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$210 Million in Freddie and Fannie Retention Bonuses: Will the Media W
Will There Be a Corresponding Media Call to Pitchforks?Please don't halt respiratory activity in the waiting. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are two public-private partnerships known as Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs). Wherein the executive staff, populated with woefully unqualified, egregiously overpaid political crony appointees, get to play housing market roulette with the House's (read: OUR…
Global Warming Debate: Morano vs. Climate Progress's Romm
For your Friday evening entertainment pleasure, last week Sen James Inhofe's (R-Ok.) former communications director Marc Morano debated Climate Progress's Joe Romm on matters relating to the global warming myth.UPDATE at end of post: Romm hysterically responds to NewsBusters. Presented courtesy of Roll Call TV (debate begins at minute 3:45, part two below the fold):
NY Times Can't Decide if Ward 'Little Eichmanns' Churchill Is Unpatrio
Former professor Ward Churchill, who infamously likened some 9-11 victims to Nazis in an essay written on September 12, 2001, won a civil trial on a technicality yesterday, winning $1 in damages for having been unjustly dismissed from his teaching position at the University of Colorado. In a Friday New York Times story from Denver, Kirk Johnson and Katharine Seelye team up to cover the trial of…
Weekend Captionfest
President Barack Obama bows to Saudi King Abdullah at the G-20 conference in London. Photo AFP.
Finally, CNN and NY Times Find Some Good News in Housing Slump
Real state bust is a boon for some first-time buyers.
A Rainbow of College Choices
It seems that deciding which college is best for gay students goes beyond the usual questions of affordable or not, private or public, close to home or far away, and Big Ten or Big East. It also involves finding out which colleges are considered most sensitive to LGBT concerns. This week's "My Story" section in Newsweek focused on the plight of freelance journalist Julie Halpert's lesbian…
New York Gov. Paterson Bashes Rush, But Rush Is Much More Popular in N
When Rush Limbaugh announced he was completely leaving New York, putting his Fifth Avenue condo on the market. Gov. David Paterson joked after a speech on Thursday that "If I knew that would be the result, I would’ve thought about the taxes earlier." Over at Radio Equalizer, blogger Brian Maloney reports that Limbaugh is much more popular than Paterson at this point: Rush Limbaugh now ranks…
CBS’s Smith Praises the ‘Raw Realness’ of Michelle Obama
Friday’s CBS Early Show continued its fawning coverage of Barack and Michelle Obama in Europe as co-host Harry Smith gushed over the First Lady: "I mean, there's a kind of just raw realness about her. That session with the schoolgirls yesterday...People were in tears." Smith made the comment while talking to executive editor of thedailybeast.com, Tina Brown, who had her own words of praise: "…
Cramer Declares End of 'Depression'; Credits Obama's Rhetoric, not Act
It came and went - and some might not have even noticed it - despite the seriousness of its use. On April 2, CNBC's Jim Cramer proclaimed the Depression over. Throughout that day, the "Mad Money" host told viewers of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," CNBC's "Street Signs" and finally on his own program that the Depression was over and that we were on the verge of a bull run for the financial markets. "We…
NYT Ignores Free Speech Activist Yoani Sanchez; Focuses on Lefties
Ever notice the media love to report stories about people fighting the power, unless, of course, the power happens to be something the media favor? A March 31 New York Times article about Cuba's Havana Biennial art festival highlighted several artists whose political statements were in line with the anti-American, communist outlook of the island's regime, while ignoring prominent Cuban blogger…
TV Land Gives Green Light to New 'Cougar' Reality Dating Show
Attention middle-aged women: keep your young sons at home because your best friend might just want to date them. That’s right. TV Land is set to premiere a new reality show on April 15 based on a 40-year old single mother of four who wants to find a younger man, “Bachelor” style. “The Cougar” will feature 20 single men vying to be the soul mate of a woman twice their age. The field will be…
Barack Obama's Unprecedented Accomplishment a Virtually Guaranteed Med
Barack Obama has done something no other president has done in the five months after his election.He and his pals Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid laid the groundwork for this achievement back in June when they created what I have since last July been calling the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) Economy, so it is fair to say that Obama's accomplishment, spanning November 2008 through March 2009, belongs to him…
The New York Times Gets Defensive
The New York Observer has noticed an interesting new trend at The New York Times. Its something that we have rarely, if ever, seen from The Times in it's long history. In fact, we are used to seeing a defiant and rather confident Times:There was a time when The New York Times never had to say anything back. If the newspaper caught hell for a story in the popular media, editors at the paper could…