Open Thread Friday

Have at it, folks.
Matthew Sheffield
 

NYT On Amnesty: 'Compassionate' Conservatives vs. 'Angry' 'Doctrinaire

Clay Waters
 

Idol Lies

No doubt you've heard it several times by now: American Idol garnered more votes than any U.S. President. Ryan Seacreast mentioned it on the show Wednesday night, and a number of articles have mentioned it since then. It's not true.Here are the basics. 63 million votes were cast in American Idol - total. This gets compared to the 54.5 million voters that voted for President Ronald Reagan. But…
Mithridate Ombud
 

Oh Happy 'Today': Enron, Bush Bagged (But 'Vice-President Rumsfeld' Se

Mark Finkelstein
 

No 'Liberal' Professors Protesting 'War Criminal' Feith On the Georget

Tim Graham
 

Enron Convictions Tar Bush, Says Newsweek's Howard Fineman

Amy Ridenour
 

ABC Acknowledges Denials Yet Ross Stands By Hastert Bribery Probe Clai

A night after ABC’s World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas hyperbolically led “with a major development in a Washington bribery scandal” in “a story with potentially major political implications” and Brian Ross asserted that “federal officials tell us the congressional bribery investigation now includes the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert,” which George Stephanopoulos called “…
Brent Baker
 

Meredith Vieira, Future 'Today' Host: Save the Mice, But Keep Abortion

If you want a sense of the priorities of Meredith Vieira, the future host of the Today show, look no further then the distinction she makes between the lives of unborn children and those of rodents. On May 25, Vieira and her fellow co-hosts were discussing the terrible case of the climber who died on Mount Everest after being ignored by other mountaineers. Star Jones decried the actions as…
Scott Whitlock
 

Media Pumping Up Gas Prices with Inflated 'B-Roll' Video Clips

Ken Shepherd
 

N.Y. Times Can't Seem To Find A 'Fiscal Liberal' Anywhere in Washingto

Tim Graham
 

CBS Proclaims CNN's Anderson Cooper 'Popular' And 'A Household Name

Michael Rule
 

ABC News: Watch for Bush-Blair 'Homo-eroticism

Mike Bates
 

Olbermann, Blog Falsely Smear Matt Drudge

On May 22, 2006, Matt Drudge posted an item that said, "Burn: Gore & entourage took 5 cars to travel the 500 yards from hotel to screening of pic in Cannes ..." Keith Olbermann and lefty blog Think Progress jumped on Drudge, claiming that the story was false. Olbermann went as far as to say that Drudge is a "long-time schmuck" and was again "making stuff up" (via Expose the Left).As it turns…
Dave Pierre
 

NY Times Sounds Downbeat on Upbeat Economy

Reporter Peters downplays strong GDP revision and hunts for signs of slowdown.
Ken Shepherd