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The reader is formally cautioned to prepare his or herself for an alternate reality. You have been warned.I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked to find the New York Times asking the following question on a Sunday morning: But is the carbon-neutral movement just a gimmick?Is this possibly a sea change in media coverage on this issue, or just an olive branch cynically tossed to create the illusion of…

Earlier this week, an Investors Business Daily editorial noted the weak treatment the Social Security Trustees' Report (summary here) received from the Formerly Mainstream Media: Journalists in Washington are supposed to be public watchdogs. But when it comes to the crisis facing Social Security, they act more like lapdogs for politicians determined to shirk their responsibility. The Washington…

Frank Rich is from Venus; NewsBusters is from Mars.NewsBusters documents the way that, day-in and day-out, the MSM slants its coverage against conservative principles in general and the Bush administration in particular.  Frank Rich looks at the same coverage and complains that the press is too Bush-friendly.In his p.p.v. New York Times column of today, All the President’s Press, Rich takes the…

Do you watch the Sunday talk shows? Planning on watching today? If so, comment on the performance of the guests and the moderators here...

Days after the liberal blogosphere was enraged by a Washington Post column by David Broder concerning Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), it only seems fitting that an unnamed Democrat strategist would be quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle with negative things to say about the Netroots.For those that have forgotten, in September, Broder wrote about “vituperative, foul-mouthed…

During the latter part of the Clinton admin, the left media often tossed around the phrase "scandal fatigue," a term of art to explain that certain portions of the public had become upset at the Republican party for going after then-president Clinton over trivial things. Politicians and their allies do have this tendency. But it's not just Republicans who have it. Democrats do as well. Since…

Alright movie fans, here’s the opportunity you’ve been waiting for since you first saw “Bullitt” and “The French Connection” when you were just a kid.The Knoxville News Sentinel’s Michael Silence posted a great question today (grateful h/t to Glenn Reynolds): What’s the Greatest Car Chase in Movie History?Silence has not only listed nine options, but has also included YouTube videos for all of…

Original caption: NBC's Brian Williams, left, looks into the camera as he begins to moderate the first Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2008 election hosted by South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C.

Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski got lots of attention earlier this week as he tried to show us how allegedly inadequate the Food Stamp program is (bold is mine): Ore. gov. starts week on food stamps By Julia Silverman, Associated Press Writer | April 25, 2007 SALEM, Ore. --If Gov. Ted Kulongoski seems a little sluggish this week, he's got an excuse: he couldn't afford coffee. In fact, the…

Despite being the lone Conservative on Friday’s “Real Time,” National Review contributor Lisa Schiffren might have had the best line of the evening when she accused comedian and actor Richard Belzer of emulating the “Rosie O’Donnell School of Foreign Policy.”As the discussion moved to Iraq, Belzer advanced the common liberal meme that the war was all about oil:And now the Democrats are…