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Republican Joe Walsh Taunts 'Bully' Chris Matthews: Obama 'Sends a Tingle Up Your Leg'

Republican Congressman Joe Walsh didn't put up with Chris Matthews' "bullying" on Tuesday, mocking the liberal MSNBC anchor for his effusive praise of Barack Obama. Over the host's frequent ...

Networks Cast Big-Government Obama as Pushing 'Very Significant' and 'Painful' Budget Cuts

Over the past 10 days, as the debt ceiling negotiations have seemingly stalled, network reporters and newspaper correspondents have repeatedly cast President Obama as striving for "very ...

NYT's Landler Sighs Along with Obama on 'Frustrating,' 'Unreasonable' 'Intransigence of the Republicans'

NY Times White House reporter Mark Landler takes sides, shares Obama's frustration with GOP: "And I think the frustration the president has, is, 'Look, I've come three-quarters the way to your ...

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer: Pie Attack on Murdoch 'Encapsulates What the British People are Feeling'

MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer on Tuesday insisted that a pie throwing attack on Rupert Murdoch, which occurred live on air, "encapsulates what the British people are feeling right now about Rupert ...

NBC Dismisses GOP Debt Ceiling Plan as a 'Show,' 'Just Wasting Time'

On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry admonished Republicans for trying to pass a balanced budget amendment as part of a debt ceiling agreement: "Tea Party conservatives love this plan. The ...

Landler Sighs Along With Obama on 'Frustrating,' 'Unreasonable' 'Intransigence of the Republicans'

White House reporter Mark Landler takes sides, shares the president's frustration with Republicans: "And I think the frustration the president has, is, 'Look, I've come three-quarters the way to ...

When It Comes To Bashing Murdoch, Joe Nocera Knows Nothing, Says Taranto

Joe Nocera devotes two columns to piling on Rupert Murdoch and his American media properties: "The Wall Street Journal has been Fox-ified....Rupert Murdoch, despite giving us Homer Simpson, ...

Year Before Truth Emerged, NYT Reports Vindicated Atlanta School Leader in Cheating Scandal

The Times, on top of the big stories. Lead sentence to its August 10, 2010 report vindicating the Atlanta school system: "The Atlanta public school system was substantially vindicated Monday when ...

Snarky Ali Velshi Batters Grover Norquist Over Debt Ceiling Pledge

On his Saturday show Your Money, CNN host Ali Velshi tried to pin the blame for the debt ceiling standoff on one man ' the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist. "Are you the ...

Esquire Magazine Genuflects: Obama's a 'World-Historical Soul,' 'He is What We Hope We Can Be'

An effusive love letter to Barack Obama published in the August edition of Esquire magazine. "2011 is the summer of Obama," gushed Stephen Marche, genuflecting "'I am large, I contain multitudes,' ...