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Flip-Flop: Matthews Now Says Discussing National Security Not Petraeus
It's a flip-flop that would be the envy of John Kerry in good windsurfing weather off Nantucket. For the last two days, Chris Matthews had been excoriating General David Petraeus for his reluctance to opine on the effect of the Iraq war on America's safety at home. Suddenly this morning, Matthews has decided that -- guess what? -- it's not Petraeus's job to make pronouncements of that sort.View…
CBS TV News: Housing Slump 'Forces' Pair to Open Whorehouse
We have seen it time and again; the MSM taking these relatively good economic times in which we live and spinning them into some sort of Depression era disaster as if things are really all bad. Well, the CBS station in New Rochelle, New York has decided that the so-called housing slump is now somehow "forcing" people to turn their homes into whorehouses! No kidding. Now, as far as this news…
9/11 Shelf Life: What Happened
Six years after the fact, the attacks of September 11th seem to have lost their cultural relevancy for much of America. In a thought-provoking essay Jonah Goldberg wonders how we got to this point. In his view, it is largely a communication issue, something for which the media shares a significant amount of blame (h/t Ace):[I]t’s important to remember that from the outset, the media took it as…
MSNBC's Olbermann Condemns Lieberman for Speaking at Pro-Troops Concer
TV host expresses disdain for flag-waving American patriots.
CNN's Cafferty on Huffington Post: Bashing Bush, Boosting Kucinich
Crusty CNN commentator Jack Cafferty had a "Live Chat" on The Huffington Post on Wednesday, and he sounded like a regular HuffPost blogger, charging that Bush lied us into war to enrich his friends, and never wants America to leave: "I don't think President Bush ever had any intention of leaving Iraq. I think we have been lied to about that the same way we were lied to about WMD. Military bases…
Matthews Paints Petraeus as Ventriloquist's Dummy
As far as MSNBC's Chris Matthews is concerned, David Petraeus, four-star general, commander of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, someone who has devoted his life to serving our country, is no better than Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist's dummy.View video here.
USA Today Wants Government to Give Housing Help
Article suggests using taxpayer funds to assist homeowners who got in over their head with housing they can't afford.
Salon Responds to NewsBusters: ‘Am I in Bed With MoveOn
Tennis lovers saddened by the conclusion of the U.S. Open Sunday should take heart, for a great match is being waged in the blogosphere between editors at Salon and NewsBusters. Initially at issue was whether or not "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric has become a shill for the Bush administration and the war in Iraq as avowed by Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh on Sunday. As set two got…