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Gail Collins Doesn't Get It Either: Expects Tea Partiers to Celebrate 47% Who Pay No Taxes

Columnist Gail Collins ironically asks when anti-tax groups will hold "rallies to thank the president for doing so much to reduce the burden on the half of the country least able to pay." ...

MSNBC's Guthrie to Michelle Obama: Did 'Ugly' Side of Health Care Make You Angry?

MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie on Thursday conducted a sycophantic interview with Michelle Obama, urging the First Lady to complain about the "uglier side" of the health care debate. The Daily Rundown ...

Times Polls Tea Partiers, Finds Them Educated, But Also Angry and Inconsistent

The Times lead story by Kate Zernike on its new poll of Tea Party protesters: Good start, questionable finish: "Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that ...

Reporter Uses Poland's Tragedy to Deride 'Crass' Post-Communist Capitalism

The Times' Eastern Europe correspondent Dan Bilefsky can't deal with the "crass commercialism" taking over Europe after the fall of Communism: "Learning the lessons of capitalism; profit nudges ...

HuffPo Columnist Calls for Pope's Arrest

Derek Beres not only calls for Pope Benedict to be arrested, but compares him to Roman Polanski.

CBS Gives Tea Partiers Top Billing, But Sees 'Inconsistency' in the FNC-Watching, White Gun Owners

Reporting on a poll which looked at Tea Party activists, CBS's Dean Reynolds realized "they chafe at critics who characterize the movement as extremist or racist for its opposition to the ...

'60 Minutes' Hit Job on Chevron Flawed, Journalism Review Admits -- 11 Months Late

Pelley's so-called investigation of oil companies alleged pollution in Ecuadorian rainforest 'an exercise in innuendo.'

Maher Insults Palin and Bachmann as MILFs: Morons I'd Like To Forget

Bill Maher and Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, denigrated Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as merely "attractive" women with very little smarts with the HBO host even going as far to use ...

MSNBC's Mike Barnicle Smears John McCain: More Afraid of J.D. Hayworth Than of North Vietnamese

During a discussion of John McCain's drift rightward on Wednesday's Morning Joe, MSNBC's Mike Barnicle smeared the Arizona Senator as more scared of J.D. Hayworth than he was of his Vietnamese ...

Meet Washington Post's Scott Wilson, Obama's Summit News Butler

Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson topped Wednesday's paper with a "news analysis" headlined "On world stage, Obama at ease as seminar leader." The word that came to mind wasn't "analysis." It ...