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Cramer: 'Okay, I Was Wrong, Bear Stearns Was in Trouble
CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer came under fire recently for telling viewers Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC) wasn't in trouble just days before the investment bank tanked. He has finally admitted some fault. "No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble," Cramer said on his program March 11. "If anything, they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear." The following weekend,…
Essay: Obama’s Reverent Wright-Wing Media
Editor's Note: This originally appeared in Human Events today -- Monday, March 24th.The Big Three Networks and Their Plan to Protect Obama (PPO)Why did it take until Thursday March 13, 2008, for the nation to begin to learn about Barack Obama's pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? The man whose Trinity United Church of Christ Obama has attended and generously funded for seventeen years? Whom he…
Newsweek: Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh Are 'Hating America
Newsweek's snarky "Conventional Wisdom Watch" column has once again displayed the inaccuracy of its title. "Pathetic Liberal Spin In 20 Words Or Less" is more accurate, but not very catchy. In the new (March 31) edition, Barack Obama gets a sideways arrow -- like he had an okay week instead of a down-arrow week??? -- while "Hannity" is singled out for a down arrow with these twelve words of…
Chicago Sun-Times: Obama's Church Preaches a 'Mainstream Christian The
The rantings of Barack Obama's pastor sound strange to most Americans, Christian or non-Christian, black or white. Yet to some in the media, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's preaching is in the "mainstream" of Christian doctrine.Take the Chicago Sun-Times's David Roeder, reporting on Trinity United Church of Christ's (TUCC) Easter Sunday service:Theirs is a mainstream Christian theology, but shaped by…
Cramer: 'The American Public Don't Know Jack
CNBC 'Mad Money' host defends government-backed bailout of Bear Stearns and demonstrates disregard for taxpayer sentiment.
Cramer Admits He Was Wrong on Bear Stearns
CNBC 'Mad Money' host appears on CNN's 'Reliable Sources' to defend his Bear Stearns remarks and economic reporting in general.
ABC Spins; Morning Show Skips Party ID of Kwame Kilpatrick
"Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo somehow managed to make it through an entire segment on Kwame Kilpatrick, the scandal-ridden Democratic mayor of Detroit, without mentioning his political affiliation (other than a brief, non-verbal video graphic). Cuomo described Kilpatrick as the "beleaguered mayor," a "prominent politician," and, simply, "the mayor." In contrast, while GMA's report on…
'World News' Rips Scientist to Shreds for Being Global Warming 'Skepti
ABC pulls no punches in dismissing the work of physicist Fred Singer as 'fraudulent nonsense.'
Another Hillary Backer Wants Electoral Votes to Decide Nomination
On March 9, my colleague Tim Graham pointed out the delicious hypocrisy of a Hillary Clinton supporter advocating using electoral votes to decide the Democrat presidential nomination.On Sunday, another Hillary backer, Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), made a similar recommendation, even though he's on the record as having been against the Electoral College in the past (pictured right courtesy AP).In fact…
Lauer: Can Hillary Win Nomination Without It Being Seen as 'Stolen
While Chris Matthews was waxing so rhapsodic about Barack Obama over on MSNBC this morning that he made Mika Brzezinksi ask if the Hardball host had endorsed him, Matt Lauer was doing his bit on NBC, wondering whether Hillary would be seen as having stolen the nomination if she managed to get it.The Today co-anchor interviewed Bill Richardson, who's gotten more media mileage out of his Obama…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000.What does this milestone mean to you? Are round numbers just that -- round numbers?Given that media coverage of the war has rapidly declined since the success of the surge, is it a metaphysical certitude press outlets will be all over this announcement for the next several days?Is it also a…
Mika-Matthews Bad Blood Breakout
Good thing Chris Matthews was down in DC and Mika Brzezinski in NYC this morning. Had they been in the same studio, it might have taken Springer-show security to pry them apart. Such was the level of bad vibes that cropped up between the MSNBC pair during Matthews' appearance on Morning Joe today.The first incident to incite Matthews' ire was Mika's suggestion, after an impassioned Matthews plea…
Simon on CBS: 'Obama Won Over His Base...the American Media
Roger Simon, chief political columnist for The Politico and former White House correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and political editor of U.S. News & World Report, acknowledged on Sunday's Face the Nation that Barack Obama won over “his base,” which he identified as “the American media,” in his Tuesday speech in reaction to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's anti-American rants: Obama really won…