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AP, Seattle Times Blame GOP for Downing DREAM Act; In Truth, Five Democrats’ Votes Scuttled Cloture

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on AP, Seattle Times Blame GOP for Downing DREAM Act; In Truth, Five Democrats’ Votes Scuttled Cloture

Today liberal Senate Democrats failed to garner the 60-vote threshold to end debate on and move to a final passage vote for the DREAM Act. In covering the story, the news wire credited Republican opposition for “doom[ing]” the legislation, but the math doesn't work out when you look at the breakdown of the votes on the motion to end debate — also known as invoking cloture. [h/t reader Kevin Davis] read more

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Halperin-Meacham: Obama’s No Ideological Liberal

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Halperin-Meacham: Obama’s No Ideological Liberal

All you need to know about the MSM: two of its stalwarts don't think Barack Obama is a real liberal . . . Time editor Mark Halperin, and Jon Meacham (until recently head Newsweek honcho) expressed–to the astonishment of Joe Scarborough–their fact-defying views on today's Morning Joe. View video after the jump. read more

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Bozell, Hannity Tackle Media Misrepresentation of Tax Debate on December 9 ‘Media Mash’ Segment

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Bozell, Hannity Tackle Media Misrepresentation of Tax Debate on December 9 ‘Media Mash’ Segment

“This is journalistic insanity,” NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell protested after watching a montage of liberal journalists misrepresenting the tax policy debate before Congress. “There is no tax cut going on here at all…. What we're talking about is preventing a tax increase, a tax increase which, by the way,

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AP, SFGate.com Lament Senate GOP Stand on Priority of Tax Cuts for Lame Duck Session

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on AP, SFGate.com Lament Senate GOP Stand on Priority of Tax Cuts for Lame Duck Session

“Senate GOP: Extend tax cuts or else,” reads the teaser headline for an Associated Press story at SFGate.com, the website for the San Francisco Chronicle. [Screen capture posted after page break] “Republicans send letter to Harry Red threatening to block virtually all legislation until expiring tax cuts for wealthy are extended,” an accompanying caption

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MRC’s Bozell Demands Congress Investigate Smithsonian for Abhorrent Christmas Season Exhibit

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on MRC’s Bozell Demands Congress Investigate Smithsonian for Abhorrent Christmas Season Exhibit

Managing Editor's Note: The following is adapted from a news release issued earlier today: Alexandria, VA – As CNSNews.com reported yesterday, the taxpayer funded Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is hosting an exhibit during this Christmas season featuring images of an ant-covered Jesus, male genitals, naked brothers kissing, men in chains, Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her breasts, and a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as “homoerotic.” [Link to CNSNews.com story here . WARNING: Story contains graphic photographs of items on display in an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery.] NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center (MRC) president Brent Bozell reacted: read more

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