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Gabler's Complaint: Media's Iraq Coverage Not Negative Enough

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2005, 7:14 PM EST

I can now confirm what I've long suspected: Neal Gabler and I inhabit different planets.  I inhabit the one in which the MSM coverage of the Iraqi war is a virtually-uninterrupted drumbeat of the negative.  From headline coverage of every IED that go ...

Gabler's Complaint: Media's Iraq Coverage Not Negative Enough

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2005, 7:14 PM EST

I can now confirm what I've long suspected: Neal Gabler and I inhabit different planets.  I inhabit the one in which the MSM coverage of the Iraqi war is a virtually-uninterrupted drumbeat of the negative.  From headline coverage of every IED that go ...

Judge Issuing Letterman Restraining Order Is a What?

By Mike Bates | December 31, 2005, 11:51 AM EST

Much coverage has been accorded the woman who was issued a restraining order by Santa Fe District Court Judge Daniel Sanchez against talk-show host David Letterman. Typical was Keith Olbermann on Countdown's December 27th program: "Colleen Nestl ...

Judge Issuing Letterman Restraining Order Is a What?

By Mike Bates | December 31, 2005, 11:51 AM EST

Much coverage has been accorded the woman who was issued a restraining order by Santa Fe District Court Judge Daniel Sanchez against talk-show host David Letterman. Typical was Keith Olbermann on Countdown's December 27th program: "Colleen Nestl ...

Henican Forgets There's a War On- Pinkerton Reminds Him

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2005, 3:04 PM EST

In their heart of hearts, do the liberal media believe we are at war? The answer is a resounding 'no', judging by liberal Newsday columnist Ellis Henican's performance on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend. Thankfully, fellow New ...

Henican Forgets There's a War On- Pinkerton Reminds Him

By Mark Finkelstein | December 31, 2005, 3:04 PM EST

In their heart of hearts, do the liberal media believe we are at war? The answer is a resounding 'no', judging by liberal Newsday columnist Ellis Henican's performance on this morning's Fox & Friends Weekend. Thankfully, fellow New ...

ABC Fails to Note Bush-Bashing “Constitutional Scholar” Writes for Far-Left Magazine

By Brent Baker | December 30, 2005, 9:46 PM EST

Without identifying David Cole as the “legal affairs correspondent” for the far-left magazine The Nation, Friday’s World News Tonight on ABC featured his denigration of the probe into who leaked the secret eavesdropping story to the New York Times and his ...

ABC Fails to Note Bush-Bashing “Constitutional Scholar” Writes for Far-Left Magazine

By Brent Baker | December 30, 2005, 9:46 PM EST

Without identifying David Cole as the “legal affairs correspondent” for the far-left magazine The Nation, Friday’s World News Tonight on ABC featured his denigration of the probe into who leaked the secret eavesdropping story to the New York Times and his ...

ABC's Bogus "Pope Joan" Story Also Hocked Debunked "Rule of Thumb" Myth

By Dave Pierre | December 30, 2005, 7:27 PM EST

The bogus story of "Pope Joan" was not the only fiction that ABC and Diane Sawyer tried to hustle on the American public in last night's Primetime (Thursday December 29, 2005). In trying to convey the environment of ninth-century Europe, ho ...

ABC's Bogus "Pope Joan" Story Also Hocked Debunked "Rule of Thumb" Myth

By Dave Pierre | December 30, 2005, 7:27 PM EST

The bogus story of "Pope Joan" was not the only fiction that ABC and Diane Sawyer tried to hustle on the American public in last night's Primetime (Thursday December 29, 2005). In trying to convey the environment of ninth-century Europe, ho ...

Cindy Sheehan, Clift’s “Person of the Year” for Giving Bush a “Vacation from Hell”

By Brent Baker | December 30, 2005, 5:34 PM EST

Catching up with an item from last week, on the Christmas weekend edition of the McLaughlin Group which featured the show’s annual “Year-End Awards,” Newsweek ’s Eleanor Clift named Cindy Sheehan her “Person of the Year.” Clift championed Sheehan’s negati ...

Cindy Sheehan, Clift’s “Person of the Year” for Giving Bush a “Vacation from Hell”

By Brent Baker | December 30, 2005, 5:34 PM EST

Catching up with an item from last week, on the Christmas weekend edition of the McLaughlin Group which featured the show’s annual “Year-End Awards,” Newsweek ’s Eleanor Clift named Cindy Sheehan her “Person of the Year.” Clift championed Sheehan’s negati ...

More Pro-Gay Marriage "News" from the Boston Globe

By Lyford Beverage | December 30, 2005, 7:29 PM EST

One of the central political issues facing the American People over the past few years, and certain to be one in the next few, is the issue over whether or not governments are required to recognize same-sex relationships in the same manner that marriages ...

More Pro-Gay Marriage "News" from the Boston Globe

By Lyford Beverage | December 30, 2005, 7:29 PM EST

One of the central political issues facing the American People over the past few years, and certain to be one in the next few, is the issue over whether or not governments are required to recognize same-sex relationships in the same manner that marriages ...

Red Shirt Repents

By Mithridate Ombud | December 30, 2005, 5:07 PM EST

The Chairman Mao book requesting student speaks out to the public through the duped newspaper that is valiantly protecting his fragile identity. "The fact is that my being panicked about this hole (sic) event led me to unfortunately prop up my story ...