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Gibson Cues Up Obama Refutation on Ayers But Demands McCain Justify To
For ABC's World News on Wednesday and Thursday, Charles Gibson conducted interviews with Barack Obama and John McCain aboard the ABC News bus, but on McCain's “line of attack” against Obama he shared Obama's annoyance (“Are you going to have to address that again?”) while he pushed McCain to justify the criticism: “You're comfortable that this should be a focus in the last days of the campaign?”…
NYT Blogger Discovers Another 'Lifelong Republican
Attention all you liberal journalists out there, including Timothy Egan blogging at the New York Times! You really do need to come up with a better descriptive term than "lifelong Republican" which is the most obvious "tell" of all that the person in question is not quite what they claim they are. In the case of Egan, trying very hard to project "Republicans" as drifting away from John McCain, he…
Michelle Obama Enjoys Jon Stewart's Loving Liberal Interview
On Wednesday night’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart interviewed Michelle Obama and insisted the Obama family has been "vetted about as much as a family can be vetted." Mrs. Obama insisted their Democratic primary opponents "dug through every piece of everything. If something was coming out, it would have come out." When Stewart asked if (if?) there was a "real…
CNBC Host: 'We Need a Perp Walk' to Boost Market Confidence
'The Call' and 'Fast Money' host Dylan Ratigan tells viewers criminal charges necessary for public to regain belief in markets.
PBS's Ray Suarez Sees 'Racial Calculus' in Obama Opposition
Taxpayer-subsidized journalist Ray Suarez (pictured at right) thinks concerns over Barack Obama's liberalism are transparent proxies for something more sinister: racism. What's more, the PBS "NewsHour" reporter suggested that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin is the campaign's point woman charged with "pil[ing] on the doubt" about Obama's fitness for office. So reported Grand Rapids Press…
NY Times Sells Subscriptions at Deviant Sex Fair
You won't believe it unless you see it with your own eyes. On September 28, The New York Times sponsored a booth selling subscriptions at the Folsom Street Fair - the largest, raunchiest, most outrageous celebration of deviant sexual behavior in San Francisco, and quite possibly the world - but the Times refused to report on the event.The Gray Lady averted her editorial eyes, but hawked the…
CNN Omits ACORN’s Name From Brief on Voter Fraud Raid in Vegas
On Thursday’s American Morning program on CNN, co-anchor Kiran Chetry failed to mention ACORN’s name during a news brief about the law enforcement raid on the liberal organization’s local headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of an investigation into allegations of voter fraud. Chetry called ACORN a “non-profit group” that was “disputing claims it committed voter registration fraud.” She…
Tina Brown: Dishonorable McCain Should Be a Better Loser
Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown appeared on Thursday's "Good Morning America" to plug her new website and asserted that "what people are really interested in" is whether Senator John McCain is losing in a dishonorable manner. While describing "The Daily Beast," a Huffington Post-style blog site, she whined that "what I feel strongly is a sense that people are regretting [sic] the old John…
The Biz Flog Said Short Selling Ban was Bad Idea Weeks Ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission ended the 16-day ban on short selling Oct. 9, which has left many journalists asking if the ban actually worked to keep more banks from failing. The staff at the Business & Media Institute's video blog, "The Biz Flog," could have told you the ban wasn't a good idea when they put together "Who's Afraid of a Big Bad Short Seller?" But, it's nice to see…
Knee Jerk at Le Cirque: David Brooks Calls Palin a 'Fatal Cancer' on t
The Huffington Post reported that New York Times columnist David Brooks, the man PBS’s "NewsHour" unit selected to represent in some way "conservative" opinion in America, has condemned Gov. Sarah Palin as "a fatal cancer to the Republican Party." Brooks claimed some conservatives not only scorn liberal ideas, but "scorn ideas entirely," including Palin and President Bush. He also lauded Barack…
Will MSM Report on Louis Farrakhan Declaration of Obama as the Messiah
Imagine the excitement of the mainstream media if they had discovered that some preacher up in Alaska had declared Sarah Palin to be like a deity? Well, the same basic thing happened when the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, declared Barack Obama to be a messiah as you can see in this video. I believe this messianic pronouncement by Farrakhan was made last February but…
ABCNews.com Paints Iraq Phone Surveillance As Little More Than Voyeuri
"Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans; U.S. Officers' "Phone Sex" Intercepted; Senate Demanding Answers," reads the headline and subhead for an ABCNews.com "Blotter" post by Brian Ross.Written with fellow ABC staffers Vic Walter and Anna Schechter, Ross's October 9 post aimed to make National Security Agency phone monitoring of calls into and out of Baghdad out to be…