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USA Today Celebrates Teen Lesbian Meeting Obama After Her 'Traumatic
Demanding to wear a tuxedo and bring your lesbian partner to the high school prom has been great for Constance McMillen. Ellen DeGeneres gave her a $30,000 scholarship check. Now she's meeting with Obama and being celebrated at Gay Pride parades and ACLU fundraisers at Woodstock. In Monday's USA Today, reporter Chris Joyner offered a promotional story with absolutely zero dissent or controversy…
June 21st, 2010 11:59 AM
'No Thank You, Mr. President' Highlights Entrepreneurship, Not Governm
Tough times don't last; tough people do. That's the theme of author John S. Cohoat's new book "No Thank You, Mr. President," which tells the story of 10 private companies in Elkhart County, Ind., that made their own way to economic recovery without government handouts. "My hope is that these stories provide some inspiration for you or make you remember why our capitalist economic policies and…
June 21st, 2010 11:17 AM
Book Highlights Economic Recovery Without Government Help
'No Thank You, Mr. President': Elkhart County not a victim, but an example of triumph
June 21st, 2010 11:10 AM
Mika Admits: I'm 'Working With White House' On Oil Spill Talking Point
Cut out the middle-woman and install Obama's teleprompter on the Morning Joe set . . . Give her high marks for candor: on today's show, Mika Brzezinski admitted that she has been "working with the White House" on oil spill talking points. But that still leaves the issue of the journalistic propriety of someone in Brzezinski's position serving as such a blatant shill for the president. H/t tip…
June 21st, 2010 8:56 AM
ABC and NBC Describe Arizona Law as ‘Anti-Immigration’ and ‘Hars
Network anchors can’t resist misconstruing Arizona’s upcoming immigration enforcement law. The latest instances came Friday night when ABC and NBC caught up with news that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an interviewer in Ecuador that the Obama administration will sue to block the law. Diane Sawyer erroneously described the anti-illegal immigration measure as “Arizona's controversial new…
June 21st, 2010 1:06 AM
AP Writers Criticize Foreign Oil Spill Aid Offers Because (Gasp!) They
A Friday report by reporters Matthew Lee and Eileen Sullivan indicates that there is a serious shortage of critical thinking skills over at the Associated Press, or a serious desire to run interference for the Obama administration no matter how ignorant doing so makes the wire service's reporters appear.Lee and Sullivan try to excuse the State Department's inaction on the vast majority of roughly…
June 20th, 2010 11:28 PM
Obama: Bond Forged At 'First Moments of Life' Is 'Sacred
Linking to Pres. Obama's Father's Day proclamation, Drudge focuses on the recognition PBO extends to two-father families.I'd say the message's very first sentence is even more noteworthy:"From the first moments of life, the bond forged between a father and a child is sacred."Surely Pres. Obama would agree that arcane arguments about viability notwithstanding, "the very first moments of life"…
June 20th, 2010 10:05 PM
Sunday Talk Shows All Start With BP Hayward's Yachting, Ignore Obama's
As NewsBusters previously reported, America's media on Saturday had a collective hissy fit over BP CEO Tony Hayward having the nerve to participate in a yacht race on his day off.At the same time, no such outrage was expressed concerning President Obama and Vice President Biden going golfing.This double standard continued Sunday as the three broadcast network political talk shows all began with…
June 20th, 2010 9:51 PM
Cynthia Tucker: Americans Are The Enemy Due To Oil 'Addiction
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker believes Americans are the enemy of the nation moving in a new energy direction because of what she called our addiction to oil.As the discussion on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show" moved to why President Obama hasn't attacked energy policy much like Eisenhower did the space program, Tucker said, "One of the differences between the '50's…
June 20th, 2010 7:52 PM
Howard Kurtz: Why Didn't Media Cover Etheridge Attack Like Allen's Mac
Howard Kurtz on Sunday said most mainstream media outlets "really blew it this week" in how they reported North Carolina Congressman Bob Etheridge's attack on students."Most treated it as intriguing footage or a good gossip item, but the guy went bonkers when approached by two young men with a video camera," Kurtz said near the end of CNN's "Reliable Sources."After playing the video of the…
June 20th, 2010 5:19 PM
NYer Editor: Media In 2008 Correctly Taken With Idea Of Electing Black
It's one thing for a so-called journalist to claim media members in 2008 were all taken with the historical notion of electing the country's first black President, but it's quite another to say they were right in doing so.Despite the seeming absurdity, this is exactly what the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the New Yorker magazine told the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz Sunday.During the "…
June 20th, 2010 4:00 PM