Hillary's Miserable Morning on 'Today

Is the MSM deciding that Hillary is irreparably-damaged goods and that it's time to move on to a Dem with a better shot at winning the White House? You might think so after the Today show's dismemberment of the Clinton campaign this morning.Andrea Mitchell kicked things off with sharp stiletto heel.View video here.
Mark Finkelstein

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: News Media Should 'Regulate' New Media/B

In another arrogant piece from a "professional" journalist claiming that Internet journalism is "dangerous," one where the writer imagines that he is somehow the personification of truth in "reporting," we get yet another screed on the theme that they are the only ones that should be allowed to be called "journalists." And this one is a hoot, too. In an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution…
Warner Todd Huston

Bush's Polls Improve, Iraq Optimism Up: Page A

The decline in bad news from Iraq is bound to improve the president’s poll ratings, right? But if it does, will you find the story? The Washington Post reported on its latest poll with ABC News in a story Friday headlined "Poll Shows More Optimism on War: After Record Lows, Bush Gains With Republicans, Independents." The Post placed it on page A-18.Liberal activity was more important news. On A-3…
Tim Graham

Cafferty Calls Gore 'Pompous Jerk,' But Nets Value Bashing of U.S

At a UN conference in Bali, Al Gore blamed the U.S. for “obstructing progress” on global warming, an attack on his own nation which led CNN's Jack Cafferty, who usually slams Republicans and Democrats from the left, to castigate Gore as “a pompous jerk.” But Thursday's ABC and CBS evening newscasts favorably passed along Gore's agreement with European criticism of the U.S. With Gore's words on…
Brent Baker

Who's Scared of Christmas

Our First Amendment forbids the establishment of a state religion, but many of our governing elites are taking it a step further, outlawing its very existence from the public conversation.
L. Brent Bozell III

ABC's Walters Disses White House Christmas Card

I don't remember—and I'm sure people will remind me— getting a religious card. Now does this also go to agnostics and atheists and Muslims and –
Colleen Raezler

Shaheen-Gate: Consultants Clash, Pundits Pooh-Pooh Hillary Denial

This is getting wild . ..The Iowa caucuses might be a few weeks off, but MSNBC pundits have already cast a resounding "no" vote in a referendum on Hillary's credibility. A bi-partisan consensus of blatherers today rejected the Clinton campaign's denial of involvement in NH co-chair Bill Shaheen's raising of Barack Obama's past involvement with drugs.Meanwhile, things are getting downright nasty…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC Does Three Consecutive Nights of Socialized Medicine

Jeff Poor

Drudge: 'Hell Day as Press Turns Vicious' on Federal Budget

This is up on Drudge at the moment: Yes, the viciousness is being directed at Democrats for not being spendthrift enough. It's too early to tell whether President Bush and congressional Republicans have outmaneuvered the Democratic congressional majority, but it's looking that way. Old Media doesn't like it, and their inability to successfully buck up their side, one bit. In the Washington Post'…
Tom Blumer

WaPo Ombudsman Offers Weak Defense on Bilal Hussein Reporting

Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell served up a flimsy excuse to a concerned reader wondering why the Post doesn't have Post staffers reporting on the Bilal Hussein controversy, rather than just running AP wire stories. Hussein worked for AP as a photographer. Blogger Scott Johnson shared the reader's e-mail and Howell's reply, then added that even if one accepts Howell's excuse, there's no…
Ken Shepherd

Pretzel Logic at the NYT: No Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil = Black Ma

Clay Waters

BMI's Top 10 Economic Myths of

That's right folks, it's that time of year. There was plenty of economic bias in 2007 and the Business & Media Institute had a hard time whittling it down to just a top 10 list, but we did it.10. Airlines are solely to blame for the unfriendly skies.Media myth: Blame the airlines for all those flight delays; never mind the obsolete government-run agency creating the gridlock.9. Consumer…
Julia A. Seymour

The GQ Clinton Capitulation

Far too often, the media folds under pressure from Hillary and Bill Editor's Note: Originally published December 12th, 2007 by Human Events.DistressThe latest edition of Gentleman's Quarterly -- GQ for short -- has just hit the stands.  On its cover is an in your face photograph of former President Bill Clinton, as he "Leads (Their) Men of the Year Issue". "Bill Clinton - Public Citizen" is the…
Seton Motley

ABC's Cuomo to Huckabee: 'Can a Woman Be President

Justin McCarthy