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AP Just Noticed 'Iraq War Disappears' From TV
Apparently, AP's television writer David Bauder just noticed that the Iraq war has been canceled as TV fare lately. Maybe Mr. Bauder should have been reading Newsbusters because our own Rich Noyes noticed how the war had vanished from TV all the way back on Feb. 28th.
Of course, Bauder is trying to spin this neglect as mere "fatigue," as if the war were a fad that people have just grown tired…
CBS Trots Out 'Great Depression' References in Wake of Bear Collapse
CBS's morning show gives a very grim report about the state of the economy after J.P. Morgan and the Federal Reserve act to keep beleaguered investment bank from failing.
ABC's Roberts Fawns Over Heart-Warming Clinton Charity
"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts interviewed Bill Clinton for nine minutes over two segments on Monday and somehow managed to avoid discussing the disgraced Eliot Spitzer and controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Instead, GMA again featured another positive look at the Clinton Global initiative and its plan to fight poverty and get young people involved. Roberts gushed, "It's got to…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Discusses Obama’s Pastor, No Mention of Most Co
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," a total of over 13 minutes of coverage was given to the controversy involving comments of Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but only 16 seconds was given to play video of Wright’s comments, video which did not include some of the Reverend’s most shocking comments that September 11 was caused by U.S. foreign policy or that the AIDS virus was part of a government…
Oops - CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collaps
'Mad Money' host drastically underestimated the investment bank's trouble surrounding the mortgage crisis.
WaPo Editors Huff at 'Paternalistic' Abortion Ban, Support D.C. Gun Ba
It's "paternalistic" for the U.S. Supreme Court to tell a D.C. woman she can't have a partial-birth abortion. But it would be "perverse ideological purity" for the high court to strike down the city's handgun ban that leaves her defenseless in her own home against burglars or abusive ex-boyfriends. That's the logic flowing from that great fount of legal wisdom, the Washington Post editorial board…
ABC Ignores Taxes Behind High California Gas Prices
'World News' segment about economic hardship due to higher gas prices in California fails to explain why that state's prices were higher to begin with.
Doh! Cramer Told E-Mailer to Hold Onto Bear Stearns Stock a Week Ago
He'd probably like to take this comment back, but then again there are probably many things CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer has said that he'd like to take back. In a response to an e-mail posted on his Web site on March 11, Cramer said Bear Stearns (NYSE:BSC) wasn't in trouble and advised the writer to keep his money in the investment bank: "Dear Jim: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns…
CBS Has Barack's Back: Wright's Words Compared to Those of Jesus
The Early Show did its best this morning to help Barack Obama climb out of the hole he's dug for himself with his close association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In a set-up segment, CBS's Dean Reynolds rhetorically asked: "the question is whether the rhetoric is so remarkable, because in African-American churches pastors often seek to rouse their congregants to self-reliance by speaking harshly…
'Today' Sends Mixed Signals on Markets
NBC co-host makes Great Depression comparison while CNBC contributors caution against panic.
The 2nd Amendment a 2nd Class Right
It's a funny thing about the Bill of Rights. Rather than view each Amendment's protections as equally valid, many (but not all) liberals tend to enshrine some as sacrosanct but dismiss others at antiquated. Hence the First and Fourth amendments and their protections of free speech and press and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure respectively are held in extremely high regard, with state…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking points:Fed cuts discount rate...on a Sunday! JP Morgan buys Bear Stearns for $2/share!Stocks are tumbling around the world!Dollar heading lower with fears that it could become the new "carry trade" currency!In the midst of all this, Alan Greenspan, who was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, is warning that America could be…
Blogger Patterico Calls Out LA Times Coverage of Obama-Wright
Lead Los Angeles Times scold Patrick Frey, aka Patterico, ripped into the Times's Saturday story on Barack Obama and the sermons of Trinity United Church of Christ Pastor Jeremiah Wright, giving us yet another reason to be thankful for New Media:Patterico accurately notes the following (bold and italics are in original):(The Times) downplays the 20-year relationship Obama has had with the pastor…
NYT's Cohen: Barack's 'Grown Beyond' Wright
One set of facts, two diametrically different NYT op-eds addressing it this morning. The fact: that Barack Obama is backpedaling as fast as he can away from the hateful anti-American rhetoric of Jeremiah Wright. The op-eds: Bill Kristol's, offering a dose of sobering realism about Obama's feet that if not of clay, then are certainly those of a garden-variety politician. And then there's Roger…