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Dear NY Times: Krugman's Argument for Universal Care is Weak
Fees on business will lead to lower employee wages possibly making health insurance even less affordable.
July 27th, 2009 11:24 AM
Essay: American Culture -- Giving the Devil His Due
MEMO To: Minions and Dwellers in Eternal Night From: Bill Zeebob Re: Mid-year status, challenges ahead Here we are, just past the half-way mark in 2009, so I wanted to give you all a general business update, and let everybody know how things look from my chair. So far, ’09 is on track to be one of our best years since they dismantled the Gulag, and it’s largely thanks to your hard work. The…
July 27th, 2009 11:05 AM
Hume on Gates Affair: President Who's Always Apologizing For America C
"This president who travels the world apologizing for his country couldn't quite apologize for himself."So said Brit Hume on the most recent installment of "Fox News Sunday" as the panel discussed Barack Obama's handling of the Henry Louis Gates affair.Adding insult to injury, there was virtual unanimity that the President erred in this matter, and erred badly (video embedded below the fold with…
July 27th, 2009 10:18 AM
ABC Champions 'Liberal Lion' as Inspiration for Obama Heath Care Takeo
A week after ABC anchor Dan Harris hailed how “Senator Ted Kennedy is using his own battle against brain cancer to make an emotional pitch for health care reform. Writing in Newsweek, Kennedy called it 'the cause of my life,'” Sunday's World News devoted a full story to Kennedy's cause as Harris' tease framed Kennedy's big government agenda in the most-benign light: “In the game. An ailing Ted…
July 27th, 2009 9:18 AM
Bernstein: Palin 'Ignorant Demagogue, Flake
Generations past and present of the Washington Post heaped abuse on Sarah Palin today. Appearing on Morning Joe, Carl Bernstein called Palin "ignorant," a "demagogue" and a "flake." Current WaPo editorialist Jonathan Capehart chimed in to second Bernstein's emotion "100%."Pat Buchanan stepped in to explain Palin's appeal.
July 27th, 2009 7:45 AM
Time Mag's Between Paragraph Anti-Bush and Cheney Potshot Links
Time magazine's online staff certainly undermined any notion of impartiality in how they littered the posted version of this week's cover story, “Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days,” with the links they chose to display between paragraphs and at page breaks of the article. Some were innocuous, such as “See TIME's George W. Bush covers,” “See TIME's politics covers” and “See pictures of…
July 26th, 2009 9:40 PM
Palin in Farewell Speech Tells Press: 'In Honor of American Soldier, Q
In her final speech as Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin took a parting shot at the news media that have viciously attacked her since the moment John McCain announced her as his running mate last August:Some straight talk for some -- just some -- in the media, because another right protected for all of us is freedom of the press. And you have such important jobs, reporting facts, and informing the…
July 26th, 2009 8:29 PM
Cronkite Pushed RFK to Run for President; Would've Accepted McGovern's
Belying the image of Walter Cronkite as an journalist without any political motives, while anchor of the CBS Evening News in 1967 he secretly “pleaded” with Senator Robert Kennedy to run as an anti-Vietnam war candidate for President and he later acknowledged that, if offered, he would have accepted the slot as George McGovern's VP in 1972. Frank Mankiewicz, who worked for both Kennedy and…
July 26th, 2009 5:21 PM
Fox's Ainsley Earhardt: 'Is He Hitting On Me On Live TV
In today's "It's All Fun Until Somebody Gets Hurt" segment, Fox News's Ainsley Earhardt had an interesting interview on Saturday with a business and financial analyst who appeared to be a tad smitten with the FNC correspondent.For her part, although she asked at the end of the segment, "Is he hitting on me on live TV," Earhardt seemed to be just as flirtatious with guest Uri Man.Maybe she was…
July 26th, 2009 3:53 PM