Broadcast blowhard Keith Olbermann’s countdown has finally come to an end. The liberal lip of MSNBC was unceremoniously dumped by the peacock network last night in a major shakeup that set tongues wagging across the broadcast world. Olbermann, in the middle of a four-year $30 million contract reportedly set to last until 2012, announced that […]
December 3, 2010
In light of new reports alleging that the TSA is creating a watch list of individuals who criticized the agency as a form of collective punishment, it’s revealing to note that CNN journalist Drew Griffin was also put on a TSA watch list immediately after he filed reports critical of the organization back in 2008. […]
November 29, 2010
The first victims of the leaked cables released Sunday are anyone who shared secrets with American diplomats, especially Arab leaders who saw their private security deals — and their insistence that those deals be kept from their people — published online with undiplomatic bluntness. But the main effect of the many details of American diplomacy revealed in […]
November 29, 2010
After all the ballyhoo before the fact, the Wikileaks revelations thus far are pretty underwhelming. Although we’ve been seeing figures like 2.7 million and 251,287 for the number of documents released, so far there have been, er, 220 posted on the Wikileaks site. The rest of the 250,000 have it seems, been given to the […]
November 10, 2010
A missile launched off the California coast Tuesday afternoon may have been launched by Communist dictatorship North Korea as a show of strength ahead of the G20 Summit scheduled to be held in South Korea tomorrow. The missile was filmed by a helicopter owned by local television news outlet KCBS News at about 5pm Pacific […]
November 10, 2010
President Obama dedicated his book Dreams From My Father to a man who abandoned him. Barack Obama Sr., a Harvard-educated Kenyan economist, held many of the same ideological prejudices as his son. An alcoholic womanizer he was also described as ‘self-involved and egotistical.” Then there was his flower-child, “free spirited“, socialist leaning mother, Stanley Ann […]
November 10, 2010
Lou Dobbs, the former CNN anchor who quit last November after 27 years with the cable-news network, is joining News Corp.’s Fox Business Network to start his own show. Dobbs, 65, will develop and host a daily show that will start in the first quarter, New York-based Fox Business said today in a statement. He […]
November 6, 2010
On Friday’s “Morning Joe” MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell made a startling admission: “I am a socialist.” The statement from the regular host of “The Last Word” came as he was chiding contributor Glenn Greenwald from Salon.com for apparently being a liberal hiding behind the word “progressive.” “I am a socialist. I live to the extreme […]
November 6, 2010
With a really fantastic headline number coming from the Establishment Survey, we thought we’d take a closer look at the other side of the coin. The Household Survey showed the following today: • a decline of 330,000 in the number of people employed; • a decline of 254,000 in the labor force; • a decline […]
November 5, 2010
Keith Olbermann, MSNBC’s primetime firebrand host, has been suspended indefinitely for violating the ethics policies of his employer earlier this year when he donated to three Democrats seeking federal office, MSNBC announced Friday. via UPDATE: Olbermann suspended for Dem contributions – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs.
January 22, 2011
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