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Stewart: Obama Should Count Sex Acts To Boost Low Job Numbers
Comedy Central's Jon Stewart used crude sexual humor Monday to bash President Obama's jobs summit.After playing a videotape of the President asking those in attendance at last Thursday's forum "for specific recommendations that can be implemented that will spur on job growth as quickly as possible," Stewart offered a somewhat vulgar idea.Delicately paraphrased, "The Daily Show" host suggested…
As Poll Numbers Decline, White House Won't Ditch Permanent Campaign
The Obama presidency is, for better or worse, the most media saturated administration in the nation's history. Due at least in part to revolutionary changes in the sharing of information, but equally abetted by the president's media-hungry personality and style of governing, Obama's face is just about everywhere these days.And Americans have noticed. In an attempt to land a spot on a DC-based…
ABC's Stephanopoulos Tries to Spin Reid Comparison on GOP and Slavery
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos appeared on Tuesday’s Good Morning America to spin and minimize Senator Harry Reid’s contention that opponents of health care reform are similar to supporters of slavery. After ABC played a truncated version of Reid’s quote, Stephanopoulos, hopefully observed, "My guess is this is going to blow over." [Audio available here.] He did concede to co-host Robin Roberts…
Joy Behar and Andrew Sullivan Attack Sarah Palin: Is Trig Her Son
Palin Derangement Syndrome was on full display Monday evening when HLN's Joy Behar invited the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan on to trash the former Governor of Alaska.At issue fully fifteen months after Sarah Palin was thrust into the limelight as John McCain's running mate was whether or not Trig is actually her son.Behar began the segment: "Sarah Palin may have been coy on the Oprah Show about a…
Tiger Tales: Networks Overlook Athletes as Role Models Angle
Coverage of Woods scandal focused largely on the impact to his endorsements and image.
Nets Panic: Clock at Zero in 'Life and Death' Effort to Avoid 'Global
“Facing a clock some say has ticked down to zero, today 192 nations came together to take on a potential global catastrophe,” a dire ABC reporter Bob Woodruff ominously intoned from Copenhagen on Monday’s World News with “Saving the Planet?” on screen. Those attending the conference on climate change “where an official said today the clock has ticked down to zero and it's time to act,” NBC anchor…
Genesis of a Political Joke: 'Going Rogaine
It is the joke told by Sarah Palin on Saturday at the Gridiron Club that has spread far and wide. It was featured by many websites and news outlets including Politico and U.S. News & World Report. Here is how the Associated Press reported the joke:Palin targeted her hosts, Democrats and Sen. John McCain's campaign staff, as well as herself.If the election had turned out differently, she said…
Matthews Mocks Palin, Her Supporters and Even the Reporters Covering H
Chris Matthews mocked Sarah Palin, her supporters and even some in the press who covered her as he went on one diatribe after another on Monday's Hardball. Matthews insulted Palin and her supporters by asking the Politico's Jonathan Martin if the Palin supporters he interviewed "take her seriously," and "Were they all white people?" Matthews then went on to chide Martin and the USA Today's Susan…
NY Times Public Editor Says ClimateGate Emails 'Not a Three-Alarm Stor
New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt took on the controversy over the "ClimateGate" emails leaked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Britain: "Stolen E-Mail, Stoking the Climate Debate." The text box: "Some say The Times has played down an important story." Predictably, Hoyt did not agree. Though his Sunday Week in Review column gave critics room to make…
MSNBC: ClimateGate ‘A Controversy That’s Not Really There
Near the end of the 2PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer discussed the ClimateGate scandal only to claim there was no scandal in the emails that seemed to show climate scientists manipulating global warming data: “I mean is someone using differences in semantics to try and play up a controversy that’s not really there?”Brewer spoke with Politico reporter Erica Lovely about the emails in…