Sex Toy Advertised During Prime Time -- What's Next

It's hard enough watching television with your kids these days given all the Viagra and Cialis commercials, but are we now going to have to put up with ads for sex toys?Trojan's vibrating fingertip massager for women has been around for over a year, as has the commercial for it.However, I didn't expect it to appear in the middle of CMT's prime time airing of "Field of Dreams" Monday night.Take a…
Noel Sheppard

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Sotomayor Hearings Serving as a Distraction for Tax Hikes

BMI adviser Dan Mitchell explains how Dems are using SCOTUS hearings as camouflage for higher taxes to pay for public health care plan.
Jeff Poor

'World News' Charges Goldman Sachs with Making Too Much Profit

ABC segment suggests investment bank took 'too much risk' in effort to show positive returns in recessionary economy.
Jeff Poor

'Hardball' Promotes Ted Kennedy HBO History, But Completely Leaves Out

Tim Graham

CBS’ Rodriguez ‘Proud’ of Jackson Coverage

Maggie Rodriguez wants us to know that she's a real journalist. "If I were to program a show for my viewing pleasure, I would make it all news," she told Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post in a July 13 article. But the host of CBS's "Early Show" also insisted, "I'm not a journalistic snob." Good thing too, because when you work for a network that dedicated 37 percent of its nightly news…
Zoe Ortiz

WaPo Publishes Glowing Article About Incoming AFL-CIO Leader; Ignores

The Washington Post has published a glowing article about likely incoming AFL-CIO president, Richard Trumka (photo), titled "Trumka Hopes to Mend the AFL-CIO." Writer Chris Cillizza asks in the very first sentence of his Monday Fix story, "Can Richard Trumka reunite the labor movement?" Cillizza portrays Trumka as genuinely puzzled over the reason for the big split in the labor movement: With…
P.J. Gladnick

CNN's Analysis, Sotomayor a ‘Cautious and Careful Liberal,’ is Lef

**Video Below the Fold** If you want to see how liberals in the media “do” their thing, nothing has been a better example than the analysis by CNN’s Jeffery Toobin. We’ve highlighted some on-air work of his Sotomayor coverage, but he also has a written piece on CNN.com that is a perfect example of how the left spins rhetoric to legitimize leftist precepts. In his July 13 piece, for instance,…
Warner Todd Huston

ABC Relays Concerns National Security Threatened by Dem Attacks on CIA

On the July 12 World News Sunday, ABC correspondent John Hendren filed a report relaying concerns by a former CIA agent that recent attacks on the CIA has hurt the agency’s morale and will weaken its ability to protect America. Hendren even ran clips of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky accusing the CIA of lying as examples of "harsh accusations"…
Brad Wilmouth

Tuesday Morning Funnies: Obama's Teleprompter Crashes

Noel Sheppard

Palin Attacks Obama in WaPo Op-ed, How Will Media Respond

If Palin Derangement Syndrome-afflicted media members thought the Alaska Governor's surprising pre-Fourth of July announcement meant she was getting out of politics, her op-ed in Tuesday's Washington Post should change their minds.In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, Sarah Palin took off the gloves to attack the recently House-passed American Clean Energy and Security Act,…
Noel Sheppard

Networks Barely Cover 'Jane Roe's' Arrest

Anti-abortion outburst? Nothing to see here.
Sarah Knoploh

CBS Again Insists Sotomayor No Ideologue; Scant Attention to Plunge in

On the first day of Senate hearings, CBS's Wyatt Andrews on Monday night again insisted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor cannot be categorized ideologically and highlighted how “the hearing marked the first spotlight moment for former comedian, now Senator, Al Franken who cast himself as new but ready,” all before anchor Katie Couric fretted “some Republicans didn't really treat her with kid…
Brent Baker

CNN's Toobin: Sotomayor 'Mainstream;' 'Tough Sell' to Argue Against He

On Monday’s Newsroom program, CNN’s senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin stuck with his analysis of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor from late June- that the judge was “mainstream,” and that it would be difficult to use the reversal of her decision in the New Haven firefighters case and her “Wise Latina” comment against her. When anchor Rick Sanchez asked if one of those issues was more…
Matthew Balan