Is Martin Bashir dripping wet when he emerges from his bathtub of hyperbole? Can Al Sharpton enunciate a complete sentence? Do any of the pundits at MSNBC play with a full deck of cards? Find out the answers to these burning questions, and whether Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter ever tells the truth, in this edition of Kruiser Control.
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A recent Gallup Poll showed 60 percent of Americans do not trust the media. That level of distrust has never been higher. One of the most commonly cited causes: Many Americans fault the media for displaying a left tilt in their coverage. Tim Groseclose, UCLA professor of political science and economics, examines the record and cites research showing a liberal media bias. He also discusses the consequences and how they can be quantified in a meaningful way in this Prager University presentation.
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Glamour! It’s one of the qualities of a shape-shifter, a creature that appears as you want him to appear. Bill Whittle asks whether President Obama is a shape-shifter in a new edition of Firewall. Also, find out how the watchdogs became lapdogs, from The New York Times‘ Walter Duranty’s cover-up of mass genocide to the giggling girlie-men who fill the ranks of Obama apologists these days.
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CNN’s Piers Morgan fawns over Iranian despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, giving MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Martin Bashir a run for their money on who could claim the title as the week’s most insipid media lapdog. Stephen Kruiser sizes up this stiff competition in the latest edition of Kruiser Control. H/T PJTV
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This just in…It’s being reported that President Obama is brewing beer in the White House. If true, this would be the first US manufacturing job created since his election.
Hear more on Obama, his Baskin-Robbins plaque, Ahmadinejad’s latest boasts, Fareed Zakaria’s reinstatement at Time and CNN, and other hot topics of the day as Jodi Miller anchors NewsBusted.
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Reporting from the War for the Whitehouse Bunker, Andrea Bennett and Jason Copland from The Onion News Network put up a voltaic front as they struggle to maintain their excitement while a copter circles overhead, marking the countdown to the 2012 election. Knocking back rumors that Ann Romney once had a lesbian affair, the Onion crew nevertheless drops a bombshell, finding that “The average American voter is a 36-year-old Hispanic man obsessed with trivia and filled with deep shame.”
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Ever have a hankering to be a hotshot reporter? Want to know if you could cut the mustard?
In Klavan On Culture, Andrew Klavan introduces a new game show designed to distinguish the riff from the raff among the mainstream media. Play along and see if you’ve got what it takes to be the next Chris Matthews. H/T PJTV
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Get down with P.A.B, aka Patti Ann Browne, whose Red Eye intros on Fox News run circles around the lamestream monologues of Leno, Letterman, O’Brien, Fallon and all the other late-night wannabes. Eat your heart out, boys. At best, you can look forward to leering at Eva Longoria or Drew Barrymore. It will be a mighty cold day before your kind could ever mack on Patti Ann Browne on a Manhattan playground.
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