Michael Moore Says 'Free' Film Not Free to Foreigners

**Update - Apparently Moore is Against Copyright Laws** Left-wing, faux documentary filmmaker Michael Moore famously announced late last year that his newest film would be a "free" download on the Internet. He claimed that his new film was a "free" gift to all his fans. Apparently, he didn't really mean "all" his fans, though. It turns out that his lawyers have sent out a raft of letters to…
Warner Todd Huston

McCain vs. Obama Round II

John McCain and Barack Obama are squaring off tonight at 9pm ET. Will the debate prove influential in the presidential race? Any media bias predictions?Discuss the main event here or join our live chat.
NB Staff

Obama Needs Police Protection from Palin? Couric Suggests So

Over video simply showing Barack Obama walking down the steps from his airplane, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday night juxtaposed how Obama “was given a police escort to his hotel,” as if that’s anything unusual for a presidential nominee under standard Secret Service protection, with how “in recent days, he's been under a non-stop verbal assault from Sarah Palin.” So the Governor…
Brent Baker

NYT Public Editor Ludicrously Argues Paper Tougher on Obama

In his weekly column, New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt ludicrously argued that Barack Obama has gotten tougher coverage since January 2007 (when Obama entered the race) than John McCain:By my count, The Times has published more tough articles on Obama, 20, than on McCain, 13, since the beginning of last year.The Times has never filed any story targeting Obama that remotely approaches the…
Clay Waters

Liberal Media Bias 'Evidence' McCain is Losing

Taking liberal media audacity to higher levels, John Heilemann would have you believe that the loss of support from liberal journalists is itself evidence the wheels are falling off the McCain campaign.  Heilemann recently wrote about a "shift" in the attitudes and opininos of the media away from John McCain and towards Barack Obama. His examples are, well, typical.Jonathan Alter, Joe Klein,…
Jacob S. Lybbert

MRC’s Worst of the Week: Bashing Palin for Daring to Mention Terrori

Barack Obama received a valuable campaign contribution from the New York Times on Saturday: a front-page piece reviewing Obama's lengthy association with the ’60s and ’70s Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. The Times' key sentence asserted: "The two men do not appear to have been close."The Times' stamp of disapproval was all the rest of the media needed to reject the idea that Obama's…
Rich Noyes

Post-Gazette Columnist: Sarah Palin a 'Schoolyard Bully

P.J. Gladnick

Checking the Fact-checkers

Fact-checking politicians seems to be the journalistic "in" thing to do this campaign season. Aside from the self-aggrandizing nature of such pronouncements, there isn't anything necessarily wrong with the concept. The devil is in the details, however. Over at the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto notes that these esoteric fact check stories too often end up as opinion pieces criticizing the…
Matthew Sheffield

Diane Sawyer Reminisces About '92 'Super Bowl' Dem Documentary

On Tuesday's "Good Morning America," co-host Diane Sawyer fondly reminisced with Democratic strategist James Carville about "War Room," the 15-year-old political documentary on the 1992 presidential campaign. Opening the segment with Carville, one of the film's stars, she fawned, "It's become like revisiting a big moment in the Super Bowl. Going back to 1992, when Bill Clinton and a team of…
Scott Whitlock

Mark Levin Interviews Bob Bennett; Bennett Deconstructs the Media Myth

Note: This serves to at least partially answer ABC's David Wright's idiotic question.Bob Bennett is a man of integrity, and the Democratic half of the political Bennett Brothers. He appeared last night on Mark Levin's nationally syndicated radio show to debunk the media myth built-up around Arizona Senator John McCain's role in the Keating Five mess circa the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Brother…
Seton Motley

MSNBC's Shuster Suggests McCain Camp Encouraging Obama As Terrorist Ta

MSNBC's David Shuster knows how to treat a lady right. Unless that lady is Rep. Marsha Blackburn. Last year we noted how he played a gotcha game with the Tennessee Republican over the death of a soldier he mistakenly thought was from her district. He subsequently apologized. Today the MSNBC anchor put Blackburn on the spot by calling on her to defend the McCain campaign in light of inappropriate…
Ken Shepherd

Media Hyped $140 Oil; What About $40 Oil, as One Analyst Predicts

Earlier this year, the media trotted out story after story of high gas price hardship as oil climbed to a record-high $147 a barrel back in July. One analyst even predicted in May that oil would reach $300 a barrel. But, now that a financial mess has struck the markets, oil has fallen from $140 to right around $90 a barrel on Oct. 7. During months leading up to its peak, many were forecasting…
Jeff Poor

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Propaganda

CMI research assistant Colleen Raezler exposes the efforts of Hollywood and the news media to promote acceptance of homosexuality in America.
Colleen Raezler

ABC's David Wright: What's Worse? Bomber Ayers or Keating 5 Scandal

For the second time on Monday, ABC reporter David Wright continued to spin and justify Barack Obama's relationship with former terrorist bomber William Ayers. On the October 6 edition of "Nightline," he compared the McCain campaign's comments about the ex-domestic terrorist with the Obama team's new ads centering on the Arizona senator and the Keating 5 scandal. Wright (see file photo at right)…
Scott Whitlock