Bloomberg: Aug. 18 — “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.†— Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 No institution has been the butt of more government- inefficiency jokes than the U.S. Postal Service. Maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles. The only way the post office can stay [...]
Above: An Afghan police stands guard in front of presidential election posters on the street in Kabul. ABC: On the eve of crucial presidential elections here, we traveled the capital with the commander of US forces, General Stanley McChrystal. His mission today was to coordinate with the Afghan police and military units who form the [...]
Media Bistro: Last week we reported on Fox News Channel’s primetime programs putting up huge numbers — three nights in a row beating CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN combined in both Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo. Well now the cable news rankings are out and Fox News was the second most-watched basic cable channel [...]
Watch CBS Videos Online NEW YORK – Don Hewitt, the CBS newsman who invented “60 Minutes” and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton home, CBS said. His death came a month after that of fellow CBS legend Walter Cronkite. Hewitt joined [...]
POLITICO: The percentage of Americans who hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party has slipped below 50 percent for the first time since President Barack Obama took office, according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday. Only 49 percent of Americans now hold a favorable view of the Democratic Party, down from [...]
The Iraq war is over you say? We need to begin “normalization,” you say? A lot of good it’s apparently doing, Mr. President. I await your press conference where you will say you’re gonna do absolutely nothing about it. Update: BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq’s prime minister has blamed Sunni insurgents for a wave of deadly [...]
FOX News: A Florida teenager could face felony vandalism charges for allegedly gluing posters depicting President Obama as the Joker onto public property, FOXNews.com has learned. Clermont, Fla., Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the state attorney will review evidence to determine whether to charge the unidentified teenager with gluing “dozens” of the posters last week [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. – A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday. Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an “agent provocateur” and was taught by the agency [...]
I Hate The Media: Cash-for-Clunkers is so messed up that even a liberal Democrat is calling it messed up. Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action†from President Obama to [...]
NewsBusters: Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC’s News Live on Tuesday to discuss college football and ended up trashing Sarah Palin. Talking with host David Shuster about a new SEC regulation stopping fans from using social networking sites at games, Zirin frothed that odd sports rules are like “Sarah Palin considering herself [...]
FOX: The White House is blaming the controversy over its Web site and mass e-mails on viral rumors, “fear-mongering” and “sinister conspiracy theories” even as it acknowledges problems with its online practices. After confirming to FOX News over the weekend that third-party groups could be responsible for official White House e-mails that have been sent [...]
Bloomberg: Aug. 18 — Cap-and-trade legislation to limit U.S. carbon dioxide emissions has “gotten out of control†and needs to be scaled back in Congress, said former Democratic Senator Timothy Wirth. “The Republicans are right — it’s a cap-and-tax bill,†Wirth, a climate-change negotiator during President Bill Clinton’s administration, said in an Aug. 14 interview. [...]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Tuesday he is encouraged by progress in U.S. efforts to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, thanking his Egyptian counterpart for help in working for a breakthrough. The president was responding to a question about reports that Israel had stopped granting permission for new settlements [...]
NEW YORK (Nielsen Business Media) – Some of the nation’s biggest advertisers are distancing themselves from Fox News host Glenn Beck after he called President Obama a racist during a July 28 broadcast. Geico has pulled its ads from Fox News Channel’s “The Glenn Beck Program.” Lawyers.com, which is owned by LexisNexis, also has vowed [...]
