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Lauer Sticks Up for Obama On Charge He's Soft on Terror: 'Get Rid of I
NBC's Matt Lauer dismissed the idea that Barack Obama was weak on terrorism, as the Today co-anchor, on Wednesday's show, wanted to "get rid" of the notion that "the President doesn't take the threat of terrorism seriously enough because he's not out there talking about it every day." Lauer, in a political roundup segment in the 7am half hour, also spun the retirements of Democratic Senators…
Environment Writer: Ignore the Record Cold; Global Warming Is Happenin
Brrrrrr!Ignore the record shattering freezing weather surrounding you. Global Warming is happening. Please believe me. Oh, pretty please! That is pretty much the theme of an article by Michael McCarthy, the U.K. Independent environment writer. With this cold weather it must be tough to plead the case for global warming but McCarthy takes a desperate stab at it:You might think the current weather…
MSNBC's Ed Schultz Asked to Run for Byron Dorgan's Senate Seat
MSNBC's Ed Schultz has been officially asked to run for the Senate seat North Dakota's Byron Dorgan (D) will be vacating at the end of this year.Dorgan surprisingly announced at his website Tuesday that having served in Congress for 30 years, he would not be seeking re-election in November.Speaking with MSNBC's Alex Witt Wednesday, Schultz divulged that he had been officially asked to run by…
Newsweek's Miller Hits 'Disproportionate' Liberal Angst Over Brit Hume
Newsweek religion reporter Lisa Miller, no Bible-thumping fundamentalist she, doesn't understand why the heathen rage against Brit Hume. From her January 5 post at the magazine's The Gaggle blog:I'm not at all sure why the liberal left is always so shocked that evangelical Christians want other people to become Christians. The outrage that followed Fox News anchor Brit Hume's plea to Tiger Woods…
Alter Blasts Cheney for 'Emboldening the Terrorists' -- Says He's 'Ver
The liberal intelligentsia are often all too eager to accuse conservatives of being fear-mongers, purveyors of hate speech, etc. But when they engage in what they accuse conservatives of doing, it's a different set of rules. Take Newsweek columnist and MSNBC regular Jonathan Alter for example. In an appearance on MSNBC's Jan. 5 "The Rachel Maddow Show," Alter took it to former Vice President…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: a very frightening graphic. Entitlement reform is generally considered tantamount to political suicide, so what will it take to avoid this crisis? Raise taxes? Slash other areas of the budget? Privitize?
Joe Klein Admits Healthcare Reform Will Redistribute Wealth
Conveniently tucked away at the end of a column about liberal bloggers was an admission from Time magazine's Joe Klein that the Senate's healthcare bill would transfer wealth from upper class Americans to the working poor. Apparently Klein didn't get the memo about denying the presence of socialism in the Democrats' plan. In a piece published last Wednesday called "The Left's Idiocy on Health…
Ed Schultz: Tea Partiers Are 'Ignorant' 'Hateful' 'Wingnuts
Since the Tea Parties began early last year, MSNBC has been a strong and often caustic voice against their very existence.On Tuesday, Ed Schultz continued the network's vitriolic attacks on average Americans protesting the direction of their country by calling Party goers "the wingnuts of America."He also excoriated Rep. Michele Bachman (R-Minn.) for saying the GOP should embrace the Tea Party…
Olbermann: Hume Tried to ‘Force’ & ‘Threaten’ Tiger Woods into
On Tuesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann twice claimed that FNC contributor and former anchor Brit Hume’s public recommendation that Tiger Woods convert to Christianity to help solve his personal problems amounted to trying to "threaten" Woods into conversion. Previewing a segment focusing on Hume’s Monday appearance on The O’Reilly Factor to clarify his words from Fox News Sunday…
At CNN, 'Moderate' Dorgan 'Was Expected to Easily Win a Fourth Term
It was business as usual at CNN yesterday. On The Situation Room, anchor Wolf Blitzer reported:North Dakota's Democratic senator, Byron Dorgan, just announced he won't run for reelection to the U.S. Senate in November. The surprise announcement could give Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat in that red state. Dorgan was first elected to the Senate back in 1992 after serving a dozen…
MSNBC's Ed Schultz Recommends NBA Players Be Banned from Gun Ownership
On Tuesday's The Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz fretted that NBA players who own firearms are setting a bad example for impressionable young people who may be inspired to emulate their athletic heroes and purchase guns of their own as he called on NBA commissioner David Stern to impose a rule that, "If you want to play in the NBA, you can`t own firearms because with the visibility comes the…
O'Reilly Chides CBS Commentary Praising 'Certified Intellectual' Obama
On Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O’Reilly seemed to pick up on a NewsBusters posting by the MRC’s Brent Baker which highlighted New Yorker magazine writer Rebecca Mead’s commentary from the January 3 CBS Sunday Morning in which Mead touted President Obama as a "certified intellectual," while accusing President Bush of giving terrorists a "partial victory" by creating "infringements…