Google Flags NewsBusters and Other Conservative Sites 'Harmful
January 31st, 2009 1:35 PM
In the past several hours, I have received multiple e-mail messages from readers claiming that internet behemoth Google, for a brief period of time Saturday morning, flagged a number of conservative websites including NewsBusters, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Fox News as possibly harmful to computers.UPDATE: This is NOT a problem exclusive to conservative websites. NewsBusters has reported…
Daschle's Tax Dodging: (Of Course) There's Even More Than Originally R
January 31st, 2009 10:03 AM
Sleep a little, miss a lot. As noted Friday evening (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Jake Tapper at ABC's Political Punch blog revealed that former South Dakota senator Tom Daschle, Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, had failed to pay over $100,000 in federal income taxes for 2005, 2006, and 2007, because he did not originally report the "the services of (a free)…
Driving Mr. Daschle: HHS Nominee Has $100,000 'Geithner Problem
January 30th, 2009 11:41 PM
Former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle (picture at right is part of a Getty Images pic at a related New York Times story) has just upped the ante in Washington's tax-avoiding/evading game of "Can you top this?" Whereas recently confirmed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner "only" $40,000 in back taxes and interest, principally relating to unpaid Social Security and Medicare taxes (with a dash of…
Demeaned DeMint: Politico's Piece, 70 Days After Events Involved, Is O
January 29th, 2009 11:59 AM
What motivated Politico to take a two month-old story about South Carolina GOP Senator Jim DeMint (picture at right is from that story) out of mothballs and put it out there right now? That question inevitably occurs to a careful reader of Manu Raju's "Republicans Chew on DeMint" story that appeared at the site Tuesday. It primarily covers the goings-on at a November 18 Republican Conference…
WhiteHousePressCorps.org Also Annoyed by Transcript-free WhiteHouse.go
January 28th, 2009 6:15 PM
NewsBusters and the Weekly Standard's Mary Katharine Ham are not the only critics of the Obama administration for its failure to transcribe, publish and archive the daily press briefings held by press secretary Robert Gibbs.A Web site called WhiteHousePressCorps.org is running a graphic at the top of its main page which reads, "Waiting on the official release of the 1/22/2009 Press Briefing…
Newsweek.com Omits 'Pro-Life' Groups' Connections to Democrats
January 28th, 2009 5:42 PM
Newsweek’s Sarah Kliff, in a January 27, 2009 web-exclusive article entitled “Pro-Lifers In Obamaland,” failed to mention how several organizations and individuals she labeled as “pro-life” have friendly relations with pro-abortion Democrats. She also tried to portray the pro-life movement as being “split” between “those who are preparing for the fight of their lives and those who see an…
Obama Voter to NewsBusters: White House Should Publish Daily Press Bri
January 28th, 2009 11:16 AM
A Minnesotan who voted in November for Barack Obama recently wrote NewsBusters thanking us for our reporting on how the Obama administration has thus far failed to transcribe, publish, and archive on whitehouse.gov its daily press briefings.Writes Andrea Dvorak of St. Paul:My politics are certainly left of center; I voted for Obama and couldn't be happier that he's our president now. (Part of why…
Pool Reports Page Gone, Still No Press Briefings on WhiteHouse.gov
January 27th, 2009 12:16 PM
Checking out the official Web page for the Obama administration today, I noticed that the White House has removed the "pool reports" entry from the "Briefing Room" lineup roughly six days after the White House press corps made clear it would not fork over the pool reports to the White House. The page itself, which of course lacks any pool reports, is still accessible here.As of noon this 27th…
Dallas News Religion Blogger Finds Liberal 'Abortion Foe' to Denounce
January 26th, 2009 1:41 PM
A liberal Catholic blogger who last November inveighed against "extremist" and "Pharasaic" bishops who have said they will deny Communion to pro-choice politicians is cited today by Dallas Morning News religion blogger Bruce Tomaso as an "abortion foe" who, surprise, surprise, has unkind words for the March for Life: Writing for a blog of America, the Jesuit magazine, Catholic author and "pro-…
Did NYT Fire Bill Kristol for Failure to Check Facts or Disloyalty
January 26th, 2009 11:53 AM
Is the New York Times suddenly concerned with facts in its opinion pieces? Such appears to be the case as information concerning the firing of conservative columnist Bill Kristol begins to surface.Makes you wonder if such a standard will be required of the Times' liberal contributors given what the Daily Beast reported moments ago:
Think Progress Angry Obama's Conservative Dinner Party Failed
January 25th, 2009 11:27 PM
The George Soros-funded Clinton front-group Think Progress expressed disappointment Sunday that conservative journalists who attended a dinner party with Barack Obama a few weeks ago haven't abandoned their political principles and become bleeding-heart liberals.I kid you not.Readers are forewarned to remove all food and fluids from their computer's proximity, for this is some truly hilarious…
Obama 'Shifting Power From Traditional Cabinet Posts'; Will Media Comp
January 25th, 2009 1:19 PM
I guess President Josiah Bartlet, the mythical president in The West Wing television series, would have been pleased. Jonathan Martin at Politico.com reports that the Obama Administration is concentrating lots of power at the top (bolds are mine):West Wing on steroids in Obama W.H. President Barack Obama is taking far-reaching steps to centralize decision-making inside the White House,…
With Geithner, Kennedy, Will Media Raise Concerns About Democratic Cul
January 22nd, 2009 5:23 PM
As Barack Obama's tax-delinquent Treasury pick Tim Geithner appears to be sailing smoothly towards nomination, it seems Caroline Kennedy's once all-but-apparent ascension to the vacant Senate seat for New York seems to be dead in the water and sinking fast.As the New York Times is reporting, tax issues appear to be responsible for sinking the Kennedy bid:ALBANY - Problems involving taxes and a…
