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Longtime Sports Journalist: 'NFL Players Need Obama's Support
According to his University of Maryland faculty bio, Kevin Blackistone "is a former award-winning sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News from September 1990 to September 2006." He has written for AOL's FanHouse; his most recent column is here); he was likely released when AOL recently laid off its FanHouse employees as a result of what I refer to as "Huffington's Heist."
In a Monday…
April 12th, 2011 12:09 PM

'Meet the Press' Panel: Obama 'Above the Fray' in Budget Fight
During the panel discussion on Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC, host David Gregory gushed over President Obama's Friday night address to the nation on the budget deal: "The message was clear. Here he was to save the day, that it was President Obama – and he went to the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday – that he was able to rise above the fray. That's the image they want Americans to see."
The…
April 12th, 2011 11:55 AM

NPR: France's Burqa Ban 'Sinister,' Adds to 'Islamophobic Climate
Eleanor Beardsley slanted towards opponents of France's ban on the niqab, or Islamic face veil, on two NPR programs on Monday. Beardsley played several sound bites from French Muslims during her Morning Edition report who forwarded the notion that the law contributes to an "anti-Muslim climate" in the country, and agreed with a guest on Tell Me More who labeled the ban "sinister."
The…
April 12th, 2011 10:58 AM

Flashback 2005: UN Predicts 50 Million Global Warming Refugees By
To give you an idea of the kind of hysterical predictions the global warming crowd have made in recent years, the United Nations in 2005 actually forecast that by the end of the previous decade, there would be 50 million environmental refugees around the world as a result of climate change.
Britain's Guardian reported October 12, 2005:
April 12th, 2011 10:31 AM
CNN’s Kurtz Defends Olbermann & MSNBC from Comparisons to Glenn Beck
In spite of former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s history of using distortion and even misinformation to attack conservatives, and his infamously recurring conspiracy theory that the Bush administration made terrorism-related announcements to distract from politically embarrassing news, CNN host Howard Kurtz on Sunday’s Reliable Sources defended Olbermann’s Countdown show and MSNBC generally…
April 12th, 2011 8:30 AM

Reich: Rich Who Resent Higher Taxes Not 'Patriotic'; Cenk: I'm Not Ric
We all know that since Barack Obama was elected, dissent has gone from being the highest form of patriotism, as those liberal bumper-stickers liked to remind us, to being downright unpatriotic, as we've chronicled here and here.
Robert Reich has now added another item to the list of things that are unpatriotic: resenting higher taxes if you're rich. Not that Cenk Uygur has to worry. He has…
April 12th, 2011 8:22 AM
Time Finds Robert Redford in Denial: 'I'm Not a Left-Wing Person
Time's Ten Questions to Robert Redford drew some silly answers -- like Redford denying he's a lefty.
How helpful or harmful to your career has it been to be known as someone who is passionate about politics?
I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains. [My last film,] Lions for Lambs, got rough treatment, and I think it was…
April 12th, 2011 7:29 AM

Ed Schultz: Democrats Took Over in January
MSNBC's Ed Schultz began his show Monday talking about all the jobs President Obama has created since he took office.
Unfortunately, as he made the case about how terrible the Bush years were by comparison, the "Ed Show" host wrongly informed his viewers that Democrats took over in January 2009 (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 12th, 2011 1:14 AM

WaPo Honors Maryland House Speaker for 'Evolving' on Gay Marriage, Cen
On February 24, Washington Post reporter John Wagner sympathetically covered leading Maryland Democrats (and Catholics) for crossing their hierarchy to lobby for "gay marriage" -- without seeming to contact this hierarchy. So when Wagner sympathetically profiled House Speaker Michael Busch -- again -- at the top of the April 11 Style section, the primary question was: How was this "news," a…
April 11th, 2011 11:12 PM
Barack the Born-Again Deficit-Cutter Gets Predictable AP Kid-Glove Tre
I sure hope that the Associated Press's Jim Kuhnhenn has been working out, especially in his upper body. The volume of water he's having to carry for the Obama administration as a dutiful member of the state-compliant establishment press has to be getting very heavy.
This evening, Kuhnhenn and his wire service are expecting the AP's readers -- and ultimately its subscribing media outlets'…
April 11th, 2011 9:41 PM
Chris Matthews: Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan Will 'Kill Half the People W
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday spent much of show scaring viewers about Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) recently released budget proposal.
So apoplectic was the "Hardball" host that he told liberal guests Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe that Ryan's Medicare reform plan "is going to kill half the people who watch this show" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
April 11th, 2011 8:35 PM
Cokie Roberts on NPR: GOP Promising 'Armageddon' on Debt Ceiling Issue
NPR's Cokie Roberts hinted congressional Republicans were going to resort to extreme tactics regarding the debt ceiling on Monday's Morning Edition. Roberts noted the "rough votes" on the horizon in Congress, specifying the "debt ceiling that has to be increased, where Republicans have promised Armageddon."
Host Renee Montagne brought on the journalist to talk mainly about the recent…
April 11th, 2011 6:41 PM

Cocky Chris Matthews Slams 2012 GOP Candidates as a 'Dog Pound' and a
A cocky Chris Matthews on Monday dismissed the possible 2012 Republican presidential nominees as a "dog pound" and a "pig pen." The Hardball host briefly mentioned candidates such as Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, but focused mostly on Donald Trump and lesser known individuals like Herman Cain.
Talking to Republican strategist John Feehery and former Hillary Clinton aide Mark Penn, Matthews…
April 11th, 2011 6:09 PM
Koch Industries Requests Correction to Factually Inaccurate, Hypocriti
Does the New York Times fact-check its editorial pages? A slew of recent errors in Times opinion pieces suggest it does not - or, if it does, that it needs to do a better job.
The most recent bout of falsehoods was, perhaps unsurprisingly, directed at the much-maligned owners of Koch Industries, Charles and David Koch. In a Sunday, April 3 op-ed in the Times, David Callahan, a senior fellow…
April 11th, 2011 6:01 PM