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'Created or Saved' Jobs Rubric Quietly Scrapped by White House, Story
On Saturday, the Obama administration quietly scrapped the "created or saved" rubric for measuring the president's success in job creation. Covering the story, the Washington Post today also quietly noted the news, placing the story --entitled "Stimulus created 600,000 jobs at the end of 2009, White House says" -- on page A15. The Post's Ed O'Keefe wrote the 18-paragraph story (emphasis mine):
Newsweek Reporter Urges Obama to 'Bully' Republicans
Newsweek's Katie Connolly, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, determined that Barack Obama, even in the face of the stunning loss in Massachusetts, needs to become more entrenched in his liberal ways and not bother working with the GOP as she advised the President to “bully Republicans.” After host Chris Matthews prompted the White House correspondent to report on how the…
Media Let Duncan Off the Hook for Katrina Comment, Blasted GOP Rep for
On Saturday, NB's Noel Sheppard reported on this statement made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan: "I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was hurricane Katrina. That education system was a disaster. It took hurricane Katrina to wake up the community and say we have to do better."CNN host T.J. Holmes read that quote aloud during a broadcast. "Of course I…
ABC Devotes Over 60 Minutes to John Edwards, Avoids Labeling Him a Dem
Since Friday, ABC has devoted 60 minutes and 23 seconds to interviews covering the most salacious details of John Edwards' sex scandal. Yet, the network's anchors have refrained from referring to him as a Democrat. 20/20 on Friday spent the entire hour talking to Andrew Young, a former top Edwards aide who allegedly holds a sex tape involving the politician. The D-word was never used by reporter…
N.Y. Times Can't Report the Box-Office Receipts Without Blurting 'Mel
The New York Times certainly doesn’t have dazzled stars in its eyes when it writes about Mel Gibson. What could have been a standard weekend-box-office-receipts piece by Brooks Barnes on Monday sounded like an attack piece: LOS ANGELES - And the blue money just keeps rolling in.The much-hyped return to the multiplex of Mel Gibson, whose drunken and anti-Semitic outburst in 2006 turned him into a…
Another Liberal Attack on Republican Patriotism
While the Times routinely rebukes Republicans for allegedly questioning the patriotism of Democrats, columnist Frank Rich is free to claim that Republican "John McCain epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition."
Whispering Sweet Nothings
Does anyone seriously believe he will really push for nuclear, offshore drilling, natural gas or that Pelosi/Reid will let it go through?
Howard Kurtz: 'Jon Stewart Is An Icon To Many Journalists
The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz believes comedian Jon Stewart is an icon to many journalists. "[E]specially those in television who sometimes copy his quick-cut editing techniques," wrote Kurtz in his column Monday.But that's not all.Kurtz sees the "Daily Show" host as "a pop-culture bellweather," and feels his recent attacks on Barack Obama are a significant sea change. Last week Stewart went…
WaPo Runs Front-Page Story on New Media Conservatives -- Stuffed with
Monday's Washington Post has a front page story by Jerry Markon on the building "anti-Obama" conservative movement in the New Media, easing conservative complaints that the movement doesn't get much ink. MRC's Brent Bozell came in at the very end (saving the best for last?) as Markon mentioned Greg Mueller, the head of our PR firm, CRC Public Relations: Among CRC's clients is L. Brent Bozell III…
Obama Proposes Huge Hike In War Spending, Will Media Revolt
Less than two months after receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, the President is proposing a huge increase in war spending.Despite his campaign pledges to the contrary, Obama's new budget calls for expenditures associated with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to increase to levels only ten percent below the average of former President George W. Bush's last two years in office.Given the media's anti-war…
Nine Days Before Election, Boston Globe’s Pierce Ridiculed Notion Br
In a contribution to the Boston Globe Magazine published nine days before the January 19 Senate election won by Republican Scott Brown, veteran Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce ridiculed the idea Brown could win, in a piece formulated as a letter to Brown: Well, we’re almost here, aren’t we? The end of a long, arduous, four-month campaign for a Senate seat that you have approximately the same…
Air Force Academy to Open Outdoor Worship Circle for Wiccans and Druid
Networks like ABC have hyperventilated about the "outrage" of "endangering" soldiers with rifle sights with "secret Bible codes" on them. They worried about Christian proselytizing on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Will these TV reporters notice as the Air Force responds to the liberal-media complaints by opening an outdoor chapel space for Wiccans and Druids? If Christians in the…