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As Newspapers Inhale Cash From Medical Marijuana Ads, NY Times Skips U
Medical marijuana is an evergreen (pardon the pun) topic for alternative weeklies, along with the return of vinyl records. The recent loosening of federal regulations under Obama have pushed the issue into the mainstream, with one surprising side effect -- a huge boost in ad sales for alternative papers and even some mainstream dailies, as medical marijuana businesses like "Happy Buddah" and "…
AP Coverage of Failed Times Square Bomber's Sentencing Doesn't Reveal
UPDATE: Did AP read this post and react? An updated AP story time-stamped at 6:35 p.m. reports the following: "He (Shahzad) said the Pakistan Taliban provided him with more than $15,000 and five days of explosives training late last year and early this year, months after he became a U.S. citizen." (Original post follows) The Associated Press's Tom Hays did not report who trained Faisal Shahzad in…
Combative George Stephanopoulos Pushes Idea That the Tea Party May Be
ABC trumpeted a new poll on Tuesday as proof that conservatives and Republicans could be losing ground in the midterm election. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos excitedly opened the show by speculating, "This morning, is the Tea Party losing traction? Our new poll says the answer may be yes as the movement's most famous candidate releases this ad." The morning show then replayed…
Matt Lauer and Carl Paladino Duke It Out on the Today Show
With Election Day just a month away NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, attacked New York GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino repeatedly with such pejoratives as "angry" "nasty" and "dark" and accused him of practicing "gutter politics." Lauer even told the Tea Party backed candidate that if elected he wouldn't be able to get anything done because political leaders "need not to crack…
Arianna's Moment of Clarity: TARP Bailout Profitability Claim 'Economi
So more government isn’t the answer to all of our problems? For a brief moment, that seemed to be the message Huffington Post editor-in-chief and co-founder Arianna Huffington was conveying. On CNBC’s Oct. 5 broadcast of “Squawk Box,” Huffington, author of “Third World America” explained what she thought the role of government should be in an American economic system. Now whether she was…
Sexy Sesame Street Costumes All The Rage This Halloween
Have you noticed that with each passing year, Halloween has become less about kids wearing scary costumes to go trick-or-treating and more about women dressing up as French maids, prostitutes, and Playboy bunnies?Although this concept was first brought to my attention when I took my daughter to see Lindsay Lohan in the hit film "Mean Girls" a number of years ago, the sexual imagery since has…
MRC Launches $2.1 Million Campaign Demanding Liberal Media 'Tell the T
Calling the liberal mainstream media the "'shock troops' of the Obama administration," NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell has “declared war on the liberal media” with a new $2.1 million campaign to demand they stop lying and “Tell The Truth!” about Obama, the damage his radical policies have caused, and to cease immediately the character assassinations launched…
N.Y. Times Easily Embraces MSNBC 'Lean Forward' Motto as Liberal = For
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter found it easy Tuesday to embrace the idea that liberalism means forward progress. In a story on MSNBC's new motto, Stelter began: MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the No. 2 cable news channel, has a new tagline that embraces its progressive political identity. The tagline, “Lean Forward,” will be publicly announced Tuesday, opening a planned two-year…
Colbert Takes Another Cheap Shot at Tea Party
Fresh from mocking Americans concerned about illegal immigration (and from making a mockery of a congressional hearing), comic Stephen Colbert showed his disdain for another group of Americans: Tea Partiers. In the introduction to the Oct. 4 "Colbert Report" on Comedy Central, the host said, "Then, the Tea Party reaches out to kids - I assume for help with spelling." That's a harmless…
Gary Bauer: ABC Stocked This Week's 'Holy War' Audience with Pro-Islam
American Values president Gary Bauer on Monday said the audience at ABC's "Holy War" special edition of "This Week" was stocked with people that support radical Islam and the building of the Ground Zero mosque.As NewsBusters reported after Sunday's program, host Christiane Amanpour presented a tremendously skewed view of so-called American Islamophobia cueing up advocates of the premise while…
WaPo Columnist Blames Tea Party...for 1970 Kent State Shooting
Liberals have tried to accuse the Tea Party movement of a lot of things, but Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen was a completely unique one: he's blaming them for the killing of four college students at Kent State in 1970. What kind of time machine or psychedelic drug is he employing? Nobody at the Post seemed to ask.This Cohen column is, to put it bluntly, an attack ad in the last weeks of…
Aaron Sorkin Takes to CNN’s Parker Spitzer to Denounce Palin as ‘A
Aaron Sorkin (IMDb page) came aboard the Monday premiere of CNN’s Parker Spitzer to promote the new movie, The Social Network, for which he wrote the screenplay, but used more of his air time to spout his anti-conservative and anti-Republican prejudices, starting with Sarah Palin. Prompted by Kathleen Parker for his assessment of Palin, Sorkin, creator of NBC’s The West Wing television drama,…
Media Calls Year of Conservative Women 'Year of the Setback' for Women
Unlike '92, when the press celebrated influx of liberal women legislators, press mocks strong conservative female candidate.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: 'Wonder Bread' Beck Rally 'Shamed' MLK's Speech
Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel made some truly disgusting remarks on MSNBC Monday.Chatting with Ed Schultz about Saturday's "One Nation" rally, vanden Heuvel first offered a despicable racial comparison between the makeup of that crowd and the one at the "Restoring Honor" rally in August.Next, the unapologetic liberal said Glenn Beck and Fox News "shamed Martin Luther King's great…
