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Bill Maher Calls Bill O'Reilly 'Unpatriotic' for Obama Interview
On the February 8 edition of MSNBC's "Last Word," left-wing comedian Bill Maher disparaged Bill O'Reilly as "unpatriotic" for the way in which the veteran Fox News anchor conducted his interview with President Barack Obama on Super Bowl Sunday.
"And Bill O'Reilly, who claims he's such a patriot, how unpatriotic in my view to treat a president that way," railed Maher. "How does that look to…
February 10th, 2011 12:22 PM

Time: CPAC Is 'Carnival' of 'Red-Meat Throwers,' But Liberal Netroots
Today marks the opening of the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Regardless of where you may stand on internal debates about some of this year's co-sponsors, there's no denying that for nearly four decades its been an enduring legacy of conservative political activism.
But to liberal journalists like Time's Adam Sorensen, CPAC is casually dismissed as a "three-day…
February 10th, 2011 11:59 AM
WaPo Celebrates 'Uncommon Forcefulness' of Anti-Tea Party Protest, Sub
While conservatives were shocked at a video showing liberals at a Common Cause rally suggesting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should have his toes cut off one by one, be lynched alongside his wife, or be put "back in the fields," The Washington Post seems to find mostly a burst of liberal pride. On Thursday's Fed Page on A-17, reporter Dan Eggen's story is headlined "Uncommon…
February 10th, 2011 8:28 AM
Too Useful to Check: Us Magazine Falls For Fake Palin-Aguilera Story
B-Us-ted.
GossipCop.com reports that Us Weekly just did something extraordinarily dumb (bolds, italics, and link are in original):
Whoops! Us Weekly Publishes Sarah Palin/Christina Aguilera Spoof as Fact
February 10th, 2011 1:10 AM
The Super Bowl and Its Ads
The other night while watching the Super Bowl, I became increasingly aware that the Angry Left might have a point about the Giant Corporations. Not that the game was not exciting. It was. Those quarterbacks can really heave the ball. Suddenly it is in their hands, and suddenly it is in a receiver's outreached arms, having passed through a forest of opposing players' arms. Both teams were…
February 10th, 2011 12:05 AM

Lawrence O'Donnell Asks Republican Congressman 'How Do We Know You're
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday had a very heated discussion with Congressman Steve King (R-Ia.) about Barack Obama's religious upbringing.
At one point, the "Last Word" host actually asked his guest, "How do we know you are not a Muslim?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
February 9th, 2011 11:28 PM

Chris Matthews Cherry Picks Santorum to Bash Him and Palin
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Wednesday decided to wade into the Rick Santorum-Sarah Palin-CPAC dust-up by cherry-picking what the former Pennsylvania Senator told S.E. Cupp on Glenn Beck's online program the day before.
Not surprisingly, by presenting only his biased and abbreviated side of the story, the "Hardball" host attacked both Palin and Santorum (video follows with transcript and…
February 9th, 2011 9:55 PM

Matthews Trumpets: We've Never Had A World Leader Like Bill Clinton Be
Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, really laid it on thick in his tease for his upcoming special on Bill Clinton's post presidency as he exalted :"Other American presidents have done things before, after leaving office, but nothing on this level or planetary scope" and glorified: "We've never had a world leader like this before!" The MSNBC ad for the documentary, entitled Bill Clinton:…
February 9th, 2011 7:01 PM

John Avlon Rips 'Far Right' Social Conservatives Over CPAC on CNN.com
CNN contributor John Avlon took yet another shot at mainstream conservatives in a Wednesday column on CNN.com. Avlon blasted the "far right" Family Research Council and other conservative groups for their opposition to GOProud's sponsorship of CPAC, and accused conservatives of being on "the wrong side of history" with homosexuals, just as they supposedly were with the "last great civil right…
February 9th, 2011 6:51 PM

Nazi-Obsessed Olbermann Will Fit in Nicely at Gore's Current TV
Given recent news that Al Gore personally recruited Keith Olbermann to join Current TV as its "Chief News Officer" (I don't know either), readers may be wondering: what value could the former vice presiodent have possibly seen in Olbermann?
Though we're not expecting confirmation from Current TV, here's one possibility: like Olbermann, Gore is a routine violator of Godwin's Law. Perhaps the…
February 9th, 2011 6:41 PM
FDA: A Killer Agency
Sam Kazman's "Drug Approvals and Deadly Delays" article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Winter 2010), tells a story about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's policies have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Let's look at how it happens.
During the FDA's drug approval process, it confronts the possibility of two errors. If the FDA approves a drug…
February 9th, 2011 6:00 PM
Egyptian Army Is West's Best Hope
Last Sunday, the media were reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood was sitting down with Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, in a completely unrelated story, the BBC reported that British Prime Minster David Cameron announced that "State multiculturalism has failed": "David Cameron has criticized 'state multiculturalism' in his first speech as prime minister on radicalization and the causes…
February 9th, 2011 5:26 PM
Who's Policing Amtrak Joe Biden's Rail Boondoggles
At Philadelphia's 30th Street Station on Tuesday, lifelong government rail promoter Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a $53 billion high-speed train initiative and half-joked: "I'm like the ombudsman for Amtrak." As with most gaffetastic Biden-isms, the remark should prompt more heartburn than hilarity. Just who exactly is looking out for taxpayers when it comes to federal rail spending?…
February 9th, 2011 5:17 PM

MSNBC's Cenk Uygur Wants to Put Fox News 'Back in the Cave They Came F
In an interview with AlterNet's Don Hazen on Tuesday, MSNBC host Cenk Uygur slammed Fox News and bragged how he would take them on in the ratings: "For so long, they have controlled the national conversation....I want to drain them of that power. I want to put them back in the cave they came from....I also plan to beat them in the ratings and make them fear me."
Uygur, who also hosts the…
February 9th, 2011 4:53 PM