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WaPo TV Critic Feels Wednesday's Debate 'Slanted Against Obama
Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos actually asked some tough questions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during Wednesday's Democrat presidential debate on ABC.Yet, the Washington Post's television critic Tom Shales wasn't happy about this, and actually felt the event represented "another step downward for network news" wherein the moderators "turned in shoddy, despicable performances."…
Thanking God for Nice Weather Too Much for Maggie
Just a puny personal pronoun, yet one that perhaps spoke volumes about MSM attitudes toward religion. On the occasion of the Mass that Pope Benedict XVI will be celebrating later day at DC's Nationals Park, Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez interviewed Father Thomas Williams, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as a CBS religion analyst.For the liberal media, even a subject as seemingly…
Ben Stein vs. Sputtering Atheists
I went into the screening of Expelled bored. I came out of it stunned.
When Media Aren't Ignoring Controversial Evolution Movie, Expelled, Th
New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times discussed Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth at least three dozen times before the documentary was released. Ben Stein's Expelled? Two mentions.
Stephanopoulos Quizzes Obama on Relationship to Member of Terrorist Gr
ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, a co-host of Wednesday night’s Democratic debate, quizzed presidential candidate Barack Obama about his relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Weather Underground, a radical group that conspired to bomb buildings such as the Pentagon in the 1970s. Prefacing the issue under the “general theme of patriotism,” and previous questions about why Obama…
Couric Fears Clinton-Obama Battle Will Hurt in Fall, Schieffer Concurs
A broadcast network anchor again worried Wednesday night about how much the ongoing Democratic primary battle “is hurting” the candidates and their chance to beat Republican John McCain in the fall. After CBS's Bob Schieffer pointed out how a new ABC News/Washington Post poll found the percent who consider Hillary Clinton to be “honest and trustworthy” has fallen from 52 to 39 percent over the…
Hillary on Working Class White Southerners in 1995: 'Screw 'Em
In light of the brouhaha surrounding Barack Obama's comments about high unemployment in small towns making Americans "cling to guns, or religion," one has to wonder whether press outlets are going to go gaga over derogatory statements Hillary Clinton made in 1995 about working-class white southerners.This is especially the case given how media ignored revelations about Bill Clinton's 1991 and…
Will MSM Cover U. of Maine U.S. Flag Desecration
We have another incident of empty showboating by a college kid who imagines herself to be making "art" and a "statement" by placing American flags on the floor in hopes that people would disrespect them enough to walk upon them. One Miss Susan Crane of the University of Maine at Farmington decided that her "art" was going to be an exercise in desecration. Keep your eye on this and see if the MSM…
Media Myth: Nine Worst Business Stories
Some of the toughest obstacles American businesses face come not from other companies or the economy, but from the media – journalists exaggerating an issue to make a story sexier or anti-business groups influencing the media to advance their agenda. Four of the stories on the following list started with a press release or report from an environmentalist group, labor union or “consumer group…
Matthews: What Kind of 'Klutz' Takes Orders from Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," has ticked off Chris Matthews. On Wednesday's "Hardball" Matthews insulted Limbaugh's listeners, who are voting in the Democratic primary, as he questioned: "What kind of klutz do you have to be to take orders on how to vote from Rush Limbaugh and to change your party identity so that you can vote against, for somebody to screw the other party?"The following…