Name That Party: Former Congressman Condit's Affiliation Not Identifie
February 21st, 2009 1:02 PM
CNN and The Washington Post had institutional memory lapses today. On CNN Saturday Morning News, this was the lead story from anchors Betty Nguyen and T.J. Holmes:BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, good morning, everybody. I'm Betty Nguyen. We do want to thank you for starting with us. It is the 21st of February, and we do want to begin with some breaking news.HOLMES: Yes, and kind of a -- a shocker…
AP's Loven Criticized Bush's Valid Arguments as 'Straw Men,' Silent on
February 21st, 2009 8:27 AM
The Associated Press's Jennifer Loven is now the President of the White House Correspondents Association (picture at right is from the WHCA web site). Loven was the first person on President Obama's preselected list of those permitted to ask a question at his February prime-time press briefing. Whether she received this top placement because of her office, or because of her years of George Bush-…
WaPo: Gov. Palin Faces 'Lingering Resentment' From GOP for Role in McC
February 18th, 2009 11:45 AM
Today on The Washington Post's front page appears the article "Back Home in Alaska, Palin Finds Cold Comfort: Scrutiny Has Been Intense Since Election." Staff writer Michael Leahy reports that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has had a rocky return following her run on last year's Republican national ticket. Writes Leahy:A number of factors seem to have contributed to the bumpy homecoming: a residual…
In The Tank, Fashionably: Vogue Hosted Fundraiser Starring Michelle Ob
February 16th, 2009 11:19 AM
In Monday’s Washington Post, media reporter Howard Kurtz raised a question few in the media have asked in all the cooing over Michelle Obama’s cover story in Vogue magazine. Isn’t it relevant to know that the writer, Andre Leon Talley, was also a host of an $1,000-a-head Obama fundraiser starring Mrs. Obama? (NBC’s Today didn’t say a word about that in a gauzy interview with Talley last week…
Disgraceful Obama Lovefest on Meet the Press -- 'But Wow
February 15th, 2009 2:34 PM
Americans expecting a serious discussion about the soon to be enacted stimulus plan certainly didn't find it on Sunday's "Meet the Press" which instead was sixty minutes of some of the most disgraceful Obama sycophancy since Chris Matthews bragged about getting a thrill up his leg when the Democrat presidential candidate spoke.Virtually every time host David Gregory or any of his guests opened…
Call Out the Instigators
February 10th, 2009 1:55 AM
An article in yesterday's Washington Post, Jews in S. America Increasingly Uneasy, seemed to be an admirable attempt to expose a growing problem in South America. Unfortunately, on closer inspection, the article is a major disappointment.
WaPo ‘Sleuth’ on White House Census Power Grab: A ‘Tom Delay-Sty
February 7th, 2009 11:09 AM
The Washington Post's Mary Ann Akers, aka "The Sleuth," has (Tom) Delay Derangement Syndrome (DDS), and she's got it bad. Akers's DDS outbreak occurred as she reported on the plan by the Obama Administration to have the director of the Census Bureau report to the White House instead of the Director of the Commerce Department. (On Thursday evening, after my original post [at NewsBusters; at…
WaPo Reports Vandalism of Crosses Used in Pro-Life Demonstration, Fail
February 3rd, 2009 11:20 AM
The Washington Post's Susan Kinzie whipped up a 12-paragraph Metro section article for the February 3 paper on an apology by George Washington University College Democrats for the action of an unnamed member who defaced crosses used by the campus Young America's Foundation chapter for a recent pro-life demonstration.Kinzie then noted that student "admitted responsibility and had been expelled"…
