in and all the cool kids did it. We had flamboyantly dressed Code Pinkers demonstrating at conventions and in sessions of Congress, calling Marine recruiters “traitors” and protesting wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Then there were the crazies from Acorn stalking Wall Street executives at their homes. And anti-war lefty Cindy Sheehan…
August 12th, 2009 9:56 AM
Comedienne Kathy Griffin Draws More Viewers Than Chris Matthews
Although the glory days of Chris Matthews and his MSNBC program "Hardball" are surely a thing of the past, getting beaten in the prime time cable ratings by a D-list comedienne has got to add insult to injury.Filling in for Larry King on CNN Monday, Kathy Griffin -- with a guest lineup that featured Joan Rivers, the parents from TLC's "Toddlers and Tiaras," and Levi Johnston -- actually drew more…
August 12th, 2009 9:41 AM