Alter Blasts Cheney for 'Emboldening the Terrorists' -- Says He's 'Ver

January 6th, 2010 9:52 AM
The liberal intelligentsia are often all too eager to accuse conservatives of being fear-mongers, purveyors of hate speech, etc. But when they engage in what they accuse conservatives of doing, it's a different set of rules. Take Newsweek columnist and MSNBC regular Jonathan Alter for example. In an appearance on MSNBC's Jan. 5 "The Rachel Maddow Show," Alter took it to former Vice President…

Much-anticipated Obama Transparency Fails to Materialize to Supporters

January 5th, 2010 6:42 PM
The Obama presidential campaign indisputably used new media better than any before it to build a virtual army of grassroots supporters, and to wield that army as a powerful tool for fundraising, rapid response messaging, and boots-on-the-ground campaigning. But the energy that surrounded Obama and his team after the election, and supporters' expectations that President Obama would be the…

Scarborough Asks Maher How to End 'Mutually Assured Destruction' of Pr

January 2nd, 2010 8:31 PM

Newsweek's Eleanor Clift Protests Nancy Pelosi Is Painted as a 'Far-Ou

December 29th, 2009 8:58 AM

Newsweek's 'Wisdom' of 2009: Jon Stewart is Half Murrow, Half Carson

December 27th, 2009 6:45 PM

Fineman: ‘Self-Righteous’ Lieberman ‘Kicking Dems in Teeth,’ O

December 26th, 2009 1:37 AM
Catching up on the Sunday, December 20, syndicated Chris Matthews Show – during which the panel weighed in on who should be granted various dishonors for the year – panel member Howard Fineman of Newsweek charged that independent Senator Joe Lieberman, formerly a Democrat, had "kicked [Democrats] n the teeth time after time after time and behaved in a completely self-righteous way about it," as…

Newsweek's Connolly: Daddy Obama Needs to Get Congresskids in Line

December 17th, 2009 6:19 PM
Reminiscing about how her father would end dinner table squabbles between her and her sister, Newsweek's Katie Connolly on Tuesday rejoiced that President Obama had said "Enough!" in order to get Senate Democrats in line:Today, it sounds like the president has finally reached that point with the Senate Democrats and their increasingly aggravating health-care squabbles. He's ready to issue a…

Newsweek's Setoodeh: Blame George Bush for Depressing Hollywood Movies

December 16th, 2009 10:16 AM
There is absolutely no shock in stating much of the Hollywood media tend to lean slightly more to the left than a fuel gauge pointing to empty. This week I read the upcoming Oscar season seems to focus on movies trending towards morose and dark subjects, and therefore it was with little surprise, and a great deal of mirth, that I learned from an entertainment writer that the reason behind this…

Newsweek's Adler: Dems Aren't Soft on Crime, Look at Gun Control, Waco

December 15th, 2009 12:48 PM
Tackling "The Myth That Democrats Are Soft on Crime," Newsweek's Ben Adler took to the magazine's The Gaggle blog to critique New York Times columnist Ross Douthat for his latest column. Adler praised Douthat for saying that conservatives need to "take ownership of prison reform" to "correct the system they helped build" but took strong exception to his suggestion that, even so, Democrats "still…

Newsweek Writer: Open Marriages Key to Ending ‘Cheating Scandals

December 11th, 2009 5:43 PM
For Newsweek writer Jenny Block, it's not Tiger Woods who got himself into the trouble he's currently facing, it's his marital vows.   "What should not be tolerated is hypocrisy - and that's where Tiger's vow of marriage got him into trouble," she argued in a Dec. 10 article. "If you want to be monogamous, great - but don't think you can claim it while you sleep around. It's not fair and,…

Newsweek's Connolly: Obama's Nobel About 'America the Ideal

December 10th, 2009 3:39 PM
Newsweek writer and native Australian Katie Connolly set out to lecture American readers today on the magazine's Gaggle blog yesterday about how Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize isn't really about the man or the United States as a country, but rather the U.S. as a lofty ideal -- an ideal she reckons in the eyes of "the collective world" to have been "almost entirely undone" by the Bush…

Newsweek: Recession's Good - Makes Men Do More Housework

December 10th, 2009 2:27 PM
Newsweek writer Kathleen Deveny found a strange way to spin the current economic recession as a blessing in disguise. In a column published Friday called "Unemployed Families Need to Man Up," Deveny visited the topic of working mothers and the difficulties of raising children while juggling a career. Conservatives who broach this subject are usually met with disdain from the liberal media for…

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: Media Refs 'Calling All The Plays' For Obama

December 4th, 2009 6:47 PM
Responding to President Obama criticizing media coverage of the White House jobs summit, on Friday’s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews wondered why the President wasn’t more appreciative of all the media’s help: “Why would you ride the ref when he’s calling all the plays for you? What’s he out there bashing the media for?” During a town hall meeting in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Friday,…

Newsweek's Sarah Kliff Advises Gay Lobby to Go Federal in Marriage Que

December 3rd, 2009 12:23 PM
Voters in state after state have said no to gay marriage. So what's the lesson Newsweek's Sarah Kliff draws? Well, maybe it's time for the gay marriage lobby to go over the heads of the people and push Congress to act.Reacting to yesterday's 38-24 vote by the Democratic-majority New York State Senate to kill a gay marriage bill, Kliff suggested in a December 2 The Gaggle blog post:Rather than…