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How can journalists possibly claim to be "objective" (in the Old Media, I-have-no-opinions sense of the term) when they get their news only from hyper-partisan sources on one side of the political spectrum? To do so should make any reporter blush.But David Shuster, apparently, has no issue with undertaking such objective journalistic endeavors as "fact checking and analyzing", while gathering…

Last evening, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" marvelously mocked President Obama's recent State of the Union address.In the opening sketch, Fred Armisen as Obama began by talking about last Tuesday's surprising victory in the Massachusetts special senatorial election."Our nominee Martha Coakley was the single most incompetent candidate ever to seek public office in this nation's history," said…

Author, political analyst, and humorist Andrew Ferguson really lacerated the campaign memoir Game Change in the February 1 Weekly Standard. He pointed out the inside-the-Beltway media chumminess greeting authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann: "The authors are highly regarded political reporters—highly regarded, that is, by other political reporters whom the authors likewise hold in high regard…

Well if you can't win the propaganda war by twisting the content of something you don't like, you can at least plant a presumptive seed in the heads of those who will only see a story's headline. That seems to be the logic behind an unbylined Associated Press report this morning. Its headline ("Report: No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture") would tend cause anyone not reading further to…

New York Times columnist Frank Rich would have rebelled against the notion that opposing President Bush’s policies was unpatriotic. But he can shamelessly declare that opposing Obama’s agenda is unpatriotic – even if you’re John McCain. Rich wrote on Sunday: If [Harry] Reid can serve as the face of Democratic fecklessness in the Senate, then John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition. On…

A rather disturbing document surfaced on the Internet Saturday with grave implications concerning how the Obama administration is recruiting interns from public schools to assist in advancing the President's agenda along with his desire to get Democrats including himself elected.Even scarier, the internship application recommends participants read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."According to…

Watching the media's inability to find relevant investigative news during the Obama era is like watching a bald-headed fellow named Fudd hunting for ‘wabbit'.  Such is the case of the main stream media's complete and utter ignorance involving the administration recently steering a $25 million no-bid contract to a Democratic campaign contributor.  While Fox News reporter James Rosen did an in-…

If the folks at the Associated Press lose their loving feeling for Barack Obama, his presidency could be in a lot of trouble.Consider if you will an article the wire service published Thursday shockingly titled "Can Obama Get Any Other Democrats Elected?" "Barack Obama built a powerful campaign organization and got himself to the White House," Liz Sidoti's piece began. "Now, as head of the…

Greg Gutfeld and the gang from "Red Eye" tore David Shuster apart Saturday morning as they imagined how the MSNBCer must have reacted to Tuesday's PPP poll declaring Fox the most trusted name in news. After discussing some of the numbers, Gutfeld said he felt sad for the other networks, "especially for the folks at MSNBC like David Shuster.""I wonder how he took the news," Gutfeld said as the…

Here's something you never would have heard from a mainstream media outlet when George W. Bush was President: Hurricane Katrina was a good thing for New Orleans.When it comes to the school system in the Louisiana city, that's exactly what CNN reported during Saturday's "Newsroom." After anchor T.J. Holmes read a statement from Education Secretary Arne Duncan -- "I think the best thing that…

British-born comedian Tracey Ullman is quite the mimic.On "The Rachel Maddow Show" Thursday night, Ullman morphed into actress Halle Berry without realizing it.Berry landed in hot water back in October 2007 on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" when she told Leno that a distorted photograph made her look like her "Jewish cousin." Here's Ullman describing how she prepared to impersonate Maddow in…

"They had 140 players on the field and the other guy had one, other team had one guy, and they lost to him."So said Keith Olbermann Friday about President Obama's meeting with House Republicans earlier in the day.Shortly after Chris Matthews gushed on fawned over the President during MSNBC's two hour special on the event Friday, the "Countdown" host unashamedly uttered superlatives of his own.…

It may not qualify as a tingle up the leg, but Chris Matthews gushed and fawned over President Obama's performance in front of House Republicans Friday like a teenybopper in the presence of a rock star.During MSNBC's two hour special about the event, Matthews told co-hosts Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, "I don`t know anyone else in the country that could have done what the president did today…

"Never before have you seen an allegation of corruption going that close to the governor's office in modern history." So said a Democratic consultant in North Carolina reacting to the latest casualty in the ongoing investigation of former governor Mike Easley. The scandal has brought down Easley's wife, bankrupted his coffers, disgraced a state university, and now, most recently, set federal…