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Nets Take Turns Failing to ID Convicted Democrat William Jefferson
On Thursday, all three network morning news programs reported the conviction of former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson on bribery charges, but only NBC’s Today identified him as a Democrat. CBS’s Early Show and ABC’s Good Morning America simply referred to him as a "former congressman."In contrast, Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News did not provide a Democratic label for Jefferson, while ABC’s…
Matthews: 'Is Sarah Palin a Poster Girl for Racism
On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews hosted a discussion with Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker and Salon's Joan Walsh as the trio discussed Parker's latest column, "A Tip for the GOP: Look Away," -- which Matthews built up by effusing, "I`ve never seen a stronger column in the newspapers" -- in which she argues that the Republican party is hurt by being centered in the South…
MRC's Bozell: Media Must Report Liberal Hate Speech Directed at ObamaC
UPDATE: Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Sean Hannity read Bozell's statement on the air on August 6th. The audio can be found here. Liberal Democrats have launched a war of outrageous hate speech directed at Americans who haved dared to express opposition to Obama's health care "reform." First, the Democratic National Committee launched a Web video charging "desperate Republicans…
WaPo Slams Obama/Joker Posters as ‘Coded,’ ‘Racially Charged
An article in Thursday’s Washington Post lashed out at the viral Obama-as-the-Joker posters, attacking them as promoting "coded," "racially charged" images. Art critic Philip Kennicott smeared the images, which have been showing up in Los Angeles, as flat-out bigoted: "The charge of socialism is secondary to the basic message that Obama can't be trusted, not because he is a politician, but…
CNN: More View Obama's First 6 Months A Failure Than Bush's
Here's a shocking new poll result from CNN that seems almost guaranteed to not get a lot of attention from the media: more people believe Barack Obama's presidency is a failure after six months in office than felt that way after George W. Bush's first half year.Maybe even more shocking: the poll included an oversampling of African-Americans.Impossible? Well, the good folks at Real Clear Politics…
Liberal Talker Mike Malloy Hopes Glenn Beck Commits Suicide
The hate speech directed at conservatives by the far left in this nation continues to get more and more disgusting as well as dangerous.The most recent incident: liberal radio host Mike Malloy called for Fox News's Glenn Beck to commit suicide and do it on television "because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular video for months."What follows is the transcript and…
Alleged Racial Healer Sharpton Alarmed by Potential Reconciliation Bet
This from a man of the cloth, no less.That Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant James Crowley may attend a baseball game together has the Rev. Al Sharpton concerned.Sharpton had this to say on his radio show on Monday while talking with Gates' lawyer Charles Ogletree, who also teaches at Harvard (click here for audio) --SHARPTON: Let me start out by…
If it's Morning, it Must Be Michael Jackson
Over five weeks after pop star's death, the networks' morning shows continue to pay homage.
Chicago Enlists 'Birthday Sex' Singer for Back-to-School Campaign
School officials indifferent to message in Jeremih's lyrics.
After Guilty Verdicts, NBC Fails to ID Jefferson's Party Affiliation
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News devoted a full minute to the guilty convictions for bribery, racketeering and wire fraud against former nine-term Louisiana Democratic Congressman William Jefferson, but failed to name his political party.
ABC's Charles Gibson mentioned Jefferson's party in a brief World News item. The CBS Evening News didn't air anything about Jefferson's convictions which were…
The Real Reason for CNBC Ratings Decline: 'Experts' Ignore Left-Ward T
When in doubt blame conservatism, even when it comes to the struggles of a media outlet - and ignore the possibility that liberalism might be to blame. Ever since Nielsen came out with the July numbers for CNBC that showed the network had suffered a 28 percent ratings decline over a year ago, some of the financial media intelligentsia have been eager to point to what they perceive are the right-…
G.I. Joe's Benetton Moment
So the latest GI Joe flick is creating controversy, because the character is no longer portrayed as a typical American soldier. Instead he’s part of some elite murky force of international fighters - a Benetton ad with rocket launchers. On MSNBC, Donny Deutsch tried to take John J. Miller to task over his objections to the change – pointing out that the shift from an iconic American…
MSNBC Goes to Bat Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell
It's been a long time since MSNBC could pretend to be anything but a shill for liberal politicians, policies and causes. Any remaining doubts about that can be dispelled by surveying the network's recent coverage of the controversy over gays in the military. Cable news' self-described "place for politics" covered the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" administrative policy six different…