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Liz Cheney Takes On Sam Donaldson, TV Critic Calls Her 'Rude
Liz Cheney fans got to see quite a faceoff between her and Sam Donaldson on Sunday's "This Week."As the panel discussion turned to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to investigate the terrorist interrogation procedures of the CIA, Cheney and Donaldson predictably shared opposing views.Despite both parties being guilty of interrupting and stepping on one another, television critic Tom Shales…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Obama's approval rating now at 45 percent!!!So how's that change working out for you?
David Brooks' Broken 'Bromance' With Obama...for Now
This is a love story that has inspired a paean. In fact, to call it mere "love" does not do justice to it. It is a special political love so intense that The New Republic has called it a "bromance" in a story titled, "The Courtship: The story behind the Obama-Brooks bromance" by Gabriel Sherman. Watch how the hot sparks instantly fly at their first meeting:In the spring of 2005, New York Times…
Undercover Video Reveals $3 Million Bribe Scheme in $27-Billion Suit A
Imagine being sued in a third-world country with a leftist government and you're a major international corporation with deep pockets. Sounds like you might have a deck stacked against you, right? Back in May, CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a one-sided segment that could be viewed as nothing short of serving as an accomplice in $27-billion extortion effort by a leftist Latin American government…
Ed Schultz's Doofus Reign of Error Slogs Onward
The things you hear from a liberal radio host who calls himself "the czar of the truth."Here's a snippet from Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, a rebroadcast of a town hall meeting in Boulder he moderated over the weekend, with Schultz responding to Glenn Beck's criticism of Obama's penchant for appointing czars (click here for audio) --SCHULTZ: Government's such a bad thing, we got all these…
Little Wonder AARP's Losing Members
AARP the Magazine boasts a circulation that's seven times greater than that of Time. For the first half of this year, AARP the Magazine's circulation averaged more than 24 million copies.AARP claims it's a "nonpartisan organization," an assertion increasingly challenged by senior citizens. The magazine's September-October issue may give members more evidence for that conclusion. It carries a…
Olbermann Guest: Beck, Bachmann 'Trying to Get the President Killed
Columnist Dan Savage blasts 'religious right,' accuses Fox News host and Minnesota congresswoman of 'heating' up rhetoric at 'peril' to country.
AP Coverage of Ford-UAW Negotiations Ignores Union's Ownership Interes
Ford and the United Auto Workers are set to begin new contract talks under a set of circumstances radically different from any previously faced by either party. There is the "minor" matter of the union's ownership stakes in General Motors and Chrysler that arose in the wake of those two companies' government-engineered bankruptcy filings, accomplished with more than a little rule-bending by the…
NBC Frets Over Filling Kennedy's 'Void,' Skips How He and Democrats Cr
With “Filling the VOID” as the on-screen heading, Monday's NBC Nightly News, without any consideration for how Massachusetts Democrats blocked the Governor's interim appointment power, fretted over the loss to Democrats of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat as a health care vote approaches. “Less than 48 hours after Ted Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery, the political reality of his vacant…
Former British Health Minister: U.K. System not 'Ideal' for U.S
Remember when Michael Moore depicted the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) as a superior health care system in his 2007 documentary "Sicko"? That romanticizing on the silver screen might have seemed like a good idea for the American society, but according to Lord Ara Darzi, it's not ideal for the United States. Darzi, a former British Health Minister, appeared on CNBC's Aug. 31 "…
Chris' Crazy Comparisons: Palin Like Howard Stern and Bill Clinton is
Chris Matthews, on Monday's "Hardball," threw out a couple of crazy comparisons as he likened the socially conservative Sarah Palin to shock jock Howard Stern and the rakish Bill Clinton to God. First up, in his "Hardball Sideshow" segment, Matthews claimed the reason the former Alaska governor was so popular on the lecture circuit is because, "just like Howard Stern the reason people will pay to…
Carrie Prejean Sues Miss California Organization
Carrie Prejean, the former Miss USA runnerup, has filed a lawsuit against the Miss California Organization claiming it discriminated against her religious beliefs thereby causing her emotional distress as well as financial loss.According to FoxNews.com, Prejean "filed a complaint Monday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court against K2 Productions (the franchise that operates the Miss California…
Shuster Psyched Shoe-Thrower Soon To Walk
The Iraqi who threw his shoes at Pres. Bush will be getting out of jail after serving only nine months of what was originally a three-year sentence . . . and David Shuster is pysched.Reporting on the news at the end of MSNBC's 4 PM hour today, Shuster exclaimed: "Good for him!"Co-host Tamron Hall wasn't so sure, making the indisputable point that Shuster wouldn't be so happy if the guy who walked…