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NPR to Stations: 'Avoid' Saying '46 Million Americans' Are Uninsured
Managing Editor confirms that 'guidance' memo was sent to members to stop making controversial claim.
NBC's 'Today' Includes Michael Moore as Expert to Attack Wall Street B
Michael Moore makes propaganda movies and many in the news media embraced his latest screed against the free markets: "Capitalism: A Love Story." To NBC, hating capitalism makes Moore a go-to expert for Wall Street bashing. "Today" interviewed Moore, along with MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Oct. 15, in a hit piece on Wall Street bankers and bonuses. Moore reacted to the bonuses with condemnation of…
CNN's Cooper: I Didn't Use False Limbaugh Quotes
CNN’s Anderson Cooper became the first on his network to acknowledge that some of the quotes used against Rush Limbaugh in his NFL bid were false on his program on Wednesday: “I also should point out, on this program, we did not use the wrong quotes.” Cooper also brought back Al Sharpton as a guest, and the activist again brought up Limbaugh’s “Crips and Bloods” remark, which he took out of…
Rush Limbaugh Explains Forces Behind His Failed NFL Bid
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's bid to own the St. Louis Rams ended on Wednesday when the partnership group he was involved with terminated his participation in the venture.On Thursday, Limbaugh for the first time explained to his listeners what precipitated his interest in the team and the events that led to him being fired from the prospective ownership group.At the end of his…
NBC's 'Today' Includes Michael Moore as Expert to Attack Wall Street
Morning show continues media attack on bankers and bonuses with propagandist filmmaker.
Columnist Kristof Gets Off a Good One: Democrats vs. Quality Education
Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof takes on the teachers' unions, whose resistance to reform has resulted in "generations of disadvantaged children" being "cemented into an underclass by third-rate schools."
Will the Huffington Post Retract Bogus Limbaugh 'Slavery Had Its Merit
The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack has a fine run-down of CNN’s use of the discredited claim that Rush Limbaugh once said of slavery “it had its merits.” McCormack also reports that the Huffington Post, which originally ran the quote (and another preposterous quote about Limbaugh saying that MLK assassin James Earl Ray deserved “the Congressional Medal of Honor”) in a 2006 post by left-wing…
Behar on Limbaugh: ‘It’s Like Making Michael Vick Own the American
With Rush Limbaugh now out of a group vying to purchase the St. Louis Rams, the continued smearing from ABC's "The View" on October 15 constitutes a late hit. Whoopi Goldberg said that Limbaugh was dropped as a potential buyer because they're not "pleased" with him: "It actually might not be about conservativism. This one might be personal." She also claimed that Limbaugh is "part of the…
Broadcast Nets Celebrate Dow 10,000 with Calls to Restrict Wall Street
You might think that the three major networks would look favorably upon the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) breaking through the symbolic 10,000 mark. After all, it they could use it as an opportunity to spin the news as a victory for Barack Obama and his economic policies. But that wasn't the case. Instead ABC, CBS and NBC used the occasion to point out that the rich on Wall Street are…
Essay: Where's All That Liberal Brainpower the Media Promised
Einstein said the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” That may be so, but it certainly is the definition of stupidity. Which is why the behavior of Obama administration and congressional liberals is so puzzling.Wasn’t the Obama administration supposed to be populated by the elite of Ivy League intelligentsia, each cabinet secretary…
CNN Frets About Cigarette Companies' Color Coding 'Tricks
You have to wonder about CNN's priorities. The network that has promoted the legalization of "our friend marijuana," and on Oct. 14 praised the British government's decision to offer free shooting galleries to heroin addicts, was the next day demonizing American cigarette companies for "color coding cigarettes to ‘trick' you." "American Morning's" Kiran Chetry introduced the cigarette segment…
Magazine Editors' Group Creates Award Category for Obama Covers
The Magazine Publishers of America's American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.
ASME represents about 850 magazine editors nationwide. According to its…
NBC and CBS Morning Shows Ignore False Limbaugh Quotes and Failure of
NBC and CBS’s morning shows on Thursday completely skipped any reference to the false quotes that forced Rush Limbaugh to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams. Only Good Morning America had any coverage at all. News anchor Chris Cuomo simply recapped the development and added, "[Limbaugh] had been criticized for past statements about black players." Cuomo made no mention of…
Special Report: The Left's Character Assassination Campaign Against Ru
Vicious personal attacks, distortions of his quotes, and outright lies and fabrications.Those are the three major tactics the Left has deployed in its campaign of character assassination, Media Research Center's Tim Graham illustrates in a brand-new special report: "A Rush to Ruin: The Left’s Character Assassination Campaign Against Rush Limbaugh."You can click here for the PDF version.Below the…