Mayor Reacts Angrily to Town Portrayal on GMA Train Trip

P.J. Gladnick

Olbermann Uses False Information From Daily Kos To Smear Palin

After apparently taking erroneous information from the far-left-leaning website ThinkProgress on Tuesday to falsely accuse Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of slashing her state's Special Olympics budget, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday called the governor a liar in a rant with potential ties to a Daily Kos posting hours earlier.During his truly tasteless "Bushed" segment,…
Noel Sheppard

Cafeteria Journalism: NYT Suggests Pro-Choice Democrats Are Church-Fri

New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick reported on Tuesday that more Catholic Democrats and Hillary voters he studied in Scranton, Pennsylvania -- much touted as the scene of the Irish-Catholic upbringing of Joe Biden -- were leaning McCain after Catholic Democrats like Biden and Nancy Pelosi have been scolded by Catholic bishops for their proclamations about abortion on television. But…
Tim Graham

Fannie Mae CEO to Democrats: You Are Our 'Family' and 'Conscience

P.J. Gladnick

Oops! Nets Wrong On Warming; Arctic Ice Still There

Wrong again! It must stink being a network global warming alarmist. They just can't seem to get their stories straight. It's only been a couple months when the networks were screaming about Arctic ice disappearing this summer. And, no surprise, they were entirely wrong. By 1.74 million square miles.As Maxwell Smart used to say: "Missed it by that much."Less than three months ago, NBC's Anne…
Dan Gainor

Networks Wrong On Global Warming Again; Arctic Ice Still There

Predictions of open water prove incorrect as 1.74 million square miles of ice survive.
Dan Gainor

Shovel Your Ratings, Keith

"Shovel your ratings" appears to be Morning Joe's subliminal message to Keith Olbermann today.  With the latest ratings showing Rachel Maddow's new MSNBC show beating Olbermann's Countdown, the MJ panel went out of its way to congratulate Maddow on her success, repeatedly mentioning what a "good person" she is and how nice it is to see such people do well.  The crew was riffing off the Drudge…
Mark Finkelstein

Old Media Helps Obama Push False Rush Limbaugh Immigration Quotes

Yesterday, the Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe reported that the Obama campaign was releasing some new Spanish language campaign ads on TV in Florida and other markets that feature Rush Limbaugh making what appears to be anti-Mexican comments. The ads then link Limbaugh to McCain on immigration attempting to smear them both in the minds of voters. The Limbaugh quotes, however, are so out of context…
Warner Todd Huston

Atlantic Mag: McCain-Slandering Photographer Fired by Her Own Rep Agen

Jeffery Goldberg from The Atlantic Magazine is reporting that underhanded, leftist photographer Jill Greenberg has just been let go by her Representing Agency, the Vaughan Hannigan photo agency. This is a perfect example of a lesson of consequences. When Greenberg admitted that she lied and tricked John McCain so that she could manipulate his image to slander him and did so in the employ of The…
Warner Todd Huston

'Mindless Christian Lemmings' Columnist Uses Obscenity to Bash Conserv

This kind of language is acceptable in a major newspaper?
Kristen Fyfe

NPR Reports: 'Non-Partisan' NOW Endorses Obama

Lazy journalism at NPR typically causes a return to their default position: liberal bias. Such was the case yesterday. In the morning edition, NPR reported on the recent and unsurprising announcement that NOW--the National Organization For Women, an ideological & partisan group--would endorse Barack Obama.Rarely does the National Organization For Women endorse a presidential candidate. On…
Jacob S. Lybbert

Media Report Re-Warmed Obama Campaign Talking Points as Fact

As Culture and Media Institute Director Robert Knight has noted, the media are still presenting Obama campaign spin on the McCain sex ed ad as hard facts. Last week the McCain campaign released an ad charging Senator Obama with supporting sex education for kindergarten children when he was an Illinois state senator.  According to the Obama campaign and the media the legislation in question "was…
Colleen Raezler

NBC's 'Fact Check' on Palin's False Claims Not So Convincing

Two weeks after Sarah Palin's convention speech “reporters are still fact-checking what they hear from her, as our own Savannah Guthrie does for us tonight,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced Wednesday evening. But of Guthrie's five presumed misstatements by Palin, two were remarks made by Palin “aides,” not Palin herself; one, the “Bridge to Nowhere,” was already dissected eight…
Brent Baker

Ralph Nader Complains About Lack of Media Coverage to Cardozo the Parr

P.J. Gladnick