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**Written by Doug Powers Probably the most talked about exchange from Saturday night’s GOP debate was the Newt Gingrich/Scott Pelley back and forth regarding the sanctioned killing of American born terrorists overseas (the least talked about portion of the debate was the second hour, because not many people could watch it). Here’s video of the [...]

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**Written by Doug Powers ABC’s Diane Sawyer, who is ensconced in the 1% of America that the “Occupy Wall Street” occupiers are complaining about, is nevertheless fairly excited about the rapid spread of the protests. In fact, Sawyer is so thrilled that yesterday she added several hundred countries to the world: Speaking of Wall Street, [...]

So… nice weather we’re having, eh?

The editor of the New York Times just got religion: He thinks it’s time to ask GOP presidential candidates “tougher questions about faith.” Oh, brother, where wast thou in 2008? The Fishwrap of Record led the whitewashing of Barack Obama’s wacky black liberation theology pals and freaky-deaky Chicago pastors. Now, the skews-paper is ready to [...]

Sigh. Seriously, Tina Brown? Yes, I’m talking about you, Oxford University-educated Newsweek/Daily Beast editor Tina Brown. You’ve resorted to recycling bottom-of-the-barrel moonbat photo cliches about conservative female public figures and their enraged “crazy eyes?” Really? Who’s in charge of Newsweek cover graphics now — a Media Matters Soros Monkey? A random Daily Kos commenter? Keith [...]

**Written by Doug Powers A few days ago I wrote about Time magazine editor Richard Stengel’s cover piece entitled “One Document, Under Seige” in which Stengel seemed to reluctantly conclude that the Constitution does matter, just not as much as we think it does (though it always matters when Time needs to hide behind it). [...]

**Written by Doug Powers I’m shocked that Reuters didn’t use the word “unexpectedly” to describe the latest rise in jobless claims, a habit they and other mainstream news outlets have had for the past couple of years that has been mocked relentlessly in the blogosphere. This morning Reuters proved they’re starting to catch on… sort [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Dozens of journalists dutifully monitored the hundreds of citizens they recruited to do pro-bono muckraking for the MSM, and the overall efforts to find dirt in Sarah Palin’s emails are finally starting to produce fruit. This New York Daily News headline explains the developing scandal: Sarah Palin writes at an eighth-grade [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Unbiased Headline of the Day is posted just above pictures of Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Marco Rubio, and comes to us courtesy of the cable net that hosted last night’s Republican debate, CNN: Because expressing grave concern for raising the debt ceiling above $14.3 trillion is just crazy talk! [...]

A one-man women’s rights stimulus plan?

**Written by Doug Powers Tomorrow is the final night of Katie Couric’s stint as anchor of CBS Evening News, at which point Scott Pelley will take the reigns, lean forward even more and possibly face-plant the entire operation once and for all. Everybody knows that Couric is the run-of-the-mill media elite liberal, but how in [...]

Remember those misdirected death threats from unhinged anti-Koch addicts that Doug Powers spotlighted last week? Refresher here. Well, government-sponsored National Public Radio — erstwhile guardians of civility — apparently found the death-threat misdirection amusing. A segment last Friday on NPR’s Morning Edition made light of the plight of Iowa businessman Dutch Koch — no relation [...]

**Written by Doug Powers From Politico by way of Weasel Zippers: In addition to 420 seconds in heaven, well-behaved reporters will even get their very own autographed halo to take home. It’s like the Burger King kids crown except covered in Hope & Change instead of fry grease and ketchup (**Disclaimer: Heaven & halo offer [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Over a week ago, when President Obama was in Chicago, he had a private meeting with some donors and the microphone is said to have been accidentally left on. However, CBS News’ Mark Knoller was still listening and recording. What was widely reported (and CBS released the audio clip) were Obama’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Today President Obama is filing papers in order to seek re-election in 2012. That’s not surprising, but what is surprising is that some in the media are saying they’ve decided to actually cover what Obama says as opposed to just getting all tingly about how he says it. Among them, Roger [...]

With bonus Weiner rage

Here’s the real slacker with no leadership qualities

**Written by Doug Powers Alternate headline: Progressives 11% More Inclined to Jump on “Defund NPR” Bandwagon US News: Conservatives have long complained that the public broadcaster has a liberal bias, a charge NPR’s defenders have denied. In at least one regard, however, NPR’s board and fundraisers have, as a whole, shown a marked lean to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Sensing public funds slipping through their fingers, the board of NPR has decided to sacrifice a gazelle to the lions on the budget cut Serengeti and hope it’s enough to keep the Republican predators from stalking prey for a while. From the Daily Caller: Vivian Schiller, the President and CEO of [...]

With bonus “bitter clinger” Tea Party bashing

Media McBirthyism

**Written by Doug Powers I was hoping when Gregory asked Boehner how come he doesn’t spend more time lecturing people who aren’t entirely convinced President Obama was born in Hawaii that Boehner would have replied, “You probably see Chris Matthews more than I do, David, why don’t you do it?” But it wasn’t to be: [...]

Lead by example? Nevah!