Newsweek
Does Newsweek Have a Prayer
December 11th, 2008 4:27 PM
This news item led me to ask the question posed in the headline:(Reuters) - Newsweek magazine is planning staff cuts as part of a major editorial makeover likely to result in a slimmer publication, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people close to the magazine.The cuts are expected to be outlined in two companywide meetings on Thursday, and will come from an extension of voluntary redundancies…
Howard Fineman: Obama Hermetically Sealed Off From Chicago Corruption
December 11th, 2008 7:04 AM
Corruption to the left of him. Corruption to the right of him. Corruption right in front of him. Yet in spite of all this, Howard Fineman of Newsweek maintains that Barack Obama has been somehow hermetically sealed off from Chicago corruption throughout his political career. Fineman is merely echoing the premise currently being promoted by much of the media in his Newsweek article about Illinois…
Newsweek's Miller On Ingraham Show Defending Gay Marriage From Scriptu
December 10th, 2008 11:18 AM
Update (11:37 a.m. EST): Miller is now on the radio program. She insists she had a radio show scheduling conflict. Ingraham apologized for saying she chickened out. Update (11:26 a.m. EST): Miller backed out of appearing even solo with Ingraham. Mohler is now talking with Ingraham. A few minutes from now Newsweek's Lisa Miller will appear on the Laura Ingraham radio program to defend her recent…
Newsweek's Miller Plays Armchair Theologian to Defend Same-sex Marriag
December 8th, 2008 12:10 PM
Shortly after dismissing the Bible as archaic and "lukewarm" on marriage, Newsweek's Lisa Miller waxed poetic about it as a "powerful" "living document", essentially suggesting that religious conservatives who consider Scripture to be the inerrant, eternally true decrees of God Himself have a lower view of the Bible than religious liberals: Biblical literalists will disagree, but the Bible is a…
In 2001 Press Attacked Bush For 'Talking Down Economy,' Obama Given Pa
December 8th, 2008 2:24 AM
Jonathan Alter was an early accuser of new President George W. Bush when he and VP Cheney began to try to warn the country that an economic downturn was well underway as he was taking office. As Bush tried to warn the nation, the media jumped all over him for "talking down the economy." Yet, as we watch the reporting of Obama's current down talking of the economy, the media has said nothing…
Eleanor Clift: 'Could Barack Obama Become the Next Ronald Reagan
December 1st, 2008 9:02 AM
Remember how most of the mainstream media used to deride Ronald Reagan to the extent of constantly declaring the "end of the Reagan era?' Well, now the MSM is starting to find "strange new respect" for Reagan but primarily as a way to boost Barack Obama. Newsweek columnist, Eleanor Clift, now favorably compares Obama to Ronald Reagan. Gone is the previous antagonism to The Gipper which has been…
Newsweek Lauds UN for Letting Indian Navy Do Its Job
November 21st, 2008 4:50 PM
Earlier this week the brave sailors of the Indian Navy struck a deadly blow to Somali pirate by sinking one of their mother ships.The courage and dedication of the Indian sailors no doubt is a source of pride for Indian citizens but also cause for cheering among Americans, Europeans, and others the world over who hope to see the Somali piracy threat eradicated. Yet it was only today that Newsweek…
Pot Calling the Kettle: Joy Behar Labels Sarah Palin an 'Airhead
November 19th, 2008 2:34 PM
Sarah Palin is an airhead proclaims the very dim Joy Behar. The same "View" co-host who blames earthquakes on global warming and just the previous day could not define the term "suffrage," snidely said of Sarah Palin "we all know that the woman is an airhead." Behar then continued to label those Obama critics "unpatriotic" (this of course after she considered dissent in the Bush years "patriotic…
Newsweek Predicts More Lovin' Under Obama
November 15th, 2008 11:01 AM
To quote tennis player John McEnroe, "You cannot be serious!"Newsweek is exploring the possibility of a baby boom being sparked by the "euphoria of Obama fans."Jessica Bennett of Newsweek comes firing out of the gates with the somewhat disturbing headline, "Change You Can Conceive In." She quickly follows that up in the sub-headline, posing this question: Could euphoric Obama fans be sparking a…