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Washington Post Apologizes for Praiseworthy Portrayal of Gay Marriage
Outraged advocates of same-sex marriage have forced the Washington Post into an apology for running a features piece last week that portrayed an opponent as more than an evil, bigoted, hatemongering fundamentalist.The profile examined Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, one of the groups that lobbied for Proposition 8, the hotly-contested California State…
NYT: Democrats Should Pass ObamaCare With No GOP Support
Candidate Barack Obama promised a new era of bipartisanship in Washington if Americans put him in the White House.Less than eight months after Inauguration Day, the New York Times has advised the President to ignore such idealism and ram through Congress a widely unpopular healthcare reform package without the support of even one Republican.Irrespective of the dangerous precedent and the long-…
Nets Catch Up with Van Jones, Sure 'Sour Note' in 'Summer Squall' Won
It took Van Jones' resignation, around midnight Saturday night on a holiday weekend, for ABC and NBC to mention him for the first time in Sunday morning news shows which broached, but failed to quote, the insidious “911truth” petition he signed, while ABC's George Stephanopoulos, seemingly trying to rationalize ABC's spiking of the subject, came aboard Good Morning America to dismiss the matter…
Olbermann to Daily Kos Audience: 'Send Me Everything You Can Find Abou
Guess who's not pleased about Van Jones middle-of-the-night-on-a-holiday-weekend resignation? Perhaps you never would have seen this one coming, but no other MSNBC "Countdown" host and provocateur Keith Olbermann himself. Bitter and seeing red? Perhaps. In a post on the Daily Kos dated Sept. 6, Olbermann urged the half-crazed liberal Kos readers to go digging for dirt on Fox News host Glenn Beck…
George Will Answers Critics Concerning Call to Leave Afghanistan
As NewsBusters reported Tuesday, syndicated columnist and ABC News contributor George Will created quite a firestorm last week with his call for American troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan.Readers are encouraged to review the article in question as well as the criticisms here. On Sunday, at the beginning of the panel segment of ABC's "This Week," Will took on his critics by reading a letter…
Reliable Sources Gushes Over Sawyer, No Mention of GMA's Ratings
Howard Kurtz opened Sunday's "Reliable Sources" with a lovefest for the promotion of ABC's Diane Sawyer to replace Charles Gibson on "World News Tonight."Mysteriously, there was absolutely no discussion about how Sawyer's "Good Morning America" is constantly second in the ratings to NBC's "Today" show, nor was there mention of how Katie Couric regularly bested Sawyer in the morning but has been a…
USAT's Clunker Payment Piece Fails to Note Original 10-Day Govt. Promi
Give Sharon Silke Carty of USA Today credit for unearthing important information about the serious back-office problems with Uncle Sam's Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program, popularly known as "Cash for Clunkers." This is the program that ABC, CBS, and NBC have all characterized as "a victim of its own success." But Carty didn't do nearly as much as she could have with the information…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: with Van Jones out, what will it mean to the Obama admininstration, and who will be next?
NY Times Finally Picks Up Van Jones Story -- After He Resigns
Van Jones, Obama environmental adviser and "green jobs" czar, resigned late Saturday night, the culmination of days of controversy (ignored by the mainstream media) after the Gateway Pundit blog dug up evidence of Van Jones being a "Truther." He signed a 911Truth.org petition in 2004 questioning whether the Bush administration "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen." And the New…
California Tea Party Holds Funeral For ObamaCare
A funeral was held in Northern California Saturday to pay final respects for President Obama's healthcare reform.Beginning in Pleasanton, a hearse carried a casket symbolizing HR3200 as well as the House-passed cap and trade bill.Accompanied by a limousine and about 40 cars, the funeral procession began across the street from Rep. Jerry McNerney's (D-Cal.) office, travelling through Dublin,…