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Chuck Todd: Half the 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates Ran to Get a Sho
Chuck Todd doesn’t have a lot of respect for members of the GOP.
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday, NBC’s Chief White House correspondent accused “about half the Republican field from 2012” of “simply [running] for exposure to get a talk show, or for exposure to get a radio deal, or a columnist, or a deal with Fox” (video follows with transcript and commentary):
August 19th, 2013 10:24 AM
Fed Reserve Official Notes Negligible Economic Boost from QE2; Establi
A November 15, 2010 blog post by Michael S. Derby at the Wall Street Journal ("San Francisco Fed Official Says QE2 Is Working") told us that "The Federal Reserve‘s recently announced plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury securities to improve economic growth is having a positive effect on growth." The Fed official involved also predicted "the U.S. gross domestic product to come in at 2.5% this…
August 19th, 2013 10:07 AM
Al Jazeera America Launches With Few Sponsors, National Advertisers Sh
All together now...awwwww!
Al Jazeera America is set to launch Tuesday, and its doing so with few sponsors.
August 19th, 2013 8:57 AM
White House Press Corps: We're Prisoners of Obama's Vacation
This is really too funny.
Members of the White House press corps went on record Sunday complaining about what it's like to follow the President around on vacations such as his present one in Martha's Vineyard.
Some even said they're prisoners of Obama's vacation (video follows with transcript and commentary):
August 18th, 2013 11:43 PM
AP Reporters: Motives of Ft. Hood Shooter Hasan a 'Difficult Question
Two reporters at the Associated Press covering the trial of the alleged (but really confessed) perpetrator of the Ft. Hood massacre still believe there is a "key but difficult question" which needs to be answered: "Why did Maj. Nidal Hasan attack his fellow soldiers in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base?"
Although the narrative of Nomaan Merchant and Michael Graczyk is…
August 18th, 2013 11:02 PM
Boo Hoo: Politico's Hadas Gold Says Detroit Is 'The Right's Perfect Pi
Politico's current front-page headline characterizes Detroit as "The Right's Perfect Piñata."
In the actual story, one expects at least a feeble attempt by writer Hadas Gold to come up with a tangible reason as to why Detroit doesn't deserve its status as an perfect-storm exemplar of the failures of liberalism, public-sector unions, a race-based political model the elites once praised, and…
August 18th, 2013 9:25 PM
Obamas Attend Cocktail Party Hosted By Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
The incestuous relationship between this White House and the media knows no bounds.
According to the New York Post, the Obamas on Thursday attended a cocktail party in Martha's Vineyard hosted by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts (file photo).
August 18th, 2013 7:22 PM
Judge Jeanine's Epic Smackdown of Obama
Fox News's Jeanine Pirro started her show Friday evening with an absolutely epic smackdown of President Obama (video follows with full transcript):
August 18th, 2013 6:23 PM
New York Post Writer: Football Is Safer Than Many Other Youth Activiti
Although football has probably never been more popular or prosperous, there are threats to the sport which could radically alter how it is played in the short-term, and perhaps, based on reports of reduced youth participation in the game and attempts to ban young people from playing it, its very existence in the long-term.
At the New York Post, writer Daniel Flynn, the author of "War on…
August 18th, 2013 6:18 PM
Latest Misleading Meme at AP to Describe Economy, Job Growth: 'Steady
What do you do when you're the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, and you're trying to do your level best to described a floundering economy without incurring the wrath of the Obama administration? You search for positive-sounding words to describe what is in reality a marginal situation.
The AP seems to have settled on "steady" and "steadily."
August 18th, 2013 5:15 PM
New York Times Public Editor Admits Paper Has Liberal Bias
NewsBusters readers certainly don't have to be told that the New York Times has a liberal bias, but when the paper's public editor admits it on national television, one has to take notice.
With that in mind, grab some peanuts, popcorn, or Cracker Jacks and take a gander at Margaret Sullivan on CNN's Reliable Sources Sunday marvelously telling us what we already know (video follows with…
August 18th, 2013 4:26 PM
David Gregory: Do Americans Want Third Obama Term or Restoration of Cl
"Do Americans, specifically Democratic voters, do they want to see a third Obama term or would they like to see the restoration of the Bill Clinton era?"
So asked David Gregory on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday (video follows with commentary):
August 18th, 2013 2:22 PM
Chuck Todd: Hillary Clinton Hurting Obama By Campaigning Too Soon
The liberal media sure love Hillary Clinton, but possibly not as much as they adore Barack Obama.
Such was witnessed on Meet the Press Sunday when NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd expressed regret that the former Secretary of State has apparently started her 2016 campaign already saying, "This hurts the current president of the United States as trying to be leader of the…
August 18th, 2013 1:53 PM
Carly Fiorina: Only Canada, China, North Korea and U.S. Allow Abortion
In recent months, the liberal media have depicted Texas’s decision to ban non-medically necessitated abortions after 20 weeks as extreme as well as additional evidence of a Republican “war on women.”
On ABC’s This Week Sunday, former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina refuted this claim pointing out that only four countries in the world allow abortions that late – Canada, China, North Korea,…
August 18th, 2013 1:03 PM