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MSNBC Hosts: Criticizing The President Threatens His Safety

September 4, 2009 by 4 Comments

He has been a voice in the wilderness for global warming realists, but now that he’s taking on other issues put forth by President Barack Obama, some on the left’s network, MSNBC, are suggesting Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is putting the president’s life at risk.
Throughout the day of Sept. 3 on MSNBC, the place for liberal politics, a report from the Sept. 2 Tulsa World by Randy Krehbiel was cited and it was suggested Inhofe had gone too far with his criticism of Obama. Both MSNBC hosts David Shuster and Ed Schultz condemned Inhofe’s comments that were very unfavorable toward the president’s policies.

“I have never seen so many things happening at one time so disheartening to America.” Inhofe said, according to the World.
That remark and others including his thoughts on global warming and his disappointment in that he thinks Obama “is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America” inspired an angry Schultz to dedicate the opening segment of his Sept. 3 MSNBC show to attacking Inhofe.
“You know, I don’t have to tell fair-minded, thinking Americans that this truly is psycho talk, but it’s really more than that folks – it’s really irresponsible,” Schultz said. “When an elected lawmaker, a senator who has served this country for many years, says things like this to his constituents, you know that it does? It opens up the floodgates to these crazies that show up at town hall meetings. This is doomsday talk.

Read More: By Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute

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Economist Replaces Your Newsstand Guy With A Cellphone

September 4, 2009 by 1 Comment

In a potential advance for the forces of paid content, The Economist is introducing a trial program today that lets New Yorkers use their cellphones to order overnight home delivery of the new issue at the regular newsstand price.

New Yorkers who have signed up for weekly texts announcing each issue’s topics will also receive a URL for a web page they can visit to order the issue. Those who order by 9 p.m. are guaranteed a hand-delivered copy by 6 a.m. the next morning — in time to beat the commute. The weekly texts go out on Thursday afternoons, meaning recipients can get overnight copies before newsstands get them at about 9 a.m.

In England, where The Economist first tried the approach two months ago, people who have preregistered can just reply to the text messages to get their overnight copies. The Economist hopes to have that simpler system in place by the time it widens the New York trial to cover the entire U.S.

Read More: by Nat Ives, Advertising AGE

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ABC, CBS, NBC To Carry Obama & GOP Response; FOX Unlikely

September 4, 2009 by Leave a Comment

It’s official. Pres. Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday is set for 8pmET, with a Republican response to follow. The cable news channels will give extensive coverage to both. As for the broadcast nets:

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Most networks will carry his healthcare address and a GOP response

ABC – will carry the joint session and the GOP response with Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos anchoring.

CBS – will carry the joint session and the GOP response with Katie Couric anchoring.

FOX – insiders tell us the network is not expected to carry either, but nothing official yet.

NBC – will carry the joint session and the GOP response with Brian Williams anchoring.

Read More: By Chris Ariens, TV NEwser

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When Post Editors Attack

September 3, 2009 by 3 Comments

The Washington Post’s behavior lately goes so far beyond mere bias that it looks like a caricature cooked up by a comedian or saboteur. The paper’s bid to fix the Virginia gubernatorial election is right out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.

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Washington Post is trying to destroy Mcdonnel like they did Allen

Alinsky, the communist organizer who was Barack Obama’s political lodestar, prescribes a simple strategy to win: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” (p. 130) The Post has launched a bald-faced attempt to “freeze” GOP candidate Robert McDonnell. It would be funny if it were not such a serious breach of journalistic ethics.

The campaign began on August 30, with a top of the page, single column headline, “’89 Thesis a Different Side of McDonnell: Va. GOP candidate Wrote on Women, Marriage and Gays.”  It was right next to a gigantic, five-column headline honoring Ted Kennedy: ‘We Loved This Kind and Tender Hero.’ Just below was a photo of a mourner holding a large American flag.

Ted a hero! McDonnell a fundamentalist bigot!

Read More: By Robert Knight, American Thinker

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Some GOP Bloggers Boycott WND

September 3, 2009 by 4 Comments

Surprise. It’s not just the Obama administration and the left that’s using intimidation tactics to malign and suppress WorldNetDaily. Now a few Republican bloggers are using the same bullying tactics in an effort to put WND out of business by calling on Americans to, and I quote, “boycott any of those organizations that will not renounce … support for WorldNetDaily.”

I’m not kidding.

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It started with someone named Jon Henke who writes a blog called “The Next Right.” The title of his piece says it all: “Organizing Against WorldNetDaily.”

What’s his beef?

Apparently, this fellow I have never known nor associated with nor even heard of before is embarrassed that someone might connect WND with him and his beloved “conservative movement” because of an article he read in the Boston Herald last week.

Last Saturday, the Herald published an article titled, “Secret camps and guillotines? Groups make ‘birthers’ look sane.” In that story, reporter Steven Thomma of McClatchy, a newspaper chain founded on the notion of promoting “public ownership of private property” (and doing its best to fulfill that mission, I might add), alleges “WorldNetDaily.com says that the government is considering Nazi-like concentration camps for dissidents.”

Read More: By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily

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Fox’s August Cable Dominance

September 3, 2009 by 1 Comment

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In August, FNC beat the combined averages of CNN and MSNBC in Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo both in primetime and in total day. In prime, FNC averaged 2.29M Total Viewers and 590K viewers in the demo. “The O’Reilly Factor” (105 months as the top cable news show) had its five most watched programs of the year in August and topped summer reruns on ABC and NBC including “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Ugly Betty.” The Factor was up 33% in Total Viewers and up 62% in the demo, year-over-year.

“Glenn Beck” was up 108% in Total Viewers/up 173% in the demo (compared to America’s Election HQ airing at 5pmET last August); Hannity was up 23% in Total Viewers/up 32% in the demo; and “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” was up 34% in Total Viewers/up 45% in the demo.

FNC was the only news network to post increases in all categories compared to last August — up 17% in Total Viewers and up 25% in the demo. This was the best month for FNC in the primetime demo so far this year.

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New ABC World News Anchor Diane Sawyer: A Profile In Bias

September 3, 2009 by 2 Comments

ABC News has just announced that Good Morning America co-anchor Diane Sawyer is taking over as the anchor of World News when the current anchor, Charlie Gibson, retires in January. Coincidentally, the MRC has just finished a new report, “Good Morning, Bias,” on the liberal spin Sawyer brought to Good Morning America (and previously as co-anchor of the network’s 20/20 and Primetime Live newsmagazines).

As our ABC analyst Scott Whitlock uncovered, Sawyer has repeatedly lauded high-profile liberals, including Nancy Pelosi (“galvanized steel with a smile”) and Hillary Clinton (“political mastery,” “dazzling”), while in her infamous 20/20 interview, Sawyer targeted Ken Starr’s report on Bill Clinton as “demented pornography, pornography for Puritans.” Here are some of the highlights of what Scott uncovered in his research; for the full package, including eight video clips, visit www.MRC.org.

“Like a freight train, she’s already moved six major pieces of legislation through the House — everything from stem cells to minimum wage. And whatever side you’re on, when this new Speaker moves, she moves fast. Nancy Pelosi says power is not handed to you, you have to know how to win it. When she walks into a room, she is quiet, polite. But her fellow politicians say she’s galvanized steel with a smile.”

Read More: By Rich Noyes, Newsbusters.com

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For Networks, Another Re-run: Obama In Prime Time

September 3, 2009 by Leave a Comment

After the White House announced that President Obama will address a joint session of Congress in prime time next Wednesday, broadcast network executives couldn’t be blamed for thinking: “Again?”

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Obama is stealing more air time with yet another prime time address

Already, Obama has held four prime-time news conferences—far more than his recent predecessors at this point in their presidencies —along with his speech before Congress in February. By preempting prime-times shows, participating networks end up losing advertising revenue each time the president takes the podium, but it’s hard to present themselves as having credible news operations if they decide not to show him.

“If the networks don’t carry it, they ought to be ashamed of themselves,” said Democratic strategist Paul Begala. “It’s not like they’re going to be bumping ‘Masterpiece Theater.’ What are they going to run, bikini models eating worms in some kind of contest?”

Actually, such a reality show premise could score better ratings than Obama when he’s talking about health care. This will be the third time since June that Obama has pushed the administration’s health care reform plan to the American people during prime-time, and the ratings indicate that audience interest is dropping.

Read More: By MICHAEL CALDERONE, Politico.com

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Liberal Media Ignores Bill Richardson Story

September 3, 2009 by 2 Comments


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Last Friday I had a post about the Justice Department’s dismissal of a public corruption case against New Mexico governor Bill Richardson. The AP reported that sources within Justice said the investigation had been killed in Washington. More evidence of that possibility comes from a letter sent by the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, Gregory Fouratt, who is not an Obama political appointee, but a career lawyer appointed by the federal judges in his circuit to fill the vacancy in the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Liberal Media Ignores Bill Richardson Story

The purpose of the letter was to notify Richardson and his political donor, a company called CDR, that the “United States will not seek to bring charges.” But the letter goes on to say that CDR and its officers “made substantial contributions to Governor Richardson’s political organization during the time that the company sought financial work” with the state government and “pressure from the governor’s office resulted in the corruption of the procurement process so that CDR would be awarded such work.” The notification letter “is not to be interpreted as an exoneration of any party’s conduct.”

This is a very unusual letter, as anyone who has worked at the Justice Department can tell you. If one takes the innocent view, it could mean that Fouratt was telling the defendants that he knows they acted corruptly and illegally but they just got by with it because he does not have quite enough evidence to go to a jury with, but he is keeping his eye on them.

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Official Obama Nativity Story Continues To Unravel

September 2, 2009 by 4 Comments

By Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily

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WND has found new evidence that Stanley Ann Dunham, President Obama’s mother, was in Seattle in August 1961, within days of her son’s birth, contrary to the accepted narrative.

In a video that has been removed from the Internet since the 2008 presidential campaign, Susan Blake, a high school friend of Obama’s mother, gave an interview in which she discussed seeing Dunham shortly after Barack Obama Jr.’s Aug. 4, 1961, birth.

Blake explains in the video that Dunham visited her in Seattle in a “late August afternoon” when Barack Obama Jr. was only “a few weeks old.”

Blake tells how she showed Dunham, an evidently inexperienced mother, how to change the baby’s diaper.

The Blake video presents additional evidence that conflicts with the birth story presented by Barack Obama in his autobiography “Dreams from My Father.”

In the book, Obama quotes his mother indicating Barack Obama Sr. decided to abandon them in Hawaii because Harvard University did not provide sufficient funds for him to take his family. Obama’s father began studies in Cambridge, Mass., in September 1962.

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