David Letterman is a big believer in cataclysmic predictions about global warming, but on Wednesday’s program his mom, Dorothy, rejected his proposition that global warming was to blame for some unseasonably warm days in Indianapolis -- prompting her disappointed son to shake his head in disapproval.
“Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions" as serving as “an honored correspondent” for NPR, while Juan Williams, “because he expresses his opinions, gets canned from NPR?” So Charles Krauthammer demanded while sitting Friday with Totenberg on the same Inside Washington set. “In fact, the standard ought to be lower in the case of Juan because he’s an analyst, whereas Nina is a correspondent.”
On Friday night’s Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic leader: "He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times – just like we are now – people were out of work, they needed jobs and a guy came along and rallied the troops. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic…
Aaron Sorkin came aboard the Monday premiere of CNN’s Parker Spitzer to promote the new movie, The Social Network, for which he wrote the screenplay, but the creator of The West Wing used his air time to insult Palin: "Sarah Palin's an idiot. Come on. This is a remarkably, stunningly, jaw-droppingly incompetent and mean woman."
With House Republicans set today (Thursday 9/23) to unveil their “Pledge to America” if they win a majority of seats in November, a look back at how then-NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw derided the Contract with America when it was announced on Tuesday, September 27, 1994. “Today,” Brokaw declared, “GOP congressional candidates were summoned to Washington and given a battle plan. However, as…
Newsweek veteran Evan Thomas, who announced a few weeks ago his intention to leave the financially-failing magazine, issued a ringing call for why he hopes Congress and President Obama cannot agree on extending any of the Bush tax cuts, so income tax rates rise next year: "God knows the federal government desperately needs that revenue, so this is one case where I think gridlock is a good thing."
This is “A Tribute to the Media,” a ten-minute video, honoring television coverage of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It was shown at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held in Washington, DC on January 17, 2002 when we took a time-out for a few minutes to pay tribute to the patriotic work of journalists during the crisis.The video starts with clips of the…
Reporting ABC News President David Westin's plan to step down, Washington Post's Howard Kurtz noted “some early missteps” during his tenure, “a comment after the Sept. 11 attacks, for which Westin apologized, that journalists should offer no opinion about whether the Pentagon had been a legitimate military target.” That apology was promoted by a 2001 MRC CyberAlert item.
In an A&E movie, aired in 2000, on George Washington crossing the Delaware, he is persuaded that just like the hired-gun Hessians, his opposition to British taxes means he too is fighting “for profit.” General Nathanial Greene: “Our own cause is, at its heart, a fight against British taxation, is it not? In the end sir, we all kill for profit -- the British and the Hessians, and us.”
Earning applause from the audience, Donald Trump gave David Letterman his take on placing a new mosque near Ground Zero: “I think it's insensitive and it shouldn't be built there.” Letterman frowned, prompting Trump to point out to the audience: “I don't know if he agrees.” Trump observed: “Well, somebody knocked down the World Trade Center.”
