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Despite 0.7% Average First-Half Growth, Press Not Questioning White Ho
Today, the White House's Office of Management and Budget published its Mid-Session Review (large PDF), an economic forecast projecting, among other things, that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for calendar 2011 will be 1.7%. That doesn't sound like much (and it isn't), but to get there growth will have to almost triple its most recently reported level during the second half of the year. Second-…
September 1st, 2011 10:50 PM
Will the Network 'News' Ever Stop Kennedy Shoe-shining
The network news divisions just never stop making deals to promote the Kennedy family and the omnipresent Kennedy mythology and mystique. Katherine Fung at The Huffington Post reports that ABC will air a two-hour special on September 13 promoting interviews with Jackie Kennedy recorded months after the JFK assassination with liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., a major figure in Kennedy…
September 1st, 2011 10:30 PM
George Clooney: Obama So Smart, So Compassionate
If Obama’s so smart, why the teleprompter addiction? Why “corpseman”? Why does our economy remain still-born after he enjoyed two years of having every piece of legislation he asked for passed and enacted into law?
If Obama’s so compassionate why – after watching his policies fail for the last two-and-a-half years — is he going to request more of the same in yet another nationally televised…
September 1st, 2011 9:38 PM
Media Say Little about Policy Failures of Obama's New Top Economist
If confirmed, Princeton lefty will replace Austan Goolsbee as head of the Council of Economic Advisers.
September 1st, 2011 7:36 PM
NPR Marks 9/11 By Hyping Counterterrorism's 'Disruption of Innocent Li
On Wednesday, NPR strongly hinted that they would bring their liberal bias into their special programming for the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Their planned reports on the mass atrocity includes an investigation which scrutinizes the efforts of private firms guarding soft targets like sports arenas: "[The] investigation...suggests that these kinds of programs are disrupting innocent people's…
September 1st, 2011 7:06 PM
Ed Schultz, Irritated by Cold Shoulder From Al Franken, Labels Him 'Mo
How sad when left-wingers turn on one another.
Twice on his radio show this week, Ed Schultz's kneejerk bellicosity surfaced as he vented about Sen. Al Franken, fellow liberal and former Air America Radio host, opposing AT&T's attempt to buy T-Mobile. (audio clips after page break)
September 1st, 2011 6:42 PM
Rush Limbaugh: 'If They Ever Do a Colonoscopy on Obama They're Gonna F
As NewsBusters reported moments ago, MSNBC's Richard Wolffe said Wednesday that House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Oh.) request for Barack Obama to reschedule next week's jobs address might have been due to the color of the President's skin.
On his radio program Thursday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh responded by saying, "If they ever do a colonoscopy on Obama, they're gonna find…
September 1st, 2011 6:26 PM
MSNBCer Suggests GOP Rejected Obama's Request for Speech Because of 'C
MSNBC's Richard Wolffe went there. The political analyst for the Lean Forward network actually played the race card in his analysis of why the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner did not accept Barack Obama's big foot move to deliver a speech to Congress on the same night as a GOP presidential debate, as he pondered: "it could be, let's face it, the color of his skin."
Appearing on…
September 1st, 2011 5:39 PM
On Obama's Job Plan, CNN Anchors Agree: 'Let's Hope It Is Not DOA
Next week, President Obama will unveil his jobs plan. Details haven't been revealed, but that didn't make a difference today on CNN's American Morning. Anchor Carol Costello announced the day's "talk back" question and anchors Ali Velshi and Christine Romans promptly chimed in:
September 1st, 2011 5:25 PM
Trump: Families of Iraq War Dead 'Should Be Given a Couple of Million
Donald Trump on Wednesday upped the ante to his April call for America to stay in Iraq and take the oil as compensation for our efforts.
Speaking with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News's "On the Record," the real estate tycoon said, "We’ve lost tremendous numbers of great, young, beautiful soldiers. Those families should be given a couple of million dollars apiece from the Iraqi oil" (video…
September 1st, 2011 5:12 PM
CBS's Plante More Sympathetic To Obama On 'Speech Spat' Than O'Donnell
CBS's Bill Plante hyped the supposedly "testy confrontation" between President Obama and Speaker Boehner on Thursday's Early Show over scheduling a presidential address to Congress: "This may prove that there is no argument too petty in today's Washington." By contrast, on Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Norah O'Donnell placed more blame on Obama for giving Boehner only a "15-minute heads-up…
September 1st, 2011 5:06 PM
Scarborough to Cheney: What Happened to Your 'Moderate Voice of Republ
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Thursday pressed Dick Cheney over his new book, wondering "what changed Dick Cheney from the man who was seen by everybody as the moderate voice of Republicanism in Washington D.C. to a man who seemed to morph overnight into Darth Vader?"
Of course, when Cheney was a Congressman (from 1979 through 1988), he earned a perfect 100 score from the American Conservative…
September 1st, 2011 4:41 PM
CNN Looks to Obama to Solve Crisis of Partisanship
After quoting an op-ed which criticized President Obama for his partisanship, CNN's Carol Costello then asked her audience to chime in on how the President could "end the partisan bickering."
She appeared exasperated later in the hour when she read the responses to the question – all of them negative – and whined that there just had to be something Obama could do about America's partisan…
September 1st, 2011 4:00 PM
Piers Morgan to Santorum: Your Views 'Are Bordering on Bigotry, Aren't
Wednesday on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight, Morgan interviewed GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum. The host spent considerable time on Santorum's views on homosexuality. Confirming the candidate is a Catholic, Morgan asked if he believes homosexuality is a sin. Santorum stated he subscribes to his Church's teaching that it is. Morgan asked how Santorum would react to learning one of his…
September 1st, 2011 3:24 PM