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CNBC's Nesto Accuses Obama of Creating 'His Own Sense of a Legal Syste
Reporter insists legal framework already in place to resolve oil spill claims, asks why White House has 'a gun to the head' of BP.
Doing the Job Media Won't: Fact-checking Obama's Gulf Spill Address
Plenty of prominent media figures were upset with President Obama over his substandard address to the nation last night (full text). While most are distraught, none seem to be doing what should be the essential journalistic task of the day: pointing out all of the factual misstatements the president made.So, in absence of a serious attempt at fact-checking from the legacy media, let us undertake…
Perez Hilton Loses ABC Ads after Posting Miley Cyrus Upskirt Photo
ABC has pulled its ads from gossip blogger Perez Hilton's Web site, PerezHilton.com, after he caught legal flack for posting upskirt photos of 17-year-old Disney star Miley Cyrus. However, several big-name companies still have ads running on the snarky blogger's site. Amid speculation that Hilton may be slapped with kiddie-porn charges over the lurid photos, ABC has removed its ads for "The View…
Beck-Bashing WaPo Book Critic Acts Offended, As If He Didn't Imply Vio
On his radio show, Glenn Beck responded to Washington Post book critic Steven Levingston’s audacious claim that Beck’s new novel The Overton Window may be a terrorist’s inspirational handbook. Beck objected to the idea that it’s ridiculous that Tea Party protesters would be nonviolent. "Show me the violent Tea Party, Washington Post. Show them to me."Levingston wrote: "Molly and her crowd assert…
Chris Matthews Claims Tea Party is 'McCarthyite,' Sees Federal Governm
Chris Matthews definitely took a "hard look" at the Tea Party, on Wednesday's "Morning Joe," in anticipation of tonight's MSNBC documentary "The Rise of the New Right." Tying the whole Tea Party movement together, the MSNBC "Hardball" host defined it as "McCarthyite," possessing a "fundamental questioning of authority," and viewing the federal government as an occupying force."It believes that…
NBC Sees Gaza as 'Prison Sentence Imposed by Israel,' Ignores Reports
Catching up on an item from last week on the Tuesday, June 8, NBC Nightly News, correspondent Tom Aspell portrayed the residents of Gaza as living through a life prison sentence imposed by Israel: "Israel's blockade on Gaza isn't just about preventing goods from getting in, it's about preventing 1.5 million Palestinians from getting out. It sentences them to life inside a 140-square-mile prison…
Obama Wants $50 Billion more for Stimulus, Networks Nearly Silent
Broadcast news devotes 38 times more coverage to World Cup than presidential push to bailout police, firemen, teachers.
NY Times Departing Public Editor Hoyt: We're Not the Fox News of the L
Clark Hoyt filed his last column as the New York Times's Public Editor: "A Final Report From Internal Affairs," praising the cooperation of Times reporters and editors during his term and fending off accusations that the paper is a "liberal rag." Hoyt admitted the editorial page and columnists are liberal and that the paper "shares the prevailing sensibilities of the city and region where it is…
Double Shock: ABC Shows Gulf Residents Panning Obama’s Oil Spill Spe
A tale of two disasters: On ABC’s Good Morning America this morning, weatherman Sam Champion’s piece included reaction from several residents of Florida, Alabama and Louisiana to President Obama’s oil spill speech, and found three outright critics and no defenders of the administration’s handling of the disaster. One woman exclaimed: “What I would have liked to heard from him – that he actually…
ABC Promotes New USDA Diet Guidelines, Claiming Americans in Denial
'World News Tonight' showcases new food pyramid with no critical response; article turns to usual liberal suspect.
Lawrence O'Donnell Brings More Liberal Orthodoxy to MSNBC at 10 PM
MSNBC contributor Lawrence O'Donnell will take over at the 10 pm slot, the cable network announced Tuesday. O'Donnell, who guest-hosted "Countdown" while Keith Olbermann was on leave, is a self-described socialist, and will fit in nicely with the rest of MSNBC's prime-time lineup.The 10 pm slot has up to this time been "Countdown" reruns, so MSNBC viewers will now be treated to a tad different…
Newsweek's Adler: Obama 'Chickens Out,' Fails to Push for Taxes to Mak
"Obama Chickens Out on Energy," a disgusted Ben Adler argued to Newsweek's The Gaggle blog readers this morning.Adler's chief complaint with last night's Oval Office address: Obama didn't call for massive tax hikes to push Americans to make more politically correct spending choices.The Newsweek writer -- formerly a self-styled "propagandist" for the liberal Center for American Progress -- avoided…