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Online Picks for Worst Media Bias of 2009 Unveiled; Official Results D
Nearly 8,000 of you participated in the public online voting for the Best Notable Quotables of 2009 (7,903 to be exact), weighing the idiocy and outrageousness of dozens of quotes from liberal reporters and celebrities. Check the results to see if the ones you picked have won.If you didn't vote, you can still see the worst media quotes in 16 categories, most with matching video clips. This first-…
AP Reporter: Global Warming Skepticism Explained by Psychology
Global warming? Case closed. Consensus achieved. There can be no debate about it. ClimateGate? Never happened. I refuse to even acknowledge its existence. Must hang on to the global warming belief at all costs even against evidence to to the contrary. That dogmatic stance pretty much sums up the attitude of Associated Press writer Malcolm Ritter in his story about how global warming skepticism…
O-bow-ma Finds Someone To Bow To In Copenhagen
Check out the video. After his brief, listless and cliché-ridden speech in Copenhagen ["time for action, not words," "we should live in the future, not the past"] that aired live on Morning Joe today, Pres. Obama makes the hand-shaking rounds on the podium.He continues the glad-handing off the podium, until he spots someone and breaks into . . . a bow [screen cap after the jump]. With all the…
O'Reilly Calls Ingraham 'A Blind Ideologue' 'Kool-Aid Drinker', She As
Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham got into a bit of a tiff on Thursday night's "O'Reilly Factor" that resulted in him calling her a "blind ideologue" as well as a "Kool-aid drinker" after she asked him if he had eaten an "ACORN cookie" at the White House Christmas party earlier in the week.The spat began when O'Reilly jokingly asked Ingraham if she's going on a dinner date with Howard Dean now…
Matthews: Change Constitution To Make Senate More Democratic - And Pas
Chris Matthews asked a New York Congressman Thursday if we should "change the Constitution to make the Senate a more democratic body."At issue of course was the difficulty Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is having getting 60 Democrats to sign on to any version of a healthcare reform bill.Clearly getting frustrated by this, Matthews on Thursday's "Hardball" asked Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-…
Kudlow: Bernanke Should 'Consider Withdrawing' Without at Least 70 Con
If you believe polls, current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke favorability has been slipping. A recent Rasmussen Reports poll indicates that only 21 percent of Americans favor his reappointment as the Fed chair. And this hasn't gone unnoticed by some members of the Senate, where Bernanke's fate lies. Bernanke's reconfirmation passed through the Senate Banking Committee by a 16-to-7 vote…
Kudlow to Bernanke: Have More than 70 Senate Votes or 'Consider Withdr
CNBC host warns Federal Reserve chairman 'cannot survive and govern effectively if 30 or 35 senators vote against him.'
Newsweek's Connolly: Daddy Obama Needs to Get Congresskids in Line
Reminiscing about how her father would end dinner table squabbles between her and her sister, Newsweek's Katie Connolly on Tuesday rejoiced that President Obama had said "Enough!" in order to get Senate Democrats in line:Today, it sounds like the president has finally reached that point with the Senate Democrats and their increasingly aggravating health-care squabbles. He's ready to issue a…
CNBC's Santelli: High Tea Party Polling Data Good for U.S. Dollar
It's often said markets function better when there is gridlock in Washington, D.C. because there's less of a chance for government will interfere in the private sector, creating a sense of security. But in this day and time, that theory applies to the U.S. dollar as well. On CNBC's Dec. 17 "Squawk Box," CNBC Chicago Mercantile Exchange reporter Rick Santelli debated what was causing the recent…