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liberal media stories: 13 news summaries
PILING ON

 Fox Caught Fudging 
 Footage Again 

This-just-in Palin video actually from '08 campaign

Nov 18, 09 7:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The incident isn’t on par with Jon Stewart catching Fox News host Sean Hannity passing off old video as new, but lefty blogger Faiz Shakir found the network doing something similar today. Noting huge crowds for Sarah Palin’s book tour, host Gregg Jarrett alerts viewers to “pictures... More »

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Fox News • Jon Stewart • Sean Hannity • Sarah Palin • Huffington Post • liberal media • conservative media • Fox News misleading footage • Gregg Jarrett • Sarah Palin book tour

WATCH IT

Hannity to Daily Show:
Yep, We Screwed Up 

Fox host calls protest footage mixup 'inadvertent'

Nov 11, 09 9:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Fox News host Sean Hannity admitted tonight that his staff spliced video from a Capitol Hill protest last week with footage from an earlier, much larger protest over the summer—and apologized to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and host Jon Stewart, who brought the creative editing to light. “... More »

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entertainment • Fox News • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • apology • Sean Hannity • liberal media • conservative media • creative editing

FORT HOOD SHOOTING

'Death Is Not Imminent' for Hasan Despite Multiple Shots

Plus, a report that he was yelling in Arabic

Nov 5, 09 9:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Suspected Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan isn’t mortally wounded despite taking at least four bullets, military officials say tonight. “I would say his death is not imminent,” notes a spokesman at the Texas military base where the Army psychiatrist killed 12 and injured 31 earlier... More »

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Arabic • psychiatrist • Iraq war • liberal media • conservative media • American soldiers • Fort Hood shooting • Nidal Malik Hasan

Charles Krauthammer

 Obama Assault 
 on Fox News  
 Is 'Nixonian' 


White House needs to recognize the legitimacy of opposition

Oct 23, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is over the line in its war on Fox News, seeking not only to criticize it, but to delegitimize and marginalize it, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post. “There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics,” he argues, but they do violate “... More »

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Richard Nixon • Fox News • media bias • Obama administration • liberal media • Charles Krauthammer • conservative media

ANALYSIS

Right's New Quarry: Gay
Ed. Appointee

Fox et al. say Kevin Jennings didn't act on 1980s statutory rape

Oct 2, 09 9:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - One of President Obama’s appointees to the Department of Education has become the latest target for conservatives emboldened by the departures of green-jobs adviser Van Jones and others. Assistant deputy secretary Kevin Jennings is accused of neglecting to report a statutory rape case when he was a teacher in... More »

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Department of Education • Fox News • Michelle Malkin • Sean Hannity • right wingers • political appointee • liberal media • Van Jones • Kevin Jennings • left wing

analysis


 Obama Love 
 Affair Over for 
 Liberal Pundits 

One-time cheerleaders' support is 'wobbly'

Aug 31, 09 12:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - During the campaign, lefty pundits offered Barack Obama some of “the most favorable coverage that any White House contender has drawn in a generation.” Now, those same commentators’ support for the president is looking “wobbly,” writes Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. “I find myself... More »

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media • Frank Rich • pundits • Paul Krugman • liberal media • President Obama • Howard Kurtz

Lefty Talking Heads Fan 'Birther' Flames

Debunked rumor gets far more play on MSNBC than on Fox

Aug 10, 09 10:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - When CNN correspondent Candy Crowley mentioned birthers on Lou Dobbs’ show last week, the host panicked. “Don’t say ‘birthers,’ whatever you do,” he said. “Not on this broadcast.” Dobbs has become a much-ridiculed face of the birther movement, but he's discussed the issue... More »

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media • MSNBC • lefties • Keith Olbermann • CNN • Lou Dobbs • Obama administration • liberal media • Candy Crowley • President Obama • conservative media • birther

Obama Asks Bloggers to Pressure Hill
on Health Care

Leaves open reconciliation option

Jul 21, 09 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama unleashed the hounds last night, asking progressive bloggers to pressure Congress on health care reform. “There is a default position of inertia here in Washington,” he said on an invitation-only conference call. Lawmakers need to feel the same urgency and desperation ordinary Americans feel, he said,... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • blogosphere • blogger • health care reform • liberal • liberal media

(Newser) - Being honored at a Washington event last night skewering the liberal media made Samuel Wurzelbacher—better known as Joe the Plumber, of Campaign ’08 fame—“horny,” the Washington Post reports. “God, all this love and everything in the room—I’m horny,” the Republican everyman... More »

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Chris Matthews • Bill Maher • liberal media • Joe the Plumber • conservative media • Samuel Wurzelbacher • Media Research Center

Obama Meets With Lefty
Media Pundits

Convo with liberals follows dinner with conservatives

Jan 14, 09 4:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama recalibrated his bipartisan scale today, CNN reports, meeting with liberal commentators a day after convening with conservative writers at columnist George Will's home. The left-leaners included Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich of the New York Times and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. Obama aides remain mum about both off-the-record... More »

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Barack Obama • Maureen Dowd • Frank Rich • American media • columnists • Rachel Maddow • liberal media • President Obama • conservative media • Bill Maher Grid

 NYT Slaps Reporter 
 for Facebook Source 

Reporter reprimanded for messaging minors

Nov 16, 08 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Backlash against the New York Times reporter who contacted minors on Facebook to locate sources has led Times public editor Clark Hoyt to declare, “I would not have sent the messages.” Jodi Kantor, author of last month’s unflattering front-page profile of Cindy McCain, reached out to classmates... More »

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John McCain • New York Times • Clark Hoyt • Cindy McCain • campaign • Election 2008 • reporting • conservatives • liberal media

Joe the Journo Attacked at
Palin Event

Reporter kicked after angering supporter by talking to the opposition

Oct 17, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The fiery rhetoric at a Republican rally turned physical yesterday when one supporter kicked a journalist in the leg, the News & Record reports. Joe Killian, who works for the paper, was covering a clash between supporters of Barack Obama and John McCain after a Sarah Palin rally in North... More »

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North Carolina • Election 2008 • campaign rally • Sarah Palin • liberal media

ANALYSIS

Wrong, Lefties: Palin Didn't Cut Special Olympics Dollars

Declining huge budget increase, Alaska Gov. authorized 10% boost instead

Sep 29, 08 4:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin did not cut funding to the Special Olympics in Alaska, as many have said, professors Warren Throckmorton and Paul Kengor write in the National Review. In fact, this year she approved an increase in funding, from $250,000 to $275,000. Lawmakers had asked for $550,000, perhaps... More »

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Alaska • Keith Olbermann • National Review • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin • Special Olympics • liberal media

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