Sound Bite For the Day: "LBJ Was Never Actually Elected"
Er, 1964 election, anyone? Newsbusters noticed this as well.
Er, 1964 election, anyone? Newsbusters noticed this as well.
During a discussion on the ratio of estrogen to testosterone in the workplace, Claire Shipman remarked: “A group of all white men are not going to reach the best decisions.” Her remarks have a Sotomayor-esque ring to them. I’ll also
Something about waiting until the facts are out comes into mind. ” … what Andrew Breitbart was insinuating about him with young girls and stuff was outrageous! And frankly it’s too bad that he got to say that stuff on
The media is having another Al Capone’s vault moment. Eager members of the MSM and progressive bloggers have been poring over 24,000 emails from Palin’s time as governor and still, the most shocking thing remains the media’s obsession with a
Via Newsbusters:
From the NYT: “That Weiner, Spitzer, Clinton Look.”
“I don’t see Andrew Breitbart as having done anything wrong on this story.”
Joan Walsh appeared on Ed Schult’z show to express her dismay at how Congressman Anthony Weiner’s actions made her look. “A lot of us gave him the benefit of the doubt … I look kinda stupid.” Walsh remarked: … If
Ed Schultz last night admonished guests Bill Press and Joan Walsh for refusing to condemn Congressman’s Weiner’s actions by way of deflecting via the partisan politics argument. “This is not right-wing politics. This is absolute. There are absolutes. This man
One of my favorite thing in politics occurs whenever reporters fabricate entire hit pieces on politicians based on “unnamed sources.” David Cantanese bases a thinly-disguised editorial diatribe against Missouri’s Lt. Governor Peter Kinder in this latest example, writing: Peter Kinder,
Breitbart tells TODAY’s Matt Lauer the incredible truth behind the Anthony Weiner press conference and the thinking behind the decision to release the original photo: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
It’s not about the sex: it’s about ten full days of lies. And when you’ve lost Mr. Ed… Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy He says he takes full responsibility? I take issue with
In an unlikely and extremely entertaining twist, Andrew Breitbart took the podium at a press conference scheduled by Congressman Anthony Weiner in New York City. Breitbart discussed the circumstances surrounding the Weinergate scandal, which was broken on Big Government and
MAUREEN O’CONNOR, STAFF WRITER FOR GAWKER: You know, one thing I do take issue with is, as Nancy mentioned, at first people didn’t take the story seriously because it showed up on Andrew Breitbart’s website, and they say he has
As John Nolte points out here, The Daily Beast/Newseek’s Andrew Sullivan — with the help of some MSM allies — is always on the lookout to weaponize Sarah Palin’s own children as political weapons against her. It’s an obscene tactic
From Tommy Christopher in Mediaite: Then, on Thursday, a blogger at DailyKos published a diary rife with wild speculation, and unfounded insinuations, including an unredacted version of Veronica’s Direct Messages to @Goatsred, which also contains Betty’s name. This is the
An incredible story, even by Weinergate standards: WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he’s finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account. But he still wouldn’t say whether he’s the one in the picture. So
In a news item that’s worth mentioning but should shock exactly no one, Vivian Schiller, the ex-NPR CEO who was ousted over the James O’Keefe video string from earlier this year has been hired by NBC News. The release from
“No it wasn’t deceptive, that’s what everybody’s saying about it. I saw the first version of it, and it told pretty much the whole story, of how that woman had gone through an epiphany of understanding how race works.” Related:
Could the left hate this woman any more?
“Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.” – Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals. Could Breitbart report two plus two equals four without MSNBC and HuffPo Alinskyites trying to demonize him? To borrow a phrase from Rep. Weiner:
Yes, this is Rep. Anthony Weiner calling a CNN producer a “Jackass.” And that’s just the beginning:
As much of America tries to get to the bottom of whether Congressman Anthony Weiner’s yfrog and/or twitter accounts were hacked, actual hackers published a bogus story on PBS’s website. From Fox News: ARLINGTON, Va. – A hacker group angry
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Bigs contributor Ben Shaprio’s new book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV is out today (head over to Big Hollywood for continuing coverage of this important work), and the media is already
A solid report from CNN’s Dana Bash: CNN reports on the latest developments involving a lewd photo sent out on Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account to a young college girl in the Seattle area. She says despite the congressman’s claim
A tale of two stories. Politico took a cautious, yet objective approach to the #Weinergate story: A photo of a man’s bulging gray boxer-brief underwear was posted to Weiner’s account with yfrog — an online image-sharing site — on Saturday
Jonathan Allen and Ben Smith at Politico: Rep. Anthony Weiner says social networking identity hacking is to blame for the lewd material that a conservative news website reported was sent from his Twitter and yfrog handles to an unidentified woman
Hacked or hung? Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY 9″) finds himself in a late night online pickle. This evening a photo surfaced on Congressman Weiner’s yfrog account and in his verified Twitter timeline of a man in his underwear with an
“The Republicans lie! They wanna see you dead! They’d rather make money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has cancer and they don’t have anything for her!” There’s also this one: [youtube pZ5TnP9obbk nolink]
Satellite imagery of some of the Joplin devastation. More photos here. Donation, volunteer information here.
A great piece from the LA Times on the important role local radio is playing as the community struggles to come to grips with the aftermath of the worst tornado in over 60 years. Reporting from Joplin, Mo.– Radio host
From TVNewser: [youtube LLeGQr9TK6g nolink] MSNBC has suspended Ed Schultz for one week after he called fellow radio talker Laura Ingraham a “slut” twice on his radio show yesterday. “Like this right-wing slut Laura Ingraham… yeah, she’s a talk slut,”
Surprised? According to a University of Miami study, those historical rankings of American presidents that pop up every year or so are significantly weighted in favor of Democrats, thanks to the liberal leanings of academia. Political science professor Joseph E.
The M in MSNBC Stands for Misogyny, apparently. [youtube LLeGQr9TK6g nolink] Was this the sort of reclamation that the “slut walk” women or Media Matters had in mind? Newsbusters raises an interesting question: MSNBC anchor David Shuster was suspended in
I expected that Media Matters head David Brock’s descension to progressivism occurred for some sort of principled reason. No, Brock’s political conversion was a vanity project. Brock’s decision to abandon conservatism was a gradual one–and, unlike other famous apostates’, more
From Fishbowl NY: The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s
It’s not just their tagline, apparently it’s reality according to the Suffolk University poll on trusted news sources. How did Fox do? FOX News – 28% CNN – 18% Undecided -12% NBC – 10% Other -10% MSNBC — 7% ABC
From the NYT: World Entertainment News Network, a news and photo agency, announced this month that it had become the “exclusive photo agency partner” of Twitpic, a service with over 20 million registered users that allows people to upload images