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'Media Mash': Media Ignore Belafonte Slam on Tea Party; Amanpour Accus
While the "media will wade into a Tea Party event with hundreds of thousands of people looking for that one brain-dead Lyndon LaRouche follower" who says something asinine that they can plaster "all over the news," they have ignored the insane rhetoric coming from featured speakers at last Saturday's "One Nation Working Together" rally, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told viewers of the…
October 8th, 2010 11:29 AM
More than 100,000 Jobs Lost, Likely Much Worse Says Gallup
The final government unemployment report before the midterm election was released Oct. 8 showing a loss of 95,000 jobs in September, and an additional 15,000 losses in July and August and an unemployment rate still at 9.6 percent. But Gallup warned on Oct. 7 that the BLS report was "likely to understate" the job losses in September. By its calculations the unemployment rate is actually…
October 8th, 2010 11:12 AM
The New York Times Co. Files Friend of the Court Brief For 'God Hates
The New York Times, which is opposed to First Amendment protections for political advertising, has an untrammeled view of free speech when it comes to violent video games and even the picketing of soldiers' funerals by the family of Fred Phelps, infamous for their "God Hates Fags" signs and other despicable messages. The New York Times Co. has filed a "friend of the court" brief with the Supreme…
October 8th, 2010 11:10 AM
More than 100,000 Jobs Lost, Likely Much Worse
BLS report shows no change in unemployment rate, but Gallup warns of understated September losses.
October 8th, 2010 11:01 AM
Hardball Panic Attack: Tea Party Victories Will Make GOP More Conserva
There was almost a full-fledged panic attack on Thursday's "Hardball" as three devout liberal media members fretted over the possibility that Tea Party success at the polls next month could make the GOP more conservative.Horrors!So worried about this was MSNBC's Chris Matthews that he opined at the end of the segment, "At some point, they`ll become not the party of the elephant but the party of…
October 8th, 2010 10:54 AM
Krauthammer Slams Incompetence, Unseriousness of 'The Colbert Democrat
Columnist Charles Krauthammer scoured congressional Democrats on Friday in The Washington Post for failing to pass any appropriations bills or even introduce a bill extending any of the Bush tax cuts. The title was "The Colbert Democrats." He concluded: As if this display of unseriousness -- no budget, no appropriations bills, no tax bill -- were not enough, some genius on a House Judiciary…
October 8th, 2010 6:47 AM
Elie Wiesel Calls for 'Interfaith Center' to Replace Ground Zero Mosqu
Holocaust author and Nobel Laureate says mosque would 'hurt some people who have suffered.'
October 8th, 2010 12:00 AM
How Is It 'News' for Time to Hype 'Extreme Militias' In the Last Weeks
Time magazine's news judgment is truly puzzling. With just weeks to go before a crucial midterm election, their cover story package is ten pages stuffed with “The Secret World of Extreme Militias.” Voters are poised to sweep a pile of Democrats out of office from coast to coast, and they're camped in Zanesville, Ohio with a right-wing militia that claims 300 members as the nation's number one…
October 7th, 2010 11:16 PM
Don't Sit, Don't Sit So, Don't Sit So Close To Spitz
Someone call The Police . . . What were the Parker Spitzer producers thinking? If there was one guy you'd want to keep at a decent distance from a female co-host, it's Gov. Love Potion #9. But tuning into the show, for the first time, tonight, I was shocked to see the way the pair had been virtually thrown into each other's laps.A bit of inside TV baseball: I host a local TV show in my…
October 7th, 2010 9:45 PM
Obama's Approval Plummeting and GOP Surges in Generic Ballot, So CBS S
A new CBS News poll found the public rejecting President Barack Obama and Democrats – so the CBS Evening News focused its story on discrediting the legitimacy of the Tea Party movement. “Tonight, 26 days til the elections,” Katie Couric teased, “a CBS News poll finds support for Republicans growing, but most Americans don't believe the Tea Party represents them.” Couric proceeded to highlight…
October 7th, 2010 8:46 PM
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Apologizes for Michael Steele 'Master' Comm
MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell profusely apologized last night for calling the Republican Party RNC Chairman Michael Steele's "master." O'Donnell had made the following statement before rolling a previously-recorded interview with Steele on Tuesday night: As the first congressional election during his party chairmanship approaches, Michael Steele is dancing as fast as he can trying to charm…
October 7th, 2010 6:40 PM
CNN'S Lemon: I Don't Know Why Obama Tries So Hard to Please Republican
On the 2:00 PM segment of CNN Newsroom today, anchor Don Lemon concluded with a message for President Obama. Prefacing his comment with the obligatory, "This isn't about Republican or Democrat. It's about being an American," Lemon got to the point:I'm not a pollster, but here is what I hear in the barber shops, the grocery store, the gym, the gas station, hey, CNN, guy, what's up with our…
October 7th, 2010 6:08 PM
On Rahm's Run for Windy City Mayor
On Sunday, Rahm Emanuel declared his candidacy for mayor of Chicago. Instantaneously, he had problems with his campaign, not the least of which is that he is as much a resident of Chicago as I am. So on Monday, I declared my candidacy for mayor of Chicago. Why not? I did it on the national television show of the estimable Sean Hannity, who immediately threw his support behind me. I was born in…
October 7th, 2010 6:00 PM