AP's Loven: Bush Passing the Buck to Successor
Update appended at bottom of post (Oct. 5)A day after slamming the president with a biased report on SCHIP, AP White House reporter Jennifer Loven worked her "Bush is a failure" meme into an "analysis" piece that chalked up every real or perceived failure of the Bush administration to the President and his team, and none to the persistent opposition of liberal critics in Congress: WASHINGTON --…
CNN's Malveaux Hits GOP Over Race Relations, Citing 'Jena Six
In the September 20 presidential press conference, CNN correspondent Suzanne Malveaux sought to blame President Bush and the GOP for a perceived nationwide deterioration in race relations. In doing so, Malveaux raised the plight of the so-called Jena Six, a group of black Louisiana teenagers charged in the beating of a white student.Video (1:56): Real (1.41 MB) and Windows (1.18 MB), plus MP3…
Ex-ACLU Chief Gets Seven Years For Child Porn
The blogs and MSM sure paid a lot of attention to Senator Craig, his wide stance, and restroom etiquette. I wonder why they are not paying as much attention to the ACLU chief getting seven years for child porn?I wonder, especially, when it involves sexual torture of infants and toddlers....why isn't this getting any coverage?
The Party of Fear: Liberals Love a Good Scaring
In this week's Weekly Standard, writer Noemie Emery gives an excellent look into the mindset of the fearful left, so angry at President Bush for "scaring" the public into Iraq and yet so eager to be scared itself:"It Can Happen Here," says Joe Conason, in his book of the same name, and in fact it already has started: George W. Bush and his coterie are the very picture of the pious and scheming…
Seattle Times Editor Scolds Staffers For Cheering Rove Resignation
It seems that some folks at the Seattle Times got a bit giddy when they heard news of Karl Rove's resignation.The paper's David Postman clarified in an August 14 "Postman on Politics" blog post that while it "sounds like a conservative's parody of how a news meeting would be run... It was only a couple of people who cheered [Rove's resignation] and they, thankfully, are not among the people who…
Time.com Picks Liberal Guest Blogger Despite Call for Conservative Gue
On August 1, I wrote about how Time.com's "Swampland" blog was soliciting suggestions for guest bloggers on its 39-member Facebook group home page. I gave NewsBusters readers the address and sure enough some of you left suggestions in the topic thread.[For NewsBusters' home on Facebook, check here.] As of publication of this blog post, there were but a few liberal suggestions (such as strategist…
Blogger Takes on WashPost's Juvenile Style Section Item on Fred Thomps
I saw this yesterday but didn't work up anything on it. Basically it's a lame Style section front-pager from Sunday that fixates on how dull/boring/lame/stupid-sounding the name "Fred" is, and what that means for presumptive GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson. Fortunately Myra Langerhas of "Snarking Dawg" worked up a snarky blog post and so I thought I'd share that with you. Below is the…
Couric Conducts Decent Interview With Conservative Think Tank Official
A recurring feature on her "Couric & Co." blog is the "10 Questions" interview, usually posed to a think tank official or politician on a major political issue. In the past, I've blogged about how the interviews have generally skewed leftward, but I was pleasantly surprised with the CBS anchor's mostly neutral agenda of questions in her August 9 interview with Robert Moffitt of the…
