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ABC’s de Nies Prognosticates: Not ‘a Dry Eye in the House’ for M
Good Morning America correspondent Yunji de Nies on Thursday touted White House talking points when she highlighted Michelle Obama’s pitch for the 2016 Olympics to be in Chicago. De Nies parroted, "We're told there won't be a dry eye in the house by the time she's done." She was "told" this? Was she also told that the First Lady would "bring down the house" or that "Michelle will hit a home run…
NBC's Morales Gets Caught Up in Obama Olympic Charm Offensive
NBC's Natalie Morales, on Wednesday's "Today," was bowled over by the First Couple's "tag-teaming" effort to lure the Olympics to their home city of Chicago. Reporting live from Copenhagen, Morales cheered that "it doesn't get any better in terms of PR blitzes than this," and effused the First Lady was "turning on the charm, as only she can." "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer introduced the segment…
Ron Paul Warns of Violence from Pending Dollar Crisis; Says Israel Str
Host Beck says left, media would blame right for 'any kind of violence.'
Fox News Gets First Interview With Dan Rather After His Failed Suit
President Barack Obama might be afraid to go on the Fox News Channel, but former CBS "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather certainly isn't.In fact, Rather has given FNC's Neil Cavuto the first chance to ask him about Tuesday's court decision to toss out his lawsuit against CBS.As reported by Mediaite Wednesday evening:
1982, 2009: Networks Find Identical Unemployment Numbers 'Good ' News
Unemployment is currently at a 26-year-high of 9.7 percent and expected to continue rising. The last president to govern with such high unemployment was President Ronald Reagan.
But in 1982, when unemployment was rising similarly to the way it has in 2009 the network news media were merciless quoting attacks from Democrats, union leaders and the unemployed to attack Reagan's "sadistic" fiscal…
White House Blogs About Glenn Beck
Just how afraid of Glenn Beck are Barack Obama and Company?So afraid they've actually started blogging about him to refute statements made on his program by either himself OR his guests.Somewhat humorously, the offending guest on this occason was a senior advisor to former President Jimmy Carter. Without further ado, the following was posted Wednesday by Jesse Lee, Obama's Online Programs…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Palin's new book shaping up to be a bestseller.Forty-eight days before the release and she’s already topped Dan Brown’s latest conspiracy-theory casserole at both [Barnes and Noble and Amazon]. To put that in perspective, note that the book doesn’t even have a cover yet.Will the MSM ignore, as they did with Levin, Beck, and Malkin?
'Today's' Matt Lauer Discusses Positive Aspects of Smoking Marijuana
What do you do to unwind at the end of the day? Read a book? Take a bath? Watch some TV? Well, maybe you should think about smoking some pot. At least that's the latest advice from NBC's "Today" show. On Sept. 30 an entire segment was devoted to discussing the positive aspects of pot smoking and included a pitch for legalization. "Today's" Matt Lauer interviewed Joanna Coles, the editor-in-chief…
NPR's Gross Explores (and Laughs at) 'Strange' Fox News
The folks at National Public Radio really don’t like Fox News. They don’t like NPR people on Fox News. When the NPR talk show Fresh Air with Terry Gross wanted to discuss Fox News and its role in nurturing tea-party protests, they gave 40 minutes to David Weigel of the left-wing site The Washington Independent. It had the usual tone of exploring the dark side of the moon. Gross led off the show…
Behar’s Beck Obsession -- Maher: 'We’re Going to Find Glenn Beck D
Perhaps this is going to be a common theme of CNN Headline News "The Joy Behar Show." For the second night in a row, two out of two shows - Behar went after the former CNN Headline News host, now Fox News host Glenn Beck as a head of the conservative movement. On her Sept. 30 show, Behar guests included HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher and conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter. One had a…
FNC Shows Polish Prez Not Happy After Obama Reneged on Missile Plan on
On Thursday, FNC viewers got to learn of a little known diplomatic faux pas on the part of President Obama, as the administration announced on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland that America would back out of the plan for a missile defense shield previously worked out with Polish President Lech Kaczynski. On Special Report with Bret Baier, host Baier showed an interview with…
Networks Flip Flop on Jobs
Identical Unemployment Numbers Good News for Obama, But All Bad under Reagan.