CBS Leads with Protests by Illegals, Paints as Victims by Showing Kids

While the ABC and NBC evening newscasts led Tuesday night with President George W. Bush's veto of the Iraq funding bill with pull-out deadlines, CBS began with back-to-back stories trumpeting the cause of illegal immigrants and portraying them as the victims. “Tonight,” Katie Couric teased the CBS Evening News, “tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets of America to rally in support…
Brent Baker
 

Maher: Way Republicans Talk About Reagan 'Almost Gay

Not that there's anything wrong with that . . . Actually, Bill Maher didn't add that Seinfeldesque qualifier when describing Republican affection for Ronald Reagan. Maher was a guest on this afternoon's "Hardball." In the course of taking a cheap shot at Fred Thompson, this Cornell alum [what is it about my alma mater, which also churned out Keith Olbermann?] had this to say:BILL MAHER: It…
Mark Finkelstein
 

BusinessWeek: Private Roads a Dead End

Magazine claims the highway to hell is paved with privatization.
Dan Gainor
 

Howard Kurtz and Arianna Huffington Aren’t Buying Tenet’s Line Eit

CBS might have bought the line of baloney former CIA Director George Tenet was selling on “60 Minutes” Sunday. However, according to the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, not many others are (emphasis mine throughout, h/t Glenn Reynolds):Somewhere out there, there must be someone defending George Tenet. I'm just having trouble finding that person (or persons).Let's see: Liberals are ticked off.…
Noel Sheppard
 

Venezuelan Seizure of Oil Fields a Footnote to MSNBC.com

Ken Shepherd
 

Grammy Award-Winning 'Rage': ‘Administration Needs to be Tried, Hung

The Grammy Award-winning band “Rage Against the Machine” reunited after a seven-year hiatus to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, this weekend. The always contoversial group took the opportunity on the occasion of their much-anticipated reunion to make some pretty vile statements about the Bush administration (video available here).Not surprisingly,…
Noel Sheppard
 

NYT Columnist Slams Bush for Not Making Jokes at Correspondents Dinner

Scott Whitlock
 

Bozell Column: Back to Bias Basics at PBS

Brent Bozell
 

Lou Dobbs Attacks Media Coverage of Illegal Immigration

Matthew Balan
 

CNN Illegal-Alien Rally Coverage Includes Soledad Interviewing (Unlabe

Tim Graham
 

In 'Newsweek,' Eleanor Clift Applied Recycled Gun Ban Myths to Virgini

Newsweek’s April 30 article by Eleanor Clift recycled old gun-control mythology and misleading statements with a renewed call for something to be done in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting. The article mixed the usual anti-gun talking points with some subtle pining for the good ol’ days of President Clinton’s Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) that supposedly made the streets safer by taking…
Lynn Davidson
 

Snow Thumps Mitchell Claim U.S. to Blame for Cuba's Woes: 'Socialism

Mark Finkelstein
 

Picking on Patriotic Passports

Neil MacFarquhar finds a new passport design 'rife' with patriotic imagery.
Clay Waters
 

Rosie Makes up Facts and Smears Volunteer Soldiers

Update/Video link at bottom. Update at bottom with other blogs covering story.The May 1 edition of "The View" marked the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s famous "mission accomplished" announcement with Rosie O’Donnell’s predictable rants against the war and the administration. The co-host mysteriously claimed Afghanistan had nothing to do with September 11 and downplayed the Al Qaeda…
Justin McCarthy