Obama Signs Business-Hurting, Tax Pledge-Breaking Health Care Bill int

In month leading to bill's passage, network evening shows failed to expose job-threatening tax increases or remind viewers of president's 'firm' promise to taxpayers.
Julia A. Seymour

HuffPo: ACORN was Brought Down by...The New York Times

And you thought a couple of plucky young conservative activists with a camera brought down ACORN. Nope. It's the arch-conservative New York Times that did in the noble community organizing group, or so says The Huffington Post in "Why ACORN Fell: The Times, Lies, and Videotape." "Because of its pivotal role in bringing down ACORN," Peter Drier and John Atlas wrote in their March 24 editorial, "…
Anthony Kang

Newsweek vs. Catholic Church's 'Whiff of Freakishness

Newsweek knows who they hate. Its section "The Take" in the March 29 edition begins with a full-page picture of Pope Benedict with this nasty sentence imposed above his head: "I would argue that the pope is already sufficiently tainted to trade his Prada shoes for a hair shirt for the rest of his life." Turn to page 24, and Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller’s hate-filled column is titled "Save…
Tim Graham

HuffPo: ACORN was brought down by ... the New York Times

Two leftwing editorialists assert the Gray Lady was Karl Rove's courtesan in destroying community organizing group.
Anthony Kang

WaPo's Kids Post Hails 'Historic Health-Care Law

With six short paragraphs, the Washington Post's Kids Post page today hailed the signing of an 'historic health-care law' by President Obama: When it comes time to go to the doctor, you probably worry about whether you'll get a shot or whether the medicine you get will taste yucky. You probably don't think about who is going to pay the doctor. That's for adults to worry about.
Ken Shepherd

A Tale of Two F-Bombs: WaPo, MSNBC, CNN Bothered By Cheney in 2004, No

You really have to wonder what was running through Vice President Joe Biden's head when he leaned toward President Barack Obama and said "this is a big f**cking deal." Did Biden think that after nearly a year of campaigning for health care reform he was alerting Obama to something new? But Biden isn't the first vice president to allow an expletive slip in a public forum in this day and age of a…
Jeff Poor

ABC News Lay Offs Include Two Reporters Noted for Liberal, Pro-Tax Til

ABC News correspondents Brian Rooney and Laura Marquez “are among the ABC reporters whose contracts will not be renewed as the network looks to shed anywhere from 300-400 jobs by the end of the year,” TV Newser reported in a Wednesday afternoon post. (Earlier item from The Enterprise Report.). The names of the two California-based correspondents (Rooney in Los Angeles and Marquez in San Francisco…
Brent Baker

Obama Signs Business-Hurting, Tax Pledge-Breaking Health Care Bill int

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WaPo Civility: 'Knock Every Racist and Homophobic Tooth Out of Their C

On Monday morning, the Washington Post decried the "hideous display" of Tea Party protests, but it sounded pretty foam-flecked on Wednesday as Post Metro columnist Courtland Milloy was expressing violent rage on the front of the Wednesday Metro section against the Tea Party protesters: I know how the "tea party" people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent…
Tim Graham

NBC and ABC Morning Shows Only Report Rosiest Poll on ObamaCare

On Wednesday, both NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America exclusively cited the latest Gallup/USA Today poll, which shows significantly more public support for ObamaCare than other recent polls. Both programs failed to mention several polls that continued to show public opposition to the massive legislation. NBC Today co-host Meredith Vieira used the Gallup poll to grill Republican Senator…
Kyle Drennen

After Heavily Touting Online Poll, MSNBC's David Shuster Questions Sur

Over the last 24 hours, MSNBC's David Shuster has been heavily promoting a questionable online poll suggesting that significant chunks of Republicans think Barack Obama is the Antichrist, Hitleresque or wasn't born in America. On Wednesday, Shuster questioned the Harris survey, even as the network's graphic screamed, "Obama 'Hitler Poll' Questioned: Controversial Poll Suggests Hate Fueling…
Scott Whitlock

Newsweek's Katie Paul: It's 'Nonsense' That al Qaeda Hates West For It

"Let's just get it out of the way right off that bat that Al Qaeda madmen don't actually want to blast through bridges, skyscrapers, and subways in righteous protest of the First Amendment," an exasperated Katie Paul began her March 23 tirade about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent address to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)."It's mind-boggling that…
Ken Shepherd

Today Trumpets: 'Obama Celebrates New Bill As Right Wing Rants

During a segment headlined: "Health Care Extremes, Obama Celebrates New Bill As Right Wing Rants" NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, on Wednesday's Today show, painted a stark contrast of cheery Obamacare supporters versus "conservative voices" full of "anger" and "hateful words" that are being provoked by Rush Limbaugh who is adding "fuel to the fire." O'Donnell began her piece with the Democrats…
Geoffrey Dickens

NBC's Vieira Taunts Republican DeMint: 'Is It Now Your Party's Waterlo

At first glance it appeared Today viewers were in for a balanced segment with NBC's Meredith Vieira interviewing both Republican Senator Jim DeMint and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin about the health care bill bill on Wednesday's show. However Vieira saved her most slanted questions for DeMint as she mocked his earlier prediction of an Obamacare defeat being his Waterloo, "Is it now your party's…
Geoffrey Dickens