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NYT Displeased With Gracious GOP Congratulations To Obama
Is there anything a Republican can do that would please the folks at the New York Times short of losing an election, resigning from office, or getting caught in a career-ending scandal?You would think the gracious, post-election comments expressed towards president-elect Obama by folks such as John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn.) would have been greeted with joy by…
Colby King on GOP's Make Up: Nationalist Party of South Africa
Washington Post columnist Colby King charged Friday night that a look those who attended McCain-Palin rallies -- presumably meaning all-white -- versus those who went to Obama events, plus a “look at the census projections and what do you see? The Nationalist Party of South Africa.”On Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, but first…
O'Donnell Tells Buchanan Republican Party 'Celebrates Ignorance
The post-election unity was on full display Friday evening when MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell told syndicated columnist Pat Buchanan that the Republican Party celebrates ignorance.This set off a fiery exchange on the new "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" that included O'Donnell claiming the GOP forbids members to accept the theory of evolution, and Buchanan countering that he would…
Washington Post Admits Bias Towards Obama
The media's post-election truth leaks are in full swing now as the Washington Post will publish an admission from its ombudsman Sunday that it was clearly biased towards Barack Obama in its coverage of the just-concluded presidential campaign.Isn't the truth great when it doesn't hurt your agenda?Although Deborah Howell's piece "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage" will appear in Sunday's print…
Obama's 'Service in College' Program at Change.gov Promises $40 an Hou
Talk about "change." The latest version of president-elect Barack Obama's ever-evolving ideas for "community service" promises to pass out quite a bit of it to America's college students. The "America Serves" (link is to Google cache) and "Service" sections of Team Obama's Change.gov site have, uh, changed quite a bit over the past day or so after many, including Kerry Picket of Newsbusters,…
Saturday Sports Open Thread
First, was last Saturday's Texas-Texas Tech matchup the game of the year so far? Does anything on today's schedule have the same potential?No. 11 Ohio State at No. 24 NorthwesternNo. 20 Georgia Tech at No. 19 North CarolinaNo. 1 Alabama at No. 16 LSUNo. 9 Oklahoma State at No. 2 Texas TechNo. 21 California at No. 7 USCIn the NHL, are the Sharks and Rangers for real? In the NBA, Atlanta, Utah, and…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Piling on Palin.Since Wednesday, media and so-called McCain campaign insiders have been bashing poor Sarah Palin. What do you think is behind this?More importantly, will she survive this onslaught? Does she still have a political career, or will all these attacks send her back to Alaska for good?
ABC Reignites 'Troopergate': Officer Portrayed as Victim, Palin as Gui
ABC Still Attacking Gov. Palin
On its Blotter from Brian Ross Blog, ABC News is trying to re-ignite the "Troopergate" issue by portraying Alaska state trooper Mike Wooten as a victim of "threatening phone calls." And, in reporting this new aspect of the story, ABC waits until the last sentence of the story to mention that Governor Palin was deemed innocent of charges of ethics violations in…
Media Attacked Bush Over Baseless Conscription Fears, Ignores Conscrip
Since U.S. troops have been in Iraq, the media instilled baseless fears around college campuses that President Bush would bring back the draft. The Washington Post reported in 2004 the following: Rumors of reinstating the military draft, which have flourished for months in panicky e-mails, online chat rooms, college dorms and student newspapers, suddenly dominated the House floor yesterday in…
McClellan: Obama's Nancy-Mocking Presser Mistake-Free
Message to Scott McClellan: when your guy's gaffe merits a screaming headline at Drudge [see after the jump] about how he's had to apologize for what he said, he's messed up. Big time. But that didn't stop Pres. Bush's former press secretary—turned Soros-paid scrivener—from going on TV and proclaiming that Obama turned in a flawless performance in his debut presser today as president-elect.…
ABC and NBC Fail to Correct Obama's 'Seance' Gaffe
Friday night stories on ABC's World News and the NBC Nightly News ran a clip of President-elect Barack Obama's gaffe at his press conference in which he related he had talked to all of the “living” former Presidents, as “I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.” But both newscasts failed to note it was Hillary Clinton, not Nancy Reagan, who reportedly had…
MRC/NB's Motley on Fox News Discussing the Fairness Doctrine
Media Research Center Director of Communications and NewsBusters.org Contributing Editor Seton Motley appeared on today's Your World with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel to discuss radical leftist Henry Rivera, President-elect Barack Obama's appointee to oversee the Administration's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) transition process, and its implications for the future of free speech…
CNN’s Joe Johns: Rush Limbaugh ‘Breathing Fire
On Friday’s Newsroom program, as CNN awaited Barack Obama’s first press conference as president-elect, correspondent Joe Johns outlined how Rush Limbaugh was apparently "back on the radio breathing fire, taking Obama and his now-named Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to the woodshed." He then played a clip of Limbaugh labeling Emanuel a "good old-fashioned Chicago thug, just like Obama is a good old-…
CBS: America Cool Again After Obama Win
At the top of Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Russ Mitchell reported on location from Athens, Greece as part of the show’s ‘Destination Unknown’ series and managed to squeeze in this observation: "...coming here, also, meeting people on the street, Europeans, they're absolutely giddy about the election of Barack Obama. They're actually coming up to us and congratulating us, which is interesting…