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Bob Schieffer Compares Harry Reid to Joe McCarthy
It's becoming fairly clear that even some of the Obama-loving media think Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) went too far last week with unsubstantiated and unattributed allegations concerning presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's taxes.
On CBS's Face the Nation Sunday, host Bob Schieffer asked, "Isn't this kind of like Joe McCarthy back in the era when he said…
August 5th, 2012 3:14 PM

Shocker From ABC's Jonathan Karl: 'Sarah Palin Is 4 for 4 on Her Senat
It's not often that hear a mainstream media member have anything nice to say about former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
This is why it's worth noting ABC's Jonathan Karl uttering without an audible stammer on Sunday's This Week, "Sarah Palin is 4 for 4 on her Senate endorsements" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
August 5th, 2012 1:43 PM

George Will: 'Constant Writing Off of the Tea Party' Is 'Journalistic
"Another example of journalistic malpractice in this country - the constant writing off of the Tea Party, which just goes about its business of electing senators."
So said George Will on ABC's This Week Sunday about Ted Cruz's victory in the Texas primary Tuesday (video follows with transcript and commentary):
August 5th, 2012 1:18 PM

Daniels? George Stephanopoulos Botches Olympics Sweetheart Gabby Dougl
Gabby Douglas just captured America's hearts with a stirring victory as women's gymnastics all-around gold medalist at the Summer Olympics in London.
Despite this, George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week Sunday actually botched her name calling her Gabby Daniels (video follows with transcript and commentary):
August 5th, 2012 12:36 PM

AP Report on Dems' Disavowal of Tenn. Senate Primary Winner 'Somehow
Well, it looks like Democrats in a Southern state have embarrassed party officials once again. Back in 2010, it was Alvin Greene in South Carolina, whose victory in that state's U.S. Senate primary so infuriated Palmetto State Congressman James Clyburn that he accused Greene of being a plant and called for a federal probe. Greene refused to step aside; incumbent Republican Jim DeMint defeated…
August 5th, 2012 11:32 AM

Zakaria Asks Koch Brothers Funded Global Warming Flipflopper 'Have The
UC Berkeley professor Richard Muller has become a media darling now that he believes in global warming as a result of a study he led on the subject funded by the Koch brothers.
With this in mind, CNN's Fareed Zakaria must have been shocked by what Muller told him Sunday after he asked his guest, "Were [the Kochs] disappointed by the results of your research or have they asked for their money…
August 5th, 2012 11:27 AM

Saturday Night Funny Video: Obama and Biden Continue ‘Search for Per
“I’m in over my head” and “The economy’s bad, it’s all my fault and I can’t fix it.” Those are two pretty accurate campaign slogans for the Obama-Biden campaign as formuated, via some creative editing done by TBS’s Conan, from Obama’s speeches.
In playing the video at the end of his program on Thursday night, FNC’s Bret Baier explained: “With just a few weeks left until the Democratic…
August 5th, 2012 12:14 AM

NPR Warmly Recalls Gore Vidal Denouncing America As a 'Very Primitive
NPR’s Terry Gross was effusive in tribute to leftist author Gore Vidal on Friday’s Fresh Air, airing chunks of previous interviews she'd had with Vidal. She began: “In Vidal's New York Times obituary, Charles McGrath described him as, quote, 'the elegant, acerbic, all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization,' end…
August 4th, 2012 10:48 PM

Philly Museum Proudly Displays... Colbert's Bud Light Lime Bottles
The Washington Post published an AP report by Kathy Matheson on a “playful new exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum & Library” in Philadelphia which “pairs priceless material by James Joyce and Maurice Sendak with, um, perhaps less valuable items used by Colbert to write I Am A Pole (And So Can You!).”
The Post loved Colbert’s placement among “literary lions,” but it sounds less than…
August 4th, 2012 9:42 PM

Comedian D.L. Hughley Slams 'Boring and Arrogant' Romney, Won't Eat at
Comedian D.L Hughley appeared on ABC's The View Tuesday in addition to his liberal turn that morning on CBS. He summed up Mitt Romney this way: "When you go to England and you're considered boring and arrogant by the people who invented boring and arrogant, you’re pretty poor."
He also distanced himself from Chick-fil-A, despite liking the food: "It’s a horrible thing for me because I love…
August 4th, 2012 9:28 PM

AP Story on Ex-Alabama Gov. Siegelman's Return to Prison Almost Comple
The Associated Press carried two stories on Friday about the attempt by and ultimate failure of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman to avoid going back to prison.
In the first, ahead of that day's hearing, AP reporter Bob Johnson failed to mention Siegelman's Democratic Party affiliation. In the second, Johnson managed to get Democratic Party references designed to raise what appear to be…
August 4th, 2012 2:58 PM

ABC Sees 'Outrageous and Apparently Unfounded' Charge By Reid, Revisit
On Friday's World News on ABC, correspondent Jonathan Karl informed viewers of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's unsubstantiated charge that Mitt Romney has not paid taxes in 10 years, with the ABC correspondent dismissing the accusation as "outrageous and apparently unfounded."
August 4th, 2012 2:10 PM

WashPost's Miller: Media Should Ignore 'Astroturf' Black Pastors Oppos
On the Saturday Washington Post “On Faith” page, columnist and Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller insisted it was not a news story that black ministers came to the National Press Club and insisted Obama’s support for gay marriage “might cost him the election.”
It’s not a story, Miller insisted, because Rev William Owens is “enough to make a cynic blush...He’s a figurehead in what political…
August 4th, 2012 1:49 PM

What Unemployment Rate Increase? Three Headline Writers Avoid Friday's
The wire services and other establishment press members appear to be getting more selective in what they will allow into their headlines, particularly omitting items which might hurt Dear Leader.
Take the coverage of yesterday's Employment Situation Summary from the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The news was a combination of bad and mediocre (though expectations-beating): The…
August 4th, 2012 1:25 PM