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US News Writer Claims Palin Supporters Smearing Gov. Jindal as 'Secret
One has to wonder about the thought process of some people. Dan Gilgoff, Faith reporter with U.S. News and World Report and Huffington Post writer, is a perfect example of what I am talking about. After a February 23 posting on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's Catholic faith, Gilgoff followed up the next day with a post claiming that Sarah Palin fans were smearing Jindal over his supposedly "…
Obama 'Grabbed the Center,' Jindal on 'Far Right,' A 'Micro-Cosmic' Fi
Some of the odd and/or noteworthy takes in television coverage following President Barack Obama's Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress:- On MSNBC, Chris Matthews predicted “we're going to hear a fairly right-wing speech tonight,” from Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in response to Obama, because “the only position left in America right now politically that he's left open is on the…
Raise the Stars and Stripes High
Barack Obama's election sparks new-found patriotic zeal from the Left.
CNN’s David Gergen: Obama Agenda 'One of the Greatest Dramas of Our
CNN’s senior political analyst David Gergen was positively aglow after hearing President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening: “This was the most ambitious president we’ve heard in this chamber in decades. The first half of the speech was FDR, fighting for the New Deal. The second half was Lyndon Johnson fighting for the Great Society, and we’ve never seen those two…
UPDATED: Matthews, Not Olbermann Mutters ‘Oh God’ Before Jindal
Update/Correction: It seems Chris Matthews, not Keith Olbermann muttered "Oh, God!" as Gov. Jindal walked out to deliver the Republican Response to the President's address to Congress. My apologies for the confusion. The text below is corrected according.In another journalistic new low, MSNBC's Chris Matthews apparently mumbled the words "Oh God" after he introduced Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal,…
Obama Less Popular Than Bush After First Month in Office
As Obama-loving media gush and swoon while they report the new President's popularity, an inconvenient truth emerged Tuesday that seems destined to get ignored: after one month in office, George W. Bush was more popular than the current White House occupant.Impossible, you say?Well, before Obama stepped in front of Congress this evening, Gallup published the following:
Tobacco Lawsuits: Newspapers Neglect Reporting That Dangers of Smoking
Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined that Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health One of the big pet peeves of your humble correspondent is when tobacco lawsuit plaintiffs declare that the hazards of smoking cigarettes were kept secret by the tobacco companies and, as a result, they continued smoking thinking that it was safe to do so. Yeah, some "secret" when each and every pack of…
Joy Behar Sees Obama Assassination Threat in NY Post Cartoon
"The View's" Joy Behar believes last week's controversial New York Post cartoon which mocked the recently enacted stimulus bill represented an assassination threat on President Barack Obama.She even wonders if the author should be investigated by the FBI. I kid you not.As host Barbara Walters on Tuesday addressed Rupert Murdoch's apology for the cartoon published in his paper, Behar said the…
Couric Pushes 'Out of Touch' GOP to Be 'More Supportive' of Obama
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod made the rounds of the broadcast network evening newscast anchors on Tuesday to discuss President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress, but CBS's Katie Couric, in uniquely offering some balance by matching Axelrod with a segment featuring House Minority Leader John Boehner, only served to expose her impatience toward GOP opposition. With Axelrod, she…
Boston Globe Reporter Gushes Over 'Joys' of Unemployment
The most important thing to keep in mind while reading this Boston Globe article, is that it would never have been written six months ago. Why? Because at that time the "evil" Republicans controlled the White House and unemployment would have been portrayed as grim. However, now that Barack Obama is in the Oval office, rising unemployment is being presented almost lovingly as you can see in the…
Olbermann Frets Obama ‘Acting Disturbingly Like Bush
It’s not even April 1 yet, and Keith Olbermann is already expressing fears that President Obama "is acting disturbingly like President Bush," because of a number of recent decisions by the Obama administration to continue policies similar to those of President Bush, which Olbermann recounted on Monday's Countdown while the words "Four More Years?" displayed at the bottom of the screen. The MSNBC…
Live Chat on Obama's Speech to Congress
Tonight at 9pm ET President Barack Obama will address Congress for the first time. He will be speaking about his plan for the economy and we here at NewsBusters will be putting on a live chat. Feel free to talk about the speech itself, media reaction to it, and anything else you might think of.
