Hitchens Tears Apart Hedges in Debate on War and Religion
June 6th, 2007 1:15 AM
A battle of wits between two men named Christopher took place in Berkeley, California, on May 24. Unfortunately, one contestant came embarrassingly unequipped, so much so that by the end, he chose to not even respond.Break out the cashews and your favorite libation, sports fans, because this debate between former New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, and the never at a loss for words…
AP: Foiled JFK Terror Plot Isn't Chilling, It's 'Chilling
June 4th, 2007 3:26 PM
A plot to blow up a major airport and with it a huge fuel pipeline running under densely-populated residential neighborhoods is, safe to say, an objectively devastating and horrific prospect were it executed to fruition. So why the editorial version of air quotes in this June 2 AP story (h/t DailyGut.com) for the word "chilling"?:NEW YORK - Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken…
ABCNews.com: ‘Murtha Ties Foiled JFK Plot to U.S. in Iraq
June 3rd, 2007 1:21 PM
On Saturday, a NewsBusters headline asked the following question: “JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrests?”Well, Sunday morning, ABCNews.com actually went one better by using a statement made by John Murtha (D-Pennsylvania) on “This Week” as the headline for the video of George Stephanopoulos’ interview with the Congressman: “Murtha Ties Foiled JFK Plot to U.S. in…
JFK Terror Plot: How Soon Before Media Blame Bush For Timing of Arrest
June 2nd, 2007 2:30 PM
Anybody that has been watching television or listening to the radio today is aware that a major terrorist plot to blow up JFK airport in New York has been thwarted.*****Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this story.*****Update II: LGF identifies Netroots' silence on this event.*****Update III: Read entire DOJ press release here. As reported by the Associated Press:Three people were arrested and…
‘The Making of a Martyr’ Documentary Debunks Media Myths About Ter
June 2nd, 2007 12:08 PM
On Saturday, NewsBusters shared a truly unnerving graduation video from a Hamas kindergarten in Gaza. The point of the article was to demonstrate how the media meme of terrorism being largely a function of poverty and despair is an inaccurate and incomplete representation. Almost serendipitously, Charles Johnson just hours before wrote about a 2006 documentary made by Brooke Goldstein and filmed…
Hamas Kindergarten Graduation Video American Media Will Never Air
June 2nd, 2007 11:15 AM
If graduation ceremonies from Israeli kindergartens included dressing children up in full military attire, with machine guns, ammo belts, and knives, and having the kids chant about killing Palestinians, do you think this would be newsworthy?Well, on Thursday, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV aired a video of the graduation ceremony for the 29th class of the Islamic Association’s kindergarten in Gaza (video…
MRC Press Release Concerning Media Boycott of Al Qaeda Torture Manual
May 31st, 2007 12:46 PM
On May 24, a NewsBusters’ headline asked, “Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib?”Now, a week later, a press release from the Media Research Center answered the question:To their credit, CNN and Fox News Channel ran stories on the declassified material. Yet nine days since the material was released, neither ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times nor The Washington Post…
Rosie O’Donnell Warmed Up ‘View’ Audience With 9-11 Conspiracy T
May 27th, 2007 12:41 PM
Honestly, this item makes one wonder what the producers of ABC’s “The View” – including host Barbara Walters – must have been thinking with regard to keeping the program a source of entertainment versus a platform for political advocacy.On Friday, a video was posted at YouTube (h/t Allah at Hot Air) of Rosie O’Donnell talking to “The View” audience before a show began. In it, O’Donnell conveyed…
WashPost Stirred Up Green-Zone Food Crisis Using Questionable Memo
May 27th, 2007 5:16 AM
Update from Baghdad at bottom 14:17: EST:Update II 05/28 13:45 EST:May 24, the Washington Post wrote an article describing a “theater-wide delay in food shortage," “especially for (f)resh fruits and salad bar items” which quoted a “memo” reportedly issued by an official Green-Zone organization. It is identical in wording to a “memo” posted on a blog belonging to harsh anti-war critic and former…
Al Gore to Jon Stewart: ‘Facts Play Less of a Role in the Way we Mak
May 26th, 2007 5:42 PM
The Global Warmingist-in-Chief was Jon Stewart’s guest on “The Daily Show” Thursday evening. And, right out of the starting blocks, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore made a statement that marvelously epitomized his career:Yeah, logic, reason, facts play less of a role now in the way we make decisions in America.Granted, in his typically smug manner, Gore was pointing fingers at others. However, as veracity …
