'World News' Sounds Stagflation Alarm

'70s Term has become the new buzz word for dismal economic stories.
Jeff Poor

CBSer Uses WFB Passing to Rue 'Limbaugh-ization of Conservatism

Lumping Rush Limbaugh in with Michael Savage, CBS News Washington Producer Ward Sloane lamented in a Wednesday afternoon CBSNews.com “Couric & Co.” blog entry how “it’s sad that people like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage are today’s mouthpieces for conservatism” when “Buckley was not a hate monger” like them. Sloane then contended: The conservative movement in this country is badly in need…
Brent Baker

ABC's Snow Enthuses Over Tough, Smart Chelsea Clinton

According to "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, Chelsea Clinton is so impressive, she just might be able mount a comeback for her presidential candidate-mother. On Wednesday's program, Roberts gushed over the first daughter and asserted, "[Hillary Clinton is] leaning more and more on Chelsea, who has taken on a new role as Clinton's biggest campaigner and, some say, her last, best hope…
Scott Whitlock

Dean: Use 'Darfur, Climate Change and Poverty' to Win Over Evangelical

DNC chairman credits YouTube for control of Congress; advises followers to use union tactics to get voters.
Jeff Poor

Econ 101: The Great Depression

Why we're not in another one ... but politicians could take us there.
Gary Wolfram, Ph.D.

Pot Meet Kettle: Joy Behar Blasts Cunningham for Spreading 'Lies

Justin McCarthy

CBS Lawyer Ignores Facts in Evidence in Slam on Rove

Ken Shepherd

All of the Hype, but None of the Bread Lines

BMI Staff

ABC Fakes Muslim Prejudice, Unsurprisingly Finds 'Islamophobia' in Ame

Update at bottom of post.Apparently to prove that the US is filled with Muslim hating Yahoos, ABC went on the hunt to find "Islamophobia" in America and the result is "Witness to Discrimination: What Would You Do?" Since they didn't really know where to find any, ABC News decided to create their own prejudice against Muslims by hiring an actress to put on Muslim dress and get "confronted" by a…
Warner Todd Huston

Remembering William F. Buckley on the Liberal Media

In honor of William F. Buckley Jr. -- the man who quipped about standing athwart history yelling "Stop!" -- perhaps we might recall a few old Buckley snippets on the liberal media, long a persistent force on the national political scene. Here are a few samples from the 1971 paperback Quotations from Chairman Bill (compiled by David Franke), by the topic used in the book:Walter CronkiteOn Friday…
Tim Graham

ABC Finally Sees 'Signs of Hope' for Economy

'Good Morning America' recognizes 'tangible tidbits of good news' and provides range of opinion on 'recession' outlook.
Nathan Burchfiel

Radio Host: McCain Threw Me Under Straight Talk Express

Bill Cunningham, the Ohio talk radio host whose remarks about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama were deemed too "caustic" by the nation's media and John McCain is speaking out against the Arizona senator now."John McCain threw me under a bus -- under the Straight Talk Express," he told CNN in an interview, referring to McCain's pretentiously named campaign bus.Cunningham also said…
Matthew Sheffield

Stephanopoulos Attacks Media Bias Against Hillary

"Good Morning America" host Diane Sawyer and ABC's George Stephanopoulos, a former top aide to Bill Clinton, discussed media bias on Wednesday's show. The topic, however, wasn't liberal spin. Instead, Sawyer wondered if "the media is, in general, easier on Barack Obama than they are on [Hillary Clinton]?" After playing a clip of a February 23 "Saturday Night Live" sketch that mocked reporters for…
Scott Whitlock

CNN Panel Denies There’s Sympathy for Obama in MSM

Three CNN talking heads - "The Situation Room’s" Jack Cafferty, senior political analyst Gloria Borger, and chief national correspondent John King - all denied that the mainstream media has a "double standard for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton," as "The Situation Room" host Wolf Blitzer put it. Cafferty was the most adamant denier of the charge. "No, it's a vast left-wing conspiracy, Wolf. We…
Matthew Balan