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Opinion: 6 Unexpected Arizona Shooting Commentaries
By John Merline - AOL NewsAs night follows day, the terrible tragedy in Arizona that involved the near fatal shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., unleashed a flood of partisan attacks. Many on the left quickly tried to use the Tucson massacre -- which left six dead -- as an opportunity to attack heated political rhetoric on the right. Those on the right countered that no connection had been made between conservative talk and the actions of the accused shooter, Jared Loughner, adding that the left has hardly been blameless when it comes to violent political imagery. (Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin ...
National Opt-Out Day: Touch My Junk if You Must, but No Pictures, Please
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 22) -- It might be summarized as "touch but don't look." Wednesday marks National Opt-Out Day, a grass-roots, nationwide protest against the Transportation Security Administration's use of full-body scanners that reveal an all-too-invasive view of a person's physical attributes. The organizers of National Opt-Out Day, which has been promoted on the Internet by a growing number of websites, urge Americans traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday to refuse to enter the scanners and request an enhanced pat-down by TSA agents instead. Organizers hope that an ensuing logjam of safety ...
Robert Gibbs Slams Forbes Magazine For Dinesh D'Souza Article on Obama
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyRobert Gibbs isn't done venting over the Forbes cover story that accuses President Barack Obama of adopting "the cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father. Earlier this week the White House spokesman slammed Newt Gingrich's embrace of the controversial Dinesh D'Souza piece, saying the former House speaker was "trying to appeal to the fringe." Now Gibbs is going after Forbes, the magazine, as a whole. "It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact," Gibbs said in an interview with The Washington Post. "I think it ...
Does God Belong at The Lincoln Memorial?
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyOn Sunday's episode of CNN's 'Reliable Sources,' Bill Press, Jane Hall and I joined host Howard Kurtz to debate and discuss Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally. Press -- whom I like personally (and who has previously appeared on my podcast), made what were (in my estimation) the most controversial comments of the day. First, he argued it was inappropriate for Glenn Beck to invoke religion at the Lincoln Memorial, saying, "I thought I was at a camp meeting -- an old fashioned, religious camp meeting; I don't think that's appropriate on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial." (Of course, the ...
Joan Walsh: It's Okay for Shirley Sherrod to Call Fox News and Andrew Breitbart 'Racist'
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailySalon's Joan Walsh wrote about me today, so I figure I would return the courtesy. Walsh and I (along with Jane Hall of American University) appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, to discuss the Shirley Sherrod story, as well as the "JournoList" story. Things got rocky early on. During Walsh's opening statement, she said that she would "stipulate" that "Fox isn't the cause of [Sherrod's] firing." I took that as a small concession, given that it is provable that Fox wasn't the cause. Still, I thought it was gracious of Walsh to concede the point. Here's how ...
A Reminder: Larry King Once Ruled Cable News
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(June 30) -- His ratings aren't what they used to be and many critics dismiss him as a dinosaur in the new-media age, but there's no denying Larry King's remarkable broadcasting legacy. He's been on the air so long that much of his audience might not remember when an appearance on King's program could -- and did -- change the course of American politics. King, 76, announced Tuesday night he'll soon leave the nightly CNN talk show he's hosted for a quarter of a century. When it began, "Larry King Live" offered a unique cable news platform for office-holders and office-seekers. Fox News and ...
Kurtz: Glenn Beck Dominating Conversation Without Mainstream Media
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn his column in Monday's paper, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz observes that Fox News personality Glenn Beck is dominating the media conversation -- even to the point of forcing a White House official to resign -- without a bit of help from newspapers, television or other mainstream news sources. "It has become a familiar chain reaction: Talk-show hosts whip up a noisy controversy, which hits higher decibels as it spreads to the establishment media, which costs some unfortunate soul his job," Kurtz writes. "But now the middleman -- the journalistic gatekeepers of yore -- may no ...
Media Elite Meet in Secret with Administration Figures
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyThe Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz has broken a story about cozy, regularly-scheduled dinner meetings at the Watergate hosted by the owner of the The Atlantic Monthly, David Bradley, between top name journalists and Washington insiders. The mega-secret, highly-prized invitations to knock around with fellow media types started a little over a year ago and have included such Washington insiders as Obama COS Rahm Emmanuel, General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt, Karl Rove, Gen. David Petraeus, White House economic adviser Larry Summers, former Obama campaign manager David ...
CNN Host on Meghan McCain Cancellation: 'Maybe She Got a Date'
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyIt looks like it's taking people a long time to get the hint that Meghan McCain is rubber, and they are, in fact, glue. The latest media figure to tangle with Meg? Howard Kurtz, Washington Post reporter, and host of CNN's Reliable Sources.Kurtz got upset when Meghan cancelled an appearance on his show, so the host of Reliable Sources took his case to the NY Post's Page Six: (via HuffPo)"At the last moment, she decided she was 'all talked out,' as she put it," Kurtz snipped. "We wanted to ask her about something she wrote where she said her dating life had been ruined by being the daughter of a ...
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