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CBS and ABC Lament Patrick Kennedy's Exit as 'End of an Era
Reporting Congressman Patrick Kennedy's decision to not run for re-election this fall for his House seat representing Rhode Island, CBS and ABC on Friday night bemoaned the impending lack of a Kennedy in the House or Senate – presuming no other Kennedy runs and wins this November – as the “end of an era.” CBS even created a chart to display the timeline for Kennedys in office, as fill-in CBS…
CNN: President Made 'Pants on Fire' Claim on Health Care; AP: 'Hyperbo
CNN refreshingly called out President Obama on Friday's Newsroom concerning his false claim that "for the first time...you saw more people getting health care from government than you did from the private sector." CNN's Suzanne Simons and anchor Tony Harris both used the "pants on fire" expression to describe the President's statement. The AP, on the other hand, merely labeled it "hyperbole."…
Headline of the Day: 'Message to Chris Matthews: Shut up
No matter what the topic, it's hard not to find joy in a newspaper column headlined “Message to Chris Matthews: Shut up!” -- a column in which the author also expressed a yearning “to shove a sock” in Matthews' “big mouth” and colorfully described Matthews' “moon face coloring up like a pumpkin with hay scattered on top.”Can't beat that.It all came in a column by Harry Jaffe, a veteran of the…
TPM Trumpets Racist Rebuffed by Tea Party Groups as 'Prominent' 'Leade
The liberal website Talking Points Memo continues to report on a bigoted individual who speciously claims to represent 6 million members of the Tea Party movement as a "leader." In fact, he doesn't represent anyone but himself.Readers can only infer from TPM's consistent coverage of one Dale Robertson that the website is attempting to play up the most radical figure it can find who associates…
The Ultimate Valentine Date: Un-Marry Your Spouse for Gay Rights
Romantic comedies and candlelight dinners are two common activities that couples like to engage in on Valentine’s Day, but Bill Talen is offering a rather, uhh, unique suggestion on February 14: un-marry your spouse for gay rights. USA Today reported that Talen is inviting all couples to participate in the “unMarriage event,” taking place in New York City, which apparently isn’t anything new.…
HuffPo Reporter Backs Biden Claim Iraq Will Be Obama’s ‘Great Achi
Conservative talk radio and political blogs all jumped on Vice President Joe Biden’s claim on CNN’s Larry King Live Wednesday night that the successful resolution of the Iraq war “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” Biden and President Obama, then both Senators, strongly opposed President Bush’s 2007 troop surge that marked the turning point in the war.On his Thursday…
Blizzard of Lies II: Global Warming Snow In Dallas Shatters Record
As my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported Friday, global warming-obsessed media have been hysterically blaming this year's record snowstorms on climate change under the theory that Al Gore's favorite myth will increase moisture in the atmosphere thereby raising the amount of the white stuff falling from the sky.As Finkelstein pointed out, the problem with this postulate is that this season's…
Media Favoritism? MSNBC’s Shuster Reports Democratic D.C. Mayor Got
Even though his cable TV news network may not have that many viewers in relative terms to his competitors, MSNBC's David Shuster apparently has some clout when it comes to getting things done in Washington, D.C. - at least on a municipal level. Shuster, making effort to give his viewers some "perspective" of his personal experience with the reason record-breaking snowfall in Washington, D.C.,…
NYT Shows Obama's Favorability, Approval Plummeting, Yet Stresses 'Edg
Give the New York Times points for nerve, anyway. Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney managed to take the paper's new poll, full of bad news for President Obama and Democrats, and to change the subject, twisting the findings to suggest that Republicans were the party in trouble, in Friday's front page story: “Obama Fares Better in Poll Than G.O.P." The online headline is similar: "Obama Has…
CNBC's Bartiromo Schools MSNBC Panel on Anti-Business Obama Policies
On Thursday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, CNBC's Maria Bartiromo appeared as a guest and recounted some of President Obama's anti-business, anti-wealthy stands as she informed host Joe Scarborough and the panel why some see Obama as anti-business despite his support of bailouts on Wall Street. Responding to Scarborough's declaration that "there has been a redistribution of wealth since Barack Obama has…
CBS 'Early Show' Skips Part of Poll Finding Most Americans Want Smalle
Touting the latest CBS News/New York Times poll on Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith and Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer concluded that Americans were upset with President Obama and Congress simply over the influence of "special interest groups," without mentioning massive government spending or ObamaCare as other possible reasons.After reporting that 70% of Americans were "…