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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: D-Day for Clinton and Obama.Who will take Ohio and Texas today, and by how much?What will the delegate count be at the end of the evening? According to WaPo, "A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that should she win one of these two states, 67 percent of Democrats said she should continue her candidacy. And even if she were to lose…
Stereotyping? Hillary Tells Latinos to Get to Caucuses 15 Minutes Ear
Has the Clinton campaign been caught engaging in ethnic stereotyping of Latinos? Jake Tapper suggests it has. ABC News' Senior National Correspondent reported from Texas this morning. After airing footage of Hillary on the stump reminiscing about her days in Texas back in 1972 working on the McGovern campaign, Tapper continued. JAKE TAPPER: That experience may the reason why Clinton's campaign…
The Audacity of Silence About Tony Rezko
Jury selection began Monday in Chicago in the trial of Syrian-born businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a major supporter of Barack Obama. Two days before the 2006 elections in which Democrats won by running against a "culture of corruption," Chicago newspapers revealed that Obama purchased a home in the summer of 2005 for $1.6 million, but to complete the deal, he would need to buy an adjoining…
NewsBusted
Topics in today's show: Protestors plan to demonstrate at the political party conventions, Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama doesn't have enough international experience and says the media are biased against her. Also mentioned: Jay Leno and pop singer Rihanna.Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, subscribe to our YouTube channel or embed today's episode on your blog…
NBC Excited About Slap at Obama, Not So About Slam on McCain
Last Tuesday, when before a John McCain campaign rally, Cincinnati radio talk show host Bill Cunningham used Barack Obama's full name and derided Obama as “the great prophet from Chicago,” NBC and ABC pounced with full stories on the “controversy.” But after over the weekend, where at an event touted as “One Million for Hillary with Gloria Steinem” the left-wing feminist icon ridiculed John…
Media Spike Story on Obama Citing Jesus to Justify Same-Sex Civil Unio
Not a single paper or network covers Obama rejecting the Book of Romans' teaching on homosexuality.
NBC's Medium Casts Arizona Senator and Ex-POW as Murderer, Cannibal
Are the writers trying to send a backhanded political message, or will next week's episode feature a corrupt murdering female senator from New York?
Team Hillary: Penn Skedaddle 'Disgusting' -- We'll Deal With Him Later
"We'll deal with him later." -- Clinton co-chair Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, on Mark Penn."It's disgusting for him to do this . . . that's just disgusting." -- Clinton supporter Hilary Rosen.Mark Penn sleeps with the fishes. Metaphorically speaking only, of course.On this evening's Tucker, Clinton's chief campaign strategist came in for some industrial-strength opprobrium from two prominent…
Global Warming Censored: Executive Summary
How the Major Networks Silence the Debate on Climate Change
Clift Screams: Being Forced to Choose Between Obama and Hillary is a
Torn by her liberal guilt of being forced to choose between a woman or an African-American man to have a shot at making history, Eleanor Clift lost it on this weekend's "McLaughlin Group" as she called the choice a "tragedy." The "Newsweek" editor claimed liberals, particularly women, were confused as to whether to dump Hillary for Obama as she blurted: "Women have waited decades to see the first…
ABC's Chris Cuomo: Prince Harry 'Expendable
"Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo joked on Monday's show that Britain's Prince Harry "has been over in Afghanistan fighting because he's expendable." Fellow host Robin Roberts appeared somewhat shocked by the comment and sputtered, "What did you say?" Cuomo, who was previewing an ABC special on the royals, didn't back off his assertion and reiterated, "It's true. The reason that Harry is…