AP's 'US Now Winning Iraq War' Analysis Getting Light Exposure

Robert Burns and Robert H. Reid created quite a stir in the blogosphere yesterday with their dispatch from Baghdad, "Analysis: US now winning Iraq war that seemed lost." NewsBusters colleague Noel Sheppard accurately called it a "stop the presses" story, and ended his post with an important perspective that you really must read if you haven't already. Now that the story has had one overnight news…
Tom Blumer

Liberals Spy Comcast 'Conspiracy' – Cable Giant is Out to get Them

I do believe that liberals in this country have their tin foils hats on way too tight these days. At least, it's easy to think that over the new national conspiracy theory that lefties are all balled up over lately. You see, it is being imagined in the dim, dark recesses of the left's collective consciousness that cable company Comcast is out to silence them. Apparently, Comcast has come down…
Warner Todd Huston

PBS: Be More...Suspicious of the Bible

Liberals often insist on the separation of church and state, but they’d really like to go further to separating the church from everything. That principle oozes into PBS, where a forthcoming Nova documentary insists the Bible is full of fables, not history. Orlando Sentinel TV critic Hal Boedeker reported from a PBS publicity session for TV critics: Abraham didn't exist? The Exodus didn't happen?…
Tim Graham

Bloomberg's Fred Kempe: Obama 'Center-Right on Foreign Policy

Barack Obama's overseas trip this past week proved “he's not a left-wing ideologue” or a “dove” and, “if anything, he's center, even center-right, on foreign policy issues,” Bloomberg News world affairs columnist Fred Kempe, a veteran of the Wall Street Journal, declared on this weekend's Political Capital show which airs several times Friday night and Saturday on Bloomberg TV. Host Al Hunt,…
Brent Baker

Follow the Money from Journalists to Democrats

No one should be surprised, but journalists -- you know, those fair, balanced and unbiased professionals -- give more of their political donations to Democrats than they do Republicans. Not by just a little, either. By a 15 to 1 margin. Brit Hume has a small bit on his Political Grapevine about political donations and he mentions an IBD editorial on the money trail. The piece is by William Tate…
Warner Todd Huston

Matthews Defends 'Thrill Going Up My Leg,' Insists He's Fair

Appearing on the Monday, July 21, Tonight Show, MSNBC host Chris Matthews defended his declaration from last February that a Barack Obama speech caused him to feel a "thrill going up my leg," and suggested he really is not biased in the presidential race as he contended that "I’m a freaking American" and "who I’m rooting for" is "us." Referring to Obama having "seen on both sides of that San…
Brad Wilmouth

Sunday Times (UK) Tweaks American MSM for Remaining Mum on Edwards Sca

P.J. Gladnick

AP: US Now Winning Iraq War

Stop the presses: the world's leading wire service declared on July 26, 2008, that America is now winning the war in Iraq.Think I'm kidding? Well, prepare yourself for an alternate reality, for the "defeat" and "slipping into civil war" Iraq coverage the past three years took an interesting turn Saturday when the Associated Press published an article amazingly entitled, "Analysis: US Now Winning…
Noel Sheppard

Mainstream Media Overlook Death Row Obama Endorsement

Mike Bates

Penn & Teller Expose Socialist Roots To Environmental Hysteria

In 2003, Showtime's Penn & Teller program with a name not appropriate above the fold -- unless, of course, you're a member of the Netroots! -- marvelously exposed what's behind the global warming and environmental hysteria in America today.The videos have just come available on YouTube. In part one (embedded right), the comedy team accurately depicted environmentalists as political and social…
Noel Sheppard

MSM Mostly Ignores Surge of Anti-Obama PUMA Democrat Activity

P.J. Gladnick

WaPo's Hoagland Unimpressed with Obama's Berlin Speech

Noel Sheppard

A Week with No US Troop Deaths In Iraq

On July 16, Andrew Malcolm at the Los Angeles Times's Top of the Ticket Blog wrote the following (bold is mine): When President Bush ordered the surge in January 2007, (Barack) Obama said: "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse," a position he maintained throughout 2007. This year he…
Tom Blumer

Weekend Sports Open Thread

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