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Now That GM IPO Is Almost A Done Deal, AP Warns of Its Dangers
I guess after about a year and a half of dancing around the truth, the Associated Press decided that confession of some of the truth about Government/General Motors is good for the soul.
Conveniently, the AP's de facto partial confession, delivered via reporter Sharon Silke Carty, comes as the success of the company's initial public offering seems assured.
Carty's confession consists of…
November 15th, 2010 11:14 AM
WaPo Breaking News Blog Omits Disgraced Democratic County Executive's
A major news story this weekend here in the D.C. area has been the federal bribery probe that resulted in the Friday afternoon arrests of outgoing Prince George's County [Md.] Executive Jack Johnson (D) and his wife Leslie -- also a registered Democrat -- who was elected two weeks ago to a County Council seat.
At the time federal officials told the media that more arrests were forthcoming,…
November 15th, 2010 10:57 AM
Krugman Tries to Explain His Call for 'Death Panels' to Balance Budget
Someone must have told New York Times columnist Paul Krugman that he had opened up a can of worms with his call on Sunday's "This Week" to create "death panels" to help balance the budget.
Shortly after the ABC program aired on the East Coast, Krugman published the following explanation at his blog:
November 15th, 2010 10:43 AM
Kurtz: Olbermann and NBC in Civil War Over His Campaign Contributions
Keith Olbermann and the heads of NBC - including former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw - are apparently in the middle of a civil war over the "Countdown" host's recent campaign contributions that resulted in his brief suspension.
According to the Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz, the deepening sense of anger and frustration with Olbermann's behavior could lead to his eventual departure from MSNBC:
November 15th, 2010 9:28 AM
MRC’s Notable Quotables: Tea Party About to ‘Bump Up Against Reali
As a Monday morning treat for NewsBusters readers, here is a sampling of the quotes from the latest edition of MRC’s Notable Quotables newsletter, a compilation of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. All of the quotes, plus past issues going back to 1988, can be found at www.MRC.org.
Forget What Voters Said, It’s Time for Higher Taxes
Host Christiane…
November 15th, 2010 9:20 AM
Open Thread: Turkish PM Erdogan Time's Person of the Year
He leads the pack - as of this posting - in the Time Magazine POTY poll (h/t Charlie Spiering at the Washington Examiner). The top 5 candidates are:
1. Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
2. Lady Gaga,
3. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange,
4. Jon Stewart/Steven Colbert (apparently now a single person),
5. Glenn Beck.
November 15th, 2010 9:18 AM
ABC: ‘Concentration on Policy’ Caused Obama’s ‘Shellacking
On ABC’s World News Sunday, correspondent David Kerley seemed to accept as fact President Obama’s claim that "concentration on policy issues" was the reason for his party’s recent election losses. Kerley began his report by describing Obama as "admitting" to this explanation of his political problems:
DAVID KERLEY: A more reflective President returned to Washington, admitting on Air Force…
November 15th, 2010 9:10 AM
Gay Sunday: NPR Celebrates 'Protestant Royalty' Coming Out of the Clos
On Sunday night's All Things Considered newscast, NPR anchor Guy Raz celebrated “Protestant royalty” coming out of the closet. Bishop Jim Swilley of a megachurch appropriately called The Church in the Now decided to reveal his sexual orientation because of the burst of gay-bullying publicity. Former CNN reporter Raz welcomed the change and how it must have been “incredibly liberating” to be…
November 15th, 2010 8:46 AM
Throw Carol Browner Under the Bus
Energy czar Carol Browner needs to go the way of disgraced green jobs czar Van Jones: under the bus and stripped of her unbridled power to destroy jobs and lives in the name of saving the planet. ASAP.
One of the Beltway's most influential, entrenched and unaccountable left-wing radicals, Browner has now been called out twice by President Obama's own federal BP oil spill commission and…
November 15th, 2010 8:37 AM
CBS’s Andy Rooney: Obama Is ‘Doing the Best Job He Knows How and I
As he devoted his regular 60 Minutes segment on Sunday to complaining about surveys, CBS’s Andy Rooney declared his belief that President Obama is "doing the best job he knows how, and it’s good enough for me." Rooney, who has a history of openly admitting that his political views are liberal, also gave viewers some insight into his social circle as having like-minded views on politics as he…
November 15th, 2010 8:34 AM
Don't Be Taken In By Deficit Commission
If preliminary rumblings from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's upcoming report are accurate, I'm afraid the conservative agenda — though overwhelmingly victorious in last week's elections — might be against the ropes again, especially with GOP congressmen praising the report.
Our astronomical deficits are the result not of low taxes, but of profligate spending. So…
November 15th, 2010 8:33 AM
Fears About Trade Deficit Are Overblown
At the recent Group of 20 (G 20) meeting, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner called upon the largest industrialized economies to get their current account balance — whether a surplus or a deficit — below 4 percent of their gross domestic product by 2015. Four countries have current account surpluses exceeding 4 percent: Saudi Arabia (6.7 percent), Germany (6.1 percent), China (4.7…
November 14th, 2010 11:40 PM
NPR on the Bush Book: He Bungled the Budget, and Did We Mention the Dr
Perhaps obviously, George W. Bush didn't grant an interview around his memoir Decision Points to National Public Radio, since they described his presidency daily as the Triumph of the Dark Side. But when they touched on the new book, the hostility was still there.On Tuesday's Morning Edition, Don Gonyea, who covered the White House for most of Bush's presidency offer a brief summary of Bush's…
November 14th, 2010 10:38 PM