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Best Notable Quotables of 2010: Demanding Respect for Obama While Still Bashing Bush

Even as the public grew increasingly disenchanted with Washington's full-throated liberal policies in 2010, the media elite's partisanship remained on full display. The Media Research Center's Best Notable Quotables of 2010 captured the highlights, as journalists continued to blame America's misfortunes on George W. Bush, even as they also insisted that Barack Obama deserved more credit for his amazing accomplishments. In the MRC's ” They Don't Miss Him Yet Award for Still Bashing Bush ,” Time's Joe Klein took the prize for insisting that the April 2010 Gulf oil spill was really Bush's fault: “This is more Bush’s second Katrina than Obama’s first,” Klein lamely insisted on The Chris Matthews Show. Klein made his crack on May 30, nearly 500 days after Bush left the Oval Office. read more

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Kurtz Seems to Condone Schultz Calling Limbaugh ‘Drugster,’ Palin ‘Caribou Barbie’ and Christie ‘Fat Slob’

Howard Kurtz on Tuesday published a surprisingly glowing piece about one of the most hate-filled commentators on television. In ” Rush Limbaugh's TV Nemesis ” posted at the Daily Beast, Kurtz even seemed to condone Ed Schultz's disgusting pet names for Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Chris Christie: read more

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New York Times columnist Frank Rich has said some astonishingly stupid things throughout his career, but a comment in Sunday's ” The Bipartisanship Racket ” might get on his top ten list. In the eyes of this liberal writer working for the most powerful liberal newspaper in the country, the Left in this nation doesn't have as strong a media megaphone as the Right: read more

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Matthews Gets Another Tingle for Obama’s ‘Cute’ ‘Wonderful’ ‘Boyish’ ‘Smile We All Love’

Barack Obama's tax compromise victory has got tingles running back up Chris Matthews' leg. After showing a clip of the President at Friday's bill signing, the “Hardball” host raved to guests Eugene Robinson and Howard Fineman about the Commander-in-Chief's “cute smile we all love…That wonderful, boyish smile” (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more

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Olbermann Suspends Twitter Account to Avoid Criticism for Assange Rape Charge Remarks

Keith Olbermann suspended his Twitter account Thursday as a result of a torrent of criticism over comments he made about the rape charges filed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The trouble started Tuesday when schockumentary filmmaker and Assange supporter Michael Moore was Olbermann's guest on “Countdown”: read more

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As one of the liberal media members that have expressed feeling betrayed by the President's recent tax compromise proposal, Ed Schultz on Wednesday said Barack Obama did a better job of selling the Bush tax cuts than George W. Bush ever did. So dismayed by today's 81 to 19 Senate vote in favor of the measure was the host of MSNBC's “The Ed Show” that he asked Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, “Do you trust President Obama?” (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more

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Time Editor Says Tea Party Not Named ‘Person of the Year’ Because They’re Not a Person

Time's managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, on Thursday, to promote his magazine's Person of the Year issue and after he cited the reasons for selecting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, he explained the reason the Tea Party didn't was because they were a group. After host Andrea Mitchell asked him to explain his rationale for not picking the other runners-up, Stengel lamely told her he disqualified the Tea Party because he's “biased in favor of putting a single person on the cover.”

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Olbermann Slammed ‘Racist’ Conservatives for Calling Obama ‘Arrogant,’ Hails ‘Nostradomus’ Dem Who Saw Obama’s ‘Nose in the Air’
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Ferguson Calls Out Liberal Bias of MSNBC’s Wolffe: ‘Journalist’ is ‘Much the Same Thing’ As ‘Democrat’
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For the second night in a row, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell exposed a prominent liberal for being totally ignorant about the tax code. His victim on Wednesday's “The Last Word” was liberal media darling Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), and this time O'Donnell had some assistance from two very unlikely participants (video follows with partial transcript and commentary): read more

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