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'Ask AP' Answer on Illegal Immigrants Misleads Mightily
According the Associated Press, "Ask AP" is "a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news." Given how biased the wire service's news reporting is, you wouldn't expect "Ask AP" responses to be very different. They usually aren't. Case in point (second question at link) -- Reader Cindy Garcia of Vista, California asked AP about the costs and benefits of…
Netrooter: Lamont Supporters to Gitmo If Lieberman Tapped as VP
Is it essential for an extreme liberal to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist?Whether it's American involvement in taking down the World Trade Center, or war for oil, these folks can't swing a dead cat without hitting some nefarious cabal involving Republicans.The newest one, floated by Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake fame, is that if Joe Lieberman is John McCain's running mate, and they win only to…
CNN’s King Plays Along With Maher’s Americans ‘Are Too Dumb’ S
cross posted at Video Done RightDuring an interview with Larry King, Bill Maher went on a diatribe about the stupidity of the American people, because he is dumbfounded by 2/3 of Americans who believe that offshore drilling will bring gas prices down. King, not realizing he was about to insult the average caller who phones into his show each evening along with the millions who watch him in his…
The Nanny State Diaries
Nine of the most business-hurting, freedom-hating and logic-bending regulations and bans on the books - and how the media love them.
Media Call Obama's 'Economic Disaster' Exaggeration a 'Sharpened Attac
Perhaps it's the pied piper effect, but when Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama speaks, the media follow right along in lockstep. The word "disaster" can invoke images of the aftermath of hurricanes, tornados or tsunamis. But, on the campaign trail where there are political points to be scored - it's one quarter of a slight economic contraction followed up by two quarters of…
Instead of Fainting, Now They're Falling Asleep
Remember the good old days? Back during the Dem primaries? When Barack Obama was such an electrifying orator that women were regularly fainting at his rallies? Ah, how times have changed. Instead of knocking them out with his other-worldly aura, Obama's now . . . putting them to sleep.Check out the woman in the lower-right hand corner of the video to your right, from CNN today during a live…
ABC's McFadden Goads Rick Warren Over 'Sham Operation,' GOP Views
"Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden interviewed Pastor Rick Warren on Monday about the presidential forum he held with Senators Barack Obama and John McCain and pestered him to just admit that he's a Republican. At one point, she goaded, "You know, there are some people who feel that this is kind of a sham operation. That really, we know you, as an evangelical, are a Republican, a John McCain…
Newsweek: Preppy Look is Racist, Classist
Leave it to the liberal print media to find some way to kill everyone's Olympics buzz.For instance, did you know that the choice by the U.S. Olympic Committee to have Ralph Lauren stitch the threads for Team USA's opening ceremonies uniform was an unfortunate nod to racism and classism and a futile, nostalgic clinging to America's waning WASP empire? That according to Sameer Reddy (pictured at…
ABC: Treats Rise in Consumer Confidence as Bad News
Editor's Note: This story originally ran on our sister site www.Businessandmedia.org. When is an increase in consumer confidence bad news? When ABC reports it.Network anchor George Stephanopoulos led off the news cast with this gloom-and-doom teaser: "Terrible Tuesday. Inflation surges. Stocks dive. And consumer confidence nears a record low."But Stephanopoulos left out a key detail: consumer…
ABC Treats Rise in Consumer Confidence as Bad News
Network pretends only solution to inflation is job losses.
Lying Joe Klein Denounces Lying Liars Against Obama
Barack Obama’s official fight-back packet against anti-Obama author Jerome Corsi carries an endorsement of sorts from Time magazine. In a yellow Time-like banner on the top-right of the cover is the Time logo and the words "Trash" and "Poisonous Crap." The nasty words come from a Time "Swampland" blog post by one Joe Klein, who decries all the "filth and lies" from the "right-wing sludge…
CNN Segment on Paddling Features Student Wearing Communist Insignia
[Update, 3:30 pm ET Wednesday: Video added, at right.]Wednesday’s American Morning program on CNN ran a segment by correspondent Ed Lavandera on the practice of corporal punishment for students, which featured a Texas student speaking out against paddling who wore a red T-shirt -- which featured the communist hammer and sickle symbol, an insignia popular with regimes which presided over the…