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Keith Olbermann Suddenly Announces He's Taking Next Two Weeks Off
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Olbermann responds with a vulgarity.At the end of Friday's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann announced what will be considered good news to all the folks at MSNBC that despise him."I`m Keith Olbermann, taking a couple of weeks vacation off now. So we`ll see you whatever two weeks from today is."This came just moments after he told his small number of viewers: That`s "Countdown"…
CBS’s Reid Can’t Resist Contrasting Obama’s Vacation Time to Bus
CBS and NBC on Saturday night ran full stories on criticism of President Obama for vacationing with his family this weekend in Maine instead of along the Gulf coast, but Chip Reid, CBS White House correspondent, couldn’t resist defending Obama by invoking an unfavorable comparison with George W. Bush, enhanced by an on-screen graphic: Whatever criticism there may be of the President's vacation…
After Friday Sentencing, Flashback: Newspapers Painted Spies for Cuba
On Friday, Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers, who spied for Cuba, were sentenced to prison terms (life for him, six years for her) by the federal court in DC, an action which Washington Post reporter Spencer Hsu described as “a grim ending to the Myerses' idealistic embrace of the Cuban revolution.” Flashback to a June of 2009 NewsBusters post from when the couple was charged 13 months ago,…
WaPo Ombud Scolds Paper for Ignoring Black Panther Voter Intimidation
In a piece set to appear in the Washington Post Sunday, the paper's ombudsman harshly criticized his employer for ignoring the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation story."For months, readers have contacted the ombudsman wondering why The Post hasn't been covering the case," wrote Andrew Alexander."The calls increased recently after competitors such as the New York Times and the Associated…
Undercovered: Angle Says Harry Reid's Green Moves Have Stirred Opposit
In Saturday's Wall Street Journal, senior economics writer Stephen Moore talked to Nevada Republican Senate contender Sharron Angle in the "Weekend Interview." He liked her answers, like why she thinks she could upset the Senate Majority Leader, she replied: "When Harry Reid got to be majority leader, the unemployment rate was 4.4%. Now it is 14%, higher than even in Michigan....What has Harry…
Barney Frank Rips Kathy Griffin for Calling Brown's Daughters Prostitu
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Friday sent a letter to vulgarian Kathy Griffin strongly condemning her for calling Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) daughters prostitutes.As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, Griffin made this disgusting remark on her Bravo program the previous evening.Brown himself spoke out against these comments Thursday saying, "People can call me any name they want, but families are…
MSNBC’s Ratigan: Arianna Huffington ‘Voice of Truth,’ ‘Role Mo
MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan took time out his Friday show to send a special message to the founder of the left-wing Huffington Post blog: “happy birthday to a good friend of the show…. Miss Arianna Huffington, earlier this week, turned 60 years young and had quite the celebration…. I had the privilege of being able to join her.” Not content with simply wishing her a happy birthday, Ratigan went on…
Margaret Thatcher's Family Appalled By New Film: 'Sounds Like Some Lef
Margaret Thatcher's family is apparently appalled at what they've been hearing about a biopic being made of the former British Prime Minister."Mandrake hears that the screenplay of The Iron Lady depicts Baroness Thatcher as an elderly dementia-sufferer looking back on her career with sadness," reported Britain's Telegraph Saturday. "She is shown talking to herself and unaware that her husband,…
AP Whitewashes 'Group' Calling SC Murder a Hate Crime
The Associated Press is among many news organizations which have been ignoring the now-sworn testimony of J. Christian Adams, the whistleblowing lawyer who first asserted almost three weeks ago that there is "profound hostility by the Obama Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department towards a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws." Adams resigned from the DOJ after the following…
DUers Pour Venom Over Dick Cheney Heart Problems
There hasn't been this much sick gloating at the Democratic Underground since Jerry Falwell passed away. The cause of the latest DUer outbreak of venom is the news about former Vice-President Dick Cheney's heart problems. The DU administrator, David Allen, recently posted absurdly detailed rules about what one can say about Barack Obama but apparently it is open season to indulge in venomous hate…
Bozell Column: Judges Find Dignity In Profanity
On July 12, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City warmly offered the TV networks exactly what they wanted: the shredding of the FCC's lamely enforced rules against broadcast indecency. As of now, the network stars can swear at will in front of impressionable children. These judges did not rule narrowly on the focus of the case – “fleeting expletives” that networks aired…