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Obama, Liberal? Don't Make Maddow Laugh
Barack Obama, liberal? Surely you jest. Rachel Maddow found the suggestion so silly, she literally burst out laughing. The Air America host was part of this evening's panel on Race for the White House. David Gregory couldn't complete his reading of Rich Lowry's take on Obama before Maddow let loose.DAVID GREGORY: Let's go to Smart Take #2. This is Rich Lowry from National Review Online, he's…
CBS & NBC Focus on KSM's Torture Claims, Only ABC Tags Him 'Evil
CBS and NBC on Thursday night were as interested in highlighting the claims of torture, from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and four 9/11 terrorist attack co-conspirators who were arraigned by a military commission court in Guantanamo Bay, as to informing viewers about the charges against them. ABC didn't consider the torture allegations relevant and so didn't mention the topic as Jan Crawford…
Miami Herald: 2nd Amendment is 'Mythical Right
The Miami (FL) Herald let lose with another propagandistic broadside against the 2nd Amendment on Thursday featuring some more moaning and false statements about how horrible it is for America that the misnamed "assault weapons ban" has lapsed. There is much wringing of hands, waterworks, histrionics and over dramatics by the aptly named Fred Grimm here. In "What's a few dead cops to the gun…
Making Fun of 'Bush-isms,' Movie Reviewer Makes Self Look Uneducated
I was tooling about the Internets looking for movie reviews and came across a hilarious example of "stupid is as stupid does" that I just couldn't resist fisking here on Newsbusters. It is on a flashy, kitchy site called ioncinema, presumably where the cool kids meet to find out about all that's new in cinema and run by bunches and bunches of 20 somethings. There we see a featured post by one…
Celtics-Lakers Open Thread
What say you, NBers: is this the classic basketball matchup we've been dreaming about for years?How do you compare this to Celtics-Lakers finals of the past? Is this the beginning of a new stretch of finals between these two great teams?Man for man, how do you think these teams compare to the great Celtics and Lakers clubs of the past? What are your predictions for the series?
Former MSNBC Host Tucker Carlson: 'The Press Love Obama
Network's senior campaign correspondent notes pro-Barack bias, says Couric's failure a product of changing media.
WaPo’s Shales Ticked about Lack of Nudity on CBS's ‘Swingtown
Washington Post Style TV columnist Tom Shales blames the FCC because tonight's premiere of CBS's "Swingtown" doesn't show enough skin to suit him. "Swingtown," a drama set in the free-loving, drug-hazed summer of 1976, lacks the "kind of intimacy and even eroticism that is common on HBO," Shales complains. In his June 5 review he writes:It's conceivable that ‘Swingtown' will prompt complaints…
Networks That Hyped Haditha 'Massacre' Now Ignore Acquittal
The same network newscasts that hyped the 2005 "alleged massacre" by U.S. soldiers in Haditha are so far ignoring the acquittal on all charges of Lieutenant Andrew Grayson on Thursday. Grayson was accused of attempting to cover up details of the events surrounding a raid that lead to the death of 15 Iraqis. However, Grayson's acquittal was skipped by ABC's "Good Morning America," CBS's "Early…
CBS: WaPo’s Sally Quinn Says Hillary ‘Is A Tortured Person
On Thursday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked to Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn about what Hillary Clinton’s legacy will be after leaving the presidential race on Saturday and Quinn declared that: "I think that this is a tortured person who has run and run and run and gone for it and gone for it, and it's power, and it's this and it's that, and 'I've got to be there.' There's…
What If ADP's Employment Report is Right (and Uncle Sam's Isn't
Specifically, what if it is better at picking up small-business job creation than the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? The media isn't asking this question, even though the two reports have diverged by over 400,000 jobs in the past four months (see latest reports here, here, and here on ADP's May estimate that 40,000 jobs were added, vs. expectations that it would come in at 30,000…
CNN Picks Up McCain ‘Plagiarism’ Story From HuffPost, Daily Kos
CNN’s Veronica De La Cruz pulled her scoop on Thursday’s "American Morning" straight out of the left-wing blogosphere. The network’s Internet correspondent cited both the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos in her short segment on the brand-new changes on John McCain’s presidential campaign website.De La Cruz first zeroed in on McCain’s new slogan. " His new slogan reads ‘a leader we can believe in…
