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Matthews: McConnell Should Be Man of the Year – Time Picks Bad People Like Hitler

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Matthews: McConnell Should Be Man of the Year – Time Picks Bad People Like Hitler

Chris Matthews on Friday said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should be Time magazine's Man of the Year for engineering a “disgusting strategy” that forced Obama to the left and made the President look like a socialist. “Time magazine’s picked people pretty awful,” claimed the “Hardball” host. “I’m not mentioning their names…Hitler” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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Fineman To Olbermann: Democrats Said of Tax Plan ‘F the President,’ ‘No F-ing Way,’ ‘He F-ed It Up’

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Fineman To Olbermann: Democrats Said of Tax Plan ‘F the President,’ ‘No F-ing Way,’ ‘He F-ed It Up’

Roll Call reported Thursday that during a heated meeting of House Democrats to discuss Barack Obama's tax compromise plan, an unknown member was heard saying, “F–k the President.” According to Howard Fineman, appearing on MSNBC's “Countdown,” that was not the sole F-word expressed in disgust for the President at this contentious gathering (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more

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Networks Offer Scant Coverage of Liberal DREAM Act, Frothed Over Arizona Immigration Bill

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Networks Offer Scant Coverage of Liberal DREAM Act, Frothed Over Arizona Immigration Bill

For much of the spring and summer, the big broadcast networks threw staff and airtime at covering Arizona's attempt to control its borders against rampant illegal immigration. Liberals detested Arizona's “harsh” new law, so the media elite reflexively treated it as a scandal in their coverage.

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Rates Unchanged, Yet CBS Insists ‘Battle Over Tax Cuts’ Means ‘Cuts for High-Income Earners’ and Middle Class

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Rates Unchanged, Yet CBS Insists ‘Battle Over Tax Cuts’ Means ‘Cuts for High-Income Earners’ and Middle Class

Matching the distortion documented in a MRC study posted Tuesday, though under the Obama-congressional GOP compromise income tax rates will remain unchanged for all, fill-in CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor introduced a story by characterizing a “battle over tax cuts” and how at a White House news conference President Obama “said agreeing to cuts for high-income earners was the only way to get middle-class cuts.” Except neither group is getting any income tax “cut” and the agreement simply forestalls a hefty tax hike. Over on ABC, World News anchor Diane Sawyer’s tease presumed “tax cuts” were under consideration when the alternative to the deal to extend them was not a cut but a tax rate increase: “Talking tough. President Obama tackles his Democratic critics and says Republicans held the middle class tax cuts hostage.” read more

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Obama Again Says Social Security Originally for Widows and Orphans Only

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Obama Again Says Social Security Originally for Widows and Orphans Only

You would think after the last time President Obama incorrectly said Social Security when it was originally created was exclusively for widows and orphans, someone in his administration would have corrected him so he wouldn't do it again. Yet there he was at Tuesday's press conference making the same completely false assertion on national television (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more

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Quote Of The Day: "I’m Wearing Pink For All The Pinkos Out There Riding Bicycles"

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Quote Of The Day: "I’m Wearing Pink For All The Pinkos Out There Riding Bicycles"

Image credit BlogTO Don Cherry has a penchant for fancy suits and is a commentator on the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s biggest show, Hockey Night In Canada. For some reason Toronto’s new mayor thought it appropriate that Cherry should place the chain of office around his neck, even though Cherry a) doesn’t live in Toronto, and b) is a millionaire who says “people are sick of elites and artsy people running the show.” and thinks Ford likes “lunch pail blue collar people”. But to top it all off, in To… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Quote Of The Day: "I’m Wearing Pink For All The Pinkos Out There Riding Bicycles"

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Media Emphasis on ‘Holiday Shopping’ Directly Contradicts Public’s Stated Preferences

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Media Emphasis on ‘Holiday Shopping’ Directly Contradicts Public’s Stated Preferences

There are many areas where the establishment press's terminology preferences are significantly out of sync with everyday usage by the general public. To name just two examples, the ever so PC press routinely replaces publicly favored and more informative terms such as “illegal immigrants” and “Muslim terrorists” with “undocumented workers” and “militants.” And of course, we can't forget the press's affection for “a certain late-term pregnancy-ending procedure,” when it's really “partial-birth abortion.” Though the disconnect I'm about to describe isn't as serious as the ones just noted, there is another area where press terminology is at wide variance with the public's preferences. That would be in how to describe the shopping season that occurs from Thanksgiving until the end of the year. For a while, the press's terminology choices seemed to be winning over retailers. But at least this year, that isn't so, as noted in an item at Advertising Age (HT to Tim Graham at NewsBusters, who tweeted on this about 10 days ago): read more

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Open Thread: 1.4% Military Pay Raise Draws Fire

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Open Thread: 1.4% Military Pay Raise Draws Fire

The 1.4 percent pay raise the Obama administration has proposed for the nation's servicemembers would be the lowest raise given since 1962 – when none at all was given. The administration, which wants to freeze non-military pay for federal workers to tackle the deficit, says a 1.4% raise for the military would match average private-sector-wage growth and is in addition to earlier increases in housing and food subsidies. read more

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AP’s Misnamed Wiseman Joins the ‘BLS Must Be Wrong’ Brigade, Questioning Dismal Employment Report’s Validity

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on AP’s Misnamed Wiseman Joins the ‘BLS Must Be Wrong’ Brigade, Questioning Dismal Employment Report’s Validity

At the Associated Press late Sunday afternoon , reporter Paul Wiseman, who may have the most inappropriate last name in the history of business journalism, engaged in a brazen “It's really not that bad” excuse-making exercise on behalf of the economy Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Ben Bernanke have created. In the process, he joined a Reuters reporter in questioning the validity of the information Friday's Employment Situation Report. read more

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