Top Two Biased Reports of the Week - Economy and Business Division

Runner Up One of the Associated Press's earliest articles following Friday morning's release of the government's Employment Report, which showed July's unemployment ticking up 0.1% to 4.6% and new jobs increasing by 92,000, had this outrageous paragraph (backup link is here in case the article is revised or removed; bolds are mine): Construction companies slashed 12,000 jobs in July.…
Tom Blumer
 

CBS: 'Cash-Starved' Governments Must 'Collect...More Tax Dollars' for

A night after CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, without any consideration for cutting other spending, presumed taxes must be hiked to pay for infrastructure repair, CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson ludicrously described federal and state governments as “cash-starved” as she relayed the expert view of just one person, a Democratic Congressman, whom she said blames the lack of courage to “collect…
Brent Baker
 

Post Promotes Robin Hood Tax 'Reform

Julia A. Seymour
 

A Bottled Water the Media Almost Like

BusinessWeek details Icelandic Water Holdings' environmentalism, but is left unquenched.
Jeff Poor
 

Reuters: Plame 'Ex-Spy

Pam Meister
 

Post Carries On about Carried Interest and Tax 'Loophole

Newspaper attacks 'tax break' and calls would-be tax increase a 'reform.'
Jeff Poor
 

Barbara Walters to Anderson Cooper: 'Nobody Knows Your Opinion or My O

Justin McCarthy
 

AP: Rep. Tancredo 'Radical Republican

Pam Meister
 

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick: Senate Too Soft on Court Nominees

Cry me a river. It appears that Slate's Dahlia Lithwick was driven to tears by the Supreme Court nomination hearings, according to Christina Bellantoni of the Washington Times:"I covered those confirmation hearings. I went home at night in tears. It was awful." -- Dahlia Lithwick, Slate.com's Supreme Court reporter, talking at a Yearly Kos breakout session about the Senate's confirmation of…
Ken Shepherd
 

Friday Funnies: Kevin Bacon Caused Minnesota Bridge Collapse

I know those of you that are familiar with the trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" are seeing this coming from a mile away. However, for those "un-hip" readers scratching their heads, a game was created in the '90s wherein participants were required to tie any actor or actress in history to Bacon by naming the fewest films and stars possible with the final one obviously featuring him. For…
Noel Sheppard
 

Global Warming Myth Exposed: Soot From Cooking Fires Melting Himalayan

Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego published a paper in the journal Nature Thursday which put a huge hole in the manmade global warming theory espoused by soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As reported by the Associated Press (emphasis added): Huge haze clouds over the Indian Ocean contribute as much to atmospheric…
Noel Sheppard
 

Olbermann's NewsHole Blog Misrepresents Reagan's Thoughts On Giuliani

Ken Shepherd
 

GMA Experts Declare Hillary Body-Language Master

Wait a second. Isn't the rap on Hillary that she succeeds despite her weak communication skills? That she's substance over a decided lack of style? But GMA managed this morning to find two body language and communication experts to declare that Hillary is particularly gifted in non-verbal communication. In a segment beginning at 7:40 A.M. EDT today, ABC's Claire Shipman first interviewed…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Markos Moulitsas Tells YearlyKos Attendees ‘We Are The Center

It appears Daily Kos proprietor Markos Moulitsas is drinking the same Kool-Aid as NPR's Juan Williams. During the opening address of his third annual YearlyKos convention, Moulitsas actually said (please get fluids out of your mouth and away from your computer): There is no Jesse Jackson wing of the Democratic party anymore. We are the center. How'd you like to ask him for directions?…
Noel Sheppard