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NBC’s Todd: Obama Has ‘Credibility’ Deficit (House of cards)
Looks like it’s not just our budget suffering a big deficit. Our president has one too—a credibility deficit . . .
Watching the daily White House press briefings, it’s struck me lately that, if perhaps not quite in Jake Tapper territory, NBC’s Chuck Todd has been asking tougher questions. Reporting on this morning’s Today about the […]
Back to Hopenosis 101: Obama to appear on Leno’s show
The White House says President Barack Obama will appear this week on Jay Leno’s talk show, perhaps adding a lighter touch to his bid to resuscitate the moribund economy. Obama will visit “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” during his trip to Los Angeles on Thursday. NBC will tape the program and air it that […]
Beginning of the end of NY Times: NY Times puts its corporate jet for sale
It looks like Arthur Sulzberger Jr. may have to fly commercial: The Times Co. is selling its corporate jet.
Editor & Publisher pulled out this nugget from the Times annual meeting proxy.
Besides chauffeuring around the Times top executive, the jet came in handy after the Iowa caucus last year, as Times staffers avoided congestion at […]
Liberal Media Death Watch - FoxNews Beats all the Liberal Cable News Combined
CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES., MARCH 10, 2009
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,212,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,376,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,331,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,274,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,044,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,965,000
CNN COOPER 1,214,000
CNN KING 1,185,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,041,000
CNNHN GRACE 986,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 928,000
Source:DrudgeReport
Brave New World:U.N. to make ban on criticizing Islam mandatory? Would criminalize such comments in U.S.
“The United Nations has adopted what it calls a Resolution to Combat Defamation of Religion,” Dobbs said in the report. “The U.N. now wants to make that anti-blasphemy resolution binding on member nations, including, of course, our own. That would make it a crime in the United States … to criticize religion, in particular, Islam.”
Constitutional […]
Change is here:Obama to Sign Pork-Laden Omnibus Spending Bill
Obama administration officials Sunday announced that despite expressed “concerns” with the billions in earmarks contained in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill — and campaign pledges to “slash earmarks by more than half” — the President would sign the bill.
Taxpayers for Common Sense says the bill contains 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion. […]
Americas are tuning out of CNN, MSNBC and turning to Fox News in droves
[Via IntellectualRedneck] America is tuning out the liberal Main Stream Media and turning to Fox News in droves. Fox News is leading prime time and daytime cable news ratings during February for the 86th straight month. Many Fox News shows were up over 30% compared to last February.
February Ratings: FNC Beats CNN and MSNBC Combined […]
27-year-old Illinois Congressman turns down Obama’s plea
[Via-CNN] It’s not often that a freshman member of Congress gets a ride on Air Force One and a personal shout-out from the President himself in front of the hometown crowd. Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock got both last week but still voted against President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill.After joining Obama on the presidential […]
Will Ferrell ON President George W Bush - No President Needs This Kind of Exposure (This is DISGUSTING)
So far six audience members have stormed out midperformance of the Broadway show “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush,” the comedian Will Ferrell’s lampooning of the 43rd president, according to those keeping count at the Cort Theater. But they haven’t been leaving after a particular Ferrell quip.
They’ve been standing up, instead, […]
Chicago Sun Times: “Obama offers no housing fix, little hope”
The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We’re all in this leaky boat together.
Still, doubts […]
Missing: 67 computers from Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab
The Department of Energy confirms a public-watchdog’s investigation that 67 computers are missing from the Los Alamos Nuclear National Laboratory, the AP reports. Of those, 13 have been lost or stolen in the past year.
The New Mexico lab, which is run by the Energy Department, says no classified information has been released. Computers with classified […]
Biden: 30 Percent Chance We’ll Get It Wrong
Vice President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that Democrats could face political repercussions in 2010 for their support of the economic stimulus package, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“But when we do [approve it], I’m sure you’re going to be nailed in ads, ‘Well they voted on that’ 30 second ads,” Biden told roughly 200 members of […]
Remember Joe the plumber? - Now, it’s Tom Daschle who forgot to pay taxes–$128,000 worth
[Via LA Times] More simple, inadvertent, overlooked, accidental, good-faith tax mistakes in the would-be Obama Cabinet.This time it’s Tom Daschle, the former South Dakota senator and Senate Democratic leader who got knocked off by the Republicans in 2004, shown here demonstrating the size of his tax mistakes over three years.
President Obama had wanted Daschle to […]
CNN’s Howard Kurtz Renames MSNBC ‘The Obama Network’
In the ’90s, many conservatives referred to CNN as “The Clinton News Network” due to its obvious biases towards the 42nd president.
Years later, just days after the inauguration of the 44th president, one of that network’s on-air hosts officially labeled MSNBC “The Obama Network.”
You gotta love it.
During Sunday’s “Reliable Sources,” when the subject of MSNBC […]