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As NewsBusters reported moments ago, the Times released a new poll Friday finding that 67 percent of New York City residents are against the proposed location for the Islamic center. (more…)

President Barack Obama’s decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the “combat mission” in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W. Bush, appalled MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.
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It is vile bitterness put on display for America every night of the week – even though not as many people tune in as they do to his competitor. But, still Keith Olbermann seems to obsess over the Fox News Channel. (more…)

Appearing on the Late Show on Monday night to plug his Friday night Dateline on the 5th anniversary of Katrina, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams bizarrely asserted “we’re still enjoying the fruits really of the Clinton economy,” claimed Tea Party activists who say “we want our country back” want it back “from the Trilateral Commission” and ridiculed their presumed hypocrisy as he insisted “you see a lot of signs, ‘Federal Government Out of My Social Security,’ ‘Federal Government Out of My Medicare and Medicaid.’ But for the federal government, of course, those programs would not exist.” (more…)

I’m just catching up to a whopper of a sentence. In an August 3 editorial scorching the “vitriol and outright bigotry” against the Ground Zero Mosque proposal, that “Monument to Tolerance,”  as they call it, the Times editorial writers composed this bizarre sentence: “The attacks of Sept. 11 were not a religious event. They were mass murder.”
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New Times political columnist Matt Bai is the political version of economics writer David Leonhardt: Both are neoliberal commentators (slightly to the right of the paper’s reporters) who serve as the paper’s conscience on their chosen issues. The front of the Sunday Week in Review featured Bai’s latest “Political Times” column, “I’m American. And You?” where Bai attacked as “nativist impulse” two conservative proposals: A push by some Republican lawmakers to repeal the 14th amendment, giving citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil; and conservative opposition to building a mosque near Ground Zero. (more…)

ABC’s Bill Weir, the former co-host of weekend Good Morning America, debuted on Monday as the new co-anchor of Nightline. ABC President David Westin lauded Weir in July for conducting “some of our most innovative reporting.” But, he may be better known for standard liberal bias, such as hyperbolically asserting during Barack Obama’s inauguration: “From above, even the seagulls must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.” (more…)

“Uncomfortable” was the word of the day at Morning Joe when it came to discussing Michelle Obama’s decision to go on a luxurious Spanish vacation in the midst of a recession—and to miss celebrating her husband’s birthday with him to boot. (more…)

Two left-wing groups are suing the government for the right to defend Anwar al-Awlaki, the Muslim cleric who the government says ordered the foiled Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner. Awlaki also exchanged emails with Major Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas. On Wednesday, legal reporter Charlie Savage reported “Lawyers Seeking to Take Up Terror Suspect’s Legal Case Sue U.S. for Access.”
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A lot of newspaper readers just scan the headlines quickly and choose only a few stories to read, even on the front page. Newspapers are often accused of tabloidish, exaggerated headlines. But sometimes, they do the opposite, with duller headlines that seem designed not to inform — or offend.  (more…)