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Federal Employee Union Buys Radio Ads to...Counter Limbaugh's Criticis
“The nation's largest federal worker union is taking to the airwaves to defend rank and file federal workers against growing anti-government sentiments,” the Washington Post's “Federal Eye” blogger Ed O'Keefe reported Tuesday, the same day Rush Limbaugh picked up on a USA Today story, “Federal pay tops private workers: Compensation gap doubled in decade.” O'Keefe explained: “The American…
Liberal Think Tank Destroys Myth Bush Tax Cuts Favored Rich
For approaching ten years, America's media have depicted the tax cuts implemented by former President George W. Bush as almost exclusively favoring the rich.This dishonest characterization has picked up steam recently as these tax cuts are about to expire, and the tax-loving press have campaigned for their departure as if a plague on the society.For his part, President Obama is advocating the…
At Crunch Time, Charles 'Paulson Put a Gun to All Their Heads' Gaspari
Earlier today, NB's Lachlan Markey covered Bill O'Reilly's interview with the Fox Business Channel's Charles Gasparino.In that interview, Gasparino confirmed what the New York Post reported in April of last year, namely that "GE Execs Encouraged CNBC Staff to Go Easy on Obama."The suits at GE, including Chairman Jeff Inmelt, had a clear motivation for encouraging their reporters to lighten up,…
Holy Sacred Cows! USA Today Reporter Takes on GSEs
Paul Wiseman breaks media taboo and highlights GSEs as 'No.1 problem' with housing market.
Top Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett, Vanity Fair Editor Pine for Days of
Vanity Fair's national editor Todd Purdum has a long piece in the most recent issue (in the print edition only, as far as I can tell) bemoaning what he argues are the new and unique challenges facing the Obama administration, including the state of the news media. Purdum's opinions on the state of the news business boil down to a call for the press's continuing political uniformity.He offers a…
Mohammed-Phobic Comedy Central Lectures Conservatives About Religious
Jon Stewart landed both his jokey feet on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy on The Daily Show Tuesday night. He mocked conservatives for having no respect for freedom of religion. This, from Comedy Central? The network that mocks Jesus and Christians relentlessly, but censors whenever the radical Muslims threaten them? Yes. Stewart was arguing for the “greatness” of Islam, that it should be…
NBC's O'Donnell Casts GOP Primary Winner As a Sexist
Democratic Senator Michael Bennet got his own live spot on Wednesday's Today show to make his pitch to Colorado voters, but his Republican opponent only got a brief soundbite, that came after a clip of him that put him in a negative, even sexist light. While Today co-anchor Ann Curry chatted live with Bennet in the first half hour, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell only gave Republican candidate Ken Buck a…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Hits Michelle Malkin With White House Spin
Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin made a rare appearance on Wednesday's Good Morning America and highlighted the issue of Democratic corruption. Co-host George Stephanopoulos responded to criticisms of a Colorado Democrat by touting White House talking points. Malkin made the point, almost entirely ignored on GMA, that now-defeated candidate Andrew Romanoff was apparently offered administration…
American Anger Hotter Than the Weather ... for Good Reason
Budget woes, ethical failures, enormous deficit, high unemployment and more all add to rising tide of resentment.
Obama Criticism: Race Versus Reality
The same people that elected the president haven't recently discovered he's black; they have discovered he's untrustworthy.
NYT Worries Rich Win Even If Bush Tax Cuts Expire Just For Them
In today's "It Took You Long Enough To Figure It Out" segment, the New York Times is seriously worried that if the only Bush tax cuts that expire in January are those for the wealthiest Americans, the rich still win.Not surprisingly, Jackie Calmes' piece on Wednesday also referred to extending existing law as "tax cuts," a neat little trick the Left employ to give the appearance new cuts are…
Charlie Gasparino: GE Execs Encouraged CNBC Staff to Go Easy on Obama
On last night's 'O'Reilly Factor,' Fox Business Network reporter Charlie Gasparino claimed that during his time at CNBC, General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt suggested to senior CNBC staff that they were being too hard on President Obama.Gasparino did not say that it became official CNBC policy to tone down criticism of the president. But he claimed that "the question of whether they…
Open Thread: Harry Reid Thinks 'Hispanic Republican' Is an Oxymoron, o
Don't tell Marco Rubio. Or Quico Canseco. Or Susana Martinez. Or Brian Sandoval. Or these guys.Thoughts?
On CNN, Tavis Smiley Sees Racism in Rangel, Waters Probes; Actress Tra
PBS talk show host Tavis Smiley guest-hosted on CNN's Larry King Live on Tuesday night, and perhaps unsurprisingly, encouraged the view that there's racism in the congressional ethics investigations of Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters. "Facts are facts. The names that keep coming out happen to be members of the Congressional Black Caucus." Smiley never seemed to consider whether the charges had…