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No Media Outrage Over Offensive Rolling Stone McCain Cartoon
You might think that a tidal wave of denunciation would ensue if a cartoon depicting John McCain being tortured in a bamboo cage by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and another person (who might be George W. Bush) were to appear in a supposedly respectable or trendy publication. You might further think that giving McCain's three torturers stereotypically exaggerated Asian features would only…
MSNBC Prez Claims They're Not Liberal On Purpose, But 'You Can't Trust
Once again MSNBC president Phil Griffin is claiming that his cable outlet is not liberal on purpose. (I know what you're saying, if you believe that he has a bridge to sell you) In an interview with a TV reviewer for the Kansas City Star, Griffin once again made the claim that the extreme leftward tilt that MSNBC has taken over the last few years was a complete accident and that they aren't "tied…
Day 1 of Obama's Magical Media Tour: All Air from Outside the Paint
A great first day on national television news for Barack Obama as he began his much-hyped overseas trip with a stop in Kuwait before moving on to Afghanistan. CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, seemingly channeling the media's own excitement, on Saturday night hailed it as “a trip that seems to be captivating the rest of the world as much, if not more so, than many in the United States.”ABC, CBS and CNN…
PCMag.com: Attack of the Geeks on John McCain
Someone peed in Lance Ulanoff's pocket protector and it must have been a Republican, because Ulanoff, one of PCMag.com's chief geeks, unloaded on the "tech illiterate" John McCain in a July 16th article, insisting that McCain isn't "tech savvy enough to run this country."
Ulanoff is filled with all sorts of assumptions and with faux indignation that John McCain dares run for president even…
Anchors w/ Obama 'Not Like North Korean TV Covering Kim Jong Il' Reall
Will Katie Couric be as tough with Barack Obama as North Korean television is with Kim Jong Il? The last time Couric (and the other anchors to, for that matter) interviewed Obama the liberal Democrat had no more to fear from her and them than the communist dictator ever has from his state media.Pressed at the TV critics session with the networks in Beverly Hills on Friday as to whether ABC, CBS…
Hannity to Obama: Do You Have The Guts To Come On My Show
On Wednesday, presumptive Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama blamed his wife's high negative ratings on "the conservative press—Fox News and the National Review" as well as "rants by Sean Hannity."He also said, "And you know, the problem is that rarely do these folks have the guts to say it to your face." On Thursday, Hannity struck back (video embedded right):Senator Obama, here is my…
Netroots Boo Harold Ford for Paying Respect to FNC Colleagues
What do people on the ultra-left hate more: George W. Bush or Fox News?The question stems from an incident Friday at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas, when former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford Jr. was booed for saying that he has great respect for his former colleagues at Fox News.This was so newsworthy that the Huffington Post's Sam Stein actually wrote about it (emphasis added…