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ABC Runs Hit on Climate Change Skeptics, Attempts to Align Them with W
'World News' segment tags discredited 'hockey-stick graph' professor Michael Mann as victim of hate groups.
NewsBusters Analysis: One in Four Guests on Ed Schultz Radio Show Are
A question for frequent listeners of libtalker Ed Schultz's radio show -- ever notice how often he books the same guests?Mark Graff, for example, founder of a company called Bio Green Clean, has come on the show 11 times -- in the last two months.Or Ted Massinello, president of USA Coffee Company -- 10 appearances since March 23.Radio host and legal analyst Norman Goldman dropped by six times in…
Seething Scarborough Hits Harwood's Blumenthal Backing
Joe Scarborough was on fire this morning, his ire trained on twin targets: Dick Blumenthal, and the New York Times' John Harwood, who casually dismissed the candidate's lies about having served in Vietnam as just a case of getting "a little carried away." At one point, Scarborough claimed he wasn't calling Blumenthal a "scumbag"—but it sure sounded like it.Harwood began his Blumenthal defense…
NPR Snob: Populist Palin 'Talks Like She's Translating Into Korean and
Novelist Marc Acito offered a perfect elocution of National Public Radio snobbery on Thursday's All Things Considered. In defending the defensible cause of proper English, Acito equated Palinesque populism with a complete lack of respect for the intellect. Acito even sang (badly) from My Fair Lady to illustrate his point: You see, My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and both…
Comedy Central's Anti-Semitic Video Game: 'You Lied To Me, Jew Produce
Around the same time they were caving in to pressure to delete all Mohammed references from an episode of "South Park," the geniuses at Comedy Central posted an online video game containing truly staggering anti-Semitic images.This abomination was originally called "I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack!" due to the lead character being a murderous robot named "I.S.R.A.E.L." -- "Intelligent Smart Robot Animation…
Lefty Rev. Attacks Beck for Crying 'Socialism
Jim Wallis, who believes the Gospels are redistributionist, calls out Glenn Beck for questioning Obama's faith-based initiative act to merge EPA with churches.
Back to Violence at Daily Kos: Talk About Punching Rand Paul In the Fa
While liberals consistently worry out loud that conservative talk radio inspires violence, they're still avoiding blogs like the Daily Kos, which posted an item on Sunday headlined "I don't want to punch Rand Paul in the face, but...." This tongue-in-cheek lameness unfolded: ....but if someone happens to punch him in the face, I believe that this is their right and that we as a people should not…
ABC News Absolves Obama of Oil Spill Blame by Bashing Sarah Palin
ABC News on Sunday marvelously absolved President Obama of any blame concerning the Gulf oil spill by bashing former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.After "World News Sunday's" opening segment about the crisis and how local citizens are being impacted, anchor Dan Harris said, "As we reported, the President is turning up the heat on BP, but the President is also feeling some heat himself with many…
Name That Party, RIP-Style: AP Runs National Story on Death of 'Disgra
When I saw the Associated Press's headline ("Disgraced former Ohio congressman dies at 79"), I started thinking about whom the wire service might be referring to. Of course I knew he would be a Republican, because the establishment media never treats Democrats, even those who leave women who aren't their wives to drown in a submerged car, as "disgraced." But even I never thought that the AP…
Chris Matthews: 'Will Obama Eventually Get Blamed for Slow Action on O
Chris Matthews ended this weekend's syndicated program bearing his name by asking a very strange question: Will President Obama eventually get blamed personally for slow action on the oil spill?The word "eventually" seems almost a Freudian slip inasmuch as it not only suggested the current White House resident ISN'T shouldering any of the responsibility for this horrific disaster yet, but also…
Kurtz Questions Whether CNN Business Strategy 'Viable
It's turned into something of a week for TV hosts, if not to bite, then at least to nibble hard on the hands that feed them . . . First, as noted here, on Friday Joe Scarborough passed along the comment of an unnamed conservative biggie who wondered "what the hell [Rand Paul] was doing on MSNBC?", where during an interview with Rachel Maddow he caused controversy with his comments on the Civil…
Sarah Palin: Media Looking to 'Get' Rand Paul Just Like They Did Her i
Sarah Palin on Sunday said that she sees similarities between how the media are treating Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul and the way the press tried to "get" her before the elections in 2008.Appearing on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, the former Alaska governor said, "I think there is certainly a double standard at play here.""One thing that we can learn in this lesson that I have…
Donaldson and Roberts Defend Calderon: Clinton Criticized Tiananmen, R
Forwarding moral equivalence, ABC News veteran Sam Donaldson, on This Week, defended Mexican President Felipe Calderon for using a speech before Congress to criticize Arizona, by reminding viewers: “President Bill Clinton went to the Great Hall of the People and when Jiang Zemin was President of China. I heard President Clinton say, ‘what you did in Tiananmen Square was wrong.’ He lectured. We…
WaPo's Weingarten Laments Journalists Don't Present Tea Party as 'A Po
Washington Post humorist Gene Weingarten is working in his hatred for conservatives in his Sunday Post Magazine column. The column is mostly a whimsical review of a George Bernard Shaw play and how Britain in Victorian times had a very uptight morality, and characters like pimps could only be portrayed as "loathsome deviants who would roast in Hell." Then he veered into this digression: This sort…