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Ratigan Unhinged: Attacks Warming Skeptics, Gives Pass to Liberal Alar
Immediately after taking shots from some conservative voices for his Feb. 8 remarks that heavy snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic is "reportedly" a result of global warming, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan fired back at his detractors on his Feb. 10 program. The once seemingly rational host of CNBC's "Fast Money" voiced his frustration with the entire global warming debate as it stood in the wake of this…
Larry Summers: Almost All Economists Believe More Taxes Fuels Job Grow
Fox Business Contributors criticize White House's grasp of economics.
Olbermann: Limbaugh and Palin Trying To 'Kill Us All' With Global Warm
Keith Olbermann Wednesday claimed that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are trying to kill us all by disinforming the public about the dangers of global warming.Speaking with Newsweek's Howard Fineman about how conservatives are using the recent snowstorms in the Northeast to refute Al Gore's catastrophic climate claims, the "Countdown" host said…
Obama to Business Week: We Are 'Fierce Advocates' For a Free Market
In an interview with Business Week magazine that hits newsstands Friday, Barack Obama makes these jaw-dropping declarations: He said his economic policies had helped pull the country back from financial turmoil as he entered office and "created an environment in which businesses can be profitable.""We are pro-growth," Obama said. "We are fierce advocates for a thriving, dynamic free market."Since…
Clift to Republicans: Avoid Being Gingriched, Meet Obama Without Condi
Always beware when a liberal journalist praises a conservative. It's almost always for when said conservative (or in this case neoconservative Bill Kristol) says or does something that is or can be spun to be helpful to liberal Democrats.Case in point, yesterday's The Gaggle blog post by Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, in which the liberal veteran journalist praised Bill Kristol for, you guessed it,…
Bill Nye 'The Science Guy': Denying Climate Change 'Unpatriotic,' 'Ina
Challenging someone's patriotism is a pretty hefty charge to level in the political arena, based on the response when Barack Obama's patriotism was challenged during the 2008 election cycle. However, there seems to be a different set of rules when it comes to questioning the authenticity of the manmade global warming argument in the wake of record-setting snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic. And this…
Health Reform a Key to a Rebound for Obama, Stephanopoulos Contends
“Until the economy starts to create jobs, the President's political fortunes are not going to improve,” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos conceded Wednesday night in reporting how President Obama’s approval level has fallen to 46 percent amongst independents. But though 53 percent disapprove of his handling of health care and more are opposed to than in favor of the congressional Democrats/Obama plan,…
Coffee and the Second Amendment Don't Mix, According to Alternet
Chain coffee shop Starbucks allows for the right to bear arms, much to the disliking of some.
NBC's 'SVU:' Abortion Debate Boils Down to 'Pro-Choice or No Choice
Case of murdered abortionist focused on profession as likely motive – with pro-lifers the likely culprit.
Begala: 'Republicans Want Insurance Companies to Have the Right to Dum
There's really little opportunity for the spirit of bipartisanship to exist when you have a part-time operative for the Obama administration/cable network political commentator throwing bombs about the GOP for not catering to the Obama administration's wishes on health care reform. CNN political commentator and Democratic strategist Paul Begala bashed the opposition on Fox Business Channel's Feb…
New Pictures of World Trade Center on
ABC News has released some new never before seen pictures of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks. As ABCNews.com reported moments ago: Twelve images newly released by the government of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists' attacks on the World Trade Center provide a fresh look at the tragedy and its impact on New York City...The latest release follows Monday's publication of other newly…
Newsweek: TEA Party Convention Full of 9/11 Truthers
Syndicated columnist Jonathan Kay wrote an exclusive piece for newsweek.com about the TEA party convention in Nashville - not to report on the speeches or the goals of the movement, but to smear attendants as kooky, paranoid fringers who believe 9/11 truther theories. Conveneniently, Kay just happens to have a book scheduled for release next year that chronicles the spread of trutherism in…
Chris Matthews Rants: 'Clowns' and 'Hyenas' Like Sean Hannity 'Don’t
Hardball host Chris Matthews on Wednesday ranted that "clowns" and "hyenas" like Sean Hannity "don't care" about the awful things global warming will do to the planet. The Fox News host on Monday highlighted the winter storms that the D.C. area has been suffering and then mocked Al Gore. After quoting similar remarks by Republicans Jim DeMint and Mitch McConnell, Matthews frothed, "It isn't…