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Joy Behar Takes Huffington's Side vs. Ailes Armed With Untruths
It was a metaphysical certitude the classic battle between Fox News's Roger Ailes and liberal publisher Arianna Huffington on Sunday's "This Week" would send many in the mainstream media over the top, and comedian Joy Behar didn't disappoint.As "View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg gave the audience the background of the matter Monday -- "Fox News president Roger Ailes pointed out that on the Huffington…
Dylan Ratigan Helps Soldier-smearing Cartoonist Ted Rall to Raise Mone
It ain't easy being a laid-off hack leftist cartoonist with a penchant for slandering 9/11 widows and equating U.S. soldiers with suicide bombers. But Ted Rall got a big break on Friday when he got a chance to do a fundraising pitch for his planned trip to Afghanistan as an "unembedded" journalist.On his January 29 program, MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan introduced Rall as "an award-winning cartoonist who…
Awash in Political Correctness, Correspondents' Dinner Goes Green
The hot air emitted from almost a century of White House Correspondents' Association Dinners has surely done its fair share to warm the Earth. So this year, Washington's journalistic community is going green. Cue the self-congratulatory pomposity.Of course taking dramatic measures to reduce the carbon footprint of the nation's journalistic establishment is not without cost; "the most eco-friendly…
MSNBC’s Tamron Hall: Is Birtherism the Definition of Conservatism
MSNBC’s Tamron Hall on Monday interrogated a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate and tried to associate conservatism with believing in a bizarre conspiracy theory. Talking to Patrick Hughes of Illinois, she challenged, "For example, one of the questions was, do you think the President was born in the United States? Is that your definition of conservative or is it in the perimeter of a…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Touts Woman Willing to Marry For Health Insurance
On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith introduced a bizarre story designed to show how desperate the situation is for people lacking health insurance: “A California woman has launched a unique online search for a husband. Not for love, but for health care.” Earlier, co-host Maggie Rodriguez teased the story by proclaiming: “I don’t know if you would think it’s sad or if you would think…
'Created or Saved' Jobs Rubric Quietly Scrapped by White House, Story
On Saturday, the Obama administration quietly scrapped the "created or saved" rubric for measuring the president's success in job creation. Covering the story, the Washington Post today also quietly noted the news, placing the story --entitled "Stimulus created 600,000 jobs at the end of 2009, White House says" -- on page A15. The Post's Ed O'Keefe wrote the 18-paragraph story (emphasis mine):
Newsweek Reporter Urges Obama to 'Bully' Republicans
Newsweek's Katie Connolly, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, determined that Barack Obama, even in the face of the stunning loss in Massachusetts, needs to become more entrenched in his liberal ways and not bother working with the GOP as she advised the President to “bully Republicans.” After host Chris Matthews prompted the White House correspondent to report on how the…
Media Let Duncan Off the Hook for Katrina Comment, Blasted GOP Rep for
On Saturday, NB's Noel Sheppard reported on this statement made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan: "I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was hurricane Katrina. That education system was a disaster. It took hurricane Katrina to wake up the community and say we have to do better."CNN host T.J. Holmes read that quote aloud during a broadcast. "Of course I…
ABC Devotes Over 60 Minutes to John Edwards, Avoids Labeling Him a Dem
Since Friday, ABC has devoted 60 minutes and 23 seconds to interviews covering the most salacious details of John Edwards' sex scandal. Yet, the network's anchors have refrained from referring to him as a Democrat. 20/20 on Friday spent the entire hour talking to Andrew Young, a former top Edwards aide who allegedly holds a sex tape involving the politician. The D-word was never used by reporter…
N.Y. Times Can't Report the Box-Office Receipts Without Blurting 'Mel
The New York Times certainly doesn’t have dazzled stars in its eyes when it writes about Mel Gibson. What could have been a standard weekend-box-office-receipts piece by Brooks Barnes on Monday sounded like an attack piece: LOS ANGELES - And the blue money just keeps rolling in.The much-hyped return to the multiplex of Mel Gibson, whose drunken and anti-Semitic outburst in 2006 turned him into a…
Another Liberal Attack on Republican Patriotism
While the Times routinely rebukes Republicans for allegedly questioning the patriotism of Democrats, columnist Frank Rich is free to claim that Republican "John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition."
Whispering Sweet Nothings
Does anyone seriously believe he will really push for nuclear, offshore drilling, natural gas or that Pelosi/Reid will let it go through?
Howard Kurtz: 'Jon Stewart Is An Icon To Many Journalists
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz believes comedian Jon Stewart is an icon to many journalists. "[E]specially those in television who sometimes copy his quick-cut editing techniques," wrote Kurtz in his column Monday.But that's not all.Kurtz sees the "Daily Show" host as "a pop-culture bellweather," and feels his recent attacks on Barack Obama are a significant sea change. Last week Stewart went…