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July 23, 2009
When will the broadcast networks and their news divisions finally realize that, as much as they love him, President Obama is costing them an arm and a leg? They keep giving up millions in ad revenue for primetime presidential news conferences and…
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July 22, 2009
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”
That’s the strategy from Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” that seems to playing out from President Barack Obama again. This time Obama was talking about Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., in…
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July 22, 2009
Want to know the correct number of uninsured? Don’t turn to Reuters. In the July 22 article “Congress Making ‘Great Progress’ on Healthcare-Pelosi” Reuters reported that “President Barack Obama will hold a prime-time news conference to push for the…
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July 22, 2009
Uncritical Condition
President Obama is running a full court press to get a health care reform bill passed before Congress August recess, and hes gotten plenty of help from the networks. ABC,…
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July 22, 2009
Give CBS’s morning crew this much credit: they’re not fickle. Even as the media air began perceptibly leaking from the president’s health care balloon, “The Early Show” was valiantly clinging to “maybes.”
On July 22, host Maggie Rodriguez talked…
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July 21, 2009
A shakedown is still a shakedown – even when every side of a “complicated” story is shown.
But “Crude,” Joe Berlinger’s documentary about the Amazon Defense Front’s $27-billion lawsuit against Chevron (NYSE:CVX) for allegedly not cleaning up…
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July 21, 2009
Any article seeking to gin up support for universal health care would have to rely on skewed numbers and sins of omission. Sure enough, “Health Care Proposal is Not Yet Final” by Philip Elliott of the Associated Press fit the bill.
In the article…
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July 21, 2009
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has found that the current plan for healthcare reform will add to the nation’s deficit and drive healthcare costs up, not down. However, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-SC, and disgraced former CBS…
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July 16, 2009
Editor, Los Angeles Times
Dear Editor:
In "American aid to Africa" (July 15) you presume that money given by governments of rich western nations to governments of poor African nations is necessary if the economies of these African nations are to…
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July 15, 2009
Say the words “just a bill” and our TV civics lesson takes hold. Without realizing it, millions of Americans would instantly start humming a Schoolhouse Rock song entitled “I’m Just a Bill.”
The song is cartoon version of how a bill becomes a law.…