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Howard Kurtz Oddly Suggests Few 'Onlookers' Noticed Helen Thomas Had V
Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz wrote Monday that Helen Thomas could have spared herself an embarrassing quick retirement if her media colleagues had “gently suggested” it was time to go. He said the press corps saw her as an “eccentric aunt,” but he claimed most of the country never saw her as cranky and ideological: But that's not how she was seen by much of the country, which still…
Chris Matthews Tells Charlie Rose That Bill Clinton Is a Hit In 'Cultu
Have liberals blacked out the sex-and-perjury impeachment of Bill Clinton? MSNBC's Chris Matthews appeared on the Charlie Rose show on PBS Thursday, and Rose asked him about how Sen. Blanche Lincoln had a “secret weapon” in her primary race in Arkansas. Matthews responded by laying it on thick about how great Bill Clinton is. Surely viewers giggled as Matthews talked about Clinton giving Lincoln…
WaPo Promotes Ted Olson's Anti-Prop 8 Efforts, Continues Gay Marriage
As he 'crusades' for same-sex marriage, Olson is the kind of conservative the Post is happy to profile.
Nickelodeon Game Site Lets Kids Play at Trying to Look Up Skirts of 'N
Network makes games titled 'Perry the Perv' and 'Booty Rider' accessible to young children.
USA TODAY Hypes Topless and 'Adult' Vegas pool parties
Paper offers a guide to Sin City's raunchy 'daylife.'
Donna Brazile Defends Obama By Badly Misrepresenting Oil Pollution Act
Nothing ruins my Sunday more than a pundit defending his or her politician by completely misrepresenting a law and nobody on the program in question bothering to challenge the falsehood.Such happened on the recent installment of ABC's "This Week" when Democrat strategist Donna Brazile said of President Obama's pathetic response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, "The administration has been constrained…
Clyburn, Boiled Down: We'll Never Stop Blaming Bush
Real Clear Politics currently has a video highlighting statements by Democratic Congressman James Clyburn Jr. of South Carolina. It teases the video with a question asked by Candy Crowley of CNN. Once one sees the entire sequence, it's clear that Clyburn really answered Crowley's question before she even asked it. Here's the full transcript of the vid, which begins after Indiana Republican…
Chris Matthews Accuses Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina of 'Very Hard-rig
With Americans heading to the polls in less than five months, the liberal media have once again adopted their typical strategy of depicting every Republican candidate as being a far-right extremist.Such was on display in this weekend's syndicated "Chris Matthews Show" when the host began the second segment by saying, "This week's primaries proved again that this anti-Washington year may usher in…
Kurtz: Helen Thomas Has Been Excused for Saying Questionable Things fo
CNN's Howard Kurtz on Sunday said an inconvenient truth that few in his industry would care to admit: "Helen Thomas has been saying all kinds of questionable things in [the White House] press room for the past decade, but her colleagues, for the most part, had given her a pass until now."This indeed is the real lesson behind last week's retirement of the nation's longest living member of the…
Will the White House Press Corps Get Wimpier Without Helen Thomas
Jon Ward of the Daily Caller, until recently a White House reporter for the Washington Times, wrote a piece for Sunday's Washington Post titled “Why we'll miss Helen Thomas.” But Ward also interviewed some White House press colleagues who suggested Thomas had ventured across a line into explicit advocacy and argument: "Helen had always been a tough, no-nonsense interrogator of presidents and…
NYT Rips Obama: It Shouldn't Have Taken So Long To Get Involved In Oil
The New York Times editorial board on Sunday absolutely tore Barack Obama apart for his handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "The president cannot plug the leak or magically clean up the fouled Gulf of Mexico. But he and his administration need to do a lot more to show they are on top of this mess, and not perpetually behind the curve," wrote the Times. "It certainly should not have…
Still at It: David Frum Takes Shot at the Club for Growth
It's called "Left, Right and Center," which claims to be a "civilized yet provocative antidote to the screaming talking heads that dominate political debate." But there's not a whole lot of truth in advertising for KCRW Santa Monica's radio program, which is also podcasted on the Internet. The show normally features Robert Scheer, editor of the left-wing investigative Web site Truthdig.com and a…
NYT's Cooper: Obama Becomes Jimmy Carter If He Doesn't Get Control Of
Barack Obama's presidency goes the way of Jimmy Carter's if he doesn't get control of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.So said New York Times White House correspondent Helene Cooper on the most recent installment of "The Chris Matthews Show."As the opening segment's discussion concerning the spill moved to a close, the host surprisingly asked his panel if Obama can continue to "blame the…