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Live Tweeting Rubert Murdoch's Speech at National Press Club
Good evening NBers. In about half an hour, NewsBusters founder and executive editor Matt Sheffield and I will be live-tweeting a speech by News Corp. founder and chairman Rupert Murdoch. A feed of our tweets can be seen below the fold.News Corp. is the world's second largest media conglomerate, and the parent company of, among many others, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News Channel, and MySpace.…
Time Editor Elaborates on Obama to Mandela Comparisons on Hardball
Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, invited on Time editor and Nelson Mandela biographer Richard Stengel to clarify his comparisons of Mandela to Barack Obama as the MSNBC host prodded him to expound on the "kerfuffle" that "will arouse some anxiety on the right." After Matthews recited a quote from the book, that Obama had achieved "a Mandela-like temperament without the long years of…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Again Hammers 'Notorious' RNC Strip Club S
Good Morning America on Tuesday continued to tout the Republican National Committee's (RNC) strip club scandal, now upgraded to "notorious" status by co-host George Stephanopoulos. The other network morning shows have largely lost interest in the subject, but GMA, clearly, has not. Stephanopoulos, whose previous profession involved working for the sex scandal-plagued Bill Clinton, hyped, "Now, to…
Author Says Obama Is Not a 'Phony' When He Changes His Speech Patterns
Appearing on the Charlie Rose show on PBS Monday, New Yorker editor (and former Washington Post reporter) David Remnick tried to argue his way out of his new book’s reporting on the phoniness of Barack Obama. Remnick suggested Obama has been a "translator" between races and cultures. Rose asked him to discuss Reverend Wright. By dumping him, the most significant message Remnick came away with was…
MSNBC’s Alter: Justice Stevens ‘Great Intellect’ ‘Makes Scalia
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter – also of Newsweek – claimed that liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is, in fact, a "moderate" who has such "great intellect" that he makes conservative Justice Antonin Scalia "look like a pygmy." Alter: "Justice Stevens is the great intellect on the court in our generation. He makes, say, Scalia look like a pygmy,…
HuffPo: Academic Thesis Worse Than Felony Sexual Offense
Pop quiz: which of the following political candidates would you be less likely to vote for: one who had written things offensive to many women in a master's thesis, or one who was convicted of trying to solicit sex from a minor?If you think the felony conviction is a more condemnable offense for a political candidate, you may want to give up your dream job as a Huffington Post columnist. In the…
Mark Levin Audio: Obama Balks at Softball Question About Favorite Whi
In case you missed it -- and you may well have as the mainstream media aren't making hay out of it* -- yesterday President Obama completely flubbed a softball question tossed by a sports announcer (via RealClearSports):Rob Dibble asks Obama who one of his favorite White Sox players was while growing up in Chicago. Obama stumbles and avoids the question. Maybe he misheard the question or maybe…
Newsweek's Fineman: Obama's First Pitch 'Looping' and 'Carefully Lofty
Most observers, even the giddiest of Barack Obama boosters, will agree that baseball is not the president's forte. [Heck, he can't name any of his favorite White Sox players.]"High and to the left," it seems, is an accurate description not only of the cost and philosophical direction of ObamaCare but also of Obama's opening pitch yesterday at Nationals Park.Yet at least one journalist, Newsweek's…
Rudy Giuliani and Joe Scarborough Humiliate Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington stuck her foot in her mouth during Tuesday's "Morning Joe" on MSNBC, and ended up being totally humiliated by host Joe Scarborough and guests Rudy Giuliani and Mort Zuckerman.As the subject of Florida's Senate race was broached, Huffington decided to attack the former Mayor of New York City rather than address the qualifications of Republican candidates Charlie Crist and Marco…
CBS's Smith: If President's Wild Pitch Hit Batter, ObamaCare Would Cov
During a fawning segment on a busy day of presidential traditions for Barack Obama, on Monday's CBS Evening News, fill-in anchor Harry Smith used the commander in chief's embarrassing pitch at the Washington Nationals opening game to tout ObamaCare: "If there had been a batter he might have been hit, but we are assured by the White House he would have been covered by the new health care reform…
Suspended: Is the Era of David Shuster Lashing Out at 'Nutty,' Far Rig
MSNBC on Tuesday announced that anchor David Shuster has been "suspended indefinitely" after filming a pilot at CNN. If this is the end of the liberal host's tenure on MSNBC, he'll leave behind a long legacy of viciously attacking "conservative fear mongering." During the Obama era, Shuster, supposedly a straight-news journalist, has been quick to deride the opponents of the President. On…
O'Reilly Blasts Media for Demeaning and Neutralizing All Who Oppose Ob
"If you oppose the Obama administration, you must be demeaned and neutralized."So said Fox News's Bill O'Reilly Monday about the state of today's media. "Ever since the Tea Party protest began last summer, the left-wing media in America has been attacking the movement," he began his Talking Points Memo. "From the jump, the Tea Party protesters never had a chance," O'Reilly continued. "As soon as…
Ed Schultz Perpetuates Feeble Left-Wing Slander of Hannity's 'Tim McVe
Picture this: a speaker at a crowded public forum referring to his audience as "Tim McVeigh wannabes" -- and receiving enthusiastic applause after saying it.Two possibilities come to mind. First, the audience consists mainly of those aspiring to membership in militias and hence their approval for being described this way. Or, much more likely, the speaker is being facetious and describing…
