Media
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By
Rob
on April 16, 2008 at 08:16 am
Way to stay objective.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Common sense isn’t that common I guess: The way the advertising industry portrays men has drawn increasing scrutiny in both the trade press and the mainstream media. Defenders of the…...
By
Rob
on April 14, 2008 at 03:10 pm
I’m not very happy to hear this coming from McCain. Media types talk a lot about accountability for politicians, but what about accountability for reporters and their sources? A shield…...
By
Rob
on April 14, 2008 at 02:59 pm
Really? Patronizing, sure, but racially offensive? C’mon. Obama’s mentor and spiritual adviser blames “whitey” for creating the HIV virus to wipe out blacks. Obama gets a pass on that, but…...
By
Rob
on April 14, 2008 at 01:50 pm
The cognitive dissonance is so in-your-face that you’d swear this is satire. NEW YORK (Reuters) - While U.S. consumers may have spent slightly more than expected last month, it was…...
Sunday, April 06, 2008
By
Rob
on April 6, 2008 at 08:39 am
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune is reporting the March job report as a “grim picture”: It’s no longer a question of recession or not. Now it’s how deep and how long. Workers’…...
Friday, April 04, 2008
By
Rob
on April 4, 2008 at 07:14 pm
Yipee. Two months after North Dakota’s primary, the state’s Democratic party still managed to attract Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for the opening day of its convention Friday. “Some…...
By
Rob
on April 4, 2008 at 11:58 am
The New York Times reports the poll, and provides this analysis: The unhappiness presents clear risks for Republicans in this year’s elections, given the continued unpopularity of President Bush. But…...
Thursday, April 03, 2008
By
Rob
on April 3, 2008 at 08:22 pm
That’s the big story in the media. The unemployment rate is skyrocketing! People are losing their jobs! We’re headed to a recession...according to experts and their predictions. What they’re saying…...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
By
Rob
on April 1, 2008 at 03:05 pm
It took over a decade to settle in court, but finally the end has arrived and it includes McDermott having to shell out a big, fat wad of cash to…...
By
Rob
on April 1, 2008 at 01:56 pm
Yesterday we noted that popular syndicated talk show hosts Walton and Johnson of the Texas/Louisiana/Mississippi area plagiarized one of our posts on their website. We followed up yesterday evening by…...
Monday, March 31, 2008
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 09:20 pm
Earlier today I posted about syndicated talk radio show Walton & Johnson swiping a Say Anything post written by Pilgrim and both reading it on their show and posting the…...
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 08:53 pm
It doesn’t take a lot to make Keith Olbermann hate you. All it took for Rendell was to say that Fox News provided fairer primary coverage than the other networks.…...
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Not exactly the thing to say when you’re still campaigning in a liberal Democrat primary. And odd coming from Hillary given that last year she was refusing, along with her…...
By
Rob
on March 31, 2008 at 06:28 am
From an editorial in the Bismarck Tribuneabout the recent kerfuffle over a dress-up party at a UND sorority where some of the students dressed as Indians: Life’s lessons are sometimes…...
Friday, March 28, 2008
By
Rob
on March 28, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I doubt it, but Democrats in Ohio and Pennsylvania are raising a stink about it. Personally, I think the Democrats are rather dumb to raise a stink about this. First,…...
Thursday, March 27, 2008
By
Rob
on March 27, 2008 at 02:20 pm
Talk about a slow news day: ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
By
Rob
on March 26, 2008 at 12:01 pm
An excerpt a discussion on CNN between Anderson Cooper, Joe Klein and Hillary Clinton supporter Lanny Davis. They were talking about Hillary Clinton’s assertion that Rev. Wright wouldn’t have been…...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
By
Rob
on March 25, 2008 at 02:31 pm
A significant donation to a church organization that regularly preaches that 9/11 was America’s fault and that HIV was developed in a plot by “whitey” to kill off blacks. But…...
Sunday, March 23, 2008
By
Rob
on March 23, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Fargo Forum opinion editor Jack “Don’t Get In My Face While I’m Drinking Wine Plebes!” Zaleski takes a rather petty shot at North Dakota Republicans today by saying that Barack…...
Friday, March 21, 2008
By
Rob
on March 21, 2008 at 04:46 pm
Dirty. Old. Man.
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By
Rob
on March 21, 2008 at 04:40 pm
Sissy. Wouldn’t last a minute on a blog. By the way, if John McCain had uttered anything about a “typical black person” there’d be wall-to-wall coverage from every outlet from…...
By
Rob
on March 21, 2008 at 04:21 pm
Keith Olbermann, doing what he does best. Which is being a hypocrite. Stunning, no? Speaking of hypocrites, here’s an excerpt from a blog post written by Olbermann’s 23-year-old girlfriend Katy…...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
By
Rob
on March 19, 2008 at 03:56 pm
The big question is: Was she there for any of the most controversial parts. Because as we learned from Obama, if you aren’t there it doesn’t count. –Nov. 15, 1995:…...
By
Rob
on March 19, 2008 at 01:50 pm
First it was the New York Times trying to excuse Eliot Spitzer’s infidelity by noting that monkeys aren’t monogamous. Now other media outlets are following suit by attempting to make…...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
By
Rob
on March 18, 2008 at 09:41 pm
Fawning so blatant and egregious it’s almost sickening. There are moments — increasingly rare in risk-abhorrent modern campaigns — when politicians are called upon to bare their fundamental beliefs. In…...
By
Rob
on March 18, 2008 at 04:27 pm
But just a slight one: Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as “conservative” in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and…...
By
Rob
on March 18, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Some of you who watched Obama’s big “sweep Wright under the rug” speech this morning might have been greeted with this: You could laugh, but then you’d be a racist.…...
By
Rob
on March 18, 2008 at 06:59 am
Because we’re all just animals, right? You can accuse the disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of many things in his decision to flout the law by soliciting the services of a…...
Monday, March 17, 2008
By
Rob
on March 17, 2008 at 10:51 am
Apparently it is so according to this headline from the LA Times: Call me crazy, but I thought our “inalienable rights” all had the same standing. ...
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