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Networks Ignore Missouri Voters' Rejection of ObamaCare, Instead Celeb
In the first voter referendum on ObamaCare, Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly (by 71 to 29 percent) backed Proposition C which called upon the state to enact a statute to “deny the government authority to penalize citizens for refusing to purchase private health insurance,” an outcome the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described as “rebuking President Barack Obama's administration.” On Wednesday…
August 5th, 2010 2:22 AM
ABC Repeats Judge: Gay Marriage Opponents Driven by 'Fear
Terry Moran celebrates 'string of victories' in court for same-sex marriage advocates.
August 5th, 2010 12:00 AM
CNN Sides Heavily With Opponents of Proposition
On Wednesday, CNN's daytime coverage of a federal judge's decision on California's Proposition 8 leaned mostly towards those who opposed the voter-approved amendment to the state's constitution, which banned same-sex marriage. When the judge's ruling was released, which found Prop 8 to be unconstitutional, the network went so far to get immediate reaction to the ruling at a "gay" bar in West…
August 4th, 2010 10:52 PM
ABC Shoves Back at Shales, Insists Amanpour's Memoriam for 'All Who Di
ABC is fighting back against Washington Post critic Tom Shales asking if ABC's new Sunday show host Christian Amanpour meant to send flowers and regrets to members of the Taliban in her overbroad eulogy on her debut as This Week host. Justin Elliott of Salon's War Room blog found remarks from Jeffrey Schneider, senior vice president at ABC, that Shales' criticism here is "utterly fabricated." He…
August 4th, 2010 10:48 PM
Schultz Endorses Grayson 'Die Quickly' Slander
Did you think that, with the perspective that time tends to impart, Alan Grayson would have backed off his unhinged allegation that Republicans wanted sick people to die quickly? Trick question! I did say Alan Grayson. On the evening's Ed Show, the dippy Dem congressman from Florida emphatically stated that his ugly assertion, made on the floor of the House, was "the truth."Grayson was…
August 4th, 2010 9:49 PM
Maddow Tells Letterman 'Scaring White People Is Good Politics' For Con
Rachel Maddow on Tuesday told David Letterman that scaring white people is good politics for conservatives.After the host of CBS's "Late Show" asked his perilously biased guest about the Andrew Breitbart-Shirley Sherrod affair, the MSNBCer predictably pointed her accusatory finger at Fox News and everybody on the right. "The idea is you sort of rile up the white base to be afraid of an other, to…
August 4th, 2010 7:18 PM
CBS 'Evening News' Bemoans Lack of Diversity in FDNY
On Monday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric praised the heroism of the New York City Fire Department but fretted: "...a federal judge says something is missing in their ranks: Diversity." Correspondent Jim Axelrod began a report on the topic by noting: "Fire Captain Paul Washington has a big problem with his department." Washington declared the FDNY to be "all-white, lily white."Axelrod…
August 4th, 2010 5:50 PM
MSNBC's Cenk Uygur Assails Hateful Conservatives Who Opposed Women and
MSNBC News Live guest host Cenk Uygur on Wednesday railed against opposition to gay marriage, asserting that conservatives "fought against women's rights and they lost. They fought against civil rights for blacks and they lost." He also touted the supposed moral superiority of liberals, lecturing, "This country is fundamentally progressive." [MP3 audio here.]To bolster this case, Uygur quoted…
August 4th, 2010 4:32 PM
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Ridicules ‘My Party,’ Lectures GOP on Im
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday again decided to slam the Republican Party (Scarborough is a former-GOP Congressman). He chided, "My party. What happened to my party?" Democrat Co-host Mika Brzezinski made sure to notify Scarborough that, "Your party is over!"Scarborough was astounded that some Senate Republicans are calling for hearings on the 14th Amendment regarding…
August 4th, 2010 4:03 PM
Colbert Claims Laura Ingraham's Baby-Back Ribs Jokes Are 'The Most Hid
Conservative talk-show host and The Obama Diaries author Laura Ingraham appeared to promote her book Wednesday night on The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Fake-conservative Stephen Colbert suggested the Republicans didn’t have a visible agenda. But he really went after Ingraham in claiming it was somehow one of “the most hideous, hackneyed racial stereotypes” to joke that Michelle Obama ate…
August 4th, 2010 3:49 PM
Journalists Still Hiding Obama's Broken Promises on Jobs
White House made lots of claims about stimulus, including up to 3.6 million private-sector jobs. So far, they are 5.3 million jobs short.
August 4th, 2010 3:48 PM
NY Times Reporters Hail Mayor Bloomberg's Weepy Defense of Ground Zero
The front page of Wednesday's New York edition of the New York Times featured the news that a controversial plan to build a mosque two bocks from Ground Zero was approved by the city's landmarks commission: "Mosque Plan Clears Hurdle In New York -- Bloomberg Pleads for Religious Tolerance." But reporters Michael Barbaro and Javier Hernandez actually led with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's weepy…
August 4th, 2010 3:39 PM
Court Filings Show '60 Minutes' Hero Donziger Colluded with Ecuadoran
These are some of the outtakes that the Ecuadoran plaintiff lawyer Steve Donziger probably wished were left on the cutting room floor. Back in May 2009, CBS's "60 Minutes" featured a story on the legal conflict between Chevron and an eco-group called the Amazon Defense Coalition for $27.4 billion in so-called environmental damage in Ecuador's rain forest from then-Texaco Petroleum's (Texpet)…
August 4th, 2010 3:35 PM