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Left Claims to Have Chased Away 100+ Beck Advertisers
Eight-month old boycott appears to be losing steam in U.S.
Brokaw's Bad Memory: Impeachment Was 'Initiated' Against Clinton
We're not looking to give Bill Clinton a hard time on a day when he's undergone heart surgery. But our forbearance doesn't extend to Tom Brokaw when he misstates history . . . On this evening's Hardball, responding to Chris Matthews' question as to what motivates Clinton nowadays, Brokaw surmised that he is trying to improve his place in history given that, as president, impeachment proceedings…
Coffee and the Second Amendment Don’t Mix, According to AlterNet
The popular chain coffee shop, Starbucks, is known for a lot of things, but up until recently guns were not one of them. Some patrons of the Seattle-based coffee shop have recently started exercising their rights to carrying guns while they enjoy a cup of coffee. While the Starbucks customers have been expressing their right to bear arms, as allowed by the Second Amendment, there has been some…
Breaking: Bill Clinton Rushed to Manhattan Hospital
UPDATE BELOW THE FOLD: ABC News video about the former President's condition.Former President Bill Clinton was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Thursday afternoon.As reported by ABCNews.com moments ago: Clinton, 63, was transported to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan for a condition related to his heart. ABC News' chief political correspondent George Stephanopoulos reported that sources…
FNC's Chris Wallace 'Offended' That People Watch Scarborough, Denies R
Fox News's Chris Wallace Thursday blasted Joe Scarborough for suggesting that he rolled his eyes at the camera after Sunday's interview with Sarah Palin, and said he was "offended" people even watched the former Congressman on MSNBC.The "Fox News Sunday" host was referring to what transpired on Monday's "Morning Joe." "Look at the end of Chris Wallace's interview where he rolls his eyes, uh,…
'Anti-Journalism Attack Groups' Like MRC Threaten Democracy
Were you aware that the Media Research Center is a preeminent example of imported CIA psychological-warfare techniques? And that it’s an “anti-journalism attack group”? Former AP and Newsweek reporter Robert Parry warned of this and more on Alternet: A key strategy of the right has been to convince as many Americans as possible that the U.S. news media has a "liberal bias," a canard that has…
MSNBC’s Ratigan: Tea Party Includes ‘Birthers,’ ‘Open Racists
On Monday’s ‘The Dylan Ratigan Show’ on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan began the program by ranting: “The tea party has a bit of an integrity problem, as everybody from birthers, to open racists, to outright Nazis are actually on the team. And no one involved, including its leadership, seems to mind that fact.” To justify his outrageous smear of the political movement, Ratigan cited one woman who…
Name That Party, Snowmageddon Edition: Convicted Ex-Baltimore Mayor Ge
In a 15-paragraph story filed yesterday afternoon, Baltimore Sun's Justin Fenton reported how a police cruiser was dispatched at all times during the recent snowstorms to watch over the house of the city's disgraced ex-Mayor Sheila Dixon (D). You'll recall Dixon was convicted of misappropriating donated gift cards intended for distribution to needy constituents. Instead, Dixon used them on her…
Gay Activist on Behar Show: 'Conservative' Hollywood will Sideline Ann
The once-Disney princess Anne Hathaway recently announced to a cheering media that she was leaving the Catholic Church due to its "limited view" on her homosexual brother. Even though the media haven't stopped clapping, Michelangelo Signorile, a gay activist and talk radio host, warned on "The Joy Behar Show" that Hathaway may be temporarily sidelined by the conservative bigwigs in Hollywood."I…
NYT's Anti-Welfare Reform Reporter Takes 2nd Victory Lap: Food Stamp
Veteran New York Times welfare-beat reporter Jason DeParle took yet another victory lap in his Thursday story on how food stamps are losing their stigma in a piece co-written with Robert Gebeloff: "Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance." These same two reporters wrote a national version of the same story with virtually the same headline less than three months ago, which appeared on the…
NBC’s ‘SVU:’ Abortion Debate Boils Down to ‘Pro-Choice or No C
The case of a murdered woman who turned out to be an abortionist gave "Law and Order: SVU" writers the opportunity to frame the abortion debate as "pro-choice or no choice" during the Feb. 10 episode. Ultimately, Audrey Hale's profession had nothing to do with her death but the twist allowed writers to get in a few shots against pro-life activists (calling them "fanatical nuts") and portray…
Matthews Accuses States' Rights Advocates of Racism, Quotes MLK But No
According to Chris Matthews, the fact that racists have during the history of the nation invoked the rights of the states to perpetuate slavery or segregation immediately renders all proponents of states' rights -- a pillar of federalism and the American Constitution -- racist.While Matthews and his Hardball guests on Tuesday cited names like Jim Crow and John Calhoun and compared them to Texas…
Apparatchik Assistance: AP's Latest Chrysler Ad Repeats Free Favor Don
On January 27, in the wake of Toyota's gas-pedal recall, the Associated Press ran what might as well have been a free advertisement for a marketing effort by government-controlled General Motors: Is there any substantive difference between the three paragraphs above and the text of a paid ad? Today, they just did it again, this time for government-controlled Chrysler (what follows is most of…
Daily Beast: Right's Most Influential Journalist Is Gigot? Over Rush
CRITICAL UPDATES AT END OF POST: Limbaugh responds to list; author of list story used to work for the Wall Street Journal.The Daily Beast Thursday published its list of the Right's most influential media figures, and the winner will likely surprise many on both sides of the aisle.In the top position according to author Tunku Varadarajan (please see update at end of post!) is Paul Gigot, the…