ABCNews.com Hypes Boycott of Whole Foods, Dismisses CEO's Conservativ
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's recent Wall Street Journal op-ed may well have been "in bad taste", ABCNews.com would have its readers believe (see screen cap at right). Emily Friedman devoted an August 14 story mainly to liberal Whole Foods patrons huffing and puffing in disgust about Mackey's op-ed:Joshua has been taking the bus to his local Whole Foods in New York City every five days for the…
Surgical Strike: Surgeons' Group Blasts Obama's $30K-$50K Foot/Leg Amp
The White House's perpetual campaign site, er, home page, currently has rotating messages at the top left. Two of them relate to health care (yellow underlines are mine): The administration would be well-advised to hold back on the blather about "blatant falsehoods" and "misinformation" until their guy in charge stops disseminating them himself.Take Obama's claim that the surgeon's fee for a…
CBS Joins NBC, CNN & MSNBC in Mis-Ascribing Leftist LaRouche's Poster
Who says the media are monolithic in their thinking? Yesterday we informed you of the media's serial misuse of an Obama-as-Hitler poster from esoteric left-winger Lyndon LaRouche's website, as outlets like NBC (on their Nightly News and Meet the Press), CNN and MSNBC all ascribed the poster to sentiments roiled up by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh specifically and conservatives generally. We were…
Crutsinger's Crud, Part 2: AP Reporter Again Erroneously Cites Cost of
Does the Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger moonlight as a Code Pink operative? There has to be something that explains what I'll call his Iraqnaphobia. Last month (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the AP reporter erroneously cited the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as a "major factor" explaining why "the deficit has widened." In a quick review of the related June 2009 Monthly…
MSNBC: The Place for Made-Up Numbers of Uninsured Women
Update below the fold.This is just a small entry, a blog-lette, if you will. Because I happened to have seen this bit of broadcast flapdoodle live, which you now have before you at right (with the audio available here).On this morning's MSNBC News Live, co-host Angela Burt-Murray - the Editor-in-Chief of Essence magazine -uncorks this absolutely wild pitch to Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md):…
NBC, CNN and MSNBC All Assign Communist LaRouche's Obama-Hitler Poster
The media have repeatedly stated how "angry," "hostile" and "ugly" town hall meetings across America are becoming. They are of course largely ascribing the nastiness to conservatives voicing their opposition to (among other things) President Barack Obama and Congress' proposed government takeover of the health care system. The press has been particularly offended by the "extreme" use of…
Lou Dobbs: Olbermann the 'Resident Moron' at MSNBC
Lou Dobbs - you can love him or hate, but sometimes he makes a point that will get your attention. The CNN host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" gave his evaluation of MSNBC "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann on his Aug. 11 radio show. According to Dobbs, Olbermann was a neophyte until MSNBC gave him a primetime show in 2003. "First, I want to share with you something that just, I mean shocks me," Dobbs…
Stratfor's Friedman: 'Probability of Bernanke Being Reappointed to the
Ben Bernanke's able use of monetary policy to steer the economy during the current financial crisis sometimes makes it easy to forget that Bernanke helped steer the ship into that crisis early in his term as Federal Reserve Chairman and a member of the Fed's Board of Governors. That's a point Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) founder and CEO George Friedman made when asked the likelihood of…
Fortune Editor Breaks With CNNers On ObamaCare; IDs 5 Freedoms Lost, I
Someone forgot to send the CNN health care kool-aid over to the office of Fortune editor at large Shawn Tully in the days leading up to July 24. Tully in turn forgot to toot his own horn, and ObamaCare opponents forgot to take a peek inside what is normally enemy lines to find it. In a must-read special report at affiliate CNNMoney.com, Tully lays bare Barack Obama's core claim, while…
'Mad Money' Cramer: 'Demonize' Unhealthy Foods to 'Embarrass People' t
It's no longer just enough to educate people about making healthy decision. You now have to influence them psychologically to effect true change according to CNBC's Jim Cramer. Cramer, during his "Stop Trading" segment on CNBC's "Street Signs" on Aug. 10, suggested eating so-called unhealthy food be demonized, similar to how the tobacco industry has been - through a publicity campaign that even…
Story On New GM, With AP Help, Buries News About Financial Non-Disclos
State-controlled General Motors issued a supposedly comprehensive 8-K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday.If you only read the Associated Press's coverage of that document's release courtesy of reporter Tom Krisher, you would at least know that:The company doesn't expect sales to improve during the rest of the calendar year.That the $50 billion in post-bankruptcy funding…
Krugman Calls for Second Stimulus, Suggests 'Environmental Policies' t
Only $120.4 billion, or 15 percent of the gigantic $787-billion stimulus has been spent and some on the left, including Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, are already calling for Stimulus, Part II. In an interview with CNBC Asia from the World Capital Market Symposium on the Aug. 10 broadcast of "Squawk Malaysia" Krugman said the stimulus that passed…
Carole King Lumps Cap-and-Tax Opponents With 'Birthers
Watch out, Barbra Streisand! You've got some serious competition in the category of formerly famous woman singers turned loud and illogical liberal lips.Carole King has proclaimed that people who say that Pres. Obama's cap-and-tax plan is an energy tax are . . . like "birthers."King made her wacky claim on Willie Geist's "Way Too Early" show this morning. View video here.
Not News: AFP Runs Stale Obama-Supporting Health Care Poll Done Before
About the only thing you can conclude about the Agence France-Presse wire service's August 4 "news" item about a health care poll result ("Majority back Obama on health care reform: poll") is that they couldn't find anything more recent than three weeks old to provide the result they were looking for. So AFP went back to a poll done between July 9-13 -- an online one no less. As NewsBusters…
