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Olbermann Slams Centrist Dems as 'Dogs,' Uses Kennedy Illness for Guil
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered a "Special Comment" lambasting members of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of centrist House Democrats because most of the group's members have pressured more liberal congressional Democrats compromise in their push for public health insurance. After reciting campaign contributions received by some Blue Dog members from the health…
August 4th, 2009 2:35 PM
Frank Rich Calls Out GOP for Racism, Dishonestly Links Sarah Palin to
In Frank Rich's Sunday column for the New York Times, "Small Beer, Big Hangover," Rich drained the last dregs out of the White House beer summit, involving the president, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, but not before using it to launch his grand unified field theory of the re-emergence of racism among conservatives in the wake of Obama's victory. …
August 4th, 2009 2:14 PM
Flashback: 35% of Democrats Think Bush Knew of 9/11 Attacks in Advance
Certain MSNBC hosts have been fixated over using the “birthers” to discredit conservatives, highlighting a poll commissioned by the far-left Daily Kos site which found a majority of Republicans (58 percent) either believe Barack Obama wasn't born in the U.S. (28 percent) or are not sure he was (30 percent). Chris Matthews led Friday's Hardball with the beliefs of the GOP's “lunatic fringe” and “…
August 4th, 2009 1:32 PM
The Great Lie: ‘Americanism’ Doesn’t Sell Overseas
If you think the national news media is biased, spend some time rummaging through the world of entertainment news. Today’s L.A. Times piece about the marketing of “G.I. Joe” has an especially priceless whopper: Yet overseas, where big action films often earn 60% or more of their ticket sales, rah-rah American sentiment doesn’t play well. So those references have vanished from the advertising. The…
August 4th, 2009 11:16 AM
Daily Kos Worried About Obamacare Protests; Claim Protesters Are Paid
It is said that the people are revolting. You said it! They stink on ice!That pretty much sums up the attitude of the Kossacks at the Daily Kos. However, unlike the Mel Brooks version of King Louis XVI in "History of the World: Part I," the Kossacks are fearful, deeply fearful, of the people. They are worried that the Tea Party protesters who show up at the town hall meetings conducted by members…
August 4th, 2009 11:05 AM
Experts Put the Con in E-con-omics
Downturn? Upturn? Journalists, politicians and economists are predictably wrong.
August 4th, 2009 10:48 AM
California Environmental Lawsuit Costs 1,000 Jobs
Eco groups and Chevron halt talks on reviving a project to upgrade a refinery near San Francisco.
August 4th, 2009 10:44 AM
White House Attacks Drudge for Exposing Obama's Goal to Eliminate Priv
The White House is striking back at recent revelations about what presidential candidate Barack Obama stated during the campaign concerning his desire to create a universal healthcare system in America and eliminate private health insurance.On Monday, the Drudge Report linked to a video created by our friends at Naked Emperor News -- first reported by NewsBusters Sunday -- that contained clips of…
August 4th, 2009 9:41 AM
Baskin Becomes 13th MSM Journalist to Spin Through Revolving Door for
Roberta Baskin, a veteran of CBS News, ABC News, PBS and Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, with a stint at the Center for Public Integrity mixed in, “will join the Department of Health and Human Service's office of inspector general as a senior communications adviser in mid-August,” Washington Post “Federal Eye” blogger Ed O'Keefe reported late Monday. Specifically, O'Keefe related, her job will be…
August 4th, 2009 1:09 AM