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President Barack Obama's endorsement Friday night of building a mosque near Ground Zero has driven the establishment press corps to find nobility in pursuing conviction even in the face of public opposition, not something MSM journalists admired about the previous President, while suddenly becoming very concerned about protecting private property rights - all while hailing Obama's "great global message." "I thought the speech Friday night was a model of political courage, in the sense that he said what he believed knowing that it was going to cost him," hailed Washington Post Associate Editor David Ignatius on ABC's This Week with... continue reading

Crazies on the left allow journalists to see themselves as under siege from both sides of the spectrum, and thus must be playing it down the middle. To wit: Saturday's Washington Post carried a letter from a reader upset the newspaper had reported the Supreme Court has "four firm liberals." Robert B. McNeil Jr., of Alexandria, insisted "there hasn't been even a single 'liberal' on the court in years." He recommended: The Post should recognize philosophical reality and refer to the "moderate" and "conservative" wings of the court, although "moderate" and "radical-conservative" would be more accurate. McNeil's ridiculous contention that... continue reading

The August 16 Weekly Standard highlighted a striking change in views from Time's Joe Klein, whose take seems to have changed to fit what's fashionable. On August 2, in a " Swampland" blog post looking at President Obama's speech touting the end of combat operations in Iraq, Klein fretted it "will not be remembered as vividly as George Bush's juvenile march across the deck of an aircraft carrier , costumed as a combat aviator in a golden sunset, to announce-six years and tens of thousands of lives prematurely-the 'end of combat operations.'" But back when Bush's USS Lincoln landing occurred,... continue reading

ABC News producers on Thursday night managed to sneak, into the script read by World News fill-in anchor George Stephanopoulos - ever so briefly - two news items from a conservative news agenda which were skipped by CBS and NBC: ♦ A study from the Pew Hispanic Center found that, in 2008, one out of every twelve babies born here had parents in the country illegally. ♦ We have some reassurance tonight for all of you who believe that faith and love are linked. A new study from the Journal of Marriage and Family found that couples who pray together... continue reading

Good Morning America's Dan Harris on Friday filed a report on extreme weather and failed to mention the agenda of a global warming scientist. Elizabeth Vargas teased the segment by fretting, " And coming up next, from killer heat waves to fires to those devastating floods in Pakistan and in Iowa, why all the severe weather? Is it global warning?" Harris interviewed no skeptics of man-made global warming for the piece. He did, however, talk to scientist Gavin Schmidt, identified only as working for NASA. Schmidt predicted doom: "The unusual heat waves, the unusual rainfall events will not be unusual... continue reading

In FNC's "Grapevine" segment Thursday night, Shannon Bream highlighted a finding in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll which NBC's Chuck Todd failed to point out in emphasizing the public's disgust with Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party. Bream observed: A new poll suggests Americans have more positive feelings for the Tea Party movement than for either of the Democratic leaders in Congress. The NBC/Wall Street Journal survey finds 30 percent have a favorable view of the Tea Party movement, compared to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's 21 percent and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's 11 percent. The evening before,... continue reading

During Morning Joe on Thursday, MSNBC's Chuck Todd appeared baffled by a discussion of negative feelings directed towards Barack Obama from Wall Street. The confused journalist wondered, "Look, at the end of the day, he has not done that much when it comes to business stuff." Mad Money host Jim Cramer relayed to Todd that Wall Street is upset because, "Most of the people on Wall Street are behind the scenes guys" and the President is demagoguing the issue and demonizing them. Todd argued that, regardless of what the President does, "He is getting trapped and hit from both sides,... continue reading

Discussing Harry Reid's racially-charged comment about Hispanic Republicans, Rick Sanchez miraculously managed to turn the embattled senator's gaffe into an example of his opponent Sharron Angle's incompetence. On the prime time "Rick's List" yesterday, the CNN host actually gave serious consideration to the Nevada Democrat's claim while exploring the extent to which the Angle campaign is "blacking out" Hispanic media outlets. "Also, do you think a Hispanic-American can be a Republican?" teased Sanchez. "Harry Reid doesn't think so. And I'm going to tell you what Hispanic groups are saying about his opponent as well." Instead of interviewing a Hispanic Republican... continue reading

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday interviewed liberal Congressman Dennis Kucinich and defended Barack Obama's left-wing achievements. Stephanopoulos touted, " Congressman, what more could the President have done? You've got this almost $800 billion stimulus bill. You've got a financial reform package ." [MP3 audio here .] The GMA host was trying to make peace between Obama and those who had been derided by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs as the "professional left." The former Democratic operative turned journalist trumpeted, "[Obama] did something that...no Democratic president in 50 years has been able to do, lay the groundwork for... continue reading

Jennifer Loven, an 18-year AP veteran and the wire service's chief White House correspondent, has decided to put her communications talents to work for The Glover Park Group , a DC-based "strategic communications firm" founded in 2001 by a bunch of Clinton and Gore staffers, most prominently Joe Lockhart, who found themselves unemployed after the 2000 election. She'll be "Managing Director in its Public Affairs practice," a Thursday press release from the Glover Park Group, plugged by Politico's Mike Allen , announced. She's the second President in a row of the White House Correspondents' Association to leave journalism for a... continue reading