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CBS Bids Good Riddance to Bush
During live coverage of President Bush leaving on the presidential helicopter immediately following the swearing in of Barack Obama, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric got reaction from liberal historian Douglas Brinkley, who observed: "Keep in mind, a lot of Americans are thinking it's pretty cool that he's leaving, too. A lot of Americans didn't take him as the real president after the Gore…
Terry Moran: 'Confidence is What President-elect Obama is All About
"Nightline" anchor Terry Moran, who has been gushing over Barack Obama from the very start, filed an enthusiastic report on Monday's show and asserted that "confidence is what President-elect Obama is all about." Over video of the train ride that took the Democrat to Washington, the veteran ABC correspondent cooed, "It has been a grand journey all the way to the great moment tomorrow." During the…
Markets Greet Obama With Worst Inauguration Day Selloff In History
Barack Obama not only made history becoming the first black President of the United States Tuesday, but he was also inhospitably greeted by the biggest January Inauguration Day stock selloff ever.At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down over four percent, with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ indices plummeting more than five percent.As the Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog…
Retiring Air Force One Pilot Praises Bush As 'Definitely a Great Man
Here's a story you may not have heard as the media have all but ignored outgoing President Bush during the Obama transition.The Air Force pilot who flew President Bush on 9/11 and ferried the commander-in-chief on secret flights to visit troops in Iraq hails the outgoing president as "definitely a great man" for whom "it's been an honor to fly."As CBS Radio's Mark Knoller noted in a January 17…
ABC's Gibson on Al Gore: 'Had He Gotten a Second Term
Less than an hour before Barack Obama took the oath of office, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson spotted former Vice President Al Gore arriving at the inauguration, and Gibson fantasized about how this could have been Gore's last day in office, not George W. Bush's."Had he gotten a second term," Gibson began before correcting himself, "had he been elected president in the first place in the year…
CBS: 'Cubans Look for "Change" to Believe In
CBSNews.com greets readers of its World Watch blog today with, "Cubans Look For 'Change' To Believe In."The blog post by Havana-based Portia Siegelbaum began by insisting that: Expectations are almost as high among Cubans as they are among Americans as the countdown to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama speeds up. Of course, far-left rhetoric notwithstanding, the United States is a…
Matthews: Bush Family Like the Romanovs, Obama May Join ‘Oratorical
During Tuesday morning’s inaugural coverage on MSNBC, Chris Matthews twice compared the Bush family to the Romanovs as he contended that the Bushes are now likely to go into hiding because of President Bush’s unpopularity: "It’s going to be like the Romanovs, too, and I mean that. There’s a sense here that they are fallen from grace, that they’re not popular, that the whole family will now go…
ABC Enthuses Over 'New Face' of Obama; 'Driven by an Audacity to Hope
"Good Morning America" kicked off its inauguration coverage on Tuesday with an anonymous announcer enthusiastically repeating the talking points of Barack Obama. During a 7am tease, this voice trumpeted, "Barack Obama sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. A new face from a new generation. Driven by an audacity to hope." (audio clip here)The male announcer continued his introduction…
Nationalize Banks? One Investor Says So Be It
On Fox Business Network, portfolio manager says Obama should nationalize if that's what it takes.
WaPo Notes Obama Balls Gone Flat, Previously Noted Same of Inaugural R
"Don't you hate it when you pop a bottle of champagne and it's flat? So, too, with some of these inaugural balls," Washington Post gossip gals Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts alerted their readers in the January 20 edition of "The Reliable Source."While none of the official PIC balls have been cancelled, the unofficial ones that have been cancelled or are on life support to be the ones geared…