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Sawyer Champions ‘Super-Cop’ Regulator as ‘Gladiator’ Against
ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, who in February demanded to know who will “keep insurance companies from jacking up premiums while making huge profits?”, on Friday found her champion in the Superintendent of Maine’s Bureau of Insurance, hailing Mila Kofman as a “super-cop” and a “gladiator” for rejecting a rate hike requested by Anthem Blue Cross. Kofman proclaimed “we are the super-cops on the street.…
Anderson Cooper Takes On Alan Grayson Over Doctor's Anti-Obama Sign
It was by no means surprising to see Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) come down harshly on the Florida doctor who posted a sign in his office telling Obama supporters to seek care elsewhere. What was somewhat shocking was seeing CNN's Anderson Cooper take on Grayson Friday evening when the Congressman accused Dr. Jack Cassell of being racist."What he is doing is no different from saying I will not…
Mattera: Media Treat Dems as 'Though They are at a Jonas Brothers Conc
Jason Mattera, author of "Obama Zombies" and newly appointed editor of Human Events, said "members in the media treat leftist politicians as though they are at a Jonas Brothers concert." He also had rather choice words for young Obama supporters stuck in a "brainless slumber" on Fox Business Channel's April 2 broadcast of "Imus in the Morning." "Somebody about your age - mouthpiece of Franken -…
Correspondent Confuses Which Black CNN Host She's Talking To
Jeanne Meserve on Friday got her black CNN hosts confused.While appearing on "Rick's List" to discuss the indictment of domestic terrorist Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, the CNN correspondent repeatedly called fill-in host T. J. Holmes "Don."I guess she thought she was speaking to Don Lemon.Apparently this has happened to Holmes and Lemon before.But before we get there, here's the embarrassing moment in…
Matthews Calls Limbaugh 'Walrus Underwater': Was This a Vulgar Referen
CRITICAL UPDATES AT END OF POST including Matthews saying "Bush regime" in 2002.Chris Matthews on Friday referred to conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh as a walrus underwater.Chatting with guests Chuck Todd and Andrew Ross Sorkin about Limbaugh's recent comments concerning President Obama, Matthews quipped, "And this guy, this walrus underwater, makes fun of this administration, calling…
NCAA Final Four Open Thread
Butler vs. Michigan State. West Virginia vs. Duke.Who survives to play Monday? Will they be good games? Any blowouts? Any surprises?What have you felt about this Championship so far despite how terrible your bracket looks? Anybody pick two or more of the finalists?
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Google Chrome vs. Firefox.New updates to Firefox have made it very slow in my opinion. In the past week, I have had to regularly close out of FF to free up RAM and get my computer moving again. As a result, I downloaded Chrome last night, and am finding it to be much lighter and faster.I'm wondering if others have noticed a similar change…
Networks Praise New Fuel Standards, Call Them 'Nothing Short of Histor
New fuel standards make both the left and the media happy. It's easy to tell. There wasn't a single voice of opposition criticizing the latest act of Big Government on major prime-time news outlets ABC, CBS or NBC. "Environmentalists are hailing the move as nothing short of historic," NBC's Lee Cowan said of the federal government's new fuel efficiency standards. The networks did much the same.…
Bozell Column: Rape Games
Many -- too many -- red-blooded American boys grow up on Japanese video-game systems from Sony and Nintendo. Their cultural interests can extend into Japanese cartoons ("anime") and some even discover Japanese pornographic cartoons ("hentai"). How so? Boys play games and watch cartoons like the "Dragon Ball Z" series, but can quickly surf the Web and find related cartoon titles like "Dragonball X…
Tea Party Anger Compared to Anger at End of Slavery, Granting Women's
Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center was interviewed all over the liberal and hard-left media in the last week. On Tuesday, he appeared on Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now show to talk about the harsh tone of calling Obama a fascist -- even as they approvingly played audio of Rep. Louise Slaughter comparing her Republican colleagues to Mussolini for encouraging protesters: I could not…
On the Left, Comparing Bush's America to North Korea Makes You Supreme
They were in mourning at Pacifica Radio on Thursday when radical Obama administration official Harold Koh failed to live up to his Bush-trashing writing during the last administration. He defended the legality of U.S. drone attacks on suspected terrorist locations. This dismayed Democracy Now host Amy Goodman: AMY GOODMAN: Robert Mackey points out over at the New York Times that Harold Koh wrote…
NPR Women 'Appalled' at Imus's Palin-On-Your-Lap Joke; It's 'a Tool of
It might seem a little shocking to hear two NPR women standing up for Sarah Palin. But on Wednesday's Tell Me More talk show, host Michel Martin and analyst Cokie Roberts took offense at a weeks-old joke on the Imus show on Fox Business about Palin's first Sunday-show interview on Fox News Sunday: DON IMUS: When you interview her, will she be sitting on your lap? CHRIS WALLACE: One can only hope…
Enchanted Matthews Holds Up His Own 'Health Reform Is a BFD' T-Shirt
Touting how “the Democratic National Committee has turned a lemon into lemonade,” MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Friday afternoon proudly held up a DNC-produced T-shirt which picks up on Joe Biden's comment that passage of health reform is a “big f***ing deal.” Matthews exclaimed: “Just $25 for a piece of delightfully unscripted history!” The Hardball host reported “the shirts have temporarily sold…
CNN Films Pilot with David Shuster, Possible Leftward Shift Ahead
David Shuster may be on his way to CNN, and the cable network may be realizing that it needs the likes of David Shuster -- a hyper-partisan liberal -- if it wants to compete with MSNBC.The New York Observer reported today that CNN shot a pilot for a new show co-anchored by Shuster, at right in a file photo, and Michel Martin, an NPR reporter with a lower profile, but a noteworthy history of…
