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Part of the stars of the great Media Matters website is their Vice President, Jamsion Foser. Foser is just outstanding, as everyone else at that site is, at calling out the television and newspaper media for terrible or dishonest reporting that is truly hurting not only the profession, but even the country. On Friday, Foser highlighted the latest embarrassing charade of journalism to hit the American public: Linking President-elect Obama with Ron Blagojevich. In Foser's column, he lists a bevy of the idiotic examples "supposed quality journalists" have come up with to associate Obama with Blago Stupidio : At Obama's press conference yesterday, the third questioner asked, "What's wrong with politics in Illinois?" Chris Matthews made sure viewers knew that "Barack Obama, of course, rose to political power in a city, Chicago, in a state, Illinois, known for corruption." ABC's Rick Klein chimed in: "[W]ith one stiff wind, Chicago has grabb...

(Original Photo from Nydailynews.com)Tom Brokaw is one of the many dishonest fools still calling this nation center-right leaning. It is pretty sad, the likes of Tom Brokaw (I would love to say Tom Broflaw, but I want to be formal here) and so many others in the media, trying to label this nation as center-right. It is even more of a deplorable sight where right-wingers such as Karl Rove, accusing Barack Obama of having "socialists" policies and being "the most liberal Senator in Congress", go ahead and proclaim that the reason why Obama won the election now (after saying the financial crisis helped him after saying McCain had Bush under his neck helped him) is because he ran a "center-right" campaign. The trepidation over the liberal agenda getting pushed in this country is amazing. And the ridiculous myth that this country is what most in the media are still saying it is has been slammed big time this week (as it has been rebuked in the past). In today...