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Weekend Captionfest II
Speaking to Al Sharpton's National Action Network on April 3, VP Joe Biden decries "senseless violence" of Binghamton shootings. Note group's slogan on backdrop. Photo AP/Stephen Chernin.
Murdoch: Long-Term Economic Situation 'Dangerous'; Recovery 2-3 Years
No one can accuse News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch of being an economic cheerleader, despite his net worth of $4 billion according to Forbes magazine. In an interview with Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto on April 2, Murdoch was not hopeful the financial markets would recover their value within the next 12 months. "Look, I'm not a market expert," Murdoch said. "I would…
Saturday Sports Open Thread
Let's get ready to rumble:8:47 PM ET (3) Villanova vs. (1) North Carolina6:07 PM ET (2) Michigan State vs. (1) Connecticut Vegas line: UCONN - 4 1/2, UNC - 7 1/2You folks know me: I go for the dogs unless I have a pony in the race. What say you?
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Give President Obama a Grade.The good folks over at MSNBC.com are asking what readers think of Obama's performance. Given the leaning of their viewers, you can imagine how this will be skewed.With that in mind, let's give these folks a hand (h/t NB reader Stephany).
Reuters Knowingly Reports Lie About Binghamton Shooting -- The Taliban
Reuters published a story today, April 4, detailing some nonsense from a Taliban terrorist who has claimed "responsibility" for Friday's shooting rampage in Binghamtom, New York. The question that comes to mind is why? Why did Reuters imagine this idiotic claim, this obvious lie, was worth reporting to the world? Does Reuters not have the good sense God gave a door knob? Why would Reuters pass…
AP Uses Dem Operative to Slam Palin, But IDs Him Simply as 'Professor
Don't you love it when the Old Media dredges up some partisan hack Democrat supporter and presents them as an "expect" that is never identified as a partisan political hack? Well, you may not love it, but it sure seems to happen an awful lot. And here we see another example of that lame bias by our old friend Anne Sutton, an AP writer that is renown for her hit pieces on Governor Palin and her…
Donaldson on Obama at G-20: 'Just Changing the Tone a Great Plus
Reacting with indignation to David Frum's assessment that President Barack Obama was a “failure” at the G-20 summit because European leaders “rebuffed” his quest to get them to follow his lead in enacting massive deficit spending, an aghast ABC News veteran Sam Donaldson sputtered that the change in “tone” from former President Bush was more important than substance: The last President we had…
The AP Thinks Palin Teen's Romance Woes is News
Is it some sort of amazing, newsworthy revelation that teen romance is sometimes a rocky road? Is it news that family can be troublesome when it results in out-of-wedlock birth? The Associated Press seems to think it is, at least if one of those teens is Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol.
Do you care that punk Levi Johnston is bawling to the press that Governor Palin is supposedly a…
ABC Frets ‘No Real Urgency' on ‘Meaningful Gun Control' to Stop
Of the three network evening newscasts, ABC's World News, substitute hosted by Diane Sawyer, uniquely seemed to lament the lack of political interest in enacting new gun laws to combat what correspondent Dan Harris earlier called "a signature American disaster, a shooting rampage," referring to the shooting spree in Binghamton, New York.Sawyer introduced a discussion with correspondent Pierre…
Santelli Takes On Liberal Economist Robert Reich on $1.1 Trillion for
For the second time in a week, CNBC's Rick Santelli faced down one of the standard-bearers of liberalism.First, he explained to Huffington Post editor and founder Arianna Huffington on the March 31 "Squawk Box" that markets are more efficient in correcting economic hardship, in the banking and housing sectors. On CNBC's April 3 "The Call," Santelli took on University of California at Berkeley…
CNN's Fareed Zakaria: Obama 'Failing' as Leader of Free World
In an interview on CNN.com on Friday titled “Zakaria: Obama disappoints as world leader,” author and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria threw cold water on the media’s laudatory coverage of President Obama’s trip to Europe: “Although he brought a lot of star power -- the talk of the week -- at least in certain circles in Washington, New York and London -- has been that President Obama is failing in his…