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Rare Candor for Maddow Show: Democrats 'Outhustled' on ObamaCare Prote
Email message from Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, to Chris Hayes, the magazine's Washington editor, anonymously forwarded to NewsBusters -- From: Hurricane KTo: Hayes, C. Re: Maddow show -- WTF?CC: Rahm Emanual, Robert Gibbs, Keith Olbermann Chris,Things seemed to go well with your last Maddow facetime until you derailed narrative with lapse into independent thought.
Boston Globe Rankled: 'Rockwellian Ideal...Replaced by Quarrelsome Mas
Catching up with a front page Boston Globe story from late last week, the financially-troubled newspaper owned by the New York Times failed again to limit its liberal laments, and belittling of conservatives, to the editorial page. In “Foes' decibels replace debate on healthcare: Protesters' yells at meetings frustrate Democrats' push,” reporter Lisa Wangsness rued: This summer, the Rockwellian…
FNC Notes Media Obsessing Over Conservative Protest Origins, But Not L
On Thursday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O'Reilly hosted a discussion with FNC analyst and former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg, as the two pointed out the mainstream media's double standard in "obsessing" over how protesters who have been challenging ObamaCare were organized, but have shown no interest in the organization of protesters by left-wing groups. After O'Reilly's "…
ABC Decries ‘Shouting’ and ‘Screaming’ in One-sided Story on E
ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday presented an extremely one-sided take on the controversial end-of-life provisions in the health care bill, decrying all the "screaming" and "shouting" at town hall meetings. Reporter Kate Snow featured no Republican voices (other than of people yelling) in the segment and instead focused on combating the "incorrect claims" about the legislation. The network…
White House Official Still Contradicts Obama's Statements on Health Ca
Former ABC journalist Linda Douglass claims president's earlier comments about single-payer health care plan taken out of context.
NYT's Brooks Calls Limbaugh Rhetoric Insane, Rush Responds
On Sunday's "Meet the Press," New York Times columnist David Brooks called comments recently made by Rush Limbaugh insane, and the conservative talk radio host has fired back.On Thursday, Limbaugh said the following in response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Cali.) comments about town hall meeting protesters carrying swastikas:There are far more similarities between Nancy Pelosi and Adolph…
Carole King Lumps Cap-and-Tax Opponents With 'Birthers
Watch out, Barbra Streisand! You've got some serious competition in the category of formerly famous woman singers turned loud and illogical liberal lips.Carole King has proclaimed that people who say that Pres. Obama's cap-and-tax plan is an energy tax are . . . like "birthers."King made her wacky claim on Willie Geist's "Way Too Early" show this morning. View video here.
NBC Launches Liberal Site For 'The' African-American Perspective On Ne
"There is not a Black America and a White America and a Latino America and an Asian America -- there's the United States of America." -- Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address."theGrio.com. The African-American perspective on news. Our lives, our world, our stories. theGrio.com. Part of NBC News." -- promo for new NBC News website, August 9, 2009.So much for Barack…
Will Media Investigate Astroturf Recruitment At Craigslist
While the media pointed their hypocritical fingers at town hall meeting protesters for supposedly being organized by conservative backers, they've conveniently ignored an aggressive recruiting campaign by liberal organizations looking to help President Obama get his agenda through Congress.Take for example the following advertisement placed at the online website Craiglist for New York City Monday…
Nets Disparage Protests: Getting 'Ugly' and 'Unruly,' Scold Limbaugh B
The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts in near-unison on Friday night disparaged the anti-ObamaCare protests at town meetings held by Members of Congress as “unruly,” “nasty” and “getting ugly,” while CBS and NBC targeted Rush Limbaugh -- NBC's Kelly O'Donnell charged “some anger...gets stoked by the provocative megaphone of Rush Limbaugh, who went so far as accusing Democrats of wanting the…
Pro-Obama Group Urges Members to Attend Town Hall Meetings
As the Democrat leadership and their media minions dishonestly depict town hall meeting protesters as an angry mob ginned up by conservative organizations, the group that helped get Barack Obama elected president is urging its members to show up at such events to counter dissenting views.Will this get much press attention in the next 48 hours?We can only hope the Obama-loving media will take a…
Dan Rather Pleads for White House Action on News Media
Would you believe that Dan Rather is calling on former President George W. Bush to lead a blue-ribbon effort to reform the news media? Well, obviously, the disgraced ex-CBS News anchor is not trusting the future of journalism to Bush, but in an op-ed in Sunday’s Washington Post, he is asking President Barack Obama “form a commission to address the perilous state of America’s news media.”Rather…