LA Times Show Tracker Blog Recalls Larry King's Best Gaffes
Tonight marks the final edition of Larry King Live.
While we have a compendium of his bias, the veteran talk show host is equally known for some pretty tremendous gaffes.
Name That Party: As Usual, Again-Indicted Former Detroit Mayor Kilpatr
It seems to be almost required by now that any indictment of Kwame Kilpatrick must be accompanied by two or more establishment media outlets reports that fail to inform readers that the former Detroit Mayor is a Democrat -- in fact, a Democrat who was singled out for copious praise during the early stages of Barack Obama's campaign for president.
In unbylined reports, CBS News in Detroit and…
Richard Holbrooke's Dying Words Taken Out of Context, Politicized by L
Tuesday's Washington Post print edition ran a front-page obituary for Richard Holbrooke which closed by noting that the veteran diplomat told his surgeon "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan."
Of course numerous news outlets latched onto that quote. Leftist magazine Mother Jones even made the line their quote of the day late Monday evening as blogger Kevin Drum approvingly added in a…
AP Deliberately Captions Palin Haiti Photo to Cast Her As Self-Conscio
Maybe we need to add the word "Palinography" to the dictionary. Its definition would be: "The process of preparing news photographs and accompanying captions about Sarah Palin in a deliberately negative light."
One example many will likely remember involved the amateurish wire service shoes-and-calves-only photos frequently seen during Palin's vice-presidential run.
Lori Ziganto at the…
Judge Rules ObamaCare Mandate Unconstitutional, LA Times Waits 12 Para
Earlier today, a federal district judge in the 4th Circuit found the individual mandate section of the ObamaCare law unconstitutional.
Tribune Newspapers Washington bureau writers Noam N. Levey and David G. Savage wrote up the 19-paragraph story, which I accessed at LATimes.com.
Levey and Savage waited until the 12th and 13th paragraphs to actually quote U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson:
Burning Styleite Question: 'Why Isn’t Sarah Palin Selling More Cloth
Justin Fenner at Styleite needs to buy a clue or two about how women who like Sarah Palin think and act, and about Palin herself.
In a post late Friday afternoon, he asked, "Why Isn’t Sarah Palin Selling More Clothes?" (bolds are mine):
Newsweek Notes Anarchists 'Hijacking the Students' Cause' in London De
Most of the news coverage I've seen of yesterday's violent demonstrations against a hike in tuition fees in London's Parliament Square portrayed it as a show of strength of student protesters.
Yet while there were doubtless numerous students protesting, left-wing and anarchist groups have easily glommed onto the occasion to hijack formerly peaceful demonstrations for their trouble-making…
Eleanor Clift: Obama a Nice Family Man, Republicans Would Rather Walk
President Obama is a nice, moral family man. Too bad he has to deal with wild-eyed ideologues in the congressional GOP.
That's the sentiment of Eleanor Clift's December 10 Newsweek.com piece, "Filling In the Blanks," which examines where the president stands in the public's perception at the midway through his term in office.
As is standard operating procedure for Clift, Republicans and…
Blogged Too Soon? Time Writer: Dems 'Will Probably Swallow the Tax Cut
Shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday, Time's Michael Scherer laid out his reasons why he believed Democrats would eventually come around to President Obama's compromise with congressional Republicans on tax policy.
In "Why Democrats Will Probably Swallow The Tax Cut Compromise," Scherer noted that, according to one economic analysis, the Obama-GOP compromise would result in both stronger economic…
Time.com Highlights 'Ultra-Gay Hotel' Trend
With a brief 8-paragraph article, Time.com's David Kaufman today approvingly explored the trend of 'ultra-gay hotels":
Media Emphasis on 'Holiday Shopping' Directly Defies Public's Stated P
There are many areas where the establishment press's terminology preferences are significantly out of sync with everyday usage by the general public. To name just two examples, the ever so PC press routinely replaces publicly favored and more informative terms such as "illegal immigrants" and "Muslim terrorists" with "undocumented workers" and "militants." And of course, we can't forget the…
Zero Hedge, Kaus Note GM 'Channel Stuffing' Ahead of and After IPO; Pr
A few weeks ago, just before GM's initial public offering went to the market (at the Washington Examiner; at BizzyBlog), I noted that Multi-Government/General Motors had spent the past several months shipping more cars than its dealers were selling, to the point where dealer stocks represented an unusually high number of days of dealers' sales.
GM's December 1 press release made that trend…
MSNBC Blogger: Is Hacker Who Took on WikiLeaks, Jihadist Websites 'A V
A hacker who styles him "th3 j35t3r" -- The Jester in plain English -- has made quite a name for himself disabling jihadist websites and, more recently, the U.S. national security-threatening site WikiLeaks.
While his methods are technically illegal, The Jester's motivations are patriotic, aimed at saving American lives on the battlefield.
Yet in telling his story, MSNBC's Red Tape…
Lefty Voices in 'On Faith' Choir: Christmas 'Tough Time' for Abortion
The Christmas season is "a tough time for supporters of abortion rights who have just as much excitement and take just as much joy in expecting a baby in their family as does everyone else, but end up feeling defensive and grumpy about the baby Jesus being hijacked for political gain."
That's how former Catholics for Choice president Frances Kissling lamented the enthusiastic response of pro-…
