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Howard Fineman Touts 'Newsweek' 15 Point Poll Lead for Obama on 'Today
NBC's "Today" brought on "Newsweek's" Howard Fineman, on Monday's program, to promote a new poll, from his magazine that shows Barack Obama has jumped to a 15 point lead, and even though no other poll shows that big of a gap Fineman boldly bragged: "But we have a tendency, sometimes, to pick up on a trend before others do and...you're probably going to see some movement and I think our poll is…
Laura Ingraham Calls for an End to the Fairness Doctrine on the Factor
Laura Ingraham, syndicated radio talk show host and now host of Just In on the Fox News Channel, filled in for Bill O'Reilly, syndicated radio talk show host, on his FNC Show The O'Reilly Factor on Friday, June 20.And led off with her Talking Points Memo, in which she excoriated the left's call for the return of the Fairness Doctrine, dismantling and undermining every liberal (alleged)…
WaPo Finds Lucrative Market in Giving Chinese Private Health Care
Who says the Washington Post never reports the downsides of socialized medicine? In a story below the fold on the June 23 Business section front page, staffers Kendra Marr and Ariana Eunjung Cha took a look at how a Bethesda, Md., company is setting out to make money by capitalizing on dissatisfaction with China's socialized medical system. Marr and Cha look at how Bethesda-based Chindex…
NASA's Hansen: Oil Execs Should Be Tried For Crimes Against Humanity
Although it seems like just yesterday, Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the day James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told members of Congress the world was doomed if the burning of fossil fuels didn't immediately cease. To commemorate this inauspicious occasion, Hansen is going back to Capitol Hill to call for oil company executives to be put on trial for…
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We're back up. A network connection switch to our servers broke which caused them to be unreachable. The machines themselves were unaffected.
The problem is nothing to do with the domain issue earlier, fyi.
Consider this today's open thread.
ABC: Evangelicals 'Buzzing' Over Obama
World News Sunday promotes unprecedented campaign to woo millions and highlights importance of the abortion issue in the process.
Liberal Columnists Broder and Shields Turn on Obama
Is Barack Obama beginning to wear out his welcome with some of the mainstream media's old guard, or are the nation's more seasoned journalists just getting fed up with the obvious love affair most press members are having with the Democrat presidential nominee?Before accusing me of drinking the Kool-Aid, consider that two of the country's most venerable and high-profile liberal pundits -- the…
Ex-Wash Post Reporter 'Nervous' What McCain Means to SCOTUS
In a Wednesday column decrying John McCain's condemnation of the Supreme Court's ruling giving Guantanamo detainees access to the courts, former Washington Post reporter and editor Ruth Marcus illustrated that no matter how unexcited conservatives may be about McCain liberals still see him as dangerous as she expressed fear of what McCain's efforts to appease conservatives will mean for the…
Obama's Propagandistic Iconography: the Making of a Messiah
A photographic essay of Obama propaganda and the Media's willing assistance with it
In America we have always been a skeptical people. One of our states even has a skeptical motto. Missouri calls itself the "Show Me State" proving that Missourians don't imagine they'd be apt to have the wool pulled over their eyes too readily. Consequently, when most American citizens look at their politicians…
Kurtz: 'Liberal Commentators' Defended Obama's Campaign Finance Flip-f
Has the media's love affair with Barack Obama gone too far?CNN's Howard Kurtz seems to think so, for on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," the Washington Post columnist strongly took issue with how press outlets reported last week's news that the Democrat presidential nominee was going back on a campaign promise to accept public funds:And all these liberal commentators who have always supported…
Near-Despondent AP 'Report' Virtually Begs for Obama Votes
UPDATE: Hard to imagine, but it's even worse than originally thought. AP's go-to "historian" is, as Wikipedia shows, a shameless politically active far-leftist (HT Eric at Vocal Minority). _______________________(begin original post) Two Associated Press writers, with the help of accompanying photos at ABCnews.com, have dug down deep and reached a new low in dismal, depressive reporting. You can…