AP Wrings Its Hands Over Deportation of Illegals
June 18th, 2006 6:09 PM
Cue the violins. AP has produced a two-hanky tear-jerker on illegals afraid of being deported. The headline sets the tone: 'Immigration sweep brings fear to community'.Other mournful morsels from the article by AP writer Elliot Spagat:"Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood.""A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-…
CBS's Schieffer: Democratic Moral Victory Means GOP Will Lose House
June 7th, 2006 4:23 PM
CBS’s Early Show co-hosts, in the wake of the June 6 loss in a special congressional election, did the best they could to put a positive spin on the fortunes of Democrats. Co-host Hannah Storm interviewed Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer at 7:11AM EDT about yesterday’s election. The Democratic candidate lost, but that didn’t stop Schieffer from prognosticating what this event signified for the…
ABC & NBC Celebrate Princeton Salutatorian Who’s an Illegal; NBC Hai
June 6th, 2006 10:28 PM
The Tuesday ABC and NBC evening newscasts ran tributes to Princeton University’s salutatorian, illegal immigrant Dan-el Padilla Peralta, and NBC also hailed the efforts of illegals in Queens to defy efforts to crack down on them. At the top of World News Tonight, Charles Gibson fretted, “American dream: A Princeton graduate who rose from homelessness to the top of his class, but could now be…
WaPo's Milbank: Senator Sessions an Angry 'Country Tough
May 24th, 2006 4:54 PM
Imagine that Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank were profiling a Democrat who was as steadfastly liberal as Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is conservative. The column virtually writes itself. We can imagine the liberal described as "putting principle above expediency", "courageous," perhaps even "speaking truth to power."But when it comes to a conservative such as Sessions, that…
