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Syracuse Journalism Prof: Sherrod's NAACP Was Testimony of God's 'Amaz
Shirley Sherrod's now-infamous March speech before an NAACP audience is recognizable to practicing Christians as a "testimony." That's the spin that Syracuse journalism professor and former Washington Post staff writer R. Gustav Niebuhr brought to Newsweek/Washington Post's On Faith feature in a July 26 Under God blog post:As she said to members of the Georgia NAACP back on that March day, she…
Surprised? Kathleen Parker 'Puckers Up' for Liberals on JournoList Exp
Kathleen Parker's campaign to become the female version of Joe Scarborough -- a pseudo-conservative bowing before liberal media people to get and/or keep a cable talk show -- was noticed by MediaBistro's Fishbowl DC blog in a post titled "WaPo's Parker Puckers Up to Ezra, Post, and Other JournoListers." Betsy Rothstein wrote: WaPo conservative columnist and soon-to-be right-wing CNN talk show…
George Stephanopoulos Recites Jerry Brown's Democratic Talking Points
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday repeated Democratic talking points as he challenged Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. Speaking of Whitman's tenure as CEO of Ebay, he admitted the company was "very successful," but critiqued, "You made a fortune. But your opponent, Jerry Brown, says that government is a completely different world." The former Democratic…
Obama Snubs Boy Scouts' 100th Anniversary in Favor of 'The View
President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization's 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will be in Manhattan to tape an appearance for ABC TV’s talk show “The…
WaPo: Bristol Palin Is Fair Game for Insults, Since Her Mother Lives I
The "Spirited Atheist" of The Washington Post, Susan Jacoby, predictably trashed Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston as not only "poster children for the dumbing down of America" and as "most middle-class American parents' worst nightmare," but proof of what happens when religious people show off their contempt for book learning: Although the children of politicians are generally off-limits, Bristol…
HuffPo Brings You Scriptural Commentary From the Blog that Hates Chris
Lefty blog announces religion series to parse the sacred words of the faiths it hates.
Media Ignore Oliver Stone's Anti-Jewish Rant, Bashed Mel Gibson for Hi
Networks, liberal writers, Hollywood mum about director's anti-Semitism.
Paul Ryan Schools Chris Matthews on Tax Hikes, Budgets and Economics
Chris Matthews on Monday got a much-needed lesson from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) on how tax hikes impact the budget as well as the economy."Congressman Ryan, is there any tax role for reducing our $1.4 trillion to $1.7 trillion debt this year -- deficit this year?" Matthews asked during the 5PM installment of MSNBC's "Hardball." "Is there any role in tax increasing to help do that job?"When Ryan…
Coverage Focuses on U.S.-Caused Civilian Deaths When Taliban Responsib
CBS's Lara Logan may be in Uganda, but she recognized the skew of media coverage of the WikiLeaks war documents on the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan as she contended “the coverage would indicate that it's more of an issue for the U.S. to kill Afghan civilians than it is for the Taliban to do so.” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric asked her about how the documents cite “the number of Afghan…
Townhall August Cover - 'Keith Olbermann: Worst Person in the World
Townhall magazine previewed the cover of its August issue Monday, and it's a doozy (larger version and commentary after the break):
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer Simply Echoes Democrat Talking Points on Tax C
Newsbusters reported earlier on the double standard of MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer on reporters appearing at fundraisers. During the same news hour, Brewer simply couldn't understand the Republican position on extending the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers, and jokingly wondered if the Republicans are even human."What I don't get is a lot of the people who are shouting about letting these tax…
Matthews' Muddled Logic: GOP Candidate Heard Criticizing Birthers Is
Damned if you do, damned if you don't . . . Imagine if a Republican candidate had been caught on tape praising birthers. Chris Matthews would have been all over him. So what happens when a Republican candidate is caught on tape criticizing birthers? Why, Chris Matthews is . . . all over him, of course. Bizarrely, the Hardball host actually labelled the matter "Macaca 2.0," invoking the…
Santelli: Tea Party More a 'Philosophy' Than a Party
Like a dog chasing its tail, the left has spent a great amount of time trying to determine who the leader of the Tea Party movement is. And often, there are accusations of prevalent racism among its members. But according to CNBC's Rick Santelli, the Tea Party is more of a philosophy than a group, which has nothing to do with racism. In an appearance on NBC's July 25 "Meet the Press," Santelli…