MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
• Fox Business will cover the Senate vote on healthcare reform tomorrow night. Coverage begins at 8pmET with David Asman anchoring from New York and Peter Barnes reporting live from Capitol Hill. > Update : MSNBC will break in to documentary programming for the vote with David Shuster anchoring ( after watching the Michigan/Ohio State game apparently). New Career Opportunities Daily: The best...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
One year ago tonight, Thursday, November 20 -- like today, the Thursday one week before Thanksgiving -- MSNBC ridiculously plastered “BREAKING NEWS” on-screen for video of Sarah Palin at a turkey farm just after pardoning one, running more than three minutes of video of some turkeys being slaughtered by a man in the background behind her. Palin, then just weeks off the presidential campaign...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Have a close look at the screencap [larger image after the jump]. Notice what Norah O'Donnell's holding in her left hand? Those are notes, with factoids from the 2008 presidential campaign. She's reading from them to challenge a Sarah Palin supporter who was waiting in line at the book signing yesterday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We all remember how back during the '08 campaign, MSM reporters would...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
By GottaLaff This is disturbing, but sadly, not surprising: The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania , a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This afternoon MSNBC's Tamron Hall and David Shuster reported on the news that "Unfriend" is the word of the year , as declared by the New Oxford American Dictionary. A few minutes later, after a live shot on the healthcare debate, congressional correspondent Luke Russert corrected the "Unfriend" report saying to Shuster and Hall, "the kids say 'Defriend.' Oxford Dictionary...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Starting at 3:03pmET, Fox News' "Studio B" broadcast President George W. Bush 's speech from Southern Methodist University live and in its entirety. Fox was the only network to do so. This was considered by some to be the former president's first major public speech since leaving office. At 3:17pmET, MSNBC dipped in for roughly four minutes. After breaking away, David Shuster said, "The...
Olbermann Watch (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
To understand how Keith Olbermann concocts his ritual character assassinations of people on his enemies list, one must appreciate the modus operandi involved. More often than not, Olby spots an attack in a blue blog, preferably a Fox hating one, lifts it without checking, contorts the content even further to suit his own agenda, and then for a big finish tosses in a healthy dose of name calling, ridicule,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The House passed its version of the health care reform bill, getting the 218 votes needed at 11:08pmET tonight. The final vote was 220 in favor, 215 against. One republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana voted for it. Geraldo Rivera was hosting live coverage on Fox news. On CNN, Don Lemon anchored and MSNBC's David Shuster was in to anchor their coverage. Now it's the Senate's turn. New Career Opportunities...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In the 3pmET hour, the cable networks all covered breaking news of a shooting at Fort Hood in Texas near a soldier readiness processing center. ( AP story ) Early reports had casualties at 7 dead and 20 injured. One suspect was in custody and two others were at large. Update : MSNBC's David Shuster reported the news at 3:13pmET. Shepard Smith reported it on FNC at 3:16pmET. CNN's Rick Sanchez reported...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By GottaLaff Thank you, Stephen Colbert, thank you thank you thank you. Last night, Roseanne Cash promoted the cause on The Colbert Report, where she successfully got the host to sign a petition calling for the closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c We Got the Beating - Rosanne Cash www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The Wingers love to play a little game, and that game is "Yeah but Liberals are equally as bad if not worse." Doesn't matter what horrible things Wingers do, in their own minds they can instantly find something a Dirty F'ckin Hippie did and it justifies everything they've done or will do. Case in point: the Winger's latest screed that "Okay, FOX News is a propaganda outfit, but MSNBC...
Magic Negro Watch (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
From Newsbusters : Gore Vidal: Obama 'Too Intelligent' for America; Vidal Adds He Wanted to 'Murder' Bush If you haven't gotten your daily dose of left-wing crazy, strap yourself in. On CNN Headline News Oct. 22 broadcast of "The Joy Behar Show," left-wing author and conspiracy theorist Gore Vidal shared his thoughts about President Barack Obama. He said he thought the 44th President of the...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
It is 3:45pm the day after and NBC's Chuck Todd is still sporting a goatee... Though, he did just announce on MSNBC that we'll have a final answer tomorrow morning on "Today." He also acknowledged Matt Lauer 's invitation to shave the goatee live on the show. MSNBC anchor David Shuster added that he thought Chuck would look better without a goatee than ABC's Jake Tapper would look with one...
Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
During an appearance I made on MSNBC today in which the subject started off being about Iraq and then moved to Afghanistan, anchor David Shuster asked me how I'd finance our continued presence...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
• DC's media types also turned out last night for a screening of HBO's documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama" at MPAA with filmmakers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams . NYT 's Jeff Zeleny , the New Yorker 's Ryan Lizza and Chicago Sun Times ' Lynn Sweet were all actually in the documentary. NBC's Betsy Fischer and Athena Jones , MSNBC's David Shuster , WaPo 's Jonathan Capehart...
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