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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…
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…
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…
U.S. Media Ignoring About Face by Leading Global Warming Proponent
Imagine if the Pope suddenly announced that the Catholic Church had been wrong for centuries about prohibiting priests from marrying. Would that be considered big news? Of course. And yet something like that has happened in the field of global warming in which a major scientist has announced that the world, in contrast to his previous belief, is actually cooling. This was the analogy made by…
Chris Wallace: Obama Administration Biggest Bunch of Crybabies
"These guys [the Obama administration], everything is personal...They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."So amazingly said Fox News's Chris Wallace Friday evening.Appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor," Wallace was rather outspoken about the relationship the Obama administration have with media, and their utter contempt for Fox News (video embedded…
Fox's Chris Wallace Agrees Obama Diss a 'Badge of Honor
It's “a badge of honor” that Fox News Sunday is “the only place you won't see Barack Obama on Sunday,” host Chris Wallace proudly proclaimed during a Friday morning radio interview, DCRTV.com reported. Wallace's remark aired on the “Grandy & Andy Morning Show” on Washington, DC's WMAL in response to Andy Parks proposing: “Are you wearing the fact that the President won't be on with you on…
Newsweek's Kelley: Protests Against Obama Are Because He's Black
Media cries of racism every time someone criticizes Barack Obama are becoming quite commonplace now, but this one from Newsweek's Raina Kelley takes the cake:Let me say this clearly so there are no misunderstandings: some of the protests against President Obama are howls of rage at the fact that we have an African-American head of state. I'm sick of all the code words used when this subject comes…
Time Mag Flashback 1995: 'Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America
As NewsBusters reported Thursday, Time magazine this week published a rather lengthy article entitled, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?"It turns out this piece is in the upcoming September 28 issue with Beck himself on the cover next to the headline, "Mad Man: Glenn Beck and the angry style of American politics" (pictured right).Apparently, this is somewhat of a retread for Time, for back…
Saturday Sports Open Thread
College football schedule below the fold. Name today's must-see games, and predict the upsets.In baseball, will the Twins or Sox unseat the Tigers? Are the Red Sox a lock on the AL wildcard? Will the Giants unseat the Rockies for the NL wildcard?For you racing fans, what's going to happen this week in New Hampshire?Anything else you want to discuss (college football schedule follows)?
AP's Irving Kristol Obit Refers To Neoconservatism 12 Times; Longer Te
RIP, Irving Kristol. Condolences to his family and his family and friends, along with intense gratitude from those who believe in individual freedom and liberty. The Wall Street Journal has a compendium of key passages from Kristol's essays during his time there. The Weekly Standard's blog has links to several of his later columns. The Associated Press's Hillel Italie wanted to make sure that…
Premature 'Death' -- A Review of 'The Death of Conservatism' by NYT's
The title of Sam Tanenhaus's slim new essay of a book, with the wishful-thinking title "The Death of Conservatism," is misleading. Tanenhaus, the editor of the New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections, doesn't so much call the movement dead as try to define it out of existence. "Death" reshapes the U.S. political landscape out of all recognition to make it hospitable to Tanenhaus's…
