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AP Parrots GM's Comparative Tease of Not Comparable 'Financials' Comin
In the alternative universe known as Government/General Motors Land, you can: Talk about how your financial results are going to be better than last year's and in the next breath caution that the numbers won't be comparable. Inform the public that the financial information to be released on Monday isn't going to be prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP),…
Former CNNer Claims Network's Liberal Bias Caused Dobbs' Exit
A seventeen year veteran of CNN claimed Sunday that Lou Dobbs' surprising exit from the network was because "his opinions are out of lockstep with the rest of the mainstream news media."Discussing the issue with Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources," Chris Plante, a former CNN correspondent and current talk radio host, said Dobbs, as "the last conservative voice on the channel," no longer fit…
Puerto Rico Daily Sun Almost --But Not Quite-- Connects Dots on Rangel
Your humble correspondent has just returned from the Caribbean paradise of Culebra. Politics were far from my mind as I snorkled the Culebran reefs. However, on my way home, I picked up a copy of the Puerto Rico Daily Sun in the western outskirts of San Juan and a certain story by Robert Friedman of their Washington, D.C. bureau caught my eye because it had the word "rum" in the title: "Debate…
WaPo Seeks to Put GOP Gov.-elect McDonnell 'In a Bind' Over Pat Robert
It failed to make his master's thesis at the university Pat Robertson founded a campaign killer, but the Washington Post is still intent on finding ways to damage governor-elect Bob McDonnell even before he takes office. In a Metro-section front-pager today, Post staffer Rosalind Helderman insisted that some recent remarks by Robertson about the nature of Islam following the Fort Hood shooting…
Eleven AP Reporters Turn Up Little in Palin 'Fact Check
The Associated Press recently assigned eleven of its writers to fact-check Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue." AP's team of truth-seekers only found six errors the former Alaska Governor's book, most of which were trivial and presumably not worth the time of a team of reporters."AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard,…
David Brooks Derides Palin as a 'Joke' and 'Talk Show Host'; Only Ifil
The roundtable members on Sunday's This Week derided or dismissed Sarah Palin, with David Brooks, the putative conservative columnist for the New York Times, declaring “she's a joke” and insisting “Republican primary voters just are not going to elect a talk show host” -- leaving it to PBS's Gwen Ifill, of all people, to come to her defense as a fellow woman.[MP3 audio available here]Left-winger…
We Wish: AP Report Falsely Claims National Debt Is 'Accumulation of An
In a report that is so riddled with bias and factual errors it's hard to know even where to begin, Associated Press Writers Tom Raum and Andrew Taylor yesterday gave making President Obama look like a born-again deficit hawk their best shot. The pair's work is partially saved here for fair use, discussion and in this case entertainment purposes. The biggest error Raum and Taylor made was…
Al Gore's Current TV Calls Sarah Palin a 'Gun-Ho' and a 'TWILF
Days after announcing another huge layoff, Al Gore's Current TV referred to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as a "Gun-Ho" and a "TWILF."These disgraceful, sexually-charged epithets were part of an attack on prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, and came in the form of a cartoon ironically titled "The Stupid Virus":When a lab-monkey declares that President Obama wasn't…
Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton: The Coffee Summit
Barack Obama had his Beer Summit.Will they call a meeting between former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Coffee Summit?Such seems possible after Clinton's discussion about Palin with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Sunday's "This Week." In fact, the following exchange seems destined to be quite the water cooler subject in newsrooms all over America in the…
Al Gore Heckled During Global Warming Speech In Boca Raton
UPDATE AT END OF POST: Video of the protest prior to Gore's speech!Nobel Laureate Al Gore was heckled during a global warming speech he gave Saturday in Boca Raton, Florida.Addressing a crowd of a thousand people at the Mizner Park Amphitheater, Gore was repeatedly booed by about 200 protesters stationed outside the open-air facility.As reported by the Sun Sentinel Saturday (h/t NBer Blonde):
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: "Going Rogue."With her book coming out, and scheduled interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will continue to be in the news this week.Of course, this means she will continue to be trashed by all of her detractors in the media.Question: has there ever been a political figure who wasn't a…
'Saturday Night Live' Mocks VP Joe Biden and Healthcare Reform
In its opening sketch last night, NBC's "Saturday Night Live" mocked Vice President Joe Biden and healthcare reform.With the President out of the country for a week, Biden, played by Jason Sudeikis, has picked the lock on the Oval Office in order to get something big done while Obama is gone.He opted not to solve what's going on in Afghanistan because it's "a mess - it can't be fixed...It's worse…
