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Reagan's Rebuke of Carter Missing in Debate Commission's Transcript
Is it an editing error or a dose of political correctness?
SF Chronicle Glosses Over Reality in Listing for Folsom Street Fair
City's newspaper uses euphemism to sanitize a sadomasochistic, pornographic event.
Not the Catholic Church? (Part II): L.A. School Sex Abuse Scandal Cont
Let's ask again: Where is the national media? The sex abuse scandals at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) continue to grow. Just since May of this year:A high school athletic coach was charged with 12 felony counts of sexually assaulting an underage girl, including "five counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object while the victim was unconscious and one count of possession…
Sex Ed for 5 Year Olds a 'Hot Topic' on The View
Sex education for kindergartners is certainly a hot topic. It's also the subject of a McCain campaign ad that many in the media have called a "lie." In the Hot Topic segment of ABC's The View on Monday (Sept. 22), token conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck explained that the ad is NOT a lie and Barack Obama did in fact support legislation establishing sex education for kindergartners. There is an…
NYT Editors: Palin 'Petty,' McCain Guilty of 'Demonstrable Falsehoods
New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt evaluated two tough political stories in the Sunday Week in Review, one anti-McCain, the other anti-Palin. While he found the McCain piece fair, he faulted the anti-Palin piece. In both cases, Times reporters and editors rallied to the defense of the pieces, finding McCain guilty of "demonstrable falsehoods" and Palin of "sometimes petty, peremptory"…
Couric Has Cushy Chat with Biden, Will She Be as Warm with Palin
If Katie Couric is to be consistent and treat Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whom Couric is scheduled to interview this week, as gently as she did Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden in her day with him Thursday in Ohio which became a story on the Monday night CBS Evening News, she will (Couric quotes from the Biden story in the parentheses):
Biden Misleads That Al Qaeda Forced His Helicopter Down in Afghanistan
Back on September 10 in a visit to Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden seemed to hint that al Qaeda forced down a helicopter he was traveling in when he was visiting Afghanistan in February of 2008. He made the claim again on September 22 in a campaign stop at the National Guard Association. The truth, however, is not exactly what Biden may be trying to allege.…
Boston Globe Likes Mass. Plan, but Reports Patients Waiting 100 Days t
Tried reading the Boston Globe two days in a row? One day its editorial page says Obama's health care plan is superior to McCain's; after all, it's sort of like the Massachusetts plan, and look at the state's high rate of insurance coverage now! Next day: Mass. residents waiting 100 days for primary care. Unfortunately, coverage mandates don't solve the underlying problems in the health sector,…
Cokie Roberts Links McCain's Fannie Mae Plans to Herbert Hoover
On Sunday's edition of "This Week," journalist Cokie Roberts indicated that, in regards to John McCain's reaction to the ongoing financial problems on Wall Street, "...He's a Republican and whenever Republicans get into this kind of mess, everybody, even people who were not born or close to being born, the specter of Herbert Hoover comes out to, to haunt them." Roberts didn't clarify just who the…
Newsweek Hits 'Pipeline to Nowhere'; Suggests Palin Too 'Optimistic' A
Borrowing from the nickname for a federal earmark that would have built a multi-million dollar bridge for an Alaska town of 50 people, Newsweek's Mark Hosenball offers readers of the September 29 print magazine a look at "[Gov. Sarah] Palin's Pipeline to Nowhere." Hosenball suggests that Palin's $500-million "principal achievement" as governor "might never be built after all." But while the…