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In CBS Commentary, Syfy’s McGibney Attacks Ben Stein as ‘Greedy
On CBS’s Sunday Morning show, a week after airing conservative actor and economist Ben Stein’s pre-recorded commentary in which he criticized the drive to increase taxes on the already overtaxed wealthy, a liberal response from Syfy Channel producer Linda McGibney was shown in which she personally attacked Stein and other wealthy people as "greedy," and suggested that he "just doesn’t care about…
ABC Describes Activist Court Ruling as ‘New Hope’ for Gay Adoption
On Wednesday’s World News on ABC, anchor Diane Sawyer briefly reported on a court ruling in Florida which struck down a state law banning the adoption of children by homosexual couples. Ignoring the issue of whether an activist court should make such a ruling, Sawyer seemed to frame the story from a sympathetic point of view for would-be same-sex parents in Florida as she referred to the ruling…
Howard Kurtz Bashes Beck and Hannity for Calling Delaware Dem a Marxis
Howard Kurtz on Sunday bashed Fox News personalities Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity for calling Delaware's Democrat Senatorial candidate Chris Coons a Marxist.Coons, while a student at Amherst College in 1985, wrote an autobiographical article for the school newspaper called "Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist." Despite Politico's Alex Isenstadt bringing this piece to light on May 3, Kurtz…
George Will Schools This Week Panel on Tea Party Causing GOP Civil War
George Will on Sunday gave a much-needed education to the entire "This Week" panel about how the Tea Party is moving the GOP in a positive direction that could alter politics in this nation for years to come.As Christiane Amanpour and her Roundtable guests - Democrat strategist Donna Brazile, National Journal's Ron Brownstein, and Republican strategist Matthew Dowd - all fretted about the so-…
Peter Schiff -- Purveyor of Libertarian Principles ... When Convenient
For the past several years, we’ve heard the doom-and-gloom prognostications coming from perma-bear Peter Schiff: The Federal Reserve is the root of all evil. Inflation will be the United States’ undoing. Invest in gold and overseas because the American stock market is toast. Perhaps that’s a legitimate view, but Schiff argues a more libertarian approach to prevent these supposed calamities.…
Susan Estrich Suddenly 'Concerned' Over Paladino Qualifications to Bec
Remember when liberals brushed aside any criticism of candidate Barack Obama being unqualified to become president because of his lack of executive experience? Well, that was then and this is now because Susan Estrich has suddenly developed "concern" over the qualifications of the Tea Party backed Republican gubernatorial candidate in New York, Carl Paladino. A skeptic might rightly believe this…
AP Report on Small Biz Lending Bill Omits Required Govt. 'Investments
In the earlier paragraphs of a Friday report on the recently passed small business lending bill at the Associated Press, reporter Pallavi Gogoi gave readers the impression that Congress's allegedly noble intentions might be thwarted because banks and businesses who should apparently be grateful for the "help" don't want it. Gogoi gives no direct indication that the bill involves government "…
Dowd: 'Christine O’Donnell Better Hope They Don’t Bring Back Witch
As we get closer to the midterm elections, and liberals in the media foresee the Democrat destruction about to commence, the scorn being tossed at conservatives and Tea Party members is reaching a fevered pitch.New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is a perfect example.Her "Slouching Toward Washington" piece published Sunday is nothing but a personal attack on those possibly interfering with her…
Media Bistro's Shister: CNN Under Klein Failed Despite 'Non-Partisan P
At Media Bistro on Friday, Gail Shister transcribed Jonathan Klein's post-mortem spin on why he was let go from CNN/US. You see, Klein's problem was that he "was unable to stop the prime-time bleeding with non-partisan programming." In case any readers here might be tempted to take Klein's contention or Shister's transcription seriously, here are NewsBusters links to posts about Rick Sanchez,…
CNBC's Obama Town Hall Blogger: 'This Does Seem Bigger Than Elvis! He
For Monday's midday town-hall meeting on CNBC, they tagged their producer Mark Koba to live-blog the event from the site at the Newseum in Washington. Koba easily demonstrated an overwhelming enthusiasm for Obama, comparing him to Elvis Presley, before and after the event: 11:56 am EST: This does seem bigger than Elvis. He's in the building!...1:10 pm EST: Okay, Elvis, I mean Barack has left the…
Radical Left Loves Colbert's Fake 'Fear' Rally, But Dislikes Jon Stewa
What happens when the Left likes Stephen Colbert more than Jon Stewart? In a Tuesday interview on taxpayer-funded Pacifica Radio program Democracy Now, radical lefty Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com loved Colbert's "March to Keep Fear Alive," but did not like the centrist-against-extremists pose of Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," since all the extremism is on the Right, and there's only tiny…
Saturday Night Live Slams Christine O'Donnell: 'I Masturbate Constantl
Two weeks ago most Americans had never heard of Christine O'Donnell.Now, she's the brunt of a vulgar joke on the opening sketch of "Saturday Night Live's" first show of the new season.In it, the GOP nominee for Senate from the state of Delaware - played by Kristen Wiig - met with members of the Republican National Committee to decide a campaign strategy.As they went over some of the skeletons in…
John Kerry on Voters: They Aren’t Influenced By ‘Facts or the Tru
It appears we have the answer to that age-old question: John Kerry, why the long face? After a tour of the Boston Medical Center, Kerry blamed Democrat struggles across the nation on the obvious problem - the voters.The Boston Herald reports that Kerry took his pent-up election anger out on clueless voters (emphasis mine):"We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what…