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If it's Sunday, it's beat up on Fox News day. Earlier today, my NewsBusters colleague Noel Sheppard posted the disparaging words White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had for the Fox News Channel, a sentiment that Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod echoed on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Stephanopoulos pointed out comments made by Mao Tse Tung admirer and White House…

"Sentences that begin 'The president says' are not as impressive as they used to be." So marvelously stated ABC's George Will on Sunday's installment of "This Week."But Will wasn't the only "Roundtable" panelist to utter something clever and/or revealing.Quite the contrary, host George Stephanopoulos, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne also made…

This won't surprise anyone who reads this blog regularly, but it needs to get on the record nonetheless: The airing of a June video showing interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising Mao and Mother Teresa as "two of my favorite philosophers" to a group of high school students is barely news in the establishment press. In an August 2008 report on the Obama campaign, Anne E.…

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Andrew Breitbart, founder of such center-right online powerhouses as Big Government and Big Hollywood, blasted what he dubs the "Democrat-media complex." He spoke of his most recent exposes on the administration's political malfeasance and the mainstream media's refusal to cover those scandals.Breitbart rocketed into the national spotlight…

(HT: Catholic League.)Consider the following two stories. Pay attention. There will be a quiz.1. The Obama administration has appointed Kevin Jennings as a "czar" inside the Department of Education. In addition to being the founder of a group called the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Jennings once wrote a foreword to a book called Queering Elementary Education. In that…

With each passing day, more and more media members are taking shots at the Obama administration's strategy of attacking Fox News.On Sunday, one of the best observations yet came from Marisa Guthrie of Broadcasting & Cable magazine: "[Obama] can talk to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but he can't talk to Chris Wallace."Such was stated on CNN's "Reliable Sources" after host Howard Kurtz played a video of…

Last week's best game ended up being the Jets-Dolphins with likely the biggest surprise being how the Falcons absolutely demolished the Niners. What will this week's best games be, and what's the upset of the week?

In the midst of this week's controversy surrounding Rush Limbaugh's failed bid to become a part owner of the St. Louis Rams, one liberal media member has been pounding the table concerning some of the hypocrisy involved: National Public Radio's Juan Williams.On Sunday, Williams continued to expose the media's double-standard by pointing out how absurd it is that Limbaugh isn't allowed to be an…

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Rush Limbaugh post mortems.What is the lasting legacy of this week's controversy surrounding Limbaugh's failed bid to become an owner of the St. Louis Rams?

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel Sunday made one of the most absurd comments to date about the Administration's fight with the Fox News Channel.In his "State of the Union" interview with CNN's John King, Emanuel said, "It's not a news organization so much as it has a perspective."Maybe more importantly, Emanuel told King that the White House doesn't want other news outlets to emulate Fox…

After participating in a smear campaign that removed Rush Limbaugh from possible ownership of the St. Louis Rams, Al Sharpton is threatening the conservative talk radio host with a defamation lawsuit for his op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal Saturday.In the article titled "The Race Card, Football and Me," Limbaugh wrote:In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to…