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Grinch-o-Meter ALERT!

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

Schools appear to be at the center of this week's storm of politically correct grinchiness.  Below is a roundup of some of the Grinch-o-Meter alerts that have sounded this week at the Culture and Media Institute. The examples below demonstrate that l ...

Grinch-o-Meter ALERT!

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

Schools appear to be at the center of this week's storm of politically correct grinchiness.  Below is a roundup of some of the Grinch-o-Meter alerts that have sounded this week at the Culture and Media Institute. The examples below demonstrate that l ...

Grinch-o-Meter ALERT!

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

The Washington Post's gossip girls are trashing President Bush again, this time featuring a liberal artist who was “nauseated” by an invitation to create an ornament for this year's official White House Christmas tree. In their Reliable Source c ...

Grinch-o-Meter ALERT!

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

The Washington Post's gossip girls are trashing President Bush again, this time featuring a liberal artist who was “nauseated” by an invitation to create an ornament for this year's official White House Christmas tree. In their Reliable Source c ...

CBS Tastelessly Mixes Wal-Mart Tragedy with Shopping Story

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

On Friday, Nov. 28's CBS Evening News, reporter Michelle Miller used the tragic death of a Wal-Mart security guard as the hook to open her story on consumers who are spending less this holiday season.  During her two and a half minute report, Miller ...

CBS Tastelessly Mixes Wal-Mart Tragedy with Shopping Story

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

On Friday, Nov. 28's CBS Evening News, reporter Michelle Miller used the tragic death of a Wal-Mart security guard as the hook to open her story on consumers who are spending less this holiday season.  During her two and a half minute report, Miller ...

The Toxic Tube Made Them Do It

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

The new version of 90210, CW network's much anticipated teen drama, debuted this fall with a scene of a young man receiving oral sex while parked in a school parking lot. Gossip Girl, another CW teen drama, featured a November 3 storyline in which a ...

The Toxic Tube Made Them Do It

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

The new version of 90210, CW network's much anticipated teen drama, debuted this fall with a scene of a young man receiving oral sex while parked in a school parking lot. Gossip Girl, another CW teen drama, featured a November 3 storyline in which a ...

Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! Bicoastal Episodes of Political Correctness

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

PING!  That's the needle of CMI's Grinch-o-Meter registering in the red zone exactly one month before Christmas.  The Grinch-o-Meter is a tool that CMI created to rate efforts to secularize, diminish or tarnish the celebration of Christmas in Am ...

Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! Bicoastal Episodes of Political Correctness

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

PING!  That's the needle of CMI's Grinch-o-Meter registering in the red zone exactly one month before Christmas.  The Grinch-o-Meter is a tool that CMI created to rate efforts to secularize, diminish or tarnish the celebration of Christmas in Am ...

Boston Legal: 55 Million McCain/Palin Supporters 'Idiots' and Bloggers 'Entry-Level Life Forms'

By Kristen Fyfe | November 18, 2008, 6:42 PM EST

McCain/Palin supporters are idiots. So said the scribes of ABC's Boston Legal who scripted a show that went out of its way to trash Sarah Palin and elevate the election of Barack Obama to mythical status. Oh. And bloggers are "entry level life f ...

Boston Legal Calls McCain/Palin Supporters Idiots

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

Many McCain/Palin voters are idiots.  So said the writers of the Nov. 17 episode of ABC's Boston Legal, who went out of their way to trash Sarah Palin and elevate the election of Barack Obama to mythical status. The Obama-supporting characters “ Alan ...

Boston Legal Calls McCain/Palin Supporters Idiots

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

Many McCain/Palin voters are idiots.  So said the writers of the Nov. 17 episode of ABC's Boston Legal, who went out of their way to trash Sarah Palin and elevate the election of Barack Obama to mythical status. The Obama-supporting characters “ Alan ...

CNN, Newspapers Beat the Drum for Same-Sex Marriage

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

Major newspapers gave heavy, doting coverage this past weekend to the anti-Proposition 8 protests in cities across the country, and CNN covered the protest before it happened, as it happened and after it happened, continuing to report on the issue through ...

CNN, Newspapers Beat the Drum for Same-Sex Marriage

By Kristen Fyfe | December 7, 2011, 2:47 PM EST

Major newspapers gave heavy, doting coverage this past weekend to the anti-Proposition 8 protests in cities across the country, and CNN covered the protest before it happened, as it happened and after it happened, continuing to report on the issue through ...