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WaPo: Scalia Says 'Hear, Hear' to Machine Guns in D.C
It didn't take long for the Washington Post to weigh in on the wrong side of the Second Amendment issue, did it? The Post's Colbert I. King could not contain the disgust he feels for at least one part of the Constitution more in his response to the Supreme Court's Second Amendment ruling today. He flipped his top and went so far off the deep end that he seemed to imagine that Justice Scalia just…
CBS’s Greenfield: Obama’s ‘Relentless March to The Center
On Wednesday’s CBS "Evening News," political analyst Jeff Greenfield suggested that Barack Obama was becoming more moderate: "...a relentless march to the center. He's determined not to be defined as Dukakis was and as John Kerry was, as outside the mainstream." Greenfield cited examples of Obama’s move to the middle by describing how: "His compromise on warrant -- on how you can wiretap foreign…
McClatchy Worries Obama Will Lose Height Advantage in Sit-down Debates
McClatchy Newspapers won the MRC’s 2008 Dan Rather Award for the Stupidest Analysis for its article spinning the success of the troop surge in Iraq as bad news for Iraqi gravediggers. Apparently the editors are aiming for a repeat performance at next year’s program. In his June 26 article, writer Stephen Thomma, on the recently released debate proposal by the Commission on Presidential…
Rush Limbaugh, Brent Bozell On 'From the Front Lines' Webcast
There are over 180,000 U.S. troops serving bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan and each of them are owed a great deal of gratitude for their service and sacrifice. In a first of its kind Web-A-Thon to raise funds to send the largest shipment of care packages in history to our troops abroad, Move America Forward will Web-cast "From the Front Lines" via streaming video at www.ustream.tv on…
Krugman Chastises 'Right' for Not Taking Wind Energy Seriously
Liberal NY Times columnist blasts McCain's drilling proposal on MSNBC's 'Countdown' and calls wind a better alternative than nuclear.
ABC's Tapper Notes Obama Shuffle on Gun Rights
It should prove interesting to see how many other reporters pick up on this.Barack Obama is scooting to the right on gun rights, notes ABC's Jake Tapper, in a June 26 blog post at his Political Punch blog.The ABC correspondent picked up on an exchange between the Illinois senator and a reporter from Pennsylvania, the land of bitter gun-clingers:Craig Layne, a reporter from WJET-TV in Erie, Penn…
Stephen Baldwin Mocks Alec's 'I'm Leaving if Bush Wins' Pledge
Remember back in 2000 when actor Alec Baldwin allegedly promised to leave the country if George W. Bush was elected president?Well, his brother Stephen was on Fox News's "Just In with Laura Ingraham" Wednesday evening, and apart from skewering celebrities for supporting Barack Obama "just because quote unquote they want change, whatever, without ever really fully recognizing who the best person…
CNN: Supreme Court ‘Kills’ DC Handgun Ban, Slants Toward Gun Victi
In anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of DC handgun ban on Thursday, CNN’s "Newsroom" program ran a report on both the sides of the gun case, in which the pro-gun control advocate was given twice the amount of air time as the gun rights advocate. The report, by CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena, ran twice within 20 minutes; first, at the top of the 10 am…
Time's Klein: McCain 'Too Grudging' on North Korea Nuke Deal
I'm still trying to figure out who died and made Joe "Anonymous" Klein Time magazine's foreign policy expert-in-residence. The sometime presidential primary fiction writer apparently thinks John McCain's statement on the Bush administration's nuclear deal with North Korea is too "grudging":...Congratulations to George W. Bush for finally making the correct choice--diplomatic engagement, regional…
ABC's Robin Roberts Ignores Radicalism of 'Maverick Priest' Pfleger
"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts treated Father Michael Pfleger to a fawning interview on Thursday in which she mostly ignored his radical comments and lauded the "maverick priest," describing him as "not someone to be silenced." Although, a previous segment featured a single clip of Pfleger's sermon at the former church of Barack Obama where he viciously attacked Senator Hillary…
ABC Links Credit Card Companies to College Suicides
'Good Morning America' claims lenders are luring students into debt.