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Michael Moore: Capitalism Must Be Eliminated
The leftist U.K. Guardian newspaper is celebrating an economics lecture from mockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore. The headline: "Capitalism is evil...you have to eliminate it"Moore told the Guardian's Chris McGreal for their Saturday editions that America needs a radical new economic order: But what does it mean, to replace capitalism with democracy? He sighs and tries to explain. In the old…
AP Video Teases Give Away Attitude Toward Tony Blair's UK Iraq War Inq
Based on the two pictures seen at the right, it doesn't exactly take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that the people at the Associated Press who decide on what pictures to use to tease the wire service's assorted video clips are not all favorably inclined towards Tony Blair. Rather than show a picture of the former UK Prime Minister, the AP chose pics of a demonstrator outside where the inquiry…
Will Journalists Fawn Over Olympia Snowe If She’s No Longer a ‘Reb
When Maine Republican Olympia Snowe backed aspects of health care reform early last fall, CBS’s Nancy Cordes cheered the "rebel Republican." Now that Snowe is sounding a tougher, more skeptical tone on the legislation, how will journalists treat the moderate Senator? Appearing on Thursday’s edition of On the Record, host Greta Van Susteren asked Snowe if health care was dead. She bluntly replied…
MSNBC’s Ratigan: Obama Offers ‘Olive Branch;’ GOP Uses It to
At the top of Friday’s Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC, the show announcer teased a story on President Obama speaking a meeting of House Republicans in Baltimore: “What will Republicans do with President Obama’s olive branch? He’s reaching out to the GOP yet again, despite a year of push backs and criticisms. Is he being naive or crazy like a fox?” Moments later, host Dylan Ratigan made a biblical…
Media Oversight: Is GM Stakeholder Federal Government Playing Politics
The government's traditionally enforced safety standards on automobiles sold in the United States. But the government didn't always own a car company. So you'd expect the media to take a hard look when the government's roles as regulator and competitor converge. But unless you saw the Jan. 28 broadcast of CNBC's "Power Lunch," you might not realize that this is exactly what has happened. In…
Is GM Owner Federal Government Playing Politics with Toyota Recall
Media overlook Obama administration Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
NBC's Savannah Guthrie: Stenographer to the President Fighting 'Petty
On the first evening newscasts after President Obama’s State of the Union address, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie won hands down if there were an award for stenography to White House power. Guthrie loaded up with five Obama soundbites and one from Nancy Pelosi, leaving Republicans at the end with with one soundbite from House Minority Leader John Boehner.On ABC, Jake Tapper offered two Obama bites and…
Hey Jack Cafferty - Pelosi Spent $2 Million Using Air Force Planes
As NewsBusters reported on several occasions this month, CNN's Jack Cafferty has been blasting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for refusing to address the profligate spending by members of Congress at December's climate change summit in Copenhagen.On January 12 he called her a "horrible woman," and followed this up two weeks later by referring to her arrogance as "breathtaking." With this…
Behar and Goldberg: First Year of Obama Presidency 'Traumatic' For Whi
[Update, 3:00 pm Eastern: Video added.] On HLN’s Joy Behar Show on Thursday, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg gave a racial explanation for Chris Matthews’ recent “I forgot he was black” remark about President Obama. Goldberg cracked that “this has been quite a year for the white man.” Behar replied, “Traumatic,” and Goldberg continued it was “traumatic in many ways because...you have to think…
'Bones' Pushes Prime Time Propaganda on 'Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell
Maybe it’s just happy coincidence. Maybe Hollywood really is taking White House suggestions for its scripts. Or maybe liberal group think has evolved to the point where they don’t just think the same things, they think them at the same time.Whatever the case, just a day after President Obama’s “surprise announcement” in his State of the Union speech that he intends to overturn the military’s “…
CBS: GOP A ‘Tough Crowd’ For Obama; No Mention of President’s Pa
At the top of Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith declared: “President Obama meets with GOP leaders as he tries to tackle the growing employment problem. Will it be a monologue or a dialogue?” White House correspondent Bill Plante later reported: “The President is also reaching out to Republicans today, speaking to the GOP House retreat. But it could be a tough crowd.”In Plante’s report…
Media React to 5.7 Percent GDP Growth: 'Great News for Consumers;' Eco
Fourth quarter GDP growth "beat expectations," exciting some journalists on Jan. 29. But a number of economists were downbeat. The 5.7 percent growth for the last quarter of 2009 sparked media reactions on both MSNBC and CNN. Savannah Guthrie declared on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" that "If they could do a jig at the White House, they would." Joining that discussion, NBC's Chuck Todd asked, "So is…