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Is Olbermann Subsidizing Brian Williams? Will Anderson Cooper Replace
In Monday’s New York Times, media reporters Bill Carter and Brian Stelter look at how declining ratings are affecting network news divisions, including ABC’s plan to cut staff by 400 through buyouts or layoffs. What’s most interesting to conservatives in this story is how the model may be NBC – where revenues from MSNBC’s bomb-throwing liberal talk-show hosts are subsidizing the slightly less…
Study: Global Warming Reduces Hurricanes, Will Media Notice
A new study predicts that global warming, contrary to claims made by Nobel Laureate Al Gore and the his fellow climate alarmists, will actually reduce the number of hurricanes by as much as 34 percent by the year 2100.The report just published in the journal Nature Geoscience also found that the increase in tropical storm activity the planet has seen since 1995 is part of a natural cycle…
Bizarre Bachmann Obsession Strikes Again: Lefty Group Introduces Derog
You got to wonder, what is it with this relative congressional backbencher that drives lefties so crazy? Throughout Rep. Michele Bachmann's, R-Minn., two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, she has been target of liberal scorn - from the great mind of MSNBC's Ed Schultz to the bomb-throwing commentator parading as a pseudo-investigative journalist known as Matt Taibbi. But this latest…
Van Jones Tells Roland Martin He's Called 'The Green Jack Kemp
The whitewash-the-green-czar tour continued, as Van Jones found another comfortable powder-puff interview with another black leftist, this time with CNN analyst Roland Martin. On Martin's Sunday show Washington Watch on the black entertainment channel TV One, Jones declared "I'm called the green Jack Kemp, because I'm so passionate about the entrepreneurial agenda here."He means green jobs, which…
Name That Party: AP Fails to ID White Plains Mayor Accused in DV Case
LoHud.com reports (HT to an NB e-mailer) that White Plains, New York Mayor Adam Bradley "turned himself in to police headquarters ... (Sunday) morning after his wife filed a complaint with police that he jammed her finger in a door around 9:30 a.m. Bradley was then arraigned on a third-degree misdemeanor assault charge at White Plains City Court." The web site does not identify Bradley's…
Fareed Zakaria Campaigns For A National Sales Tax
Fareed Zakaria used his CNN program Sunday to campaign for a national sales tax.This came just two weeks after he absurdly accused the tax cuts implemented by George W. Bush of being the biggest cause of today's budget deficit. Zakaria began the most recent installment of "GPS" by first discussing how great a country America is, but "we have big problems.""[T]he biggest one, by far, the one to…
ACORN's Apparent Break-up Not News at AP
In a week where several news outlets recognized significant happenings involving the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Associated Press seems to have decided that none of them merit mention. A search on "acorn" at the AP's main site returns the following: This search doesn't completely eliminate the possibility that AP ran local or regional stories, but I didn't…
Chris Matthews: It's Too Soon For George W. Bush Nostalgia
Chris Matthews believes it's too soon for George W. Bush nostalgia.Such was discussed during this weekend's syndicated program bearing his name.In fact, Matthews made this his big question of the day asking his guests, "Will there be George W. Bush nostalgia this November when his book comes out?"To his discredit, Matthews was the only person of the five in front of the camera that felt the…
WaPo Apologizes for Saying Cantor Was 'Posturing' at Health Care Summi
The Washington Post issued a correction on Saturday in which it apologized for a mischaracterization of the House Republican Whip's use of a printout of the Senate-passed health care bill:In a Feb. 26 editorial, we said Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was "posturing" during the Thursday health-care summit by stacking the voluminous Senate bill before him. Mr. Cantor says that he had the bill with him,…
No Where Safe from Leftist Bombast: TV Mom Frets GOP House Guests 'Den
Demonstrating how Hollywood writers aren't reticent about inserting gratuitous political points into prime time dramas, on last Sunday night's (February 21) episode of ABC's Brothers and Sisters, “Nora Walker,” played by liberal actress Sally Field, walked into her kitchen during a kick-off party for her daughter's Republican senatorial campaign, and complained to another daughter, a son and his…
CNN Shows Faces Obama Was Making During Healthcare Summit
To emphasize Barack Obama's frustration with what Republicans were saying at Thursday's healthcare summit, CNN aired a montage of the faces the President was making as prominent members of the GOP spoke.Candy Crowley introduced the segment on Sunday's "State of the Union":As we mentioned earlier, President Obama's face said a lot last week. I was in the studio where you can watch what which call…
Is This An Interview? On PBS, Tavis Smiley Tells Van Jones He Loves Hi
How often does a network interviewer declare to the interviewee that he loves him and "would take a bullet" for him? On his self-titled PBS show on Thursday night, Tavis Smiley declared his love for radical 9-11 truther/Obama adviser Van Jones: "I believe in supporting friends and you know I love you, would do anything - would take a bullet for Van Jones." He concluded the interview by oozing "…
Rich: Tea Partiers Are Terrorists, Beck and Palin Are Their Leaders
New York Times columnist Frank Rich isn't just convinced suicide pilot Joe Stack shared many views with the Tea Partiers. He also believes some of the movement's members are basically domestic terrorists whose leaders include Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin."What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a…