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Honest, I'm not looking for trouble. Just hanging out on Christmas afternoon, watching the Heat vs. the Cavs on ABC, when a State Farm Insurance commercial comes on. Funny stuff. A guy on a treadmill gets so distracted by a shapely young woman on a hamstring machine that he slips and falls off.Then a trim man, identified by a screen graphic as Dr. Ian Smith, comes by to help him to his feet,…
NBC Cites Blogosphere Speculation to Float Rudy Withdrawal Rumor
Nothing is deadlier to a campaign than a rumor that a candidate might be dropping out. But NBC has seen fit to suggest that Rudy Giuliani might be withdrawing from the presidential race based on what it itself calls "speculation" in the blogosphere.NBC Nightly News weekend anchor Lester Holt interviewed John Harwood on this evening's edition.LESTER HOLT: Let's turn to Rudy Giuliani. He's had a…
Variety Reporter Begs For Civility; Calls Drudge Readers Anti-Semitic
Apparently the Drudge Report has struck yet another nerve in the mainstream media. Today, Variety magazine reporter Brian Lowry pens a plea for civility- calling out the readers of the Drudge Report in particular. Writes Lowry, Gee, gang, why so angry? Every time a column or article of mine gets posted on the site, I invariably wake up to a torrent of hostile emails. For awhile, it was like a…
Actor Charles Grodin Calls Sean Hannity a Fascist on H&C
I have to say, this little TV clip -- posted below -- shows how leftists can neither take a joke nor can they see what’s funny about their own leftism. On the Dec. 17th edition of Hannity & Colmes guest Charles Grodin decided that it would be, uh, funny to call host Sean Hannity a fascist and a Nazi. Yes, Charles Grodin lost the game violating Godwin’s Law, that states that if you are the…
Time's Joe Klein: So Nancy Pelosi Knew About Waterboarding, So What
Quickly reacting to the December 9 Washington Post's front page revelation yesterday that some Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about waterboarding interrogation techniques YEARS ago, Time's Joe Klein sought to silence criticism of Democratic hypocrisy.Klein's excuse? Democrats were swept up by post-9/11 fear and paranoia:
The Media: Bad Intelligence with No Confidence
To the MSM, any anti-American angle is a good one A Brave Nuclear WorldThe media's reaction to the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear weapon program has been as grandiose as it is selective, inaccurate and wrong-headed.The single excerpt they chose to trumpet, that the report proffers with "high confidence" that Iran halted weapons development in 2003, maximized their…
NBC Double Standard: Today Show Aired Antiwar Ad by MoveOn.org
As NewsBusters reported Friday, television network NBC has decided not to run ads thanking and supporting America's troops stationed overseas during the holidays.*****Update: Drudge is reporting that NBC has capitulated due to "pressure from outraged viewers." Stay tuned... The sticking point according to NBC's head of standards and policies Alan Wurtzel was that Freedom's Watch "insisted that…
Media Very Selective As to When They Choose to Believe the NIE
Thomas Fingar, the Deputy Director of Analysis for the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), is the media rock star of the moment. Why? For the just released NIE assessment he co-authored that proffers with "high confidence" that Iranian nuclear weapon development came to a halt in 2003. This lands him myriad press plaudits because it affords them yet another opportunity to bash President George…
ABC's Ross Continues Pattern of Slamming 2008 GOP Candidates
ABC investigative reporter Brian Ross on Wednesday continued his habit of offering up critical takes on Republican front-runners and ignoring Democratic scandals. So far this year, the correspondent has featured four hard-hitting segments on GOP candidates and only one on a Democrat. During a piece on "Good Morning America," Ross investigated a developing story of whether then-Arkansas Governor…
MSM Laughs Along As Chris Rock Tells Harlem Crowd Not to Vote for 'Tha
A conservative comedian [yes, there are some], appears at a venue in a heavily-white suburb at a campaign event for a white candidate and tells his audience composed overwhelmingly of people of pallor they'd be embarrassed if they supported a black candidate and the white candidate won, saying "Oh no. I can't call him now. I had that black guy. What was I thinking?"What are the odds the MSM…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Discusses New Guiliani Scandal, Gave Hillary Pass
On Thursday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith teased the lead story of the day on a scandal involving Rudy Giuliani and the possible misuse of taxpayer money during Giuliani’s affair with now wife, Judith Nathan, "Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani goes on the attack against Romney as the former New York Mayor's extramarital scandals of the past return to haunt his campaign." This story…
The Media, Their Polls and the False News They Produce
First published in Human Events on November 27th, 2007.Wash, spin, rinse, spin. Phone, spin, report, spin, poll, spin. The similarities between the work of the mainstream media and a laundry machine are striking. Yet there is nothing about the cycle -- the spin-report-poll-spin cycle -- that does for political events what detergent does for your boxers or briefs. The media, as One, spend days…
UPI, NH Dem Pull Disappearing Acts
Abracadabra seems to be the magic word - at least for one New Hampshire Democrat and United Press International (UPI). Prosecutors in Strafford County are claiming in court papers that former congressional candidate, Gary Dodds (D-NH) staged his own car accident and faked his disappearance in 2006 in order to garner sympathy and support for his weak campaign.In that same disappearing Dodds spirit…
