NYTimes Helps Soften Hezbullah's Reputation

Warner Todd Huston

Lethal Logic: Gabler Claims Gibson's Rant Proves 'Passion' Anti-Semiti

Neal Gabler might not look like an athlete, but don't be surprised to see him lining up for the long jump at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. For on this evening's Fox News Watch, Neal made a logical leap of Beamonesque proportions.According to Gabler, the fact that a drunken Gibson made anti-Semitic remarks retroactively proves that his 'Passion of the Christ' was anti-Semitic too.Here's how the…
Mark Finkelstein

Exposing Bigotry and Buffoonery at the Los Angeles Times

In the weeks leading up to the release of The Passion of the Christ film over two years ago, Tim Rutten, media columnist for the Los Angeles Times, wrote no less than six hyperventilating columns that dealt almost exclusively with breathless concerns over anti-Semitism in Mel Gibson's film. At one point, Rutten attacked Mel Gibson as "a little brat" and "an unwholesomely willful child playing…
Dave Pierre

Cafferty Questions Why Most Americans Still Believe Saddam Had WMD

Dontcha love it when liberal media members are confounded by poll results that don’t fit their view of the world? It drives them so batty that they suddenly start espousing all manner of absurd rationalizations they believe explain why so many Americans disagree with them.Such was the case during the 7PM installment of “The Situation Room” Friday when Jack Cafferty shared with his viewers recent…
Noel Sheppard

AP's Big Fat Happy Cuban Familia

When it comes to toadying up to the Castro regime, it's going to be tough for the Associated Press to top its achievement noted by Clay Waters - Some Cubans Enjoy Comforts of Communism.Even so, the AP - in the person of writer Andrew Selsky - put in a more-than-respectable effort today with the article No Photos of Castro Since His Surgery.Here's the key line: "Most Cubans have insisted that…
Mark Finkelstein

AP - 'Despite Image, Cheney a GOP Rock Star

Warner Todd Huston

Senate Environment & Public Works Members Slam NYT's Heat Wave Op-Ed

It seems safe to say that many Republicans are fed up with the propagandist ways of America’s “newspaper of record,” the New York Times. On Friday, majority members of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works issued a statement regarding an August 3 op-ed by the Times’ Bob Herbert. Herbert’s column began, “It may be time to get serious about trying to slow the catastrophic trend of…
Noel Sheppard

Editor & Publisher Magazine: Rove to 'Further Neuter Reporters

Warner Todd Huston

Syndicated Radio Hosts Mock 9/11, Hype 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

There’s a new poll out from Scripps Howard/Ohio University claiming “Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is ‘very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them ‘because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.’" When you watch the following video (…
Noel Sheppard

Friday Night Fights: Ann Coulter Takes on Peter Beinart

If there is such a thing as a “good liberal,” Peter Beinart of The New Republic is certainly one. Whether or not you agree with his point of view, at least Beinart’s columns are well-reasoned and intelligently presented as opposed to much of the shrill non sequiturs plastered across the opinion pages of most MSM. With that in mind, Beinart entered the ring Friday night against Ann Coulter, on…
Noel Sheppard

Derrick Z. Zaps 'Wasteful Rich

Mark Finkelstein

Associated Press: 'Some Cubans Enjoy Comforts of Communism

Clay Waters

Former WashPost Reporter Writes Op-Ed Demanding Mel Apologize For 'The

Tim Graham

CNN Equates Fears of Jewish Americans with Those of Homegrown Hezbo Su

At CNN, the moral relativism never ends. In the wake of shootings by a Muslim at a Seattle Jewish center that left one person dead and others injured, CNN somehow managed to equate the fears of American Jews that there could be other such incidents . . . with the fears of American supporters of Hezbollah.The focus of the 'Safe at Home?' segment narrated by CNN's Kelli Arena on today's Saturday…
Mark Finkelstein