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NBC's Vieira: It's Been a 'Rough Week' for the Republicans
Pivoting off the Chris Lee resignation story NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Friday's Today show, declared it was a "rough week for the Republicans" noting that "they've seen several of their bills defeated in the House." Vieira, who was joined by David Gregory, also questioned "How big of a setback is this for the party?" Gregory, for his part, did at least acknowledge the reason some of the bills…
February 11th, 2011 12:57 PM
CBS Touts Bad News: 'GOP Power Struggle' in Congress and 'Infighting
During a report on Friday's CBS Early Show, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes emphasized division in the new Republican Congress: "The prospect of a mutiny had sent Republican leaders scrambling to craft an even leaner budget, and make good on their promises to the Tea Party....Just this week, small groups of conservatives defeated two of their own party's measures on the House floor…
February 11th, 2011 12:09 PM
Reagan Junior Tells ABC Palin's Unintelligent...Then He Messes Up His
At ABC's The Note on Wednesday, Rick Klein reported an interview with Ronald Prescott Reagan, where Klein and Jon Karl told him they were discussing whether Reagan was more like Barack Obama or Sarah Palin. This is a tough one? The president's son insisted his father more like Obama than that idiot Sarah Palin:
“Just on the basis of intelligence, you would have to say Barack Obama. I don’t…
February 11th, 2011 11:58 AM
February 10 'Media Mash': Bozell Reacts to AOL Buyout of Huffington Po
"AOL giving control to Arianna Huffington. How the mighty have fallen!" NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell quipped on the February 10 edition of FNC's "Hannity."
"Ten years ago, AOL had 30 million members, they were joining forces with the Time-Warner colossus," the Media Research Center founder noted. Now "they're down to 4 million members and they're at Motel 6 getting into bed with Arianna…
February 11th, 2011 11:14 AM
Foreign Unrest Raises Energy Worries, but Media Puts Down Coal
The coal industry not only gets attacked by the media for being a "dirty" fossil fuel, it rarely gets positive coverage because the networks focus on disasters. Since January 1, 2010, nearly 80 percent of the broadcast network stories about coal were related to tragic mining accidents. Only 14 percent of stories mentioned coal in any context other than a mine disaster or natural disaster that…
February 11th, 2011 10:42 AM
Krugman: 'GOP Wants to Build Bridge to 19th Century' - By Trying to Pr
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey said Monday that MSNBC's Chris Matthews is slipping out of touch with reality.
After reading New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's idiotic piece Friday, I think the same can be said of him:
February 11th, 2011 10:29 AM
Gainor Column: Journalism Is Dying and Newsies Decide Nowhere but Left
Arianna Huffington's crazy left-wing, pro-Democrat website gets bought out by AOL for $315 million. Professional Angry Man Keith Olbermann follows up by joining Al Gore's deservedly unknown Current TV effort. Before that, decrepit Newsweek was absorbed by one of the lesser liberal lights of the blogosphere - Tina Brown's Daily Beast.
To journalists desperate for a direction - any direction -…
February 11th, 2011 9:42 AM
Open Thread: Pigford Fraud Investigation Getting Very Interesting
Over the past seven months, Andrew Breitbart has worked to expose what he says is rampant fraud in the federal government's awarding of settlement money to black Americans who claimed they were discriminated against in applying for farming permits with the Department of Agriculture. Some sort of fraud has been apparent for a while now, since the number of "farmers" awarded money under the "…
February 11th, 2011 8:27 AM
NPR Summarizes Conservatives: 'Point Out the Homo and Yell Kill It
On Thursday, National Public Radio's Morning Edition decided to revisit the censorship controversy over the National Portrait Gallery removing a video image of ants crawling on a crucifix in an ideological exhibit promoting homosexuality. (The show closes Sunday.) The irony or the outrage in this story is that the "villains" of this piece -- conservative Christians and Republican politicians…
February 11th, 2011 7:46 AM
Foreign Unrest Raises Energy Worries, but Media Put Down Coal
Broadcast news emphasizes industry accidents nearly 80 percent of the time; ignore EPA and Obama attacks on U.S. industry.
February 10th, 2011 9:45 PM
Journalism Is Dying and Newsies Decide Nowhere but Left to Go
Latest media merger shows right has been correct all along.
February 10th, 2011 8:34 PM
Taking Business to Task
Mr. President, heal thyself. Then come talk to us.
February 10th, 2011 8:30 PM
'Morning Joe' Panel Praises Imam Rauf and Wife as Moderates; Questions
Tuesday's "Morning Joe" featured guest Daisy Khan, wife of Imam Rauf who tried to establish a mosque two blocks away from the site of the 9/11 terror attacks. The panel praised Khan and her husband as peace-making moderates, and arrogantly questioned why more Americans couldn't accept the mosque at Ground Zero.
"America is the beacon of the world," co-host Mika Brzezinski said echoing…
February 10th, 2011 7:01 PM
CNN Religion Blog Publishes Religion Prof's Take on Bible's 'Mixed Mes
It's apparently all the rage this week among mainstream media religion features to hype the unorthodox views of Boston University's Jennifer Wright Knust.
On Monday, Newsweek's Lisa Miller uncritically presented her readers with a summary of arguments from the professor's new book. The next day "On Faith," -- a joint Newsweek/Washington Post online religion news/comment feature -- published…
February 10th, 2011 5:19 PM