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ABC Admits Doom-and-Gloom Gas Price Forecasts Were Wrong
Network notes lower costs, challenges experts who predicted fuel would rise to $5 a gallon.
Bill Maher Admits He Lied To Get People To Appear In 'Religulous
For a guy that has practically made a career out of regularly accusing the Bush administration of lying to get America into a war, comedian Bill Maher clearly isn't opposed to telling fibs if it serves his financial interests.Such was exposed by CNN Monday when Maher and the director of his new film "Religulous" admitted -- without the slightest hint of remorse -- they had lied to get people --…
Newsweek: Even Obama's Neckties Show He's Man of the People
Tony Dokoupil, who once asked "is journalism ready for a black president" in the Columbia Journalism Review -- he also excerpted it in a blog entry at Huffington Post -- gave Newsweek readers a look at what the presidential candidates' neckties say about the men who wear them.You may scoff now, but Dokoupil sure finds it a knotty problem (emphases mine):So what does the knot say about today's…
WaPo's Myerson: God of 'Unregulated' Capitalism is Dead
The Nobel committee can stop looking for next year winner of the Nobel prize in economics and hand the thing right now to Harold Myerson. The WaPo columnist's effort of today, Gods That Failed, is Krugmanesque, reading like an extended gloat at the expense of believers in free markets. Ha-ha, mocks Myerson, your god of unregulated capitalism is dead. Just like Communism failed, so has your…
NY Times Snickers at Palin's Simplistic Patriotism
On the trail with Sarah Palin in Richmond, Va., New York Times reporter Patrick Healy filed a condescending profile of her stump speech in Tuesday's "A Riveting Speaker, Waving the Flag." Healy claimed that Palin's "partisan zeal" and "with-us-or-against-us message" could "repel some independent voters," and that her speeches have "holes in logic." It was the sort of treatment that gaffe machine…
'Nightly News' Longs for Higher Commodity Prices
Segment laments hardship of farmers hurt by decrease in agricultural prices.
Smearing Palin, Olbermann Makes Stupid Error
D'oh! In his haste to condemn Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin last night far-left MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann made a particularly elementary reading comprehension error.The mistake, caught by our friends at Olbermann Watch, involved a report of a person at a McCain-Palin allegedly shouting out to "kill" Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.Rushing to tag the GOP ticket…
New Evidence of Nancy Pelosi Associate Supporting Chavez, Marxists
A Colombian associate of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is once again linked to FARC terrorists and Marxist Dictator Hugo Chavez with the revelation of damning new messages concerning Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba that are currently being investigated by Colombian military officials. Once again we have a powerful American politician, this one the Speaker of the House of Representatives…
Obama Buys Ads In Online Video Games
Video game maker Electronic Arts confirmed Monday that the Obama campaign has purchased ads that appear on virtual billboards in the online version of the popular racing game "Burnout Paradise."This is deliciously fitting given the junior senator from Illinois' rise to capture the White House being nothing but a high-priced media fabrication.Tastier still, in another glaring hypocrisy that will…
As Campaign’s Intensity Peaks, Interest in Big 3's Evening News Cont
Three weeks out from Election Day, surely more Americans are tuning into the Big 3 networks' evening newscasts, right? Wrong. In the past two weeks, Big 3 evening newscast viewership has actually declined by 360,000, or 1.6%. What's more, in percentage terms, viewership among "The Demo" of ages 25-54 has declined even further (220,000, down 3.1%). Here are the rest of the gory details for total…