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Radio Critic Reveals 'Dirty Little Secret' of Rush Limbaugh's Success
Shhh! Put on your dark conspiratorial shades. Radio critic Bill Mann has revealed the highly classified "secret" of Rush Limbaugh's success in his Huffington Post blog. The information is so top secret that it has heretofore been known only to people even slightly familiar with the radio business. Listen as Mann whispers the "dirty little secret" in public: Ever wonder why Rush "Boss" Limbaugh's…
Albany Paper Focuses on Alleged GOP Support for Gay Marriage, Ignores
In case you weren’t sure, the Albany Times Union firmly supports the legalization of gay marriage in New York, and they don’t care if they have to skew facts to prove it.The front page headline itself screams of what the paper is trying to push: GOP Votes for Gay Marriage?The sub-headline reads: Some GOP senators may break ranks to back a bill for same-sex marriage in New YorkAfter…
Marking 144th Anniversary of Lincoln Assassination by Celebrating 'Mes
One hundred forty-four years after his assassination, Chicago Tribune religion blogger Manya Brachear hacked out an 11-paragraph post on how "Lincoln's death had sacred significance," according to some historians and Lincoln biographers."Harold Holzer, co-chair of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, said the Good Friday assassination earned Lincoln a permanent place in American mythology,"…
MSNBC Again Touts Right-Wing Threat of Violence; Features GOP Logo
"MSNBC News Live" host Contessa Brewer on Wednesday reported four times on the possible threat of right-wing violence against the government. And for several of those segments there was a graphic in the background that featured the elephant logo of the GOP and the words, "New Right-Wing Threat?" Speaking to Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, Brewer asked about a Department of Homeland Security (…
CNN Correspondent Claims Tea Parties 'Anti-Government,' 'Anti-CNN
CNN is finally covering the tea parties - by attacking the participants. After anchor Anderson Cooper made an obscene sexual joke about attendees, CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen rudely interrupted one of the protestors and slammed the event for being "anti-government," "anti-CNN," and "not really family viewing."Roesgen asked a man holding his toddler, "Why are you here today?" The man started…
Newsweek's Gross Confronted on 'Teabagging' Schtick
When a senior editor from Newsweek goes on MSNBC to discuss conservatives who protest the massive tax and spend agenda of the Obama Administration, why shouldn't he join in the fun of disparaging them with juvenile sexual innuendo? After all, he's among friends and fellow travelers. But eventually, someone may call that senior editor to account for his "pornographic" slurs, as St. Louis radio…
CNN Smears 'Right Wing' As Nazis
**UPDATE ADDED BELOW!** Recycling the mid-1990s liberal smear campaign against grassroots conservatism, CNN has posted an article on the new DHS threat report complete with a Getty Images photo (shown at right) of neo-Nazi and white supremacist flags.If the report were about Nazi extremists, that picture would be warranted. However, the DHS report warns against an amorphous “right-wing extremism…
MSNBC’s Sexist Hypocrisy: Open Season on Conservative Women
On February 7, 2008, MSNBC's David Shuster claimed Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" by her mother Hillary Clinton's, presidential campaign. Retribution quickly followed. News broke the very next day that Shuster's comments had earned him a two-week suspension. The National Organization for Women (NOW) quickly issued a statement that called on NBC to "skip the sexism and report the news…
NY Times: Hezbollah Not Terrorist, Just a 'Military, Political and Soc
I feel safer already: There was an interesting omission from New York Times reporter Michael Slackman's story from Cairo on Tuesday, "Egypt Accuses Hezbollah of Plotting Attacks in Sinai and Arms Smuggling to Gaza." Slackman managed to write an entire story on the anti-Israel terrorist group Hezbollah without a single mention of the word "terrorism," preferring to euphemize the group as a "…
FNC: D.C. Tea Party Blocked by Secret Service
FOX reports that organizers were not allowed to set up in front of Treasury Dept.
CNN's Anderson Cooper: 'It's Hard to Talk When You're Tea-Bagging
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper followed his colleague David Shuster into the gutter on his Anderson Cooper 360 program on Tuesday in making a vulgar “tea-bagging” joke about Republicans/conservatives. After CNN’s senior political analyst David Gergen remarked that Republicans were “searching for their voice” after two electoral losses, Cooper quipped, “It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.” […
