Newsweek: 'What Green Jobs? Washington Is Spending $60 Billion...But N

July 29th, 2009 9:26 PM
Newsweek magazine had yesterday a web exclusive entitled "What Green Jobs?"  Subtitled:  "Washington is spending $60 billion to create the careers of the future, but not a single green job yet exists. Obama's 'green czar' explains."The Leftist publication deserves some plaudits for exploring this $60 billion gaping hole in the $787 billion "stimulus" package President Barack Obama signed into law…

Revolving Door from Journalism to Team Obama Now Up to a Dozen

July 29th, 2009 10:37 AM
With the revelation that Newsweek Washington bureau reporter Daren Briscoe will start a new job on Monday as Deputy Associate Director of Public Affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (earlier NB item), my list of journalists who have jumped to the Obama administration -- plus one who traveled through the revolving door from helping the Obama campaign into a news media slot -- is…

CBS Discredits Steele and DeMint on ObamaCare as 'Harsh' and 'Incendia

July 20th, 2009 8:49 PM
For the second weekday in a row, Katie Couric teased the CBS Evening News on Monday night by delivering President Obama's aggressive retorts to critics of his health plan as reporter Chip Reid pitched in to help, discrediting critics by disparaging their perspectives as “harsh” and “incendiary” attacks -- all before Couric caught up with ABC and NBC from the night before and promoted Ted Kennedy'…

Networks Ignore Chappaquiddick Anniversary; NPR’s Rudin Gets 'Ugly

July 20th, 2009 4:51 PM
While the big liberal media usually find it hard to skip any news related to the Kennedy family, ABC, CBS and NBC breathed not a word about Saturday’s 40th anniversary of Chappaquiddick. On the night of July 18, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy left a party with 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne and later drove off a bridge. Kennedy left the scene with Kopechne still in the submerged vehicle; he did not…

Unhappy 'Humpday

July 20th, 2009 4:13 PM

Nets Plug Kennedy's 'Dramatic' and 'Emotional Pitch for Health Care Re

July 19th, 2009 8:50 PM
Newsweek engaged itself deeper in the battle for nationalized health care by turning over its cover story -- “We're Almost There” -- to Senator Ted Kennedy for his lengthy personal recitation of “the cause of my life.” ABC and NBC on Sunday night dutifully championed his cause as World News anchor Dan Harris highlighted how “Kennedy is using his own battle against brain cancer to make an…

Newsweek Praises Holder, Contrasts With Gonzales, Who Ran Justice Depa

July 13th, 2009 9:09 AM

WaPo: 'Bruno' Exposes America's Fear of Sex

July 10th, 2009 10:12 AM
For Hank Stuever of the Washington Post, Sacha Baron Cohen's latest movie, "Bruno," is a reflection of America's "giant case of sex phobia."Cohen's movie tells the tale of Bruno, a gay Austrian fashionista who embarks on a quest for fame (to become "the most famous Austrian since Hitler"). Its depictions of gay sex and a gay man flamboyantly flaunting his sexuality caused worry among gay…

Kennedy-Townsend in Newsweek: Obama 'More Catholic' Than Pope

July 9th, 2009 11:05 PM
Newsweek took their criticism of Pope Benedict XVI to the next level on Thursday- not only did guest columnist Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend affirm that the pontiff could learn from President Obama (something Newsweek and their partners at the Washington Post agreed upon back in April), but also blasted the Bishop of Rome and the Catholic hierarchy for their supposed “disdain” towards women and…

Are Black Female Reporters In The Tank for Michelle? 'Fabulously

July 2nd, 2009 8:43 AM

Newsweek Shocker: 'Obama Closes Doors On Openness

June 21st, 2009 12:10 PM
In today's "You're Not Going to Believe This" segment, Barack Obama has gone back on his promise of creating an open and transparent administration, and the good folks at Newsweek not only noticed it, but reported it.Yes, the magazine that seems to have Obama on its cover every week actually exposed the object of their affection for not only going back on a campaign promise, but also for…

CBS Wonders About Possible John Edwards Comeback

June 19th, 2009 11:11 AM
CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez wondered on Friday: "Lots of politicians get caught having affairs, as you know. The trick, though, is making a comeback. It’s happened before, but the question is does John Edwards have a political future?"Rodriguez later introduced the segment by citing Edwards’ recent comments about his political future in a Washington Post interview: "Newt Gingrich and…

Evan Thomas on Obama the God: 'I Was Not Being Literal

June 17th, 2009 5:36 PM

Wolffe: President Missed Rev. Wright’s Racist Rants Because 'He Wasn

June 16th, 2009 3:11 PM
If you've ever wondered why the mainstream media didn't show much curiosity about how 20 years of attending Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church shaped President Barack Obama, there is a perfectly logical explanation. Obama wasn't really there. According to Richard Wolffe, an MSNBC contributor and former Newsweek columnist that covered the Obama presidential campaign for the weekly magazine, people don…