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Post Writer Who Smeared Appointee Uses Same Term: ‘Gay Plague
Five years ago, The Washington Post's Ceci Connolly did a front-page smear of Christian AIDS activist Jerry Thacker, who had been appointed to the presidential AIDS commission. The headline? "AIDS Panel Choice Wrote of a ‘Gay Plague.'" Thacker, who is HIV-positive himself, had merely written on his Website that health authorities and journalists had used the term "gay plague" during the early…
'Evening News' Declares Imminent Death of Suburbia
Segment repeats 15-year-old claims by doom-and-gloom author who wrongly predicted Dow crash, Y2K disasters.
Olbermann, Post Columnist Mock GOP House Energy Protest
MSNBC host and guest dismiss possibility that challenge to congressional inaction could impact oil prices.
NewsBusted
Topics in today's show: Global Warming Delusion, the latest fad disease, Barack Obama goes back on his pledge to do townhall debates, Hillary Clinton hosts dinners to pay off campaign debts, Kim Cattrall of "Sex and the City" says she won't get plastic surgery.
Olbermann: Bin Laden’s Driver Is ‘Victim’ of Bush Admin ‘Urina
On Thursday’s Countdown show, one night after accusing President Bush of not doing enough to protect America from Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organization before the September 11th attacks, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann seemed sympathetic to the plight of bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, during the show’s regular "Bushed" segment which purports to update viewers on what the Countdown host…
ABC Article Glamorizes Media Villains, Ignores Price to Society
ABC's Sona Charaipotra hails villains in entertainment as more exciting, interesting, and more real, but ignores the damage Hollywood's obsession with evil can do to children.
NBC Drops the Ball on Teen Sex
The followup special for The Baby Borrowers fails to tackle tough subjects in discussions of teen sexuality and pregnancy.
New York Times Bemoans Killer's Execution
In its zeal to oppose capital punishment, the Gray Lady suggests Texas should bow to 'international law.'
CNN Searches for Capitol’s ‘Jail’ in Report on Libs’ Desire to
Now that Congress has recessed, and since the conventions aren’t for a couple of weeks, Thursday’s The Situation Room turned back to the "hot" issue of what many liberals are calling on congressional Democrats to do: arrest and lock-up Karl Rove for his failure to testify on the issue of the firing of U.S. attorneys in late 2006.CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, as part of a report on this possible…
Nat'l Post: 'You'll Miss' The Old Media When Its Gone
Jonathan Kay of the National Post (Canada) is sure that we'll miss the old media when its gone. So sure he wrote a paean to how great the media is... and he missed the target by a wide margin on every point he made. Unfortunately, he took a good point and made a mockery of the truth of the matter with his wrongheaded reasoning.
In "You'll miss us when we're gone" Kay asserts that the media…