Liberal Henican Tags Couric Quote 'Icky
December 26th, 2009 3:13 PM
Saturday’s Fox News Watch gave attention to a couple of entries in the MRC’s "Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting." Returning from a commercial break, a clip of CBS’s Katie Couric began the segment as Couric was shown expressing awe at President Obama’s confidence as she interviewed him last July. Couric: "You’re so confident, Mr. President, and…
Alert the PC Police: Time Calls Ft. Hood a 'Terror-Related .... Event
December 24th, 2009 8:38 AM
It looks like the PC Police will have to put out an APB for Time Magazine's Bobby Ghosh, his layers of editors, and his managers. First, Ghosh had the unmitigated gall to write an item called "Domestic Terror Incidents Hit a Peak in 2009." In it, he notes that the "2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terror 'events' on U.S. soil." Clearly Ghosh doesn't understand that we're in a new era where the…
Time Tees Up Lefty Research: Socialists Are Healthier
December 22nd, 2009 4:18 PM
Longtime liberal activists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett recently published a book that attempted to prove redistribution of wealth has a positive effect on nearly all of society's problems, from obesity to drug abuse to teen pregnancy. The book, which debuted in England last March, was titled "The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better" (for those not mechanically…
Time's Klein Sees 'Sedition' in Coburn Comments
December 21st, 2009 12:31 PM
When it comes to freedom of speech, liberal journalists are the staunchest of defenders, right? Not so much when it comes to blasting Republican senators opposed to ObamaCare for "borderline sedition" that "comes dangerously close to inciting violence."That was the complaint of Time's Joe Klein, who griped today on the magazine's Swampland blog about Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) saying:"The crisis…
Newsweek's Connolly: Daddy Obama Needs to Get Congresskids in Line
December 17th, 2009 6:19 PM
Reminiscing about how her father would end dinner table squabbles between her and her sister, Newsweek's Katie Connolly on Tuesday rejoiced that President Obama had said "Enough!" in order to get Senate Democrats in line:Today, it sounds like the president has finally reached that point with the Senate Democrats and their increasingly aggravating health-care squabbles. He's ready to issue a…
Prominent Lefties Tina Brown, Joe Klein in Uproar Over Palin Anti-Cope
December 9th, 2009 3:43 PM
Sarah Palin isn't getting much of a break these days from anyone on the left end of the political spectrum. In the Dec. 9 Washington Post, an op-ed appeared by the former Alaska governor, in which she called on President Barack Obama to boycott the current Copenhagen climate summit in the wake of the "Climategate" e-mail leak. "Without trustworthy science and with so much at stake, Americans…
Time Cover Story: Bush Decade 'Hell,' Obama Decade Better
November 25th, 2009 9:28 AM
Life was hell under Bush. But hang in there: things'll get better under Obama. Class dismissed: that's really all you need to know about the latest Time cover story—The Decade From Hell And Why The Next One Will Be Better. But just to drive home the Manichean message, Time editor Rick Stengel and Andy Serwer [of Time stable-mate Fortune], who wrote the cover story, appeared on Morning Joe today…
Time Magazine Cover Asks If Ft. Hood Shooter Is A 'Terrorist
November 13th, 2009 10:12 AM
Time magazine appears to be throwing caution to the political correctness wind by placing a picture on the cover of its soon to to be released November 23 issue with the word "Terrorist" written across the face of alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.Straddling the fence slightly, the magazine chose to put a question mark after the word.Even so, given media's discomfort portraying Hasan as…
Time's Von Drehle: Obama's Ft. Hood Speech Ruined by Too Much TV Analy
November 13th, 2009 8:26 AM
Here we go again: a liberal journalist feeling Barack Obama's pain, that he would be instantly judged by the media. Wait, the Obama-mythologizing, pinch-me-history-is-happening media? Yes. Time's David Von Drehle wrote an article titled "Obama's Fort Hood Speech: Lost in Translation." Von Drehle compared it to...the Gettysburg Address: Lincoln was lucky. His speech at Gettysburg wasn't televised…