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Over the weekend, Newsweek assistant managing editor Evan Thomas offered an intriguing insight into the MSM’s approach to the liberal health care bill slowly rolling its way through the Democratic-controlled Congress. After conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer accurately pointed out how the Senate bill only pretends to be “deficit-neutral” by front-loading the tax collection process while delaying the payouts, Thomas agreed: “Charles is right. This bill is a fiscal fraud.” But he quickly added: “I’d still vote for it.” (Video here.) NPR’s Nina Totenberg attempted to defend the Senate bill as one that “actually tries to do something about costs.” But...

A month or two I published a letter I had written to Newsweek's letters to the editor section telling them why I was not going to renew my subscription. I don't need to say why, I just couldn't take anymore of their cover stories and articles like "Why Fox News is Bad for America.", "We're All Socialists Now", "America: Not a Christian Nation. Many of you decided to chide me, I thought a bit over the top in some cases, into dropping it entirely immediately. No no, I thought, maybe I'm just overreacting to some bad covers, unfair articles. Yet...

It's not every day that Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, a liberal Democrat from Texas, says "I agree with Sarah Palin." She acknowledged the rarity in an interview with The Hill, but said she agrees that the Newsweek magazine cover with a photograph of Palin in running shorts is sexist. "I've never seen Governor Palin dressed in that kind of attire at a political event," Jackson-Lee said. "What is the necessity of highlighting that picture among the thousands that have been taken of her?"

Newsweek's effort to take a stab at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the heels of her book tour appears to be backfiring - at least from a legal standpoint. Recently, the latest cover of Newsweek took an image of Palin that originally appeared in Runner's World magazine. Palin has criticized the posting on her Facebook page, as NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard reported. "The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now," she wrote. And Newsweek's Jon Meacham insists the magazine did nothing wrong - that this is just the nature of what they do at Newsweek. "We chose the...

The photographer who shot the picture violated his contract by reselling them to Newsweek. That photographer, Brian Adams, could not immediately be reached, and his agent, Kelly Price, declined to comment, saying, "I keep all of my clients' business private." But a spokeswoman for Runner's World confirms that Adams's contract contained a clause stipulating that his photos of Palin would be under embargo for a period of one year following publication -- meaning until August 2010. "Runner's World did not provide Newsweek with its cover image," the spokeswoman said. "It was provided to Newsweek by the photographer's stock agency, without...

What on earth was Sarah Palin thinking when she posed in a pair of teeny-tiny gym shorts for a photograph that ended up on the cover of Newsweek -- a cover she has called "sexist"? Perhaps she was thinking that her image would only appear in the magazine she was posing for, Runner's World, and nowhere else, at least not for months and months. If so, she had good reason -- since, as DailyFinance has learned, the photographer who shot the picture violated his contract by reselling them to Newsweek.

Look no further: [VIDEO AT SITE] Then you have the AP hiring 11 fact checkers to comb through her book. Or Newsweek using a photo of Sarah in running shorts, taken for Runners World magazine, for it's cover in an obvious attempt to minimize her. And last but not least, a book review of her book by the Washington Post written by someone who didn't read her book. (Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net

These days, with a socialist in power I'm not the most patriotic man in America. But let me tell you this- after looking at her Newsweek cover photo, run that up the flagpole and I will salute it. I will start wearing red white and blue socks. I will have the preamble tattooed on my left leg. I will give the office of the presidency the respect it deserves.

Today I’m off on the Eurostar to Brussels (”a carbon neutral journey” it boasts on my ticket – which rather makes me wish I were flying instead) to speak at the European Parliament on Climate Change. No, don’t worry. The Goreistas haven’t got to me. It’s a sceptics’ conference – Have Humans Changed Climate? – being staged tomorrow by Tory MEP Roger Helmer. Many of my science and eco-heroes will be there, including Patrick Moore (the co-founder of Greenpeace who subsequently bailed when the charity turned far too red), Prof Fred Singer (who’ll be talking on Can We Trust The...

The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The...

The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The...

The choice of photo for the cover of this week's Newsweek is unfortunate. When it comes to Sarah Palin, this "news" magazine has relished focusing on the irrelevant rather than the relevant. The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now. If anyone can learn anything from it: it shows why you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, gender, or color of skin. The...

Comes as no shock, Newsweek, the general msm attack a rising conservative star. Are they loosing it? If they want Sarah Palin to go away and for the media to stop talking about her, maybe the media … uhhh … should stop talking about her! Looking into the political future of the GOP is like trying to see a pen cap at the bottom of a soy latte with double foam. Look, so far I like Gov. Palin. I also like a few other conservative leaders. That said, I’m going to pick up her book this week like a few...

Republican 2008 vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's highly anticipated book tour kicks off Monday afternoon with the airing of her wide-ranging chat with talk show queen Oprah Winfrey. (snip) Although the 418-page best-seller doesn't come out until Tuesday, the Associated Press already has obtained a copy and assigned 11 reporters to comb through it to publish a pre-emptive "fact check" that has outraged her supporters because several items in it relied more on analysis than black-and-white facts. For example, one of the "fact check" items criticized Mrs. Palin for writing in the book that she was driven by "purpose" rather than...

I only found a few staff e-mails (1st Name (period) Last Name @newsweek.com) so I had to construct most of them. I would suggest e-mailing all of them letting them know Obama (do not mention Sarah Palin) is not only a complete disaster and a disgrace but give them hell for assisting in but the fool in The White House. The media is the singe most dangerous entity in the world (2nd enviromentalists, 3rd radical Islam) (as we saw in Ft Hood, getting Obama elected, defending Iran & Islam etc.......) evan.thomas@newsweek.com,grace.huh@newsweek.com,katherine.barna@newsweek.com,jan.angilella@newsweek.com,Letters@newsweek.com,Editors@newsweek.com,tech@newsweek.com,webeditors@newsweek.com,kenneth.woodward@newsweek.com,comments@fareedzakaria.com,pat.wingert@newsweek.com,webeditors@newsweek.com,internationalsubs@newsweekmag.com,Jerry.Adler@newsweek.com,lorraine.ali@newsweek.com,david.alpern@newsweek.com,jonathan.alter@newsweek.com,david.ansen@newsweek.com,holly.bailey@newsweek.com,julia.baird@newsweek.com,john.barry@newsweek.com,jeffrey.bartholet@newsweek.com,sharon.begley@newsweek.com,bret.begun@newsweek.com,jessica.bennett@newsweek.com,martha.brant@newsweek.com,darrenbriscoe@newsweek.com,mary.carmichael@newsweek.com,eleanor.clift@newsweek.com,katie.connolly@newsweek.com,ellis.cose@newsweek.com,jonathan.darman@newsweek.com,babak.dehghanpisheh@newsweek.com,kathy.deveny@newsweek.com,christopher.dickey@newsweek.com,tony.emerson@newsweek.com,howard.fineman@newsweek.com,arian.flores@newsweek.com, rana.foroohar@newsweek.com,arlyn.gajilan@newsweek.com,arlene.getz@newsweek.com,devin.gordon@newsweek.com,susan.greenberg@newsweek.com,daniel.gross@newsweek.com,fred.guterl@newsweek.com,nisid.hajari@newsweek.com,michael.hirsh@newsweek.com,mark.hosenball@newsweek.com,michael.isikoff@newsweek.com,scott.johnson@newsweek.com,malcolm.jones@newsweek.com,barbara.Kantrowitz@newsweek.com,larry.kaplow@newsweek.com,daniel.klaidman@newsweek.com,weston.kosova@newsweek.com,Melinda.Liu@newsweek.com,daniel.mcginn@newsweek.com,cathleen.mcguigan@newsweek.com,Stryker.McGuire@newsweek.com,jon.meacham@newsweek.com,susannah.meadows@newsweek.com,lisa.miller@newsweek.com,mark.miller@newsweek.com,andrew.nagorski@newsweek.com,david.noonan@newsweek.com,kevin.peraino@newsweek.com,marc.peyser@newsweek.com,anna.quindlen@newsweek.com,jane.quinn@newsweek.com,
 johnnie.roberts@newsweek.com,andrew.romano@newsweek.com,debra.rosenberg@newsweek.com,allison.samuels@newsweek.com,robert.samuelson@newsweek.com,samseibert@newsweek.com,ramin.setoodeh@newsweek.com,suzanne.smalley@newsweek.com,richard.smith@newsweek.com,mark.starr@newsweek.com,linda.stern@newsweek.com,carl.sullivan@newsweek.com,stuart.taylor@newsweek.com,jonathan.tepperman@newsweek.com,evan.thomas@newsweek.com,steve.tuttle@newsweek.com,george.will@newsweek.com,pat.wingert@newsweek.com,Kenneth.Woodward@newsweek.com, fareed.zakaria@newsweek.com

I only found a few staff e-mails (1st Name (period) Last Name @newsweek.com) so I had to construct most of them. I would suggest e-mailing all of them letting them know Obama (do not mention Sarah Palin) is not only a complete disaster and a disgrace but give them hell for assisting in but the fool in The White House. The media is the singe most dangerous entity in the world (2nd enviromentalists, 3rd radical Islam) (as we saw in Ft Hood, getting Obama elected, defending Iran & Islam etc.......) evan.thomas@newsweek.com,grace.huh@newsweek.com,katherine.barna@newsweek.com,jan.angilella@newsweek.com,Letters@newsweek.com,Editors@newsweek.com,tech@newsweek.com,webeditors@newsweek.com,kenneth.woodward@newsweek.com,comments@fareedzakaria.com,pat.wingert@newsweek.com,webeditors@newsweek.com,internationalsubs@newsweekmag.com,Jerry.Adler@newsweek.com,lorraine.ali@newsweek.com,david.alpern@newsweek.com,jonathan.alter@newsweek.com,david.ansen@newsweek.com,holly.bailey@newsweek.com,julia.baird@newsweek.com,john.barry@newsweek.com,jeffrey.bartholet@newsweek.com,sharon.begley@newsweek.com,bret.begun@newsweek.com,jessica.bennett@newsweek.com,martha.brant@newsweek.com,darrenbriscoe@newsweek.com,mary.carmichael@newsweek.com,eleanor.clift@newsweek.com,katie.connolly@newsweek.com,ellis.cose@newsweek.com,jonathan.darman@newsweek.com,babak.dehghanpisheh@newsweek.com,kathy.deveny@newsweek.com,christopher.dickey@newsweek.com,tony.emerson@newsweek.com,howard.fineman@newsweek.com,arian.flores@newsweek.com, rana.foroohar@newsweek.com,arlyn.gajilan@newsweek.com,arlene.getz@newsweek.com,devin.gordon@newsweek.com,susan.greenberg@newsweek.com,daniel.gross@newsweek.com,fred.guterl@newsweek.com,nisid.hajari@newsweek.com,michael.hirsh@newsweek.com,mark.hosenball@newsweek.com,michael.isikoff@newsweek.com,scott.johnson@newsweek.com,malcolm.jones@newsweek.com,barbara.Kantrowitz@newsweek.com,larry.kaplow@newsweek.com,daniel.klaidman@newsweek.com,weston.kosova@newsweek.com,Melinda.Liu@newsweek.com,daniel.mcginn@newsweek.com,cathleen.mcguigan@newsweek.com,Stryker.McGuire@newsweek.com,jon.meacham@newsweek.com,susannah.meadows@newsweek.com,lisa.miller@newsweek.com,mark.miller@newsweek.com,andrew.nagorski@newsweek.com,david.noonan@newsweek.com,kevin.peraino@newsweek.com,marc.peyser@newsweek.com,anna.quindlen@newsweek.com,jane.quinn@newsweek.com,
 johnnie.roberts@newsweek.com,andrew.romano@newsweek.com,debra.rosenberg@newsweek.com,allison.samuels@newsweek.com,robert.samuelson@newsweek.com,samseibert@newsweek.com,ramin.setoodeh@newsweek.com,suzanne.smalley@newsweek.com,richard.smith@newsweek.com,mark.starr@newsweek.com,linda.stern@newsweek.com,carl.sullivan@newsweek.com,stuart.taylor@newsweek.com,jonathan.tepperman@newsweek.com,evan.thomas@newsweek.com,steve.tuttle@newsweek.com,george.will@newsweek.com,pat.wingert@newsweek.com,Kenneth.Woodward@newsweek.com, fareed.zakaria@newsweek.com

Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue" is set for release on Nov. 17 and with that will likely come a media blitz of epic proportions. However, based on the cover of the Nov. 23 issue of Newsweek, someone felt a response was warranted. The wizards of smart at Newsweek took an image from a shoot of Palin that originally appeared in Runner's World magazine for the cover and splashed the headlines, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?" and "She's Bad News for the GOP - and For Everybody Else, Too." Mike Allen of Politico previewed the cover in...

Sarah Palin's new book "Going Rogue" is set for release on Nov. 17 and with that will likely come a media blitz of epic proportions. However, based on the cover of the Nov. 23 issue of Newsweek, someone felt a response was warranted. The wizards of smart at Newsweek took an image from a shoot of Palin that originally appeared in Runner's World magazine for the cover and splashed the headlines, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah?" and "She's Bad News for the GOP - and For Everybody Else, Too." ...more (with bare-legged Palin cover)...

Andrew Bast of Newsweek thinks he's got the real reason behind Major Nidal Hasan's murderously criminal rampage at Fort Hood last Thursday. Could it be that Hasan was steadily radicalized and steeped in hateful Islamofascism? Could it be a jihad mindset that sent Hasan into that military clinic yelling Allahu Akbar as he shot at anyone that got in his way? Nope. Ridiculously, it was a "military on the brink," it was the "stress" an uncaring U.S. military is forcing upon its members that was at fault as far as Bast is concerned. This is his obtuse conclusion in Newsweek's...

Why even teach journalism any more, they're just making it up all the time now. Only through the magic of a mainstream media that has built up an immunity to embarrassing itself can George W. Bush be portrayed as eternally stupid and a more gaffe prone guy who got worse grades in college be thought a genius. One has to wonder: if we drug tested at the polls would any Democrats be allowed to vote? Al Gore steps onto the portico of his century-old white colonial, its stately columns framing him and the black Lab mix, Bojangles, that he and...

There are 29 of 'em. And they can be handily compared with the Newsweek Obama covers (here: http://trackacrat.com/2009/10/09/5007/), which number 30, both in terms of frequency and tone of coverage. I can safely report that the findings conform to the pattern established earlier: namely, that President Bush was consistently treated like a leper, while President Obama receives the all-star treatment. Some choice Newsweek Bush covers include the wonderfully objective titles of, “Bush’s $87 Billion Mess“, “The Price of Denial“, “How Much Power Should They Have?“, “Will Bush Listen?” and the awesomely condescending “Father Knows Best.” Follow the jump for links...

As Obama flails about, a very few of his fans are beginning to notice he can't deliver. His image sold to the public during the campaign was as phony as a David Axelrod astroturf group shilling for Commonwealth Edison. But for those who bought into him hook line and sinker, failure needs rationalization. Reality is intruding. Barack Obama never ran anything. And it shows to those not blinded by the light from the light worker. He is making it up as he goes along, letting others sweat the details. As a result, there is no coordination, no cross communication. They...

MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti) - An Iranian court has released on a $300,000 bail a Newsweek journalist with dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship, arrested in the wake of the disputed presidential elections in June, Iranian media said. Maziar Bahari, 42, who worked as a Newsweek reporter since 1998, was arrested on June 21 during the post-vote protests in Tehran "for his role in instigating events occurred after the presidential election," the Press TV said. "Bahari was released on 3 billion rials ($300,000) bail from Evin prison on Saturday night," the semi-official Islamic Labor News Agency said citing a judiciary source. Bahari...

Iran's state-run media says the government has released an Iranian-Canadian journalist on bail almost four months after he was arrested following the country's disputed presidential election. The Islamic Republic News Agency says Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari was freed from Tehran's Evin Prison on Saturday evening after posting bail of 3 billion rials ($300,000), citing the Tehran prosecutor's office. Newsweek confirmed the release in a statement posted on its Web site.

Out on stands in Japan today!Title:"Obama Wa Nobel-sho Ni Ataeshinai" ("Obama Unworthy of Nobel Prize")Sub-title caption (also on cover overlay of monochrome Obama photo):""The Idiocy Of Him Receiving Such An Award, With Less The One Year In Office With No Accomplishment"

Somewhat unbelievably, there are even more Newsweek covers featuring the Obamas than there are TIME covers. TIME's racked up 28 (one more than the last time I posted here because I found a past TIME Europe exclusive cover featuring Barry), whereas Newsweek has 29 - and there may be more, as I've a few more searches to do. Way to go! For the Newsweek covers: http://trackacrat.com/2009/10/09/5007/ For the TIME covers: http://trackacrat.com/time-magazine-%E2%99%A1%E2%99%A1%E2%99%A1-obama/ Or follow the jump...

Howard Fineman takes to the pages of Newsweek to say the words Obamaniacs do not want to hear, especially not from another lib. Barack Obama is an empty suit: The president’s problem isn’t that he is too visible; it’s the lack of content in what he says when he keeps showing up on the tube. Obama can seem a mite too impressed with his own aura, as if his presence on the stage is the Answer. There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches. They are heavily salted with the words “I” and “my.” (He...

There's a side of America that scares Frenchmen, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand was quoted by Time magazine Paris-based writer Bruce Crumley, and it's the side of American determination that doesn't let a 32-year-old rape case die, even if the perpetrator is an elderly survivor of the Holocaust. Seeking to explain the "cultural divide" that's as "wide as the Atlantic" between America and Europe, Crumley noted that Europeans are "shocked and dismayed that an internationally acclaimed artist" such as Roman Polanski "could be jailed for such an old offense." Of course, at no point did Crumley cite any public opinion...

Another installment from the It's Not Just Me Dept. If ubiquity were the measure of a presidency, Barack Obama would already be grinning at us from Mount Rushmore. But of course it is not. Despite his many words and television appearances, our elegant and eloquent president remains more an emblem of change than an agent of it. He's a man with an endless, worthy to-do list—health care, climate change, bank reform, global capital regulation, AfPak, the Middle East, you name it—but, as yet, no boxes checked "done." This is a problem that style will not fix. Unless Obama learns to...

A virulent moral blindness has seized hold of a substantial slice of America's educated elite. Convinced they know better, they argue for a shallow, illogical, and horrifying vision of people as disposable. I was wrong last week when I declared that Newsweek's cover showing a baby next to a headline declaring that we're all born racist was evidence that the mainstream media had hit bottom and destroyed itself. It was intellectual arrogance on my part that led me to underestimate the determination of Newsweek's editors to find new deeper bottoms to hit.

Writing in Newsweek, Joe Meacham expressed a little remorse that liberals were not a little less vindictive these last eight years. “Words have consequences, too. I wish that more liberals had appreciated this point during the George W. Bush years. It was wrong then to demonize the president, and it is wrong now,� Meacham wrote. And, he warned conservatives: “What begins in vitriol has far too often ended in violence.� But (there is always a but). “I would argue that the 1980s were manageably mad in political terms. Liberals went crazy decrying Ronald Reagan, who was said to be a...

In 1998, Matt Drudge made his big mark breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which Newsweek had buried to protect President Clinton. Think Obama’s Tiger Beat would have done that for Bush? It has only gone way downhill since into Soviet-era Pravda territory. The MSM’s modus operandi today is identical, and I don’t say that lightly. But having listened to Radio Moscow broadcasts on ham radio for years during the Cold War era, combined with some Naval Intelligence training and research into the subject, I deconstructed the Soviets’ propaganda MO down to five simple canons.

I recently received an email from a listener looking for answers… James, I read the following Newsweek article http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989 and was wondering if you thought being a racist was a choice? I don’t see how. Why would someone choose a life of scorn and ridicule? How did you come to accept it? How did you come out? Any help would be appreciated…I’m scared. Anonymous

There was brief discussion this afternoon on Rush Limbaugh's show about an article in Newsweek regarding babies and racism. I'm not sure what the point of the story is although the slant from left-leaning Newsweek is likely to be similar to the University of Maryland position that all whites are born racist and must be taught how to reject this and adapt a multicultural worldview. I see this issue differently. I agree that children (of all races) are probably born bigots but not for whatever reasons the liberals would like you to think. As someone who owns birds, I have...

Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam and then fled for her life after her father threatened to kill her, faces daunting obstacles in her quest to be free. As a high-profile apostate, she is Islamists' highest value target right now. And on top of that, she faces a Leftist media that is complicit with those who want to see her dead or institutionalized. Witness the outrageous treatment that Newsweek gave to her story in its September 9 issue, and especially to Jamal Jivanjee, Rifqa's friend and confidante. Newsweek reporter Arian Campo-Flores, said Jivanjee, asked him...

Dear Newsweek, I have subscribed to your publication for 21 years, subscriber number #########, and have decided to allow my subscription to end as scheduled December 13, 2010. As can be told from both the length of my subscription and expiration date I have renewed early and often. However I can no longer welcome a magazine so contrary to my personal and family views into my home on an ongoing basis. First it was having to digest your skewed polls with MSNBC, fine, everyone needs a media partner and having sold television advertising for the better part of my professional...

Mark today as the date that the mainstream media put a gun in its mouth and pulled the trigger. The cover of Newsweek: IS YOUR BABY RACIST? Illustrated with a close up photo of a (white) baby. To ask the question is to answer it. Welcome to the post-racial world of Barack Obama.

At the Children's Research Lab at the University of Texas, a database is kept on thousands of families in the Austin area who have volunteered to be available for scholarly research. In 2006 Birgitte Vittrup recruited from the database about a hundred families, all of whom were Caucasian with a child 5 to 7 years old. The goal of Vittrup's study was to learn if typical children's videos with multicultural storylines have any beneficial effect on children's racial attitudes. Her first step was to give the children a Racial Attitude Measure, which asked such questions as: How many White people...

Newsweek, in all of its wisdom, is still arguing that Sarah Palin lied about the death panel provisions in ObamaCare, but we really should have a death panel anyways. The author of the below piece, Evan Thomas, writes that his 79 year old mother wanted to die but the doctors wouldn't let her because the assisted living facility she was staying at was sustained by Medicare. He didn't like this and muses on how we can fix health care in this country by, you guessed it, getting people into hospice care and out of hospitals. People need to die and...

Money-losing Newsweek hopes to break even by 2011 and plans to as much as double its subscription rate over the next two years. Ann McDaniel, managing director of Newsweek, which is owned by The Washington Post Co., said the magazine will aim for a "smaller base of very committed subscribers and get more money from each of them," while speaking at The Post Co.'s annual shareholders meeting at the company's D.C. headquarters. Analysts suggested that the new Newsweek is modeling its editorial strategy on England's Economist, and now it appears to be doing the same thing with its business strategy....

If you’re Caucasian, don’t think you’re ever clean of the moonbat answer to original sin. According to Newsreek, even babies are racist. At the Children’s Research Lab at the University of Texas — located in liberal Austin, the Berkeley of the Southwest — Birgitte Vittrup attempted to measure how effective propaganda is at instilling multiculturalist ideology in small children. She found that despite parents’ progressive intentions and the homogenous political correctness of everything they see on TV, children 5 to 7 years old tended to consider blacks but not whites to be “mean.” That this could have something to do...

The Obama administration has added anoother journalist to its payroll. From the American Spectator Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has taken a job with the Obama administration, according to an email sent to a listserv of his classmates at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. The email, written by Time reporter and fellow Columbia grad Jay Newton-Small, said Briscoe would be serving as deputy associate director of public affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy as of Monday.

Death, Republican Style It's the GOP that's out to get Granny.

Bank On More Failures If the economy is rallying, why are hundreds of banks in danger of closing in the coming months? By Nancy Cook | Newsweek Web Exclusive Aug 28, 2009 While big institutions such as Citi, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley have grabbed headlines and billions in bailout money, 81 small banks have shuttered their doors so far this year. Despite a rebound in the markets, hundreds of additional banks are expected to close in the coming months as consumers and small businesses default on loans and as local real-estate investments drop. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.warned...

Don't like ObamaCare? Well, more than likely - you're suffering from some sort of psychological delusion according to Newsweek Senior Editor and self-declared psychiatrist Sharon Begley. Begley, in a piece posted on Newsweek's Web site on Aug. 25, theorized that the widespread opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform is from any legitimate reason, but instead it exists mostly because people are not willing to go against their own beliefs, but have a desire to satisfy their need to think they're beliefs are right. ...more...

Last night, FOX News host Sean Hannity looked at Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who just left the magazine to work at the Obama White House. Briscoe’s new title is Deputy Associate Director of Public Affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Briscoe was “embedded” with Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and penned Newsweek’s book about the historic event, entitled A Long Time Coming. Briscoe is only the latest mainstream journalist to make the switch from “hack” to “flack.”

Here is video of President Obama today mocking the latest cover of Newsweek which declares that "the Recession is Over." He then did go on to talk as if things are much better in America, saying himself "we may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession." Interestingly, Obama cited the Markets being up, even though Obama said months ago that you can't watch the day to day "girations" of the market. Unless it suits you. Obama never mentioned the 9.7% Unemployment rate nor the massive debt he has piled upon Americans through his failed Stimulus Plan. ....

Speaking at a town hall meeting in Raleigh, N.C., President Obama defended his stimulus plan and poked fun at Newsweek ... ... for its latest cover, declaring: "The Recession is Over." "I don't know whether you've seen the cover of the latest Newsweek magazine on the rack at the grocery store, but the cover says: 'The Recession is Over,'" Obama said, prompting chuckles in the audience. "I imagine you might have found that news a little startling," he continued, to more laughter. "I know I did."

Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, has taken a job with the Obama administration... as deputy associate director of public affairs for the Office of National Drug Control Policy as of Monday.

The only time in my life as a broadcaster that I departed from impartial analysis was after 9/11, when I waxed lyrical about Donald Rumsfeld. He had united a fractured nation with his oft-hilarious press conferences. His wit and raw patriotism were an inspiration to many at home and to those of us suffering abroad in a fiercely anti-American world. However adoring the press was towards Rumsfeld, nothing equals in unctuousness a recent issue of Newsweek, “Obama on Obama.” Journalists are supposed to be impartial in reporting on the peregrinations of leaders. Little wonder I nearly dropped my pizza slice...