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CNBC's Macke Recommends Complete Takeover of General Motors
"Fast Money" panelist says if government won't allow the preferred free-market solution, it should take full federal control instead
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Obama Derangement Syndrome. Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, recently said that he fears President-elect Obama may create a security force akin to the Gestapo to impose a Marxist dictatorship. "It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Broun told The Associated Press. "I'…
Dear Wonk Room: No 'Right' Way to Bail Out Industry
Telling the government how to bail out the auto industry is like telling burglars the "right" way to steal.
Buffalo News Supporting Silencing of Righty Radio Talkers
Douglas Turner of the Buffalo News wants conservative radio talkers silenced. He calls them "virulent," "violent" and "coarse" and hopes that starting January 1 the "work of flushing" them will begin. Turner fills his little anti-free speech screed with claims and a few examples of how rotten he thinks righty talkers are and how they need to be shut down, yet can't seem to find a single cross…
Obama Sends Man Linked With Terror Group AND George Soros to Deal With
News services in Israel are on fire with talk that Barack Obama has just sent a supporter of the terror group Hamas as his envoy to Syria and Egypt to relay news of his policies to come. Last September Israel's suspicions were heated up about "former" Obama advisor Robert Malley being sent to Syria with a George Soros funded group. It was then claimed by Egyptian sources that Malley was still…
NewsBusted
Topics in today's show: the stock markets' big drop after Obama's victory, Italian PM's "tan" gaffe, and Barney Bush bites a reporter. "NewsBusted" is a comedy webcast about the news of the day, uploaded every Tuesday and every Friday. Think you're funny? Send your (short) jokes to newsbusted at dialognewmedia dot com. If we use them, we'll pay you USD $50 for each one.
Time Mag: Obama a 'Prince' Like Jesus Born of 'Imagination, History an
Warning its readers to “be prepared to gag,” the “Scrapbook” page of this week's Weekly Standard magazine recited “some of the worst over-the-top reactions to The One's ascendance,” starting with Time's Nancy Gibbs who opened this week's cover story by comparing Obama with Jesus: “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of…
Boston Legal's Balanced Look at Abortion
Last night's episode featured arguments in favor of abortion but also acknowledged the longterm damage done to women and men alike.
Apostles of Atheism
How the broadcast and print media helped spread the Gospel of Godlessness in 2007
Apostles of Atheism: Executive Summary
How the broadcast and print media helped spread the Gospel of Godlessness in 2007.
A Study in Character Assassination: How the TV Networks Have Portrayed
An analysis of two weeks of coverage of the GOP vice presidential nominee reveals unremitting hostility from the network news.
A Study in Character Assassination: Executive Summary
An analysis of two weeks of coverage of the GOP vice presidential nominee reveals unremitting hostility from the network news.
Chris Matthews Calls Africa a 'Country
What's gotten into the NBC/MSNBC water? Chris Matthews's verbal miscue on this evening's Hardball makes a triple-header of gaffes on the family of networks today. As we've noted, Joe Scarborough kicked off the slip parade, unintentionally dropping an f-bomb on Morning Joe. About an hour later on Today, Meredith Vieira stumbled into asking Matt Lauer a question that invoked the uncomfortable…