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PCMag.com: Attack of the Geeks on John McCain
Someone peed in Lance Ulanoff's pocket protector and it must have been a Republican, because Ulanoff, one of PCMag.com's chief geeks, unloaded on the "tech illiterate" John McCain in a July 16th article, insisting that McCain isn't "tech savvy enough to run this country."
Ulanoff is filled with all sorts of assumptions and with faux indignation that John McCain dares run for president even…
Anchors w/ Obama 'Not Like North Korean TV Covering Kim Jong Il' Reall
Will Katie Couric be as tough with Barack Obama as North Korean television is with Kim Jong Il? The last time Couric (and the other anchors to, for that matter) interviewed Obama the liberal Democrat had no more to fear from her and them than the communist dictator ever has from his state media.Pressed at the TV critics session with the networks in Beverly Hills on Friday as to whether ABC, CBS…
Hannity to Obama: Do You Have The Guts To Come On My Show
On Wednesday, presumptive Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama blamed his wife's high negative ratings on "the conservative press—Fox News and the National Review" as well as "rants by Sean Hannity."He also said, "And you know, the problem is that rarely do these folks have the guts to say it to your face." On Thursday, Hannity struck back (video embedded right):Senator Obama, here is my…
Netroots Boo Harold Ford for Paying Respect to FNC Colleagues
What do people on the ultra-left hate more: George W. Bush or Fox News?The question stems from an incident Friday at the Netroots Nation conference in Austin, Texas, when former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford Jr. was booed for saying that he has great respect for his former colleagues at Fox News.This was so newsworthy that the Huffington Post's Sam Stein actually wrote about it (emphasis added…
John McCain on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien
John McCain joined comedian Conan O'Brien on NBC's "Late Night" Friday, and did very well:
Test Your Current Events Knowledge w/the Pew News IQ Test
Here's some fun for your weekend. Take the Pew News IQ Quiz (h/t NBer DaBird):To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with 1,003 randomly sampled adults asked the same questions in a recent national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. [...]You'll also be able to compare your News IQ…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: are the bear market in stocks and the bull market in oil over?The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 1.7 percent to 1,260.68 this week. The equity benchmark earlier this month fell more than 20 percent from its October peak, the threshold for a bear market, amid record oil prices and concerns about financial firms' liquidity. The Dow…
O'Reilly: 'AP May Now Be Dead As an Objective News Organization
The fallout that began a week ago after the publication of the Associated Press's Tony Snow obituary continues. Fox News's Bill O'Reilly took his concerns about it to the top of AP, and didn't like the response he received. He shouldn't.In his column this morning at Townhall.com, he also reaches a conclusion about the self-described "Essential Global News Network" that is becoming increasingly…
NPR: Not Livin' Large in Ohio, Folks Can't Even Afford Meat
That's it. NPR has declared Ohio a disaster area. Things are so bad. NPR gravely warns, that folks in the Buckeye state can't even afford to buy meat for their dinner tables anymore. It's the end of civilization as we know it. Doom and gloom. Oh the humanity. It's the end of the world as we know it... at least for one Ohio family that NPR found to act as stand in for the rest of the state. To NPR…
Blue Summer
Hollywood is peddling sex like crazy this season even though the sexualization of our culture is exacting a fearsome toll, especially on young girls.