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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at a Dem fundraiser, June 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
June 19th, 2009 4:04 PM
Obama Pushes Gov. Health Care; ABC Responds with 'Prescription for Ame
Networks balance reports on AMA speech, but ABC outrages public with week of health care coverage, 'World News,' 'GMA' to be aired from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
June 19th, 2009 3:58 PM
NYT Column On ‘Obama Haters’ Goes Too Far, Even For MSNBC
Reacting to a New York Times column in which Frank Rich claimed Fox News was responsible for violent acts like the murder of abortionist George Tiller or the Holocaust Museum shooting, on MSNBC on Friday, John Harwood remarked: "I love Frank's columns, but I don't believe that cable television causes people to become violent."Harwood, who is a reporter for the Times as well as the co-host of a…
June 19th, 2009 3:57 PM
Has the Left Tired of Michael Moore’s Shtick
Whenever Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore releases a new documentary the reaction in the press is typically jubilant. Rave reviews. Fawning interviews which rarely ask tough questions. Oscar buzz aplenty. But this time could be different. Moore’s last film, “Slacker Uprising,” didn’t go straight to DVD. It went straight to download. Now, Moore’s catching heat from Movieline.com, the online…
June 19th, 2009 12:55 PM
CBS Wonders About Possible John Edwards Comeback
CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez wondered on Friday: "Lots of politicians get caught having affairs, as you know. The trick, though, is making a comeback. It’s happened before, but the question is does John Edwards have a political future?"Rodriguez later introduced the segment by citing Edwards’ recent comments about his political future in a Washington Post interview: "Newt Gingrich and…
June 19th, 2009 11:11 AM
Deutsche Bank Launches 'Carbon Counter' Over Madison Square Garden
Bank calls for astounding $45 trillion over the next 40 years to be put toward 'renewable energy.'
June 19th, 2009 10:01 AM
CNN's Dobbs Interviews Fmr Inspector Gen Who Charges Obama Sending 'Ch
On Thursday’s Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN, host Dobbs interviewed former inspector general Gerald Walpin to talk about his suspicious firing by President Obama after he headed an investigation that uncovered the misuse of over $800,000 in tax dollars by Obama friend Kevin Johnson, while the White House had initially given only vague reasons for his dismissal. After explaining that Walpin is "…
June 19th, 2009 6:05 AM
CBS Sees Both Sides Extreme in Iran, NBC Sees Mousavi as Moderate
On Thursday evening, the CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News presented opposite takes on whether Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is really a moderate, or whether he is actually about as extreme and dangerous as current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. CBS’s Mark Phillips argued that Mousavi is merely more moderate in "tone" than Ahmadinejad while taking similar policy…
June 19th, 2009 2:05 AM
Why ABC Goes OBC on Health Care: Follow the Presidential Campaign Mone
Earlier today, Julia A. Seymour of the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute (BMI) pointed to a fact-check done by her group showing that "from January 20 to June 16 those quoted in health care stories on ABC's morning and evening news shows favored ObamaCare by a 3-to-1 margin (55 supporters to 18 critics)."You think that margin is bad; wait until you see the ratio at ABC of…
June 19th, 2009 12:01 AM
CNBC's Cramer: Everybody Wishes Obama Would Just Go Away
"Has Jim Cramer just touched off another round of Tea Parties?"So asked TVNewser's Chris Ariens Thursday in response to another anti-Obama demonstration by the outspoken CNBCer who appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hours earlier:But until we get the economy moving again, I think everybody wishes that Obama would just kind of go away for a little bit. Honestly, you've got to see it to believe it (…
June 18th, 2009 11:51 PM