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Carrie Fisher on Obama: He's 'Brilliant,' and Racist 'Tea Baggers Don
Actress and author Carrie Fisher, revered for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars movies, granted an interview to the website Pop Eater. Late in the interview, they asked "Is there anyone you haven't met that you've always wanted to?" She said Barack Obama. They expressed surprise she hadn't met him. "I know. I love him. Hopefully I'll meet him sometime. I'm just happy he exists." Then…
Like ABC, NBC Focuses on How Obama Defines This as a 'Good Week,' As T
Just like ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Friday morning, NBC's Matt Lauer framed the end of the week as a "good week" for Obama, regardless of the bad reception his speech on Tuesday night received. Neither network ruined the Obama mojo by interviewing a Republican guest to make the reasonable suggestion that a week without the oil spill plugged is not entirely a "good week." The networks sounded…
CNN's Cafferty: Obama's 'Serious Disconnect' on Jobs and Spending
On Friday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty tossed cold water on the Obama administration's "recovery summer" claims, stating that the "current recovery has been one of the worst for job creation ever." Cafferty also criticized the dangerous growth in the national debt, underlining that there "appears to be a rather serious disconnect," as the President requested billions in additional…
PBS Promotes Small Town With Liberal Environmental Agenda as 'City of
For taxpayer-funded PBS, the blueprint for America's future is centered on advancing the Obama administration's taxpayer-funded green agenda. In the June 17 installment of "Blueprint America," Miles O'Brien, a "NewsHour" special correspondent, hailed Dubuque, Iowa as the "city of the future" for transforming itself into a liberal beacon of environmental sustainability.O'Brien's piece showered…
WaPo Holds Nose, Accepts NRA-approved Bill Regulating Issue Advocacy A
How committed is the Washington Post to its crusade to see Congress abridge free speech under the guise of "campaign finance reform"? So much that it's willing to be a political bedfellow with the National Rifle Association, a group it detests for its persistent advocacy of Americans' Second Amendment liberties.In a June 17 editorial, the Post voiced its support behind a bill that Democrats and…
Soundbites: Rep. Steve King
Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) discusses the Arizona Immigration Law and the Liddy interview fallout.
Time's Halperin Dismisses GOP Response to Oval Office Speech as 'Child
Appearing on Charlie Rose's PBS program, Time magazine's Mark Halperin dismissed the GOP responses to President Obama's Oval Office speech as "childish" and "churlish" adding that the GOP "mocked" the President on Tuesday night, instead of seeking common ground with him on new energy legislation.The Time reporter thinks the present Gulf disaster constitutes a "national crisis," but also posited…
Newsweek Intern Assigned to Review Glenn Beck Book Admits She Only Rea
When reviewing a bestselling book, it is customary to read it first. Apparently Princeton doesn't teach that tidbit in its journalism classes anymore, as Newsweek intern (and Princeton student) Isia Jasiewicz decided she would attempt a review after reading only the first 10 pages--a fact she mentions in the last paragraph.Does Newsweek really have such disdain for Beck that it would not only…
ABC News Ignores Blago Trial Witness's Current Federal Job
Today ABC News's The Blotter Web site carries the story "Blagojevich On Trial: 'Give Us The F***ing Money.'" The article reports in part:(Tony) Rezko is a central figure in the government's conspiracy case. His relationship with Obama was highlighted this week when Joseph Aramanda, the owner of a Chicago pizza business, took the stand to detail how Rezko arranged for him to receive a $250,000 "…
NBC's Gregory: White House Rhetoric 'Anti-Business,' 'Could Really Dis
'Meet the Press' host calls Obama advisers' lack of business experience 'a problem'; Says Barton's comments 'got to that larger point.'
Media Praises '8: The Mormon Proposition,' But Admit Film is One-Sided
“8: The Mormon Proposition,” is a documentary detailing the large role the Mormon Church played in passing California’s Proposition 8 in 2008.That ballot initiative added an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. While the media has naturally been praising the documentary, the movie is so biased that even some reviewers couldn’t avoid…
Chris Matthews Suggested Tea Parties Are Unlike Reagan -- Who Moved to
It's one thing for media liberals to suggest the Tea Party is on the fringe of the right, but when it's another when they starting putting Ronald Reagan in the center by comparison (even as Governor of California). On The Rachel Maddow Show on Tuesday, Matthews suggested that somehow America is reliably centrist, so even Reagan moved to moderation (and there's no mention of Obama's left-wing…
ABC's Tapper: White House Hails A 'Good Week' After 'Gift' From Joe Ba
On Friday's Good Morning America on ABC, White House correspondent Jake Tapper described White House reaction to Republican Congressman Joe Barton calling BP's $20 billion escrow fund the result of a government "shakedown": "...the argument they're making, that the Republican Party is too close to corporate America.....And they've been given this great foil by Joe Barton."When co-host George…
NBC’s David Gregory: White House Rhetoric 'Anti-Business,' 'Could Re
Wow, just wow. Never would have seen this one coming, but is one of the standard-bearers of the media elite recognizing the Obama administration's anti-business populist tone is inhibiting the U.S. economy? On the June 18 broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk Box," NBC "Meet the Press" moderator David Gregory was asked to respond to a June 18 New York Times article by David Sanger suggesting the Obama…
