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'Good Morning America' Gushes Over the 30 Day Anniversary of Obama Win
Sounding like junior high students reveling in their first romance, "Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer and ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos on Thursday celebrated the one month anniversary of Barack Obama's election as president. While talking to the former Clinton aide-turned journalist, Sawyer cooed, "Well, speaking of the President-elect, kind of an anniversary today. 30 days since he…
My Day On Campus: No 'Out' Republicans Among Budding Media Professiona
The future of a media dominated by left-leaning professionals seems assured. At least, it is if my experience addressing an Ithaca College course today is any indication. Professor Wenmouth Williams, Jr. kindly invited me in to address two sections of his course on media and politics at Ithaca College's Park School of Communications.Prof. Williams—who identified himself as a registered Dem—…
Global Warming Update: CNN Drops Science Unit and Miles O'Brien
Climate alarmists won't have Miles O'Brien to spread global warming hysteria on CNN anymore as the network has decided to eliminate its science and technology unit.As reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday, this "will result in the loss of seven jobs including veteran space correspondent Miles O’Brien."Apparently, this isn't a cost-cutting move (h/t Chris Horner):
New York Times Omits Freddie Mac from Emanuel's Resume
Front page business profile doesn't mention two-year stint with troubled government sponsored enterprise.
When You Say ‘Zoo,’ Elephants Hear ‘Guantanamo Bay
Sometimes you have to laugh at the overwrought emotion that Hollywood celebrities bring to their causes. In a story on Thursday’s Today (in the supposedly hard news 7am half hour), KNBC reporter Robert Kovasic reported on a debate in Los Angeles about whether to spend $40 million to renovate and enlarge the elephant compound at the Los Angeles Zoo, or instead create a 100-acre elephant preserve…
AP Touts Alabama County Resolution: Barack Obama Day
A small county in rural Alabama is making national news for passing a motion declaring that the second Monday in November will be forever recognized as "Barack Obama Day". Normally small county resolutions that affect a mere 40 of this nation's 301 million residents would not capture a national audience. In this case however the AP has discovered one of those pivotal occasions where they can…
Michael Moore Continues Assault on Free Enterprise
Controversial filmmaker says 'capitalism doesn't work;' accuses 'wealthy' of collecting 'as much silverware as possible' before Obama sworn in.
Dear Baltimore Sun: Politicians Aren't Business Experts
If you wouldn't entrust your 401(k) to a senator why support political investments in the auto industry?
Refreshing: NY Times Blogger Rejects Hipster Affection for Che Guevara
There was an interesting post Tuesday morning on the New York Times's "City Room" blog, "Che, or a Statue of an Actor Playing Che," about a statue of an actor playing Che Guevara recently installed in a corner of Central Park. David Gonzalez interviewed passerby delighted at the representation (once-removed) of Guevara, the colorful Communist thug romanticized among the benighted left and the…
Econ 101: Financial Bailouts and the Rule of Law
Rule of law - not rule of men - is necessary for economic stability.
Sounding Too Much Like Michael Moore, Chuck Todd Cites NewsBusters
On Thursday's "Morning Joe," after being told that a critique of his on the auto industry bailout sounded very similar to one made by liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, MSNBC political director Chuck Todd told co-host Willie Geist that he dreaded what the people at NewsBusters would say: "By the way, I can't wait 'til our friends at NewsBusters, you know, compare, compare me to Michael Moore. I…
CBS’s Schieffer: Obama Cabinet ‘Bunch of Flaming Moderates
On Thursday’s "CBS Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked discussed the Obama transition with Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who observed: "...a lot of people said this is going to be a very extremist president and all that, that he's a very liberal Democrat, but as we have seen in appointment after appointment, he's hewing to the center. He's picking a bunch of flaming moderates here, when…