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New GMA Host Stephanopoulos Lobbies for More Taxes; Axelrod Points Out
On his first day as the new co-anchor of Good Morning America, former Clinton aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos lobbied for a windfall profits tax on the bonuses of bankers. Also on Monday’s program, senior White House advisor David Axelrod reminded viewers of Stephanopoulos’ liberal background. [Audio available here.] After the rookie GMA host asserted that Axelrod "has an office…
Mayors' Report Details Rise of Homelessness and New, Growing 'Tent Cit
In a Washington Post opinion piece published on December 6, longtime expansionary entitlement program apologists Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich ripped into the 1996 welfare reform law and its alleged effect on the poor during the struggling economy of the past two years. In the course of their rant, Edelman and Ehrenreich told readers something that the rest of the press has largely…
Your Turn: Judge and Decide the Worst Media Bias of 2009; 'Public Ball
Editor's Note: Reposted at 3:00 p.m. EST on December 17. You have 24 more hours left to vote! Every year a panel of leading conservative media observers and experts picks the most-biased media quotes for the Media Research Center's annual awards for the year's “worst reporting.” And these judges have done so again this year to decide the 2009 award “winners” with the choices to be announced on…
ClimateGate Research Unit Disables Its Website
The Climatic Research Unit at the heart of the ClimateGate scandal has taken down most of the information previously available at its website.Prior to November's release of controversial e-mail messages and documents from Britain's University of East Anglea, there was a separate website for the institution's CRU that allowed readers to review articles and studies created by and for the Unit.Now,…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: has the Medicare buy-in road to single payer been the plan all along?Thankfully, Lieberman may have seen through this ploy. Will others?
Greenspan, Cramer Argue Government 'Agenda' Inhibiting Economic Recove
In his 1981 inaugural address, former President Ronald Reagan said, "Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem." Nearly 29 years later, that still holds true according to CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Both Cramer and Greenspan were guests on NBC's Dec. 13 "Meet the Press" and although neither was making a vain…
WaPo’s Klein: Lieberman Willing to Cause 'Deaths of Hundreds of Thou
Whatever happened to just opposing policy for the sake of it being bad policy, as is the case of many people's view of the current health care reform proposals making their way through Congress? That reason is just not good enough for some, particularly Washington Post blogger and food critic Ezra Klein. In a post on The Washington Post's Web site dated Dec. 14, Klein viciously attacked Sen. Joe…
Humorist Presumes Liberal Bias in Unveiling 'Secrets Journalists Never
In “sharing my do's and don'ts” as a journalist, Washington Post humor columnist Gene Weingarten found good fodder in the presumption journalists are out to help liberals and Democrats while hurting conservatives and Republicans. “When deliberately slanting stories in support of liberal causes, always cover your tracks by quoting the other side,” he advised. “Example: 'President Obama wants…
Ed Schultz's Reign of Error Shows No Sign of Ending
If there's one thing liberal radio host and MCNBC action hero Ed Schultz really hates, it's "stupidity." Especially among conservatives and Republicans -- egad, don't get him started on that.Back on July 24, for example, Schultz said on his radio show that "what we're finding out is that a lot of elected officials are stupid."Schultz courageously told listeners Aug. 8 that "I don't mind telling…
In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communi
Network journalists who were quick to see racists, haters and extremists amongst the “tea party” protesters were oblivious on Saturday to communists in the “climate justice” march in Copenhagen whose cause they trumpeted -- even as the video they showed included brief shots of marchers waving red flags displaying the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle. “The streets were filled today with tens of…
In Record Time: Lib Not Getting His Way Calls America 'Ungovernable
The last two times I remember this happening -- with Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s and New York City Mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990s -- it at least took a few years for exasperated establishment media liberals to blame the system for a favored politician's difficulties in achieving his agenda, and to call the country and Gotham, respectively, "ungovernable." Afterwards, Ronald Reagan and…
Global Warming? Snow Falls Down Under During Australian Summer
Paging Al Gore!The global warming alarmists are claiming that 2010 could be the warmest year on record. Perhaps they better inform Mother Nature about this since she seems to be having other plans leading into the new year. Not only is the U.S.A. experiencing unusually cold weather but, almost unbelievably, Australia has just had some snowfall two weeks into their summer which officially began on…