Friday, 3 of September of 2010
CNN’s Rick Sanchez, who likes to call Obama critics “racists” has earned a new golden foot in mouth award.
Full story at NewsBusters. Video below….
Read more at Memeorandum.
The network newscast ratings for last week are in and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tied its all-time low in total viewers with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five days.
The low was set last June, when ABC also hit its own low. (Ratings records date back to the 1991-’92 season.) Last week, NBC averaged 7.42 million total viewers and ABC averaged 6.51 million.
In raw footage of Katie Couric preparing an introduction for broadcast during the Republican national convention in 2008, the CBS anchor pokes fun at vice-president candidate Sarah Palin.
The footage was recorded shortly after [meaning the day] John McCain picked Palin as his running mate but the five-minute video clip was just posted on YouTube on Tuesday. [August 2010]
In the footage, Couric lists off Palin’s credentials, including hunting caribou, enjoying moose burgers, high school basketball player and a former beauty queen before interjecting, “You can’t make this up.”
After talking about two of Palin’s children – Trig and Track – she quips, “Where the hell do they get these names?”
Growing belief that Obama is a Muslim, although incorrect, is not the fault of the American People. Way to keep your finger on the pulse of the nation, Katie.
Read more coverage at Memeorandum.
The Democratic Governors Association has its panties in a bunch because Rupert Murdoch’s company News Corp. gave one million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. CNN reports…
With the knowledge that Fox News’ parent company recently cut a $1 million check to the Republican Governors Association, the leader of the Democratic Governors Association is calling on the cable news network to run a “formal disclaimer” when it covers gubernatorial races. “I request that you add a formal disclaimer to your news coverage any time any of your programs cover governors or gubernatorial races between now and Election Day,” DGA executive director Nathan Daschle wrote in the letter to Roger Ailes.
My reaction in two words: SO WHAT?
As I’m sure the Democratic Governors Association is aware, so called “objective journalists” donated more money to Barack Obama than John McCain in the 2008 presidential election by a ratio greater than 10 to 1…
An analysis of federal election records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 margin over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .
235 journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10:1. An even greater disparity, 20:1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.
Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10:1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14:1 ratio.
By those standards, maybe the news network truly in need of a disclaimer is every single one except FOX News.
Talk about an inconvenient truth.
Read more at Memeorandum.
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There’s a new argument emerging among supporters of the Ground Zero mosque. Distressed by President Obama’s waffling on the issue, they’re calling on former President George W. Bush to announce his support for the project, because in this case Bush understands better than Obama the connection between the war on terror and the larger question of America’s relationship with Islam. It’s an extraordinary change of position for commentators who long argued that Bush had done grievous harm to America’s image in the Muslim world and that Obama represented a fresh start for the United States. Nevertheless, they are now seeing a different side of the former president.
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“It’s time for W. to weigh in,” writes the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd. Bush, Dowd explains, understands that “you can’t have an effective war against the terrorists if it is a war on Islam.” Dowd finds it “odd” that Obama seems less sure on that matter. But to set things back on the right course, she says, “W. needs to get his bullhorn back out” — a reference to Bush’s famous “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” speech at Ground Zero on September 14, 2001.
But WAIT, there’s more…
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is also looking for an assist from Bush. “I…would love to hear from former President Bush on this issue,” Robinson wrote Tuesday in a Post chat session. “He held Ramadan iftar dinners in the White House as part of a much broader effort to show that our fight against the al-Qaeda murderers who attacked us on 9/11 was not a crusade against Islam. He was absolutely right on this point, and it would be helpful to hear his views.”
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And Peter Beinart, a former editor of the New Republic, is also feeling some nostalgia for the former president. “Words I never thought I’d write: I pine for George W. Bush,” Beinart wrote Tuesday in The Daily Beast. “Whatever his flaws, the man respected religion, all religion.” Beinart longs for the days when Bush “used to say that the ‘war on terror’ was a struggle on behalf of Muslims, decent folks who wanted nothing more than to live free like you and me…”
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Bush himself has declined to comment on the mosque affair.
Good for him.
Maureen Dowd, Eugene Robinson and Peter Beinart can go FUCK themselves.
Read the views of a zillion other bloggers on this at Memeorandum.
WARNING: Satire ahead…
Iowahawk imagines a chat session on JournoList.
DAVE WEIGEL: some azzhole has been leaking transcripts from Journolist again and emailed to my editors
EZRA KLEIN: wtf???
DAVE WEIGEL: ya… ALL the stuff
DAVE WEIGEL: ezra u stupid fuck u said this chatroom was off the record
EZRA KLEIN: omg sorry idk what happened,,, i made everybody swear pinky oath
DAVE WEIGEL: a lot of good that does me now, they have all the shit i wrote about the teabaggers even the pictures i posted
MATTHEW YGLESIAS: how bad can it be??
DAVE WEIGEL: this bad
Of course, Iowahawk is demanding Andrew Breitbart’s very real reward of $100,000 for the JournoList archives.
I’m reminded of the words of Emilio Barzini, a fictional character from The Godfather, who said “Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all… we are not Communists.”
White House correspondent Helen Thomas has resigned in the wake of her shocking comments about Israel.
Helen Thomas, the longtime White House correspondent made famous for her no-holds-barred questioning of presidents, announced her resignation Monday following controversial remarks she made about Israel.
In a statement from Hearst newspapers, where she works as a columnist, she said she is “retiring, effective immediately.”
Thomas’s resignation comes after outrage spread throughout the blogosphere in reaction to a video posted to RabbiLive.com. In it, Thomas said that Jews in Israel should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else.”
The comments were made during a White House event on May 27 celebrating Jewish heritage. And they came during a time of international outrage at Israel for its attack on a Turkish ship that left nine dead. Israel has rejected calls for an investigation of the incident.
The video of her remarks led to calls for her resignation and for the revoking of her White House press pass.
I’m no fan of Helen Thomas and I vehemently disagree with her views. Nonetheless, it’s a rather sad way to end such a long career.
So bad that lefty journalist Jack Cafferty of CNN is asking his readers “What Can President Obama Learn From Sarah Palin?”
“With President Obama now below 50 percent approval for the first time, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd suggests the president could learn “a thing or three” from Sarah Palin.”
“Dowd writes that with the former V-P candidate back on the trail for her book tour, she clearly hasn’t boned up on anything and “she still has that Yoda-like syntax.”
“Meanwhile – it’s clear Sarah Palin is saying something people want to hear. She sold 300,000 copies of her memoir on the day of its release – one of the best openings ever for a nonfiction book, easily topping people like Hillary Clinton.”
“As for President Obama – the Gallup Daily Tracking poll puts his approval rating at 49 percent – the first time he’s dropped below 50 percent since taking office.”
“Here’s my question to you: What can President Obama learn from Sarah Palin?”
Here are a few of the choice quotes Jack Cafferty featured on the air and my responses:
Audrey from British Columbia:
He could learn that by being ignorant, vapid, divisive and stupid that the media will follow you around and make out that you are bigger and better than you really are. Sarah Palin is a “media phenom” and nothing else – just the fact that you have this question on your program should state the obvious to you.
ME:
You’re right Audrey. It’s too bad that the media doesn’t follow Obama around making him out to be bigger than he is. President Obama certainly isn’t a “media phenom.”
Chad from Alaska:
How to be a quitter in the middle of a term.
ME:
Good point Chad. At least Obama finished a single term as a US Senator before running for president. Oh wait.. He didn’t do that, did he?
Lisa says:
How to make bumper sticker catch-phrases sound like policy to 26% of the nation.
ME:
Lisa, do you mean empty catch-phrases like “Yes We Can?”
Thomas from Texas:
Not to wear shorts on the cover of news magazines if you are to be taken seriously as a politician.
ME:
Thomas, did no one at CNN tell you that Sarah Palin didn’t choose to have that photo on the cover of Newsweek? No, of course they didn’t.
Just a reminder… CNN is in last place among cable news networks.
Any wonder why?
From the department of “You’re kidding, right?”
Time Magazine writes:
“Calling ‘Em Out: The White House Takes on the Press”
“The take-no-prisoners turn has come as a surprise to some in the press, considering the largely favorable coverage that candidate Obama received last fall and given the President’s vows to lower the rhetorical temperature in Washington and not pay attention to cable hyperbole. Instead, the White House blog now issues regular denunciations of the Administration’s critics, including a recent post that announced “Fox lies” and suggested that the cable network was unpatriotic for criticizing Obama’s 2016 Olympics effort.”
To be fair, as of November of 2008, Obama had only been on the cover of Time Magazine 23 times.
The editor of Newsweek called Obama “God” last June but that doesn’t count because he said “sort of.”
The Obama Administration saying they’re “taking on the media” is like the Beatles saying they’re “taking on crazed teenyboppers.”
Please.
A tale of two headlines….
The Washington Post NOW:
“Generals Shouldn’t Disagree Publicly With the Commander in Chief”
The Washington Post THEN:
“Renouncing Bush’s World View”
Funny that.
Listen as this CNN anchor, who clearly had unlimited faith in Obama, freaks out over the bad news for Chicago’s bid for the Olympics. This is so telling.
This exemplifies the media’s ultimate faith in Obama. The Olympics Council rejected Obama’s personal plea and the idiots in the American media can’t believe their own ears.
I wonder if they’ll mention the fact that Obama’s Denmark sales pitch cost American tax payers a MILLION BUCKS.