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Crass Newsweek's Brown on NPR 'Morning Edition': Breitbart Was 'Right
Appearing on the April 16 "Morning Edition" to discuss what NPR tagged as "the contributions of journalists to global culture," Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown worked in a gratuitously crude and error-laden slam of the late "right-wing radical blogger" Andrew Breitbart, who, Brown reminds us "dropped dead in [his] early 40s."
Apart from her crass description of Breitbart's sudden death…
April 18th, 2012 2:55 PM
Liberal Radio Hosts Lament a New Heart Was Given to 'Mass Murderer' Di
Former vice president Dick Cheney had the audacity to speak against President Obama at a Wyoming GOP convention, saying "he has been an unmitigated disaster for the country." This caused several liberal radio hosts to wish he’d never received a heart transplant. Randi Rhodes said “It just kills me that somebody died and gave this man a chance at a heart!”
Mike Malloy called him a mass…
April 18th, 2012 12:53 PM
Scientists Not Alarmist Enough, NYT's Gillis Pushes Poll Showing Publi
Since scientists are not alarmist enough for New York Times's apocalyptic climate reporter Justin Gillis, he is now relying on surveys done by computer to make the case for dangerous "climate change." "In Poll, Many Link Weather Extremes to Climate Change."
Gillis proudly confessed his global warming activism in an April 2 interview with The Columbia Journalism Review. He wrote on Wednesday:
April 18th, 2012 12:50 PM
Reacting to Jon Stewart Plastering Nativity Over Vagina, NB Publisher
Editor's Note: Today NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell publicly dared The Daily Show host Jon Stewart to desecrate either the Koran or the Torah on national television in the same manner he offended millions of American Christians by portraying the Nativity as an accessory for female genitals. Bozell makes the challenge well aware that Stewart’s brand of "…
April 18th, 2012 12:33 PM
NBC Touted Romney's Dog on a Car Roof Story, But Only ABC Notes: Obama
Of the three major networks, only ABC's Good Morning America on Wednesday covered the "dog wars" counterattack by Mitt Romney's operatives. Co-anchor George Stephanopoulos highlighted that the campaign is "tweeting around a picture of the President and trying to focus on a revelation he made in his memoir, that he actually tried dog when he was a young boy in Indonesia."
CBS This Morning…
April 18th, 2012 12:31 PM
Study Undermines Liberal Media's 'Inequality' Meme
Members of the “mainstream” press have worked hard to promote what President Barack Obama calls an “income-inequality crisis” based on studies claiming that the middle class is shrinking and got left behind in the greatest economic expansion in modern American history.
However, a new, more comprehensive investigation indicates that the earlier research isn't wrong, it's just “incredibly,…
April 18th, 2012 12:10 PM
After Weeks of Ignoring Bill Maher's Vileness, NBC's Today Freaks Over
Everyone on NBC's Today show payroll ignored foul-mouthed comedian Bill Maher's $1 million donation to an Obama super PAC -- but NBC's Andrea Mitchell went to extravagant lengths on Wednesday to tie Mitt Romney as closely as possible to supporter Ted Nugent, after Nugent made headlines for controversial comments about President Obama. The lone mention of Bill Maher on the Today show in 2012 was…
April 18th, 2012 12:06 PM
AP's Kuhnhenn Gives No Space to Critics of Obama's Oil Speculation Plo
Yesterday at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, the headline at reporter Jim Kuhnhenn's story on President Obama's latest excuse to add more bureaucrats to the government payroll ("Obama wants to target oil market manipulation") presupposed the existence of oil market manipulation when none has been proven. In 850 words, he didn't find any space for critics of the move, who…
April 18th, 2012 11:33 AM
Robin Leach: Obama Is a 'Socialist' - He Is 'Whipping Up This Racial W
Former Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous host Robin Leach said Friday that President Obama is a socialist.
Appearing on the Fox Business Network, Leach told host Neal Cavuto the current White House resident is "whipping up this racial war and this economic divide" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 18th, 2012 8:57 AM
Open Thread: No Budget from Democrats for Third Consecutive Year
For the third consecutive year, the Democratic-controlled Senate will not even attempt to pass a budget. This wasn't the first choice of the Senate budget committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) who appears to have been pressured into his decision by Senate majority leader Harry Reid who has been insistent that he doesn't want a budget.
But Conrad also seems to have had his own difficulties…
April 18th, 2012 8:56 AM
CNN's Baldwin Hypes 'Appalling' Food Stamp Cuts
On today's 3:00 pm edition of CNN Newsroom, anchor Brooke Baldwin teased her next segment:
BALDWIN: Coming up next, House Republicans they want to cut billions of dollars in food stamps. We will talk about who exactly in terms of numbers this would impact and why my next guest calls this whole suggestion appalling -- back in 60 seconds.
Baldwin interviewed Edward Cooney, executive director…
April 18th, 2012 12:51 AM
CNN’s Piers Morgan Calls 90-Year-Old Betty White ‘The Ultimate Cou
CNN’s Piers Morgan had an absolutely charming interview with the recently turned 90-year-old actress Betty White.
After some humorous flirting between the two, Morgan called her “the ultimate cougar” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
April 18th, 2012 12:37 AM
Bozell Column: Diane Sawyer vs. 'Too Rich' Romney
Republican strategists should generally be wary of campaign advice from liberals – and when it’s from the media, generally becomes definitely. Washington Post political writer Chris Cillizza recently suggested Mitt Romney’s general-election strategy should start with getting a “positive first introduction” to voters through the liberal media because “only the national media can provide that…
April 17th, 2012 10:31 PM
Channeling Orwell: AP's Kravitz Celebrates Allegedly Recovering Housin
After reading Derek Kravitz's final report of the day at 4:45 p.m. on the housing market at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press, I just had to check the other wires to see if they were sipping from the same housing-market-in-recovery koolaid.
The answer is no. At Reuters, Jason Lange's 3:22 p.m. dispatch reported that "Output at U.S. factories slipped in March and builders…
April 17th, 2012 10:24 PM