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NBC's Lauer Chats With Obama About GOP Candidates 'Pummeling Each Other,' Cues Obama on If Romney 'Can Identify with Middle Class?'

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:11:00 +0000

Kyle Drennen

Once again touting the latest cover of New Yorker magazine, NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer lobbed this softball to President Obama in a pre-Super Bowl interview: "...you watching the big game on TV...on screen it's not the Patriots and the Giants. It's Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, same team, and they are pummeling each other. And look at the smile on your face there.

Ex-New Yorker's Heilemann Makes Gay Joke About Santorum

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Brad Wilmouth

Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, New York magazine's John Heilemann - also an MSNBC analyst and formerly of The New Yorker - made a gay joke about GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum as he described the competitive election in Iowa.

Two Jill Abramson Profiles Bring Up Accusations of Liberal Slant

admin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:01:00 +0000

Ken Auletta on Jill Abramson, the Times' new executive editor: "An editorial voice in news stories adds credence to the frequent charge that the Times' news reporting often displays a liberal bias a critique that will not be lessened by the elevation of a woman brought up in a liberal-Democratic household on the West Side of Manhattan who worked for liberal Southern Democrats and wrote a book asserting that Clarence Thomas probably lied."

Clay Waters

There are two new profiles out of Jill Abramson, new executive editor for the New York Times: A long feature on the Octomber 16 edition of CBS Sunday Morning, and a 10,700-word epic profile by Ken Auletta

New Yorker Cover Tries to Revive Climate Alarmists' Fortunes

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:50:40 +0000

Kyle Gillis

If celebrities, movies, and former vice presidents can’t sell people on global warming, maybe a cartoon can.

At least that’s what The New Yorker was hoping with its May 17 cover showing the “evolution” of global warming. The cartoon is a montage of every global warming cliché known to the liberal media: car exhaust, factory smoke, rising oceans, polluted water, and the most obvious cause of global warming: cow flatulence.

New Yorker's Remnick: 'Palin's Career Would Be Eliminated' If 'Preposterousness Were Disqualifying'

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:08:00 +0000

Brad Wilmouth

On Tuesday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, on the same show in which host Joe Scarborough had earlier complained about FNC's Bill Sammon claiming that the media "hate" Sarah Palin, guest David Remnick of the New Yorker magazine - formerly of the Washington Post - declared t

Media to U.S.: Lose the Guns, Get Sophisticated

admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:23:35 +0000

Amy Menefee

I’m a rare combination: a trained journalist who grew up understanding the value of guns.

My dad taught me how to shoot and made sure I understood safety, my rights and my responsibility – namely, that the government wouldn’t be around if I suddenly needed protection.

I’ve been rather queasy reading and hearing journalists’ take on the Virginia Tech shooting.