Glenn Beck Slams ABC's Story: 'Something Goebbels Would do

Good Morning America's Claire Shipman on Friday launched a pre-emptive one-sided attack on Glenn Beck's August 28 rally in Washington D.C., including selectively editing clips from the conservative host. The ABC journalist featured a snippet of Beck asserting, "Blacks don't own Martin Luther King." [MP3 audio here.]On his radio show, Friday, Beck complained about the "hatchet job." Shipman…
Scott Whitlock

Levi Johnston Recants Apology to Palins, CBS Rewards with Four-Minute

Continuing their obsession with the credibility-challenged Levi Johnston, whose sole claim to fame is his continuing ability to exploit his relationship with Sarah Palin’s daughter, Bristol, CBS’s The Early Show on Friday devoted more than four minutes to an “exclusive” interview with the “reality star” and how he now recants his apology for lying about the Palins in previous interviews.To her…
Rich Noyes

Today Show Previews Glenn Beck Rally: Watch Out For Signs With 'Racist

NBC's Tom Costello, on Friday's Today show, in previewing Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial this weekend, focused on the racial insensitivity of the Tea Partiers as he reminded NBC's viewers that at last year's  rally in Washington "there were a lot of signs that had rather racist overtones. The concern is that might be repeated this time. By the way, many Beck followers, who are coming…
Geoffrey Dickens

ABC News Issues 'Reprimand' To Their Ground Zero Mosque Plant

Bob Parks

NYT's Brooks Bashes Obamanomics, Praises Germany's Far More Successful

On the same day the Commerce Department dramatically revised down second quarter Gross Domestic Product estimates, New York Times columnist David Brooks published a stinging rebuke of Obama economic policies."The American stimulus package was supposed to create a 'summer of recovery,' according to Obama administration officials," wrote Brooks. "Job growth was supposed to be surging at up to 500,…
Noel Sheppard

Bloomberg: ‘100 Percent’ of 9/11 Families Support Ground Zero Mosq

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Michael Bloomberg www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea PartyNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg might consider checking out the polls. He's under the impression 100 percent of 9/11 families support building the Ground Zero Mosque at the current planned location. "The family members, they do care,"…
Nathan Burchfiel

Beck 'On Crack, Taking Stupid Pills' Say Mika, Joe

When Joe Scarborough wondered out loud "how many times can you set your hair on fire?" before viewers stop being shocked, you might have thought he was talking about Keith Olbermann, the man whose scenery-chewing soliloquies inspired an instant-classic Saturday Night Live skit.But no, Joe was speaking of Glenn Beck.  Perhaps the shot Scarborough took at Ed Schultz a couple weeks ago exhausted…
Mark Finkelstein

AP to Bernanke: Save Us, Ben! (Barack, Nancy, and Harry Who

Sometimes you just have to chuckle at the transparent motivations of business writers in the establishment press. Two Associated Press reports from this afternoon, one from Stephen Bernard and another much lengthier piece from Jeannine Aversa, attempt to set the template for Friday morning's reportage: Despite all the bad news, including a serious downward revision to second-quarter economic…
Tom Blumer

John Mayer Flips Out on Huffington Post, Says Website is 'Full of S

Wonders whether liberal news site pays reporters in 'Silly Bandz.'
Alana Goodman

Bloomberg: '100 Percent' of 9/11 Families Support Ground Zero Mosque

NYC mayor claims opposition based on polarizing politics, most people don't really care.
Nathan Burchfiel

Khan Job: GZ Mosque Organizer Said in 2006 1st Amendment Shouldn't Inc

Daisy Khan's position today conflicts with her words from past.
Alana Goodman

CNN Joins Media Speculation on NYC Stabbing's Connection to Mosque Deb

CNN's Deborah Feyerick joined the media guessing game as to the motivation behind the stabbing of Muslim taxicab driver in New York City, emphasizing the possibility it may have been "connected to this big Ground Zero controversy, where we're hearing so much anti-Muslim sentiment." Feyerick raised this hypothesis during reports on Thursday's Rick's List and The Situation Room.The correspondent's…
Matthew Balan

Chris Matthews: I Hope Democrat Joe Sestak Wins In November

Chris Matthews on Thursday said without batting an eye that he hopes Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) is elected Senator in November.With this one declaration, it should be crystal clear the folks at MSNBC are no longer even remotely concerned about pretending they're not cable's Democrat News Network.On Thursday's "Hardball," in a segment dealing with the upcoming midterm elections and how bleak things…
Noel Sheppard

ABC Confounded Stabber Not Right-Winger, Still Exploits 'Knife Attack

ABC News sure wanted to paint Michael Enright, the 21-year-old charged with stabbing Muslim cab driver Ahmed Sharif in Manhattan, as a bigoted hate crime perpetrator who is the inevitable result of Islamophobic opposition to the mosque near Ground Zero. And the network didn't let the facts get in the way of their agenda – though they were confounded by how he “has a baffling profile” since “he…
Brent Baker