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Don't Blame Us For Berkeley/Toledo Attacks Against Marines Say Busines
You're all aware, I'm sure, of the several attacks against our fighting men and women perpetrated by city governments of late. The Berkeley City Council, who intended to try and kick Marine recruiting offices out of the city, and Toledo, where Mayor Finkbeiner refused to allow the Marines to exit a bus in his city when they arrived to start planned upon exercises, are all over the news. It is…
Weekend Sports Open Thread
For those NBers not in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to watch Brandon Sheppard compete at the Tyson Invitational (men's high jump to begin just minutes from now, GO BIG RED!), here's your chance to discuss all things sports.For instance: who's lying -- Clemens or McNamee? Will someone be charged with perjury and/or obstructing justice? Real baseball fans can start getting ready for the season at ESPN's…
ABC's Obamacan: 'Lashing Out' Hillary 'Brazenly' Attacks Barack
This is too perfect! Barely an hour after Pat Buchanan proclaimed on NBC that the MSM is full of "out-of-the-closet Obamacans," ABC's David Wright provided a perfect illustration of the genre. In fact, I'm nominating the GMA segment Wright narrated this morning as the single most slanted episode of the MSM primary season. The screen graphic "On the Attack," set the theme: Hillary is unfairly…
A Tale of Two Parties for the AP (Again
Remember the former governor of New Jersey, Jim McGreevey? What political party did he belong to? Can't remember? Well, don't rely on the Associated Press to assist you in its article yesterday about him and his continuing marital woes:They've bickered over whether she knew he was gay, whose tell-all book would sell better, whether a poster of a nude man hanging over his new lover's bed had to…
Buchanan: MSM Full of 'Out-of-the-Closet Obamacans
Ask an obvious question . . . Amy Robach this morning asked the most rhetorical question in contemporary media: does the MSM have a thing for Barack Obama?The weekend Today co-anchor didn't need guests Pat Buchanan or Rachel Maddow for the answer. She could have kept things in-house with NBC's own Lee Cowan, who has acknowledged “it's almost hard to remain objective” about Obama.But pose the…
AP Maximizes Negativity in Covering Realtors' Housing Report
Granted, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is a trade organization which will, as trade organizations do, try to put the best face on a bad situation. And granted, part of the press's job is to filter through hype and false sunniness to report the truth of what's really going on. But that is most emphatically not what the Associated Press did with yesterday's NAR report on the state of…
Decline HillaryCare? Suffer An 'Outcome
You vill obey update . . . The domestic policy differences between Hillary and Obama are negligible. But the Clinton camp likes to claim that his national health care plan would leave 15 million people out, whereas hers covers everyone. Let's put aside for the moment the fact that former Clinton cabinet member Robert Reich says the Obama plan would actually wind up covering more people. The key…
Charles Barkley Calls Conservatives 'Fake Christians,' Likes Obamanomi
Former NBA star appears on CNN's 'The Situation Room' and says he is supporting Obama for economic reasons.
ABC's Greenburg: 2nd Amendment Not for Individuals Is Legal Orthodoxy
Noting Sen. Barack Obama's recent statement that he considers the Second Amendment an individual right -- setting aside for a moment his pro-gun control record and defense of the D.C. handgun ban -- ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg dismissed private gun ownership as constitutionally protected, holding instead that the "orthodox" view defends only a state's right.Here's the relevant portion from a…