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Hillary: I'm 'Blessed' Bill is 'Passionate
Did Hillary Clinton really claim to be "blessed" and "grateful" to have a "passionate" husband? Yes. Freudian slip or part of a calculated strategy to curry the women's vote by reminding people of the indignities she's suffered at the hands of her wayward spouse? In any case, Hillary deployed the intriguing double-entendre to defend Bill's recent attacks on Barack Obama.View video here.
Brokaw: Limbaugh's Hurting GOP As Voters Reject Reagan 'Dogma
Former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw dismissed Rush Limbaugh as wrong-headed on Sunday’s Meet the Press. Not only did Brokaw pound the narrative that Reaganism is dead or dying within the Republican party, with a "nomadic herd" of voters "rejecting dogma," but he said Limbaugh trying to debate which candidate is truly conservative "is not going to help the Republican party." As if Tom Brokaw was really…
AP Talks MLK's Forgotten 'Complexity' Forgets his Plagiarism & Communi
On the national holiday that celebrates the birth of famed civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the AP decided to remind us all that there was more to King than the popularized view of him affords. AP says that it is a shame that King has been "frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message." Who can disagree with this? After all, very often…
GMA: Bill's Fib Leaves Steph Shaking His Head
Battered by Bill Clinton, Barack Obama might be up against the ropes, but he can count on having Good Morning America in his corner to apply a refreshing sponge and send him back into the ring. Check out Robin Roberts's softballs to the Illinois senator this morning, followed by even more surprising comment -- and body language -- from George Stephanopoulos.View video here.The focus was the way…
Frightening Canadian Free-Speech Suppression Ignored by US Old Media
My my, the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is busy these days -- aiding and abetting those who wish to suppress the human right of free speech and expression. Even though (or is it because?) the vehicle that enabled and emboldened the CHRC's thought police and those who complain to it was the passage of the kind of "non-discrimination" legislation Congress has considered passing for…
Obama Teens, Page One; Pro-Life Teens, Page Four
One of the standard MRC categories of bias is bias by placement. In Monday’s Washington Post Metro section, an article profiling students traveling to Washington for the annual March for Life was placed on page B-4. But a 17-year-old activist who wanted to make sure she could vote for Barack Obama in Maryland was on B-1. (This is in my Virginia edition. In Virginia and now in Maryland, 17-year-…
Sixth Poll in a Year Finds Public Recognizes Liberal Tilt to News Medi
For the sixth time in a year, a national survey has found many more Americans see a media bias to the left than to the right, and the latest poll released earlier this month by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute, discovered “significantly declining percentages of Americans saying they believe all or most of media news reporting,” with MSNBC (at a piddling four percent) and PBS (three…
To the Washington Post, Bill Clinton is a Man of Character
The article gives an overall impression of a good man wronged, but still fighting for his valiant, equally wronged wife's name and campaign prospects. It's not that the Clintons lack character, the article implies, it's that their opponents are out to get them.
Albright Critical of Presidential Campaign Media Coverage; Blames Minn
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright isn’t impressed with the blow-by-blow horse race coverage of the primary season and blames the media.Albright revealed that to an audience January 19 at a Borders bookstore in Tysons Corner, Va., outside of Washington, D.C., to promote her new book “Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership.”She said the media…
‘Matthews’ Panelist: ‘Clinton Ought to be Put in Nutty Old Geeze
The weekend of January 19 - 20 might go down as the moment in history when the liberal media collectively told former President Bill Clinton to shut up.Possibly the best example occurred on "The Chris Matthews Show" Sunday when Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution actually stated, "Sometimes I think that Bill Clinton ought to be put in the Nutty Old Geezer Club along with Andrew…
Newsweek Headline: ‘Leading Democrats To Bill Clinton: Pipe Down
It has become infinitely clear that America's media are deeply concerned former President Bill Clinton's recent antics on the campaign trail threaten Hillary's chances of winning the White House.Not only was this subject addressed at length on the Sunday political talk shows, but also Newsweek's senior editor Jonathan Alter wrote an article Saturday amazingly titled "Leading Democrats To Bill…