Same Media That Fretted Over ‘No Compromise’ GOP, Now Distressed Obama ‘Caving In’ On Taxes
December 8, 2010 No CommentIn the wake of November's election results there was much discussion in the press over whether or not the newly strengthened Republican Party would be willing to compromise with Democrats. However, since Monday's announcement of a deal on extending current tax rates, many in the media have been critical of President Obama for giving in to the GOP. Before the votes had even been cast in the midterm election, on ABC's November 2 Good Morning America, former Bill Clinton advisor and co-host George Stephanopoulos worried: “[Republicans] have to make a choice, as well. Do they choose to cooperate with President Obama or stand firm on principle, which is going to guarantee gridlock?” read more
Continue reading …
Here's a twist on the WikiLeaks document dump only a liberal media member could come up with: it shows the Obama administration is doing a good job. So said former long-time Chicago Tribuner recently turned New York Times columnist James Warren on this weekend's “McLaughlin Group” (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more
Continue reading …This week's news quiz is a toughie. If you blame Sarah Palin for the GOP's failure to take the Senate, have 'always loved NPR,' oppose Arizona's immigration law as “unacceptable and un-American' and called Republican candidate Sharron Angle a 'mental patient,' then you must be: A) Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, B) Lefty loon and entrepreneur Arianna Huffington, C) An MSNBC host or D) An elitist who 'will help headline the launch next month of a new national group dedicated to restoring civility in politics.' read more
Continue reading …Bristol Palin Strikes Back at Olbermann: ‘Sorry We Can’t All Be As Perfect As You’
December 3, 2010 No Comment
As NewsBusters previously reported , MSNBC's Keith Olbermann pathetically attacked Bristol Palin on Monday for being the Candie's Foundation's abstinence spokesperson. On Thursday, Miss Palin struck back via Facebook: read more
Continue reading …’60 Minutes’ Correspondent Laments GOP Opposition to Lame-Duck Legislation
December 2, 2010 No Comment
On Thursday's “Morning Joe,” “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl deplored the GOP stiff-arm to Democratic lame-duck legislation, complaining that it wiped out the conciliatory tone of the Republicans' meeting with President Obama. She referred to the GOP strategy as “the maneuvering that I think is such a turnoff.” “If you're up here after the White House meeting saying 'Yes, they can be civil to each other,' and it's just a tone. We know it's a tone. And then it's dashed,” she mourned. “After the meeting with the President, everybody – I think, I think – in the country said this is great, this is what we want, we want that tone,” she gushed of the GOP leadership's meeting with Obama. Stahl then lamented the GOP's ensuing opposition to Democratic legislation until extending the Bush tax cuts is made a top priority.
Continue reading …
Just when you thought Ed Schultz couldn't get any grosser . . . On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz bragged that by the time he was done with Mike Pence, the GOP congressman from Indiana would be “praying to the porcelain god.” Schultz made his vulgar boast in a tease for a subsequent “Psycho Talk” segment in which the MSNBC host took Pence to task for suggesting that Joe the Plumber had it right in 2008. read more
Continue reading …Scarborough ‘Salutes’ Obama for Being the ‘Adult’ in Dealing With GOP Congressional Leadership
December 1, 2010 No CommentMSNBC's “Morning Joe” panel hit the Republican congressional leadership Wednesday for not admitting its faults in dealing with the President the past two years. After playing a video clip of leading House Republicans Eric Cantor and John Boehner praising President Obama for his admission of not having reached out enough to the GOP, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough challenged the GOP to do the same. “And now the polite thing to do…is to say 'And you know what? We could have reached out more, too',” ex-Republican congressman Scarborough said of the congressional GOP. “That would have cost them nothing,” he preached. Co-host Mika Brzezinski complained that the GOP focused on the negative, and scolded them for speaking out like they did. “I just heard them emphasizing anything that the President might have given a little to put out an olive branch,” she griped, “and then they focus on the negative.”
Continue reading …Keith Olbermann Attacks Bristol Palin for Something Announced 18 Months Ago
November 30, 2010 No Comment
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann showed viewers just how on top of things he is Monday attacking Bristol Palin for something that was announced more than a year and a half ago. During his newly renovated “Worst Person in the World” segment, the “Countdown” host gave Palin top honors for being The Candie's Foundation 's abstinence spokesperson (video follows with transcript and commentary): read more
Continue reading …Joe Scarborough Says TSA Screening Controversy ‘Most Ginned-Up Story of the Year,’ But Recants Position When Guests Disagree
November 24, 2010 No Comment
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted protesters and opponents of the new TSA screening procedures on Wednesday's “Morning Joe,” only to recant his position on the show's next hour when he realized two panel members criticized the new checks. “I was saying this was a made-up debate – this is a real debate, I guess,” Scarborough admitted on the second hour of his show. While Scarborough and co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, as well as MSNBC political analyst Harold Ford, sympathized with TSA workers and defended the new checks, two guests opposed the new search methods. Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan and New York Magazine columnist John Heilemann criticized the TSA procedures. Early in the first hour of the show, Scarborough ranted against the “opt-out” protestors who would be forgoing the body scanners at airports Wednesday to be subjected to pat-down checks, deliberately frustrating and slowing down the process on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Scarborough has recently promoted civil discourse on his show with the mantra “Keep Calm and Carry On,” but let loose at the protesters Wednesday.
Continue reading …