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CNN’s Brown Rejects Suggestion That McCain Hasn’t Received a ‘Fr
CNN’s Campbell Brown, participating in a panel discussion on CNN’s special coverage of the West Virginia primary on Tuesday evening, agreed with the liberal members of the panel and rejected a Republican strategist’s opposition to the idea that John McCain has been receiving a "free ride" over the past weeks. "We can argue he’s [McCain] also not getting a lot of attention right now."Brown must…
PBS Star Bill Moyers Says Rev. Wright 'Assassinated by Soundbites
PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers appeared on Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, and delivered a long-winded defense of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who he said was "assassinated by soundbites." Moyers regurgitated the original, discredited Obama line, that out of 200,000 minutes from the pulpit, "His whole life, his whole ministry, his whole career was being summed up in sound bites…
McCain's 'Better Way': 'Eco-Friendly' Campaign Merchandise; Spokesman
'Green' campaign items latest signal of global warming pandering as presumptive GOP nominee continues to disappoint conservative base.
ABC Wants You to Fight Global Warming One Cheeseburger at a Time
'World News' correspondent worries about everyone's contributions toward stopping climate change, even though governments worldwide must 'attack' it, he says.
CNN Cites 'Recession' in Exit Poll Questions
West Virginia primary voters were asked at least two factually faulty exit poll questions yesterday, both of which asserted that the U.S. economy is already in recession. This, of course, is absolutely false. A recession is marked by at least two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. The last quarter of 2007 and the first quarter of 2008 were marked by slow, but positive, economic…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: how's that inflation thing working out for you?The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March. The lower inflation reflected a flat reading for energy, which helped offset a 0.9 percent jump in food costs as prices climbed for many basic items, from…
NYT Columnist Sees 'Magic' in Military Invasion of Myanmar
Again today, the New York Times demonstrates that the MSM isn't opposed to America's invasion of foreign countries. There's really only one precondition: the national security interests of the United States must not be at stake.Thus it is that the NYT op-ed page today runs Aid at the Point of a Gun by Robert D. Kaplan, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a fellow at the Center for a…
Rove Not Being Devil 'Complicates World View' of Newsweek Editor
FNC's Brit Hume on Tuesday night highlighted how “some in the media elite have found that Karl Rove, in his new role as a commentator” for Fox News and writer for the Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, “is, to their apparent astonishment, a pretty good guy.” Hume cited the admission, by an unnamed Newsweek editor, that realizing Karl Rove is not the devil portrayed by the media “complicated my…
Junking the Real Meaning of Art: RIP Mr. Rauschenberg
Inspired by Rauschenberg's success and unbound by considerations of skill or beauty, a generation of artists was freed to slap together virtually anything and call it Art.
Age Card? Obama Campaign Won't Let McCain 'Wander Around' FL, MI
Dirty pool?Just a few days ago, Barack Obama scoffed at the suggestion he was playing the age card when he accused John McCain of "losing his bearings." But check out the way the Obama campaign has now chosen to declare that it wouldn't leave the playing field in Michigan and Florida to its Republican opponent:"We're not going to let John McCain wander around in those states unchallenged anymore…