Hugo Chavez Makes the BBC Spit Its Coffee

Lawrence Henry
 

Spike Lee: 'Not Far-fetched' to Say New Orleans Levees Deliberately De

Declaring “it's not far-fetched,” movie director Spike Lee affirmed on Friday night’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, that he believes Louis Farakhan’s allegation that a levee was destroyed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in order to flood the nearly all-black ninth ward. Lee contended that “a choice had to be made, one neighborhood got to save another neighborhood and flood another '…
Brent Baker
 

Another Media Darling

Here's another activist who gets the star treatment, this time targeting Tom DeLay: See also: Anti-Bush Protestor Ready for Closeup and Zoomed out in Crawford
Greg Sheffield
 

Al Gore Sponsors 'Take Back TV' Rally to Promote New Cable Channel

Greg Sheffield
 

Reporting on the 2,000th American Death in Iraq

John Armor
 

Some Rachels Are More Equal Than Others

Tom Gross notes in this week's Spectator (London) that for some reason, if you're Jewish, your death in a terror attack is likely to get a lot less attention ("Dead Jews Aren't News"): Even though Thaler was a British citizen, born in London, where her grandparents still live, her death has never been mentioned in a British newspaper. Rachel Corrie, on the other hand, an American radical who…
Joshua Sharf
 

Another Poll You Won’t Hear About: Bush’s Approval Rating Back to

The results of a recent poll by Zogby International were just released, and they show President Bush’s job approval back to where it was in July well before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans:“President Bush, his job approval rating beleaguered by poor marks in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, rebounded from historic lows this summer to 45% in Zogby International’s latest poll, with job approval…
Noel Sheppard
 

LA Times: Number of Abortions Has "Fallen Dramatically

Dave Pierre
 

Chris Matthews Compares Plamegate to Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon

Noel Sheppard
 

Howard Dean Cites ABC Correspondent as Evidence of Fraud in Iraqi Elec

Noel Sheppard
 

Totenberg Advises Democrats to Hit GOP on Tax Cuts for the Rich

When, on this weekend’s Inside Washington, host Gordon Peterson recited a list of issues Democratic congressional candidates could use against Republican incumbents -- “you've got Iraq, you've got Harriet Miers, you've got Katrina, you got Tom DeLay being indicted. You've got a lot of ammunition” -- NPR reporter Nina Totenberg jumped in to shout: "And you've got the tax cuts!" She soon offered…
Brent Baker
 

John Dean on Plamegate: Frenzy Ends With NO Indictments From Fitzgeral

John Dean, former counsel to president Richard M. Nixon, wrote a column for FindLaw yesterday that is an absolute must read. In it, he gave a thorough analysis of the issues facing special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, while indirectly discrediting the parade of media representatives who have declared in the past couple of weeks that chief White House aide Karl Rove, and Vice President Dick…
Noel Sheppard
 

AP Reporter: Bush White House Uses "Slash-and-Burn Assaults On Its Cri

Dave Pierre
 

Journalist Who Filmed Burning Taliban Bodies Suggests Media Got it All

There has been a lot of outrage in the media concerning the burning of a couple of dead, Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in early October. Yet, the Australian journalist who videotaped the proceedings, Stephen Dupont, stated in an interview on National Public Radio yesterday (audio link to follow courtesy of Bareknucklepolitics.com) that he believed the bodies were burned purely for reasons of…
Noel Sheppard