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Did Andrew Zimmern Gloss Over 'Bizarre World' of Cuba
Your humble correspondent is a huge fan of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods hosted by Andrew Zimmern. Some episodes I have even watched several times over in repeats. However, I was a bit concerned when I heard that Zimmern would be visiting Cuba in the first episode of his new Bizarre World show. Would he show the brutal truth of the harsh life led by the people on that island or would he…
Tom DeLay Quick to Dance, But Bill Clinton Was ABC's Dream Dance Partn
Time’s Belinda Luscombe has the skinny on how hard it was for ABC’s "Dancing with the Stars" to land former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: "When [casting director Deena] Katz reached out to former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay via his book agent, she didn't soften up the ground in advance. ‘It was a Hail Mary pass,’ she admits. Twenty minutes later, DeLay was in."They’ve tried to hard to cast a…
Here We Go Again: Corrupt PA Judges Not Tagged As Dems
Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are Democrats. Is it okay to write that? Apparently, it's not in an establishment media report, based on the last six months of coverage of these two corrupt Pennsylvania judges. In February (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that the Associated Press ran a story about two Pennsylvania judges "charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send…
Obama School Talk Push Back Framed Around Exasperation Over 'Hyper-Par
The ABC and NBC anchors on Thursday night framed stories, on the controversy over President Obama's upcoming Tuesday address to the nations' schoolchildren accompanied by a Department of Education recommendation that teachers have their students “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the President,” through the prism of Obama as a victim of unfair presumptions. “It seemed…
Frequent Maddow Guest Michael Isikoff Also Denizen of 'Planet Cheney
If only Rachel Maddow watched her MSNBC show when someone else is guest hosting, she might avoid inconvenient juxtapositions.The first part of the embedded clip shows Maddow on Aug. 31 taking aim at former vice president Dick Cheney's unapologetic defense of Bush administration tactics against al Qaeda and the war in Iraq. The second part shows Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff…
Schultz: I Never Saw A Dem With A Bush = Hitler Sign
Where has Ed Schultz been for the last eight years? Obviously not out with his progressive peeps. Otherwise he could not possibly have said what he did on his MSNBC show this evening:"I never saw anywhere in the news a Democrat carry a picture to any kind of a rally with a picture of Adolph Hitler putting them close to a characterization of President Bush. Never saw that!"Oh, really?
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Attacks: Obama Must 'Intimidate Republic
Former Democratic strategist turned journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on Thursday’s Good Morning America to declare that President Obama’s address to Congress on September 9 must "intimidate Republicans a little bit." Stephanopoulos, who was a top aide to Bill Clinton, added that the White House should force the GOP to "make sure they understand the consequences of failure." The This Week…
Shuster Gloats: Finger-Bitten ObamaCare Protester Treated By Medicare
Check out the Tweet that MSNBC's David Shuster posted a little while ago. He apparently sees some significant irony in the fact that the ObamaCare protester who had a finger bitten off by a supporter of Pres. Obama's plan was treated by Medicare."that's right, it was medicare... a govt run program that represents all the protestor objects to... it was medicare that treated him." To which we…
'Sound Science' or Conventional Liberalism
Much of the mainstream media shares the Obama Administration's mistrust of-even outright hostility to-industry leaders, and its reverence for ‘sound science.' Too often, however, ‘sound science' simply is another way of saying conventional liberalism.A good example of this is David Michaels, tapped by the president as OSHA administrator, praised…
Hollywood Stars: 'I Pledge To Be A Servant To Our President
Do you want to be a servant to the President?Any President? Well, a number of some of Hollywood's biggest stars have actually made the following pledge in a public service announcement:"I pledge to be a servant to our President!" As this might make some readers ill, the video is safely embedded below the fold (semi-accurate, slightly tongue-in-cheek transcript available here, h/t Don Gallerani):
NY Times Exec. Editor Bill Keller Finds Blog He Likes: Left-Wing Talki
New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller penned a letter to the New York Review of Books, in reply to a Michael Massing article on the Internet and the news business. After defending his paper's Internet presence, Keller found a blog he actually likes, praising left-wing blogger-journalist Josh Marshall, who operates the Talking Points Memo blog. I've long been an admirer of the best…
CNN Guest Promotes Euro-style Pay Caps
Daily Beast's William Cohan suggests U.S. needs 'backbone' to limit executive compensation.
CBS: Levi Johnston Claims May ‘Shatter’ Palin’s ‘Conservative
Teasing an upcoming segment on Thursday’s CBS Early Show about new attacks on Sarah Palin by the father of her grandson, Levi Johnston, co-host Maggie Rodriguez exclaimed: "And shocking allegations that could shatter former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s conservative family image. If she chooses to believe what Levi Johnston is saying." In the later report on Johnston’s Vanity Fair rant against…
