Press Plays 'Obama Distraction' Card Once Again, This Time Over MN and
Why can't everyone just settle down, get out of the way, get rid of the "distractions," and let Barack Obama do his magic? That seems to be a recurring media meme during this presidential transition period.Here are just a few examples in just the past 30 days: In a December 12 "analysis" piece at Reuters, Steve Holland opened by telling readers that "A political scandal that led to the arrest of…
CNN Scrubs Palin from NewsBusters Covered Criminal Politicians Story
As most of you know, I originally posted this story on Sunday under the headline CNN Places Sarah Palin With 2008's Criminals, Sex Addicts, and the Corrupt here at NewsBusters. It raged all day Sunday in the Blogosphere and into the night among Palin fans and center right bloggers. Greta Van Susteren even posted about it on her FoxNews blog (It garnered 4 pages of comments there, too). A quick…
WaPo, BaltSun Hail Outgoing 'Independent' Republicans
On the eve of the 111st Congress's first day of business, the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun aimed to send off outgoing capital-area legislators Sen. John Warner (Va.) and Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (Md.) by piling praise on the moderate-to-liberal Republicans for their "independence" (read: opposition to conservative Republicans). The January 5 Washington Post heralded outgoing Sen. John Warner (R-…
Will Media Report Anger Over Obama's Silence Concerning Gaza
President-elect Barack Obama has been curiously silent about the recent flare up in the Gaza Strip. This apparently is causing some anger internationally from folks that bought into his campaign promises of change and hope.Will Obama-loving media care, or continue to focus on his chiseled pecs? Such was indirectly asked in a marvelous column published Sunday in Britain's Guardian (emphasis added…
ABC: What Would Jesus Do? Why He'd Vote Obama, Of Course
The weekend edition of Good Morning America found a fellow that decided to try and live for one year "like Jesus would" but what host Bill Weir found keenly interesting is that this guy voted for Barack Obama because he felt that living like Jesus compelled him to do so. Weir also wondered if the Jesus emulator had to "forgive" his Christian community for any reaction they might have had over the…
How Will Media Report Richardson's Commerce Sec. Withdrawal
The Obama administration suffered a possibly embarrassing setback Sunday when the president-elect's choice for Commerce Secretary withdrew his name for consideration.Given the ongoing love affair media have with Barack Obama, it's going to be very interesting to see how this gets covered in the next 72 hours.Interestingly, it appears the news was broken by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC (video embedded…
Klein Gives Matthews Another Obama Induced Thrill Up His Leg
Barack Obama cheerleader Chris Matthews almost got another thrill up his leg Sunday when Time's Joe Klein predicted that 2009 would be a good year for the incoming president.I guess "winning" the dubious honor of Quote of the Year in the Media Research Center's 21st Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting hasn't encouraged Matthews to be more objective. Not a chance, for in the first "Chris…
GMA Guest: Obama Best Represented Teachings of Jesus
Would Good Morning America invite as a guest a liberal who'd never voted for a Democrat but who after a year spent trying to live like Jesus decided to vote for McCain? I doubt it. But when an evangelical who'd never voted for a Democrat spent such a year and decided to vote for Obama, GMA devoted a segment to his storyRev. Ed Dobson is the evangelical in question, and let me begin by saying…
CNN Places Sarah Palin With 2008's Criminals, Sex Addicts, and the Cor
**UPDATE** CNN Removes Palin From Criminals List
Showing they have no sense of morality, no grasp of corruption and no understanding of what defines a criminal, CNN gives us another one of those ubiquitous year in review stories, this one titled "Politicians who fell from grace in 2008." In this one, CNN has decided to reveal for us their top eight politicians that found 2008 to be a "career-…
Reuters: Lowering Expectations for Obama
Reuters ran a little flak for Barack Obama trying to help dull the outrageous expectations placed on The One by his irrationally exuberant adherents in theirs headlined "Congress faces historic challenges" -- As if no other Congress has faced "historic challenges" before? Reuters assures us, though, that times are so bad that we should not expect Obama to live up to any of his outlandish promises…
Will Media Report Reid Pressuring Blago Not To Pick Black Senators
Imagine for a moment the Senate was currently controlled by Republicans, and the white male majority leader advised Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich not to pick a black candidate to fill president-elect Barack Obama's vacated seat instead pressuring the governor to choose between two white candidates, do you think this would get some media attention?Probably every hour on the hour until the white…
HuffPo Hugs a Domestic Terrorist: Bill Ayers Has a Column at Huffingto
How do you elaborate on a headline like this? (HT Hot Air Headlines)The mainstreaming of a domestic terrorist continues apace. Of course, Huffington Post isn't "mainstream" in any real sense, but is considered as such by out-of-touch Old Media, which (post-election, of course) has frequently feted the 1970s Pentagon bomber. Here's the Huffington Post URL in case you wish to visit (I'd rather not…
Weekend Captionfest
Future resting place at Chicago's Oak Woods Cemetery of Roland Burris, named by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagovejich to replace Barack Obama in the Senate.
Paul Krugman: GOP Is 'The Party of Whiners and Racial Backlash
Has Paul Krugman become print's version of Keith Olbermann?After you read his column published by the New York Times Friday in which he called Republicans "a party of whiners" that forty years ago "decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash," there may be little doubt.Readers are advised to strap themselves in tightly, for Krugman appears to have woken up New Year's day with…
