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Hey New York Times, How About Before Government Motors ‘Pays Back
The New York Times today has a piece entitled:
Auto Bailout Done, Obama Looks for Payback
Two problems - with just the headline. Which the Times either ignorantly doesn’t know - or knows and willfully ignores. The auto bailout isn’t “done.”
October 14th, 2011 11:20 AM
Media Mash: Occupy Wall Street Edition
The media despised the Tea Party in its infancy, but now that they're trying to boost the "Occupy Wall Street" (OWS) movement, they're describing the latter as a liberal version of the former, without actually reporting on the hard-left Marxist underpinnings of the protests.
NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell and Fox News's Sean Hannity discussed the media's coverage of OWS plus the media's…
October 14th, 2011 10:46 AM
Open Thread: Obama's First 1000 Days
October 17, 2011 will be President Obama's 1000th day in office. At the beginning of his term in office, in a February 1, 2009 interview with Matt Lauer, Obama said "If I don’t have this [economy fixed] in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition."
At 1000 days in, do you think Obama will see reelection? Check out a comprehensive report card of his first 1000 days after…
October 14th, 2011 9:35 AM
CBS Jumps on the Anti-Marriage Bandwagon
One day after NBC's ''Today'' celebrated the ''end of traditional marriage,'' CBS's ''Early Show'' went even further, entertaining the view that marriage is an ''unnatural'' institution and a ''morality cage.''
CBS anchor Erica Hill teased a segment on Oct. 12: ''You know, as much as we all may love a good wedding, more and more women are saying, 'I don't need one!' They're either…
October 14th, 2011 9:13 AM
$3.6 Million from Soros Backs 'Occupy Wall Street', Media Ignore or Do
Left-wing financier George Soros is at it again. While he may claim he’s not behind the Occupy Wall Street protests, funding from his foundations says otherwise. Soros threw his support behind the movement at a United Nations panel on Oct. 3, “I can sympathize with their grievances.” But he does more than just sympathize, his foundations funded groups that back the protests and steer their “…
October 14th, 2011 9:07 AM
Fair and Balanced NPR Station Offers Alec Baldwin a Podcast
The power of celebrity certainly carries more weight than any care a public radio station in New York City might have about looking fair and balanced. WNYC radio has signed up leftist actor Alec Baldwin -- "Occupy Wall Street" supporter, Cheney-death-joking potential Democratic candidate for Mayor or Congress -- to do a podcast called "Here's the Thing."
WNYC's selling this dabbling podcast…
October 14th, 2011 8:42 AM
NY Times Again Tries to Attract IRS Attention to Conservative Nonprofi
Climate Wire, an activist environmental journalism outlet that supplies content for the New York Times website, has the standard issue pro-regulation, anti-free-market bias one would expect.
Conservative nonprofit Americans for Prosperity, funded by the liberal villains the Koch brothers, is a juicy target for liberals of all stripes, and on Wednesday Climate Wire’s Evan Lehmann dutifully…
October 14th, 2011 8:39 AM
‘Message’ of Wall Street Protests ‘Increasingly Resonating,’ N
In the face of their removal from a Manhattan park so it can be cleaned up, NBC anchor Brian Williams stepped up his praise Thursday night for the far-left Occupy Wall Street protesters. “They share a heritage with other big protest movements in American history,” he heralded in his lead story, “some of them have changed history.”
He then trumpeted: “The center of the message is increasingly…
October 14th, 2011 12:57 AM
MSNBC's Bashir: 'Misogynist' GOP Wants to 'Let Women Die
On his Thursday program, MSNBC's Martin Bashir collaborated with pro-abortion Rep. Diana DeGette to bash pro-life conservatives as "misogynists" during a seven-and-a-half minute long segment. Bashir claimed that it's "hardly surprising" that the proposed Protect Life Act, which would protect the conscience rights of health care workers, "has earned the moniker the 'let women die act.'"…
October 13th, 2011 9:57 PM
Atlantic Wire Slams Arianna's Hypocritical Complaint About Media Runni
Do as I say, not as I do, dahling.
Atlantic Wire blogger Alexander Abad-Santos finds Arianna Huffington's criticism of "our media culture" a bit hard to take, seeing how Huffington is a major culprit in perpetuating it.
October 13th, 2011 7:31 PM
$3.6 Million from Soros Aids Groups That Support, Promote Occupy Wall
Liberal billionaire behind left-wing organizations and media celebrating anti-capitalist protests.
October 13th, 2011 6:04 PM
NYT's Krugman Disappoints His Leftist Legions: 'Why I'm Not in Zuccott
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman’s Tuesday morning blog post no doubt left his hordes of leftist fans bereft: “Why I’m Not In Zuccotti Park.” That’s the space in Lower Manhattan that’s been occupied by the loose affiliation of leftist Wall Street protesters for four weeks running. The brief item in full:
October 13th, 2011 5:26 PM
Solyndra CEO Resigns, Major Backer Evasive on Taxes; Will Media Report
Two more shoes dropped in the Solyndra scandal today, but it remains to be seen their sound will stir the sleepy liberal lapdog media.
Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison resigned last Friday, the Associated Press reported early this afternoon.
Oh, and while the media of late have cheerleading the Democratic push for a new surtax on millionaires, don't expect the news media, particularly MSNBC, to…
October 13th, 2011 5:02 PM
NBC Touts Slanted Poll Showing Support for Obama's Second Stimulus and
On Thursday's NBC Today, after acknowledging President Obama's low approval rating, co-host Matt Lauer and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd cheered other results of the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, with Lauer proclaiming: "If there is some good news for the White House this morning it's that 63% of the people in this poll approve of his jobs plan."
Todd followed: "That…
October 13th, 2011 4:54 PM