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Salon.com Equates Helen Thomas to Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity; Blames Depa
It's hard to imagine a scenario where one would be sympathetic toward former "dean of the White House press corps" Helen Thomas following her videotaped remarks that Israeli Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Germany or Poland. However, in a June 7 column on Salon.com, Anna Clark wrote that Thomas deserved leeway, since some talk radio personalities say "controversial,…
MSNBC Anchors in 'Anguish' Over Helen Thomas Retirement
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, and Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday’s “The Daily Rundown” were in “anguish” over the forced retirement of Helen Thomas, but showed little sympathy for the Israelis that the Hearst columnist so odiously disrespected.“I think a lot of people feel some anguish about this because the comments were beyond the pale,” lamented Guthrie. “And yet it tarnishes a career that…
AP Falsely Frames H-P's Tech Job Cuts, Ignores 'Hiring Mode' in Sales
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today, George Mason University economics professor Daniel Klein today notes that "self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics." It therefore shouldn't be terribly surprising that so many journalists do a poor job of economic and business reporting, because, as the Media Research Center has frequently and consistently documented…
HuffPo Columnist Can't Recall Any Vitriol From the Left
An emerging defense of Helen Thomas's "Jews go home" comment is that either what she said really was not that bad, or that others occasionally say worse things without the same level of reproach.Richard Greener, writing at the Huffington Post on Monday, was so close to making a good point. He noted that a number of other public figures have said things that could reasonably be interpreted as more…
Time's Halperin: Why Is Obama Upset with Media, He's Had 'Glowing' Cov
The roundtable panel for today's Morning Joe took a stab at President Obama's frustration with the media for being critical of his BP oil spill response. The segment began with a clip of President Obama's testy, self-defensive comment to NBC's Matt Lauer, wherein the commander-in-chief blustered that he was determined to learn "whose ass to kick" for the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Time magazine…
Evening News Shows Enthuse Over Helen Thomas, a 'Bona Fide Icon' and a
The three evening news shows on Monday treated the announcement of Helen Thomas' retirement as an occasion to gush over the "bona fide icon" and "trailblazer." At the same time, CBS's Evening News, NBC's Nightly News and ABC's World News didn't find much time for outrage over Thomas' attacks on Jews and Israel. Instead, NBC's Andrea Mitchell played a clip of Thomas ranting to President Bush in a…
Bill Maher Loses Religion-bashing Battle With S.E. Cupp and History
Editor's Note: The following originally appeared at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood. Sometimes it’s just so easy. I mean if I really wanted to, I could find all the material needed to expose the folly of the far left just by watching Bill Maher every week and picking apart the claims he offers as “fact” while urged on with hosannas by his trained seals in the Real Time audience. The…
Douglas Brinkley on CBS: President 'On A Roll' With ObamaCare Before
Discussing the Gulf oil spill on Saturday's CBS Evening News, liberal historian Douglas Brinkley fretted over President Obama's left-wing agenda being in jeopardy: "...he was on a roll with the health care legislation. There was a great hope that before the election he was going to get some things done in Washington. This hit, and I think for President Obama, the spill was an inconvenience."At…
Pssst Helen. Al Gore is Available
If Helen was the worst at the WH briefings, who should be the next to "retire?"
CBS Reporter: Thin-Skinned White House Won't Tolerate Reports Elena Ka
On Sunday’s Face the Nation, CBS legal correspondent Jan Crawford revealed how the Obama White House is “strongly” pushing back against her unsurprising report last week that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan “stood shoulder to shoulder with the liberal left” when she clerked for liberal Justice Thurgood Marshall.Crawford says the White House reaction to her report “has been astonishing....Their…
Twitter Looking to Make It Easier For Politicians to Use Its Website
Do you think politicians, government officials and agencies should have more tools at their disposal to spread their message to the public?The social networking Web site Twitter does.A new full-time position the organization is looking to fill is called Government Liaison.Here's the job description (h/t Adam Baldwin):
Vulgar MTV Movie Awards Gets 13% Less Viewers Than Last Year
Unless you've been asleep for the past 24 hours, you've heard or read about Sunday's MTV Movie Awards in which producers and presenters seemed to go out of their way to say "f--k" whenever possible.Figures released by various ratings house are giving conflicting reports about how many people actually watched this vulgar display.Some say viewership was up; others say it dropped.For instance,…