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Olbermann Attacks ‘Sick’ ’Liar’ Palin for ‘Gutting’ Specia
On Thursday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann demonstrated his latest double standard in his treatment of conservatives and liberals. After attacking Sarah Palin several times during the presidential campaign with a misleading accusation that Palin had "gutted her own state's Special Olympics" – calling her "sick" and an "out of control liar" – even though she increased spending on the…
February 23rd, 2009 4:01 PM
MSNBC’s O’Donnell Denies Anti-Palin Media Bias
During the Monday 12PM EST hour of MSNBC news coverage, anchor Norah O’Donnell interviewed conservative film maker John Ziegler, creator of ‘Media Malpractice,’ a documentary on media bias against Sarah Palin, and denied any such bias: "Well, let me ask you, you called the treatment of Sarah Palin and her family a, quote, 'media assassination, one of the greatest public injustices of our time.'…
February 23rd, 2009 3:58 PM
Santelli: Get the Government Out of the Banking System
As rumors of nationalization swirl about Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE:C), the market indices have fallen. On Feb. 23, Larry Kudlow, co-host of CNBC's "The Call," asked CNBC Chicago Mercantile floor reporter Rick Santelli if the government should be involved in propping these troubled banks. Santelli made waves on CNBC's Feb. 19 "Squawk Box" railing against the Obama…
February 23rd, 2009 3:18 PM
WaPo Gone Bananas with Political Correctness
Incredibly ridiculous.There's no other way to describe the over-the-top political correctness that leads a major newspaper to issue a prophylactic apology for an unoffensive cartoon in the anticipation that someone somewhere will raise a fuss. Yet that's what the Washington Post did yesterday in a correction posted on page A2 of the Sunday edition (via Jossip): So Gene Weingarten from The…
February 23rd, 2009 2:04 PM
Gore Pulls Slide Linking Rise in Natural Disasters to Global Warming
Climate realists won a huge battle with Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore when the former Vice President pulled a new slide he recently added to his now famous -- or, more to the point, infamous! -- presentation linking an increase in natural disasters to "climate change."As the New York Times' Andrew Revkin reported moments ago:The graph, which was added to his talk last year, came just after a…
February 23rd, 2009 1:40 PM
Matthews Calls Limbaugh and Republicans 'Trolls Under the Bridge
What's with Chris Matthews' fixation with comparing Republicans to trolls? Back in September he called a then presidential candidate John McCain "troll-like," after one of his debate performances, and then over the weekend, on the syndicated "The Chris Matthews Show," he applied the monstrous term to Republicans in the following intro to his February 23 episode:CHRIS MATTHEWS: And finally trolls…
February 23rd, 2009 12:46 PM
CBS’s Smith ‘Wept Openly’ Over Sean Penn’s Milk Performance
On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith played a clip of himself talking to left-wing actor Sean Penn following the Oscars Sunday night: "In a night full of first-time winners, Sean Penn took home his second Oscar as best actor for his emotional performance as slain gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk in Milk. I caught up with him and other big winners at the Governor's Ball." During…
February 23rd, 2009 11:30 AM
Newsweek: Obama 'Is Well Poised to Bring Us Back From the Brink
Americans increasingly see the danger in Barack Obama's scheme to spend our way out of economic difficulty. So for the mainstream media, it's all hands on deck to bolster confidence in Obama and his decisions. The dependable Jonathan Alter reports for duty in the March 2 Newsweek, also posted on the magazine's Web site. Titled "America’s New Shrink: Chin up, everyone. This president is well…
February 23rd, 2009 11:11 AM
Obama's Auto Task Force Owns Foreign Cars, Will Media Care
Imagine for a moment John McCain was President, and few of the people on the task force he created to repair the crumbling auto industry owned American cars. Would that be a public relations nightmare?Well, an article published Monday by the Detroit News revealed that most of Barack Obama's newly announced Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry don't patronize the companies they've been…
February 23rd, 2009 10:17 AM
Kudlow, Santelli Push Back Hard at Mortgage-Mod Program, Harder at Gib
Advantage Rick Santelli -- and Larry Kudlow. CNBC reporter Santelli's Thursday morning "Shout Heard Round the World" (CNBC's term) objecting to the Obama administration's mortgage modification program on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange quickly went viral, and struck two nerves. First, it ignited a groundswell of support from the over 90% of the of the nation that pays its bills and…
February 23rd, 2009 7:02 AM
Hollywood Extols National Healthcare While Closing Its OWN Actors Hosp
The self-aggrandizing denizens of Hollywood constantly scold Americans over a lack of national healthcare. It is the biggest failure of American society ever that there is no cradle to the grave program for free health care, they constantly tell us. And now, in keeping with these nearly universal Hollywood "principles," to prove how Hollywood is far more moral than we lowly citizens of flyover…
February 23rd, 2009 3:50 AM