Wedge Issues: Dems Rarely Face Challenges from Media
Wedge issues, those subjects on which basically everyone has an opinion and those opinions are hard and fast, are generally something most politicians try to avoid if at all possible. Usually, it's because their party base takes a very strong stand on a subject that most Americans disagree with in part or in whole. If used properly, wedge issues can be used to separate a politician from the…
Le Prejugé de Presse: Anti-Sarkozy Bias in the AFP
Anti-conservative bias in the media is not unique to America. Agence France-Presse (AFP) practically portrayed French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy as a modern day, Gallic incarnation of Nero, fiddling while France burns (emphasis mine).:France's next president Nicolas Sarkozy holidayed Tuesday in Malta
ahead of launching a radical reform programme, while back home cities
across the country…
Gloria Borger Calls For ‘Moratorium on Invoking the Memory of Ronald
Don’t you find it amazing how liberal media members just can’t stand it whenever former President Ronald Reagan’s name is raised in conversation?It’s one thing when the currently unhinged host of HBO’s “Real Time” Bill Maher complains that Republicans “love Ronald Reagan in a way that’s just gay.”But when CBS and U.S. News & World Report’s Gloria Borger calls for a “moratorium on invoking the…
House Speaker Pelosi Accused of Earmarking Funds for Husband’s Benef
If Democrats had accused former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois) last year of earmarking funds that could help real estate investments owned by his wife, would the media have reported it?Probably on the front pages of every newspaper, and as the lead story of all of the evening news programs, right?Well, the Associated Press published a story Monday about current House Speaker Nancy…
Salon’s Walsh and Greenwald Attack AP’s 'Hit Job' on Olbermann
Has the king of Bush Derangement Syndrome, Keith Olbermann, created a new liberal malady characterized by an almost incomprehensible inability to tolerate any criticism of the MSNBC host?After reading Joan Walsh and Glenn Greenwald’s articles at Salon Monday, one could certainly come to the conclusion that such an affliction exists, and that the two are suffering from this little known…
Reuters and the 'Women Shunned Segolene' Meme
"Women voters shun Segolene Royal" reads one Reuters headline. Writes reporter Kerstin Gehmlich:The weak female support is a bitter personal blow for Royal, who had
played up her feminist credentials throughout the campaign, frequently
defending policies she would want "as a mother" and accusing critics of
male chauvinism.Yet Gehmlich noted that the Sarkozy-Royal split among women voters in…
