TVNewser: Stossel Leaving ABC News, Joining Fox Business Network
September 10th, 2009 1:36 PM
TVNewser is reporting that "20/20" co-anchor John Stossel is leaving ABC News to join the Fox Business Network:TVNewser has learned Stossel will host a weekly, one-hour program for the 2-year-old business channel. He's expected to signed a multi-year deal with Fox which will include regular appearances on Fox News Channel during daytime and primetime. He'll also host four, hour-long specials on…
Joe Klein: Joe Wilson 'Vile', Besides 'Why Shouldn't' Illegals Be Cove
September 10th, 2009 11:41 AM
After plugging his latest column in a September 10 post on the magazine's Swampland blog, Time's Joe Klein (shown in file photo at right) pegged Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) as "vile" before defending taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants:On this whole question of whether illegal immigrants will be included in the plan, which caused the vile Congressman from South Carolina to shout "You…
A $2 Billion Chrysler Double-Cross? If So, It's Virtually Invisible
September 9th, 2009 1:35 PM
The Obama administration and its car-czar group appear to be intent on teaching someone who got in their way a brutal lesson. If there's another way to interpret what is going on involving the "Old Chrysler," the company's first-lien secured lenders, and the US Treasury, I want to know what it is.
CNSNews.com: Obama Pitched Health Care Plan in Chat with Students Prio
September 9th, 2009 12:39 PM
While the mainstream media mock as overblown and unjustified the concerns of many conservatives that President Obama's televised speech to the nation's schoolchildren would be accompanied by liberal politicking, one online news outlet is noting how the president took the chance to push his agenda to a small group of Northern Virginia students prior to the actual speech."Prior to his nationally…
On Twitter, MSNBC's Shuster Plugs Old MoveOn.org-sponsored Poll on P
September 8th, 2009 6:35 PM
"This is two* weeks old... but, it's the most recent polling on public option. http://bit.ly/KCu9x" MSNBC's David Shuster posted to his Twitter page today around 5:45 p.m.But pulling the thread from Shuster's tweet unravels through two liberal blogs and ends at none other than MoveOn.org (h/t MRC's Stu James).The link in question takes readers to the liberal ThinkProgress blog, which in turn…
Pro-voucher D.C. Democrats Lodge Protest Same Day Obama Addresses Amer
September 8th, 2009 4:40 PM
Today as President Barack Obama was preparing to deliver a speech to America's students, some school voucher-supporting Democrats in the District of Columbia were gearing up to protest the president's decision to scuttle the city's federal voucher program by blocking the doors to the federal Department of Education building in Washington. Nikita Stewart of the Washington Post's D.C. Wire blog…
Van Jones: On the 9/11 Attacks, Not Just a 'Truther,' But Also a 'Dese
September 7th, 2009 11:49 PM
The "resignation" shortly after midnight on Sunday morning of President Obama's "green jobs czar" Van Jones has generally been seen as a convenient holiday weekend move. By Friday, after White House Secretary Robert Gibbs would only say that he still was a part of the administration, it was obvious that Jones's resignation was only a matter of time. The 9/11 truther and other evidence…
Arianna Huffington Thanks Glenn Beck for Making Van Jones Resign
September 7th, 2009 10:12 PM
With each passing day, it becomes clear the liberal media are imploding along with the man they corruptly put in the White House. Today's example: according to Arianna Huffington, Glenn Beck has done Van Jones a big favor by putting so much pressure on Barack Obama's "green jobs czar" that he was forced to resign in disgrace.Honestly, only a liberal media member could spin someone's resignation…
Sarah Palin Slams AP for Publishing Picture of Dying Marine
September 7th, 2009 5:30 PM
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has come down strongly on the Associated Press's decision to publish a picture of a dying Marine.On Sunday, Palin wrote to her followers at Facebook claiming the wire service was "heartless and selfish to turn its back on the wishes of a grieving family in order to exploit the tragic death of a true American hero" The headline -- "Shame on the Associated Press…
Politico Gets It Way Wrong On Conservatives' Complaints About FCC Dive
September 7th, 2009 2:22 PM
Van Jones and Mark Lloyd: Hopefully Headed in the Same Direction Editor's Note: In Sunday's More czars on conservative hit list, the Politico's Lisa Lerer stated "conservatives have accused (Mark) Lloyd, appointed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as the agency’s Chief Diversity officer in late July, of secretly wanting to reinstate…
Here We Go Again: Corrupt PA Judges Not Tagged As Dems
September 4th, 2009 12:00 AM
Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan are Democrats. Is it okay to write that? Apparently, it's not in an establishment media report, based on the last six months of coverage of these two corrupt Pennsylvania judges. In February (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that the Associated Press ran a story about two Pennsylvania judges "charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send…
CBS/AP Story: Docs Concerned Terminally Ill May Prematurely Die Under
September 3rd, 2009 2:58 PM
"U.K. Docs Worry Patients Dying Prematurely," reads a headline featured this afternoon in CBSNews.com's Top News menu. The link brings readers to a CBS/AP story with the same headline. But when one reads through the article, it becomes clear the matter at hand may have some bearing over a controversial issue in America's current health care reform debate (emphasis mine):A group of British doctors…
Oliver Stone ‘Warmly Embracing’ Hugo Chavez in Blame America Doc
September 1st, 2009 2:57 PM
In today’s L.A. Times director Oliver Stone discusses his upcoming documentary “South of the Border,” about the “warmhearted” Hugo Chavez. [emphasis added]: Oliver Stone is shown warmly embracing Hugo Chávez, nibbling coca leaves with Evo Morales and gently teasing Cristina Elizabeth Fernández de Kirchner about how many pairs of shoes she owns. … “I think he’s an extremely dynamic and charismatic…
Media Virtually Silent About $10 Billion Union Health Care Subsidy Bui
August 31st, 2009 4:25 PM
Some of us have been wondering how viable the Voluntary Employee Benefit Arrangements (VEBAs) set up by the United Auto Workers for its auto industry employees really are. This is of particular concern at the VEBAs tied in to General Motors and Chrysler. What happens to the employer stock these VEBAs own will heavily influence whether they have the money to pay promised benefits. The answer to…