Jack Cafferty All But Endorses Global One-Child Policy to Fight Climat
CNN’s Jack Cafferty all but endorsed a global version of China’s oppressive one-child policy on Friday’s Situation Room. He repeated the argument of Canadian journalist Diane Francis, that population control is the only way to fight global warming, and mentioned the opposition of “fundamentalist leaders” and others only in passing. All but one of the viewer e-mails that Cafferty read endorsed the…
Matthew Balan
Newsweek Writer: Open Marriages Key to Ending ‘Cheating Scandals
For Newsweek writer Jenny Block, it's not Tiger Woods who got himself into the trouble he's currently facing, it's his marital vows. "What should not be tolerated is hypocrisy - and that's where Tiger's vow of marriage got him into trouble," she argued in a Dec. 10 article. "If you want to be monogamous, great - but don't think you can claim it while you sleep around. It's not fair and,…
Colleen Raezler
Scientist Uses UN Security To Stop Questions About ClimateGate
A Stanford professor with ties to Nobel Laureate Al Gore and the growing ClimateGate scandal used United Nations security officials at the climate conference in Copenhagen to halt questions about e-mail messages obtained from Britain's Climatic Research Unit.Dr. Stephen Schneider was speaking at the Bella Centre Thursday when Irish journalist Phelim McAleer began asking about ClimateGate.McAleer…
Noel Sheppard
CBS Early Show Touts Left-Wing Documentary On American History
In an interview with actor Matt Damon on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith discussed the star’s role in a liberal documentary on American history: “‘The People Speak,’ based on one of Damon’s favorite books, ‘A People’s History of The United States’....examine’s America’s founding and expansion from the perspective of the revolutionaries, rebels, and rarely heard voices of dissent.”…
Kyle Drennen
Toward the End, Editor and Publisher Lurched Left
With the demise of the Editor and Publisher this week, many media commentators are nostalgic for the hard-nosed trade journalism the newspaper industry publication often engaged in. E&P's strength was always in its core mission of reporting news industry trends. In its latter years, like a number of other outlets, it began to stray off-course into garden-variety, hypocritical leftist media…
Lachlan Markay
Al Gore Reads Global Warming Poem To CNN Reporter
Al Gore may have been too busy to discuss the "climate crisis" with FBN's John Stossel Thursday, but he sure had enough time to read his global warming poem to a CNN reporter the day before.I guess a Nobel Laureate has to understand his priorities.Without further ado (video embedded below the fold with words to Gore's masterpiece, h/t NBer Blonde):
Noel Sheppard
NYT Lauds Kennedy's Likely Liberal Successor, Ignores Ties to Notorio
After Martha Coakley's win in the Massachusetts Democratic primary virtually assured she would fill the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, Abby Goodnough's fawning profile in the New York Times lauded her for having “made a name for herself prosecuting child abuse cases -- most notably that of Louise Woodward, a British au pair convicted in 1997 of killing a baby boy in her care.”But there was no…
Clay Waters
The Canadian Financial Post: ‘The Whole World Needs to Adopt China
"The ‘inconvenient truth' overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world," declared Canadian journalist Diane Francis in her Dec. 8 article titled "The Real Inconvenient Truth: The Whole World Needs to Adopt China's One-Child Policy." Francis, an editor-at-large, published her article in Canada's national…
Carolyn Plocher
Wired Seeks Psychological Reason for 'Climate Change Denial
If you're not buying the hype surrounding global warming, you're not alone. Polls show fewer people believe there is "solid evidence" the Earth is warming so Wired magazine consulted a shrink to find out why. Brandon Keim wrote a one-sided piece entitled, "The Psychology of Climate Change Denial," for Wired.com on Dec. 9. In it he argued: "Even as the science of global warming gets stronger,…
Julia A. Seymour
Short Memory: Glamour Writer Hits at Public For Being 'Disappointed' i
I mean really, what right do we have to expect anything from the world's best golfer except the world's best golf? That was the argument made Wednesday by "Married Jake" of Glamour Magazine at Yahoo's "Shine" site. The item is called "Why Is Everyone Disappointed in Tiger?" (HT Instapundit). In it, jaded Jake jabs at a substantial portion of the public because, silly us, we thought that the guy…
Tom Blumer
Al Gore Refuses to Discuss 'Climate Crisis' with John Stossel
Despite appearing on CNN and MSNBC Wednesday, Nobel Laureate Al Gore was apparently too busy to discuss global warming on the premiere episode of John Stossel's new Fox Business Network program.To kick off his new show Thursday, Stossel chose the controversial subject of climate change, and invited on a number of guests to address the issue in great detail. According to an e-mail message sent to…
Noel Sheppard
Wired Talks to Sociologist about 'Climate Change Denial
Obama's Words and Deeds Reveal His Naive Foreign Policy
There is one thing I very much want everyone who reads this to understand. Although I vehemently disagree with just about everything Barack Obama has done since he has been in office, and I really believe that he's digging a fiscal hole that this nation will be generations, if ever, digging out of, although I believe him to be a total socialist and just hate it when I have seen him bow to royalty…
Charlie Daniels
Liberal Dem Cuomo and Liberal Dem Stephanopoulos Share ‘Man Hug’ D
Liberal Good Morning America news anchor Chris Cuomo concluded his final program on Friday after being passed over for the hosting job in favor of the liberal George Stephanopoulos. During the show, Stephanopoulos and Cuomo shared what incoming news anchor Juju Chang called a "man hug." But, when given the chance to sit next to sit next to Stephanopoulos on the couch, Cuomo opted to wedge…