Yahoo! Sports Blogger Tags Natl. Organization for Marriage As 'Anti-Ga
Updated with video of Tyree interview (see below page break)
Former pro football player David Tyree has dared come out publicly with his view that New York State should not grant same-sex marriage licenses.
For that view, disclosed in an interview with the "anti-gay group" the National Organization for Marriage, Tyree's "put his foot in his mouth" according to Yahoo! Sports blogger Doug…
Obama Florida Fundraiser Over Half-Empty; Only Politico, ABC Blogs Not
Many people, including yours truly, believe that one of the primary reasons for the Politico's existence is to carry negative stories about Democrats and leftists which the rest of the establishment press then mostly chooses to ignore ("Why should we cover that? It's at the Politico already").
President Obama's more than half-empty campaign fundraising stop in Miami Monday is a case in point…
Time's Steinmetz Grouses About Way Alaska Governor Released Palin E-ma
Perhaps peeved that her weekend was wasted on the nothing-burger that was the release of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's official e-mail correspondence, Time magazine's Katy Steinmetz yesterday directed her ire at current Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) for dumping the e-mails on reporters in cumbersome printed form rather than in electronic files:
Politico's VandeHei: 'Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organizatio
People know that the MSM despises Sarah Palin. Still, it was shocking to hear the beans so blithely spilled . . .
Jim Vandehei of Politico, on Morning Joe today:
"If you talk to any single reporter at any media organization that we're aware of, I don't think that anyone thinks she can be president or should be president."
View video after the jump.
AP Waffles on Calling Source of European E. Coli an 'Organic' Farm
On Wednesday evening in Europe (12:31 p.m. Eastern Time), in what it was already describing as "the world's deadliest known outbreak of E. coli," the Associated Press reported that "No cause for the outbreak has yet been found," while farmers on the continent were petitioning the EU for hundreds of million of dollars in compensation.
By midday European time (6:27 a.m. ET) on Friday, June 10,…
Daily Beast Columnist Wishes Weiner Wife Would Stand by Her Man, Whom
How tone-deaf do you have to be to a) compare Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) to Martin Luther King, Jr. b) say the women who got Weiner's lewd photos were "hardly traumatized" and c) call on Weiner's wife Huma Abedin to call a press conference to belittle the media for attacking her hubby?
You might want to ask Daily Beast contributor Lee Siegel, who did just that (emphases mine) in a June 10…
Politico Erroneously Tags Retiring Rep. Dan Boren as 'Conservative Dem
Whether it's deliberate obfuscation or just plain laziness is up for debate, but the media have a penchant for misleading news consumers with the meme that Blue Dog Democrats are politically "conservative." While the Blue Dog caucus is decidedly more moderate than Democrats as a whole -- you could individual members are "conservative for a Democrat" -- they rarely if ever qualify as…
AP Goes Vague on GM's Akerson Aching For 'As Much As' $1 a Gallon Gas
Early Tuesday morning, David Shepardson and Christina Rogers at the Detroit News ("GM's Akerson pushing for higher gas taxes") reported that General/Multi-Government Motors CEO Dan Akerson "wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars."
Later in the interview, Akerson was much more emphatic about what he would like to see done…
Time's Altman Notes Herman Cain's 'Steady Rise', But Dismisses Tax Ide
The mainstream media have largely ignored or casually dismissed businessman and radio host Herman Cain's bid for the 2012 Republican nomination.
Not so Time's Alex Altman, who has a generally decent piece today on the magazine's Swampland blog:
Press Ignores Sunstein's 'Young Man' Claim, But in 1998 Jumped on Hyde
On Friday, Cass Sunstein, the White House's 56 year-old Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (pictured at right), attempted to disavow a 42-page paper he wrote called "Lives, Life-Years, and Willingness to Pay," which recommended that the government reduce resources directed at benefitting the elderly in favor of increasing what goes to young people, because young…
Time's Sullivan Cites Left-wing 'Religious Group' to Insist Catholic R
"I am fairly certain that when Paul Ryan first decided to publicly share his admiration of Ayn Rand, he could not have imagined it would lead to him speed-walking to his SUV to avoid a young Catholic trying to give him a Bible and telling him to pay more attention to the Gospel of Luke," Time's Amy Sullivan snarked in a June 3 Swampland blog post.
Media's Newest Climate Culprit: Search Engines
Last time it was your refrigerator's ice maker, and we wondered what the media would come with next. They have outdone themselves. The latest climate culprit: Internet search engines.
The Vancouver Sun calculated in an article last week that each search engine submission emits a minuscule one to 10 grams of carbon dioxide via a small amount of electricity usage. Add up the hundreds of…
CBS Reporter Invokes 'Long, Hot Summer' Cliche in Covering Teen Unempl
For those too young to remember, invoking a "long, hot summer" was a favorite pastime of the establishment press and so-called "civil rights leaders" after the race riots of the 1960s (example here). The message: Get that federal money flowing to us, or there will be violence in the streets.
At CBS News, reporter Bill Whitaker wrapped his coverage of the teen unemployment situation as follows…
Gawker Writer Scolds CBS News Correspondent for Blaming Network's Slow
Old and new media clashed on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday.
After CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes blamed Andrew Breitbart for her network's slow response to the ongoing Weinergate scandal, Gawker staff writer Maureen O'Connor said, "I think even if that's the case, it was very quickly that you could have looked into this story and verified it for yourself" (video follows…
