Fwd: MRC Alert: ABC Touts Entrepreneur Seeking Backing of Government 'Lawyers and Lobbyists'

 

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Friday June 18, 2010 @ 09:46 AM EDT

1. ABC Touts Entrepreneur Seeking Backing of Government 'Lawyers and Lobbyists'
The day after President Obama's speech decrying America's "addiction" to fossil fuels, ABC's World News obliged the White House's agenda with a profile of solar cell manufacturer Natcore, whose president says he can cut the costs of solar cells (which are right now too expensive to be economically viable without government subsidies). But the problem, as ABC correspondent Dan Harris helped frame it, is that this entrepreneur was getting nothing but "blank stares" from the "congressional staffers, lawyers and lobbyists" he met with in Washington, D.C. - as if a venture capitalists and other private investors wouldn't be tripping over themselves to get in on the ground floor of a process that could actually make solar power viable.

2. USA Today Frets Obama Unable to 'Infuse Courts with Women and Minorities' -- ie Liberals
The "deeply polarized confirmation process in the Senate" has "undercut Obama's effort to significantly infuse the federal courts with more women and minorities," USA Today's Joan Biskupic fretted in a Wednesday front page article in which she refused to identify Obama's nominees as liberals as she attached the positive "diversity" patina to Obama's agenda without any regard for the irony such "diversity" is ideologically uniform. She led her June 16 story, "Push for court diversity hits snag: Partisan rancor ties up action on Obama nominees," however, by noting the ideology supposedly pushed by President George W. Bush: "President Obama came into office determined to stop the rightward shift of the federal courts -- after eight years of appointments by President Bush -- and to add more diversity to the bench." She then outlined Obama's achievement.

3. ABC Focuses Oil Spill Blame on BP and Coast Guard, Not Obama; CBS Gives President 'C' for Response
On Thursday's Good Morning America on ABC, co-host George Stephanopoulos laid blame on BP and Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen for mishandling the Gulf oil spill response but depicted the Obama administration as having done everything it could. In contrast, on the CBS Early Show, guests from both sides of the aisle gave the President a 'C' grade for his response. Stephanopoulos deflected any criticism away from President Obama and suggested another target: "The White House has approved the building of berms, they've sent the boom down there, Admiral Allen is on the scene every day. Are you saying he is not giving you the help you need? And do you think he should keep his job?"

4. Meet the Conservative Intellectual Elite (According to the NYT): Kathleen Parker, David Frum, Christopher Hitchens?
New York Times journalist Pamela Paul on conservatism (?) in exile: "...this was more a bunkering of the conservative intellectual elite, a group that domineered its way through the Bush years but is now sidelined, a somewhat baffled shadow of its former blustery self. Whither the conservative establishment in today's bilious political landscape? Certainly the typical Tea Party denizen, with his 'I Wanna Party Like It's 1773' T-shirt and 'You Lie!' trucker hat, would seem out of place...."

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