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CBS ‘Early Show’ Fawns Over Obama Casting Ballot
In the 8:30AM half hour of Tuesday’s CBS Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez led live coverage of Barack Obama voting in Chicago and asked Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer: "Bob, how must he be feeling right now?" A choked up Schieffer replied: "Well, I mean, this is a -- this is a remarkable moment in American history. Stop and think about this, 150 years ago there were 31 million people who…
Whoopi Goldberg: 'I Cussed Out This Country
Whoopi Goldberg, in defending Reverend Wright, admitted to, at times "cuss[ing] out America." On the November 4 (Election Day) edition of "The View," a conversation about Sarah Palin’s clearance in the "Troopergate" probe quickly morphed into a fight (three on one) over Reverend Wright. In justifying Wright’s "God damn America" remark, Whoopi confessed "I have been guilty of cussing this country…
Obama Thanks The Tanks, Media Was ‘Gracious’ For Barack
**Update**I've Been Scolded...
It’s always nice to see someone thank another for their hard work, isn’t it? Well, here at the end of this long, long presidential campaign (it’s been going on since 2004 for Barack and the Old Media, after all), Barack Obama has thanked his fellow campaign members in the Old Media for their hard work as they’ve fronted for him, pushed for him, and willingly dived…
CNN Provides 'Election Edition' Exception to Media's Pro-Obama Coverag
'Your $$$$$' co-hosts go out of their way in attempt to balance air time for Democrat and Republican analysts.
Chris Matthews Will Be ‘Emotional’ Tonight: We’re ‘Leaping Tow
On his syndicated Chris Matthews Show on Sunday, the conspicuously pro-Obama MSNBC host announced how he expected that “election night is going to be emotional for all of us....Particularly if it goes in that historic direction, it’s going to be very emotional for everybody. I mean, everybody.”A few minutes later, in his closing commentary about the election, Matthews (a potential Democratic…
WaPo Ombudsman: Okay, So Maybe, Just Maybe, We Are Biased
Dismissing the notion as "simplistic" that her paper is liberally biased, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote on Sunday that there is "a grain of truth" to the lament from conservatives that the Post skews leftward (emphases mine):Neither the hard-core right nor left will ever be satisfied by Post coverage -- and that's as it should be. But it's true that The Post, as well as much of…
Schumer: Talk Radio Needs to be Regulated Like Pornography
Did you know that talk radio needs to be limited on the airwaves just like pornography?According to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) it does.I kid you not. At least, that's what he said on Fox News Tuesday morning when asked his position on the Fairness Doctrine (video embedded right):
'Conservative' Michael Smerconish Rewarded for Supporting Obama
It looks like "conservative" radio talk show host Michael Smerconish has finally reaped his reward for supporting Barack Obama. Brian Maloney of the Radio Equalizer beautifully skewers the deceitful Philadelphia radio show host for cashing in on his self-serving, career-enhancing, endorsement:As Philly talker Michael Smerconish has revealed, it certainly pays to tow your liberal employer's party…
WaPo Print Edition Downplays McCain Military Ballot Lawsuit in Virgini
The McCain campaign filed suit yesterday against Virginia in federal court to "force the state to count late-arriving overseas military ballots," reported the Associated Press in a November 3 story. While the Washington Post's Web site carries the 5-paragraph AP article, the paper's print edition this morning punted on running a separate follow-up article. Instead the Post devoted a few…