Kathleen Parker Calls Townhall Demonstrators 'Fringe' and Tax Proteste
Kathleen Parker has an interesting little shtick. Few noticed her when she was writing from a conservative point of view...until she started attacking conservatives about a year ago. Then she went whole hog and has made a lucrative new career of attacking conservatives...while still going through the motions of pretending to be conservative. Parker's latest column on the topic of townhall…
P.J. Gladnick
C-SPAN Caller Blasts Media's Coverage of Town Hall Protests
"When I watch the news people stand here and tell me that I am a member of a hired mob, that I've been called up by the Republican Party, they only wish they could have done something like this. I've never been contacted by any organized group." So fabulously stated a caller during Saturday's "Washington Journal" on C-SPAN in a monologue that is likely to go viral throughout the Internet and…
Noel Sheppard
Harry Reid Will Only Do Town Halls By Telephone, Media Mum
The most powerful man in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), announced on Friday that as a result of recent protests at town hall meetings he won't hold any such political gatherings during this month's Congressional recess.Instead, he will only do what's called "telephone town halls" where he and his staff have complete control over the questions being asked and who's asking them. …
Noel Sheppard
Open Thread
NB Staff
NPR's Mara Liasson Apologizes for Comparing Cash for Clunkers to Katri
Tim Graham
GOP Congressman Booed for Telling People to Turn Off Glenn Beck
The media would like folks to believe that only Democrats are hearing it from constituents at town hall meetings this August, but given what happened to Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) Thursday evening, nothing could be further from the truth.As he spoke to a group of 350 citizens at the Upstate Family Resource Center in Boiling Springs, he asked an outspoken attendee why she was afraid of Barack Obama.…
Noel Sheppard
MSNBC's O'Donnell Performs Possibly the Worst Interview in History
Is it a requirement at MSNBC that program hosts interrupt conservative guests whenever possible thereby preventing anyone other than liberals to make a point?Such certainly appeared to be the case Thursday evening when Lawrence O'Donnell filled in on "The Ed Show" and treated his guest, Peter Schiff, more poorly and unprofessionally than just about anything I've ever witnessed.It was so bad that…
Noel Sheppard
CNN Uses Pro-Communist American to Tout Cuban Health Care
There’s something deeply wrong with journalism that scrutinizes and criticizes the institutions of free and successful nations, but produces puff pieces on the supposed achievements of totalitarian dictatorships. On Thursday, CNN aired a piece of Communist Party propaganda about how Cuba could serve as “a model for health care reform” in the United States, complete with an authoritative sound…
Rich Noyes
Media Ignore Democrat Astroturfing at Pelosi Event
As media members fell all over themselves last week calling town hall meeting protesters part of an angry mob financed by conservative organizations, they were totally disinterested in evidence of astroturfing by Democrats at an event attended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.).To highlight the supposed impact of stimulus funds on healthcare services, Pelosi joined Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo…
Noel Sheppard
Atlanta TV Exposes Dem Congressman Yelling At Healthcare Questioner
As national media outlets and their employees depict town hall meeting protesters as right-wing outsiders organized by conservative organizations, the Atlanta affiliate of NBC aired a segment Friday evening that should act as a fine example of how this uprising in America should be covered.11 Alive reporter Duffie Dixon not only showed a heated exchange between Rep. David Scott (D-13th District)…
Noel Sheppard
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: It's Saturday...you tell us.
NB Staff
Bacon: Weapon of Mass Destruction
Tim Graham
AP Dispatch Spikes Conservatives in Gay Therapy Story (Updated