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During the 2008 Presidential campaign, "mainstream" media confused the public over whether Obama ever released any real proof of his claim to being born in Hawaii. The confusion continues. Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on February 20, 2009 that "The Obama campaign actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." But Alter lied, since "the Obama campaign" never "actually posted his birth certificate from a Hawaii hospital online." Remarkably, no hospital in Hawaii yet lays definitive claim to be the birthplace of the sitting President. .. On the FactCheck.org website, the claim...

The Columbia Journalism Review just published an article concerning how CBS smeared Chevron (NYSE: CVX) in its May 3, 2009 expose. This and news from the U.S. Jesuit Conference concerning San Ramon-CA based Chevron’s new policy document on human rights, crafted over the past five years in dialog with multiple “social justice” communities, paints a much different picture that frothing leftists and enviro-whackos in Richmond and worldwide generally paint about evil oil companies. 60 Minutes leads the segment by showing a polluted well that wasn’t Chevron’s responsibility to clean and which Chevron says is not polluted by petroleum at all,...

The "Discredit Campaign" has started. It is in the form of some extremely biased, leading "survey". I was coming home and listening the last 30 or so mins of Hannity, who said the campaign to discredit has started...so, I enter my house and my wife proceeds to tell me about a 20 minute survey she did for the national CBS News. This was really biased and asked who's fault the economy is, what is your biggest issue, and then deep into the survey, the survey administrator asked about the Tea Parties and if she thought they were hateful, etc. Well,...

The media certainly is changing, and major network news outfits including CBS and ABC are loosing audience number as ratings for the first quarter confirm a declining trend. The combined three still have a lot of viewers. The Internet. I think the Net has quite a bit to do with it and as competition increases the big players who were once king of the roost are naturally loosing market share. I’m not saying the big networks are ignoring new delivery systems – they certainly are not – it’s just the nature of innovation.

Rush Limbaugh is striking back at President Barack Obama. On Friday, the nation's top-rated radio host hit back at Obama, saying the president isn’t telling the truth and doesn't have the support of the American people. The controversy started Thursday, when Obama used an interview with CBS' Harry Smith to level a broadside at Limbaugh and Fox News host Glenn Beck. Smith asked Obama if he is “aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation" about him, including being called a Nazi and socialist. Obama shot back, "Well,...

New fuel standards make both the left and the media happy. It's easy to tell. There wasn't a single voice of opposition criticizing the latest act of Big Government on major prime-time news outlets ABC, CBS or NBC. "Environmentalists are hailing the move as nothing short of historic," NBC's Lee Cowan said of the federal government's new fuel efficiency standards. The networks did much the same. Broad consensus from NBC's "Nightly News" and CBS's "Evening News" reflected praise for the Obama administration's latest regulatory efforts. The federal government took a historic step April 1 to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. As...

With buyouts and layoffs in progress, the mood at ABC News can’t be good — and it was not likely enhanced by the ratings report for the first quarter of the year, which showed that the network’s evening newscast, “World News” had sunk to the lowest numbers the program had seen in a first quarter since the People Meter was introduced by Nielsen in 1987. The same story prevailed at CBS, where the “Evening News” also hit a new low for the months of January through March. So what’s happening? Is this a signal that viewers are abandoning network newscasts...

Well this is an interesting twist – actor/musician LL Cool J, who is one of the celebrities who will be part of Sarah Palin’s Thursday show (and is in the promo), isn’t happy about the ‘misrepresentation.’ He is reacting on Twitter – but is he ‘misrepresenting’ the circumstances as well? Do me a favor. Start this video now – it will provide the soundtrack to the rest of the post: Ok, we’re good? Now let’s get started. So Palin’s special on Thursday at 10pmET is called Real American Stories (here’s a preview), and although it is the premiere episode, the...

I was watching NCIS episode tonight on CBS. The episode is named "Endgame", for when it is posted at CBS online for later reference. In the episode, two male NCIS agents knock on a door. A shotgun blast comes through the door and the two agents go to the ground calling the person inside to drop the weapon and come out.A woman then comes out the door with the shotgun on the ground.One of the agents asks her "Who do you think you are? Sarah Palin?"

To All freepers: The fair minded and unbiased CBS as posted a poll asking you to grade the disaster's 1st year performance in these areas: Economy Foreign Policy Health Care Afghanistan Iraq Threat of Terrorism Energy and the Environment Social Issues Bipartisanship & Obama's Overall Job as President

Poll: Most Want GOP To Keep Fighting on Health Bill ************** This is good news. It proves that, even with a poll done by a media outlet not friendly toward conservatives, the majority of the country is on our side! Let's stay focused, revved up (but civil) and engaged. We shall prevail.

Ocare passes. Now the vote on changes

CBS has this poll active yet. If your bored today, give it a try. Bizarre numbers for a CBS poll. Obama scores an F majority in every subsection of their poll, except Afghanistan & Iraq. I thought CBS would have removed it by now. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6116297-503544.html?tag With President Obama completing his first year in office this week, we are giving you the chance to weigh in on how you think he has done on the job. Below are 10 categories for you to give the president your grade (in A-F format), including an overall grade at the end. Cast your grades...

ASPEN, Colo, March 15 (Reuters) - Actor Charlie Sheen pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of assaulting his wife, who had previously asked for the case to be dropped. Sheen, 44, the star of America's most-watched TV comedy "Two and a Half Men", entered his plea though his lawyer at a brief court hearing in the ski resort of Aspen. The court set a July 21 trial date, although Sheen's wife, Brooke Mueller, has told journalists repeatedly that she would like the case dropped.

"He dug into the idiocy and negligence that produced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression," Steve Kroft opened a segment of the March 14 CBS "60 Minutes," featuring author Michael Lewis' latest work - "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine." If Lewis "dug into the idiocy and negligence," he did so selectively - or that's what viewers could conclude from the long "60 Minutes" report, which concerned itself with how "some of Wall Street's smartest minds managed to destroy $1.75 trillion of wealth in the sub-prime mortgage markets." Somehow, in a 24-minute report about the sub-prime mortgage...

Let's see... The author of the bizarre solution to avoid a direct vote in the House of Representatives on the Senate ObamaCare bill is Congresswoman Louise Slaughter. Yet, to call it a "Slaughter Solution" is somehow an unfair Republican tactic. Such is the assertion of Brian Montopoli at the CBS Political Hotsheet: The Republican Party already has plenty of evocative phrases with which to hammer the health care reform effort: "Government takeover," "ram down our throats," "job-killing monstrosity." Now House Republican Leader John Boehner's office has come up with perhaps the most striking entry yet: "Slaughter Solution."

Many of the same news organizations and research groups today dismissing concerns about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility were far more eager to cover the issue when Republican presidential candidate John McCain was the subject. An archive search shows the question of McCain's birth certificate and his eligibility to be president was actively pursued by Democratic Party activists and the mainstream media in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, despite the ridicule now heaped upon those questioning Obama's qualifications under Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. In an article published Feb. 28, 2008, months before McCain was nominated for...

The sub-head is even worse: "Katie Couric Will Be There Wednesday as He Undergoes the Procedure." Maybe she is going to do a "live remote" from inside the colon walls. She's pretty short. But, we wonder, why not stay and do the Evening News live from inside the colon? It certainly would give the Tiffany Network a new perspective. They might finally find Jimmy Hoffa or their lost dignity. more here

When the networks get a story involving food, labeling and health, they know just how to cover it: get reaction from their favorite lefty advocacy group, and paint consumers as defenseless patsies. That's what CBS' "Early Show" and ABC's "Good Morning America" did on March 4. In an alleged violation of the Federal Food Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the FDA has issued its biggest crackdowns in fifteen years, putting seventeen food manufacturers on notice for what they say are misleading product labels for consumers. The food companies have fifteen days to respond to the charges, either challenging the allegations or...

CBS has announced that Betty Nguyen is leaving CNN and joining the network as a full-time CBS News Correspondent as of March 11th. Nguyen will anchor "CBS Morning News" and report for "The Early Show." Nguyen joined CNN in 2004 and is an anchor for the weekend editions of "CNN Newsroom." "She has a great on-air presence and brings a tremendous amount of hard news reporting and anchoring experience to CBS News," said CBS News and Sports president Sean McManus in a release. Prior to her time at CNN, Nguyen started her career as an anchor at two CBS affiliates...