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Soda = Big Tobacco, According to No-Fun NYT Food Writer Mark Bittman

In addition some copy editor at the Times has a puritanical relationship with snacks: To help dam the river of sugared drinks that Americans pour into ever-fatter bodies each year, some suggest a ...

ABC Celebrates the Adulterous Affair of JFK as a 'Torrid' 'Love Story' Involving 'American Royalty'

Good Morning America on Monday touted an adulterous affair John F. Kennedy had in the early 1950s as a "love story" and a "torrid and fleeting romance." Co-host George Stephanopoulos lauded the ...

CBS's Smith: Is Cheney Criticism of Obama 'Theater' or 'Real'?

On Monday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith wondered if there was any credibility to Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's handling of the Christmas Day bomber: "...the point ...

Obama Loves Attorney General Eric Holder, and So Does the Times

Obama hearts the "low-key" "genial," "self-deprecating," and of course "pragmatic" Attorney General Eric Holder, in a long profile of Holder that fails to mention his Justice Department's refusal ...

In Blizzard, Conservatives Mock Global Warming Alarmists, Left and Media Outraged

The left argues that everything from hurricanes, lack of snow and a plane crash to D.C. 'snowpocalypse' is evidence of global warming.

CBS's Schieffer to Biden: Doesn't George Bush 'Also Need a Little Thanks for That?'

Words never spoken before by a CBS News journalist: "Do you think also that George Bush would also need a little thanks for that?" That very unusual quest to credit former President Bush came from ...

Boy, Those 'Far Right' Texas Candidates Sure Are 'Hard-Line' and 'Divisive'

Reporter James McKinley Jr. wonders if the Republican candidates for Texas governor can get any more right wing than they already are: "Some days it is hard to be a neophyte far-right candidate in ...

Ronald Reagan Would Have Supported Tea Party Movement, Says Son

Michael Reagan refutes brother's claim that 40th President would have been 'un-amused' by tea parties and would have looked at Palin unfavorably.

Flashback, Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Winter Olympics 'Look Like GOP Convention'

On the eve of the Winter Olympics four years ago, Bryant Gumbel couldn't resist taking a racial shot at the Republican Party in a commentary at the end of his Real Sports magazine show on HBO: ...

Washington Post's King Disparages Palin as 'Simple-Minded' and 'Mediocre'

Sarah Palin "doesn't have any substance there behind her" and her remarks at the Tea Party convention were "embarrassing at points" since she delivered "simple, simple thoughts, very ...