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After Rare Lapse Into Lucidity, Ed Schultz Reverts to Inane Conspiracy
Why does Ed Schultz think Wall Street and "big business" are sitting on $1 trillion in assets?Depends on what week you ask him.Here's what Schultz said about that during a contentious discussion on July 26 with publisher Mort Zuckerman on MSNBC's "The Ed Show," as rebroadcast the following day on Schultz's radio show (click here for audio) --
Daily Kos: Exposing Our Dumbest Quotes Ensures There's 'No Meaningful
It's bad enough that the Daily Kos posts outrageous claims like “the 9/11 attacks were horrific, but they were more about optics than actual harm.” When bizarre sentences like these are exposed, then the exposers are accused of being enemies of “meaningful dialogue.” What is meaningful in telling the families of the victims of 9/11 that their losses were more “optics” than “actual harm”? But that…
Gallup Poll Finds Continuing Mistrust of Newspapers, Television News
Lymari Morales at Gallup reports that confidence in the news media remains low. Remember when they suggest high negatives for politicians, they are hardly popular, either. They're "on par with Americans' lackluster confidence in banks and slightly better than their dismal rating of Health Management Organizations and big business." The report began: Americans continue to express near-record-low…
Juan Williams: Media Always Make Blacks the Victims and Whites the Per
Juan Williams on Saturday said when it comes to news stories about race, America's media always make black people the victims and white people the perpetrators. As the discussion on "Fox News Watch" turned to last week's murders at a Hartford, Connecticut, beer distributor, host Jon Scott read clippings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press all claiming the killer…
Charles Krauthammer Smacks Down Mark Shields Over Rostenkowski's Legac
Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday smacked down PBS's Mark Shields in a discussion about late Rep. Dan Rostenkowski's legacy.As the conversation on this week's "Inside Washington" turned to the passing of the former powerful Democrat, Shields swooned liked so many of his colleagues: Danny Rostenkowski was a throwback...he worked across the aisle. I mean, he was just phenomenal…
USA Today Incorrectly Reports Reggie Bush Apologized to USC Athletic D
New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush has caused a lot of problems for his alma mater, University of Southern California. While playing at USC, Bush accepted cash and gifts from a wannabee sports agent which later caused the NCAA to impose harsh sanctions upon USC including four years of probation and banishment from the 2010 and 2011 bowl games. Because of his actions, Bush apologized to…
NYT's Charles Blow Defends Sarah Palin from Democrat Death Wishes
New York Times columnist Charles Blow on Saturday actually defended former governor Sarah Palin from death wish attacks by two Democrat officials in New Hampshire.In case you missed it, on Tuesday Keith Halloran, a Democrat candidate for the New Hampshire House, posted in a Facebook thread about the plane crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, "Just wish Sarah and Levy [sic] were on…
Time Mag’s Klein Goes from Bush Delivering ‘Coolest Presidential I
The August 16 Weekly Standard highlighted a striking change in views from Time’s Joe Klein, whose take seems to have changed to fit what’s fashionable. On August 2, in a “Swampland” blog post looking at President Obama’s speech touting the end of combat operations in Iraq, Klein fretted it “will not be remembered as vividly as George Bush's juvenile march across the deck of an aircraft carrier,…
NYT's Herbert Rips Obama: He Should Have Exclusively Focused On Jobs
Are even the most liberal media members starting to realize the administration's "Recovery Summer" campaign was a complete joke?Such appears to be the case for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who on Saturday published a piece absolutely excoriating President Obama for not exclusively focusing on jobs after his inauguration last year:The Obama administration seems to be feeling sorry for…
John King Asks Quayle: You Really Think Obama's the Worst President Ev
John King on Friday went after Arizona Congressional candidate Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, for claiming in a campaign commercial that Barack Obama is the worst president in history.In case you missed it, Quayle released an ad (embedded right) on Wednesday saying that as a result of Obama's policies, "my generation will inherit a weakened country."As this has struck a…
Obama Demagogues Social Security in Radio/Net Address; AP and Erica We
Don't they usually wait until after Labor Day to do this? Ten days ago, I asserted that that the administration's cynical use of Andy Griffith for a patently political promo on behalf of Medicare ("This year, as always, we’ll have our guaranteed benefits, and with the new healthcare law, more good things are coming: free check-ups, lower prescription costs") was "the foundation for the biennial…
Bozell Column: Hugh Hefner's Deep Self-Love
Hugh Hefner, America's most celebrated and legendary pornographer, has less and less reason to celebrate. His Playboy magazine empire is crumbling — he may even be bought out by competitors — and his prototypical leering pose with girls young enough to be his great-granddaughters is now just plain creepy. His 2009 Christmas card featured 83-year-old Hefner standing between two 20-year-old twins…
Steve Malzberg Wishes NewsBusters a Happy 5th Anniversary
Steve Malzberg of WOR radio on Thursday wished NewsBusters a Happy 5th Anniversary.Chatting with associate editor Noel Sheppard, Malzberg said, "I don't know, seriously, how me, in preparing my show, lived without [NewsBusters]." Thanks for the well wishes, Steve!