CNBC's Santelli Rips Media for Ignoring 9/12 DC March

Not everyone at the NBC Universal umbrella of networks got the gag order memo about the Sept. 12 march on Washington, D.C. Rick Santelli, who has been a target of the Obama White House and is credited with being the inspiration for the 2009 tea party movement, spoke out about how the media ignored the march. But, a year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, he was making the larger point that the…
Jeff Poor

NY Times Buries Massive Conservative D.C. Rally, Hails Smaller Liberal

There was a huge protest against Obama's big-government plans at the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, but one was hard-pressed to find evidence of it on the New York Times home page Sunday morning: A small headline tucked under the Political subhead. The print edition wasn't much more forthcoming. Although the Washington D.C. Fire Dept. estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people attended the 9/12 protest, and…
Clay Waters

AP Quotes Teen Who Understands Why Someone Would Want to 'Punch' or 'S

An overlooked quote by a Michigan teenager picked up by the Associated Press regarding the murder of pro-life activist James Pouillon illustrates why many in the media are ignoring this story.: Later on Friday students outside the high school said Pouillon was a fixture there and regularly held graphic signs of aborted fetuses. "I can see someone spitting on him or punching him, but shooting…
Kerry Picket

Newsweek's Evan Thomas on 'The Case for Killing Granny

A prudent gerontologist may opt to remove the September 21 edition of Newsweek from his waiting room.Newsweek.com today has a cheeky frontpage headline in "The Case for Killing Granny," with a subheader promising an explanation as to "Why curbing excessive end-of-life care is good for America."For good measure the magazine also promises readers to explain "Why We Should Insure Illegals" and how "…
Ken Shepherd

LATimes Finally Finds Graphics Like Commie Propaganda Art… And It's

After the last three years of President Obama's graphics and poster art that evokes the style of graphics used in communist propaganda someone in the Old Media has finally discovered the similarity between today's political graphics and communist styled propaganda art. And on top of that another we see another member of the Media calling us all "tea baggers" So which of Obama's posters is the L.…
Warner Todd Huston

MRC-TV: Bozell Discussed Joe Wilson, ACORN on Sept. 11 'Hannity

Video of Baltimore ACORN activists willing to help a pimp and prostitute work out a tax shelter for a brothel is a "devastating" indictment of the liberal activist group, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell pronounced on the September 11 "Hannity." [MP3 audio available here]"It shows the power of the Internet. It doesn't matter anymore that [Big Three broadcast networks] ABC and NBC and…
NB Staff

Newspaper Association Cancels Conference in South Carolina Over Rep. W

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), also known as the Black Press of America, which is a non-partisan 501(c) 3 tax-exempt organization, has decided to show its disapproval of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" remarks by canceling a convention in the state. "Rep. Wilson's remarks were racist, disrespectful and a disingenuous violation - not only of President Obama - but…
Jeff Poor

Stephanopoulos: Obama Healthcare Speech No Game-Changer

Something absolutely shocking happened on Monday's "Good Morning America": ABC's George Stephanopoulos told the nation that the President's healthcare address to the country Wednesday did nothing to change Americans' views about ObamaCare.Referring to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll released moments earlier, Stephanopoulos shared numbers with host Diane Sawyer indicating the President's…
Noel Sheppard

Newspaper Association Cancels Conference in South Carolina Over 'You L

National Newspaper Publishers Association backs out of January Palmetto state conference over Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst.
Jeff Poor

CBS’s Schieffer: Joe Wilson Shout ‘Ugly Sign of Mindless Meanness

At the end of Sunday’s Face the Nation on CBS, host Bob Schieffer denounced South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson: "The irony of a congressman trying to heckle a President in the midst of a speech that was, among other things, about the need for civility, is just one ugly sign of the mindless meanness that has settled over our politics."Apparently Schieffer forgot this passage of President Obama’…
Kyle Drennen

Heads Up: Ted Koppel Taking Twitter Questions Tonight at Poynter Event

Tim Graham

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Russia arming Venezuela!Russia has agreed to lend Venezuela over $2bn (£1.2bn) to buy weapons, President Hugo Chavez has said. The credit will be used to purchase nearly 100 tanks and a series of anti-aircraft rocket systems from Russia. In his weekly TV address, Mr Chavez said the weapons were intended to boost Venezuela's defensive…
NB Staff

Media Revelation: Obama is Going to Raise Taxes

About a year ago, then-Senator and Democratic nominee Barack Obama managed to seize control of the issue of taxes from the Republican Party by promising lower taxes for "95 percent of Americans." But today it's a drastically different situation. Obama's $787-billion stimulus has been passed into law and the administration is taking on higher deficits, which will only increase if a Democrat…
Jeff Poor

WaPo Promotes Story That 9-12 Marchers Are Racist: 'They Don't Even Kn

On Sunday, the home page of the Washington Post website buried the 9-12 rally in tiny type, while the rotating photos at the top of the page were all local stories. On Monday, one of those rotating photos highlighted a Post story on the front of the Metro section on how people attending the Black Family Reunion think that tens of thousands of Americans came to Washington not because they love…
Tim Graham