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Newsweek's Clift Says Press Don't Care About Romney's Mormonism Hours
June 5th, 2011 4:58 PM
Newsweek's Eleanor Clift said on PBS's "McLaughlin Group" Friday that the press really aren't interested in Mitt Romney being a Mormon.
This amazingly transpired roughly 24 hours before her magazine revealed a June 13-20 cover story about Romney entitled "The Mormon Moment: How the Outsider Faith Creates Winners" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Newsweek Cover Focuses on Mitt Romney Being Mormon (With Image from An
June 5th, 2011 11:23 AM
Is it appropriate to be focusing on a presidential candidate's religion in 2011?
Newsweek certainly thinks it is, and created a cover for its June 13-20 issue prominently highlighting Mitt Romney being a Mormon in a fashion that is guaranteed to raise a few eyebrows:
Howard Kurtz Bashes Sarah Palin With His Own Ignorance Of Insurance Ma
June 3rd, 2011 9:54 AM
CNN's Howard Kurtz took a cheap shot at former Alaska governor Sarah Palin Friday via his Twitter account.
Unfortunately, the joke's on him for his mocking of the former vice presidential candidate conveyed to his 73,000 followers his own total ignorance of insurance mandates:

Matthews, Klein and Sullivan Think Justice Department Should Leave Joh
May 29th, 2011 3:49 PM
The Justice Department is expected to indict former Senator John Edwards as early as Wednesday for violating federal campaign finance laws.
On this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show," the host along with Time magazine's Joe Klein and the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan said the DOJ should leave Edwards alone (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Andrew Sullivan Shocks Chris Matthews: Palin Can Beat Obama as the 'Pr
May 29th, 2011 9:56 AM
Andrew Sullivan this weekend seemed to shock Chris Matthews when he said that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin could actually beat President Obama in next year's elections running as the "principled candidate" representing "this grassroots movement of cutting government down to size."
Maybe even more surprising, Time's Joe Klein seemed to agree telling the host of "The Chris Matthews Show…

Achtung! Andrew Sullivan Goes Nuclear; Hints Palin = Hitler
May 27th, 2011 3:54 PM
Andrew Sullivan's vendetta against Sarah Palin reached a new milestone on Friday after he insinuated that the former Alaska governor was somehow akin to Adolf Hitler. Sullivan referenced Leni Riefenstahl's infamous pro-Nazi movie after quoting a former Palin spokeswoman on what he labeled "the upcoming propaganda movie, 'Triumph Of The Will' 'The Undefeated.'"
The writer, who is a top…

Andrew Sullivan: 'Israelis Got U.S. Media to Spin Obama's Middle East
May 22nd, 2011 11:40 PM
You've heard the paranoid, anti-Semitic claim that Jews control the press in this country?
Well, the Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan believes the Israelis got United States media representatives to spin President Obama's Middle East speech as an attack on the Jewish state:

Chris Matthews' Entire British Panel Corrects His Claim Blair Was Clos
April 24th, 2011 4:18 PM
There was a marvelous moment on this weekend's "Chris Matthews Show" when the host literally stuck his foot in his mouth claiming in front of four British journalists that former Prime Minister Tony Blair "was much closer emotionally and politically to Bill Clinton" than George W. Bush.
Guest's Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Beast and Gillian Tett of the Financial Times both immediately shook…

CNBCer Strikes Back at Andrew Sullivan for Calling Wall Street 'Parasi
April 17th, 2011 10:50 AM
Liberal media members better learn that if they step onto a set with CNBC's Becky Quick, they better bring their "A" game when talking about business and finance or they'll end up looking foolish.
Such was the case on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show" when Andrew Sullivan called Wall Street a "parasite class...producing nothing" only to be forcibly corrected by Quick (video follows…

CBS's Couric Attended Party of Convicted Sex Offender Shortly Before C
March 2nd, 2011 11:12 AM
On December 18, 2010, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric posted a video on her blog, Couric & Co., calling on Congress to pass tougher legislation to combat underage sex trafficking. However, what she failed to reveal to online viewers was that only two weeks earlier she attended a party at the Manhattan townhouse of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender accused of trafficking underage…
Ferguson Calls Out Liberal Bias of MSNBC’s Wolffe: ‘Journalist
December 9th, 2010 6:29 AM
As MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe - formerly of Newsweek - appeared as a guest on Wednesday’s Late Late Show on CBS, after Wolffe conveyed his left-leaning take on the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts, host Craig Ferguson asked, "You’re a Democrat, aren’t you?" as he stared at the MSNBC contributor for comedic effect, inspiring audience laughter.
After Wolffe responded, "I am a journalist,"…
Chris Matthews Says He Can't Tell Howard Fineman's Political Leaning
December 1st, 2010 7:13 PM
Chris Matthews said Wednesday that he can't tell what Howard Fineman's political leaning is.
Such humorously occurred at the end of a "Hardball" segment shortly after the host had no problem identifying his other guest as "center-right" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
Angry Liberals Twist Bristol Palin’s ‘Dancing’ into Tea Party
November 23rd, 2010 12:19 PM
Those Tea Partiers – is there anything in this nation they can’t spoil? They’ve already gummed up the president’s agenda with their rallies and signs and voting. Now, they’re trying to ruin “Dancing with the Stars!”
So says the left and many in the media agree. Now that newly resurgent conservatives have handed them a crushing mid-term defeat, liberals are seeing nefarious Tea Party plots…

Left-Winger Tina Brown Heads Daily Beast/Newsweek Merger; A List of He
November 12th, 2010 5:33 PM
On her website, The Daily Beast, on Thursday, editor-in-chief Tina Brown joyously announced the "wedding" of the left-leaning blog with the equally liberal Newsweek magazine: "Some weddings take longer to plan than others. The union of The Daily Beast and Newsweek magazine finally took place with a coffee-mug toast between all parties."
Brown touted how she would now serve as editor-in-chief…