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Is PBS Telling Teachers to Violate the First Amendment
Airing on PBS tonight at 8 p.m. is “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial”, a two hour documentary that tells the story of the Dover case. The ACLU are super-excited!Of all of the cases the ACLU has taken on in the last few years, our challenge to the promotion of “intelligent design” in Dover, Pennsylvania’s public schools is one that truly speaks volumes about our work - work that ACLU…
Tuesday Funnies: Berkeley Protester Falls from Tree, Blames School
Who needs Hollywood writers when real life is typically much funnier? To prove the point, a protester at the University of California, Berkeley, fell out of a tree Sunday evening, fortunately only breaking his wrist and ankle. The punch line? He thought it was the school's fault for putting fences around the trees in order to prevent folks from climbing them. Of course, the injured tree-…
CBS ‘Early Show’: Veteran Suicide Rates ‘Shockingly High
Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show" featured a segment on a recent Veteran’s Affairs report that outlined "an alarming suicide rate among veterans," according to co-host Julie Chen. Reporter Armen Keteyian then previewed an upcoming "Evening News" segment on the findings and shared the stories of particular veterans who served in Iraq:Staff Sergeant Justin Reyes spent a violent year serving in Iraq...…
MSNBC's Shuster: Tancredo a Border-Control 'Fanatic
In the most florid criticism I can recall a network "correspondent" leveling at a major party presidential candidate, MSNBC's David Shuster has branded Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) a border-control "fanatic." The editorializing came in the course of Shuster's report during today's 5 PM ET "Hardball," which included an update on the GOP primary.DAVID SHUSTER: No television commercial in Iowa is…
CNN Interviews Student Used in Hillary’s Plant-Gate
As NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein reported Monday, the scandal surrounding Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign actually planting questioners at events is starting to grow. In fact, CNN aired an exclusive interview with one of the plants Tuesday, while posting an article on the subject at its website. What follows is a partial transcript of this segment from Tuesday's "American Morning" (…
Olbermann's Cheap Shot at Bush on Veteran's Day Speech
Both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney gave speeches honoring military veterans on November 11, Veterans Day. Yet rather than take a short breather from his usual rants about the Bush administration to celebrate veterans' service and sacrifice, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann chose to portray the president as a callous commander-in-chief for not laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery…
'Early Show' Scares Viewers about Packaged Meat
CBS warns about carbon monoxide as an additive in meat packaging, but fail to show it has a health advantage.
WaPo: DC Gun Ban Hasn't Curbed Crime; Paper Endorsed Ban in
It's a few steps shy of proclaiming, "Gun Ban an Abject Failure at Curbing Crime," but today's Washington Post Metro did trumpet on the front of its November 13 Metro section that the 31-year old D.C. handgun ban has not proven to be a crime deterrent. With his somewhat subdued headline, "Crime Data Underscore Limits of D.C. Gun Ban's Effectiveness," staff writer Paul Duggan unearthed the…
Hillary Beats the Press: 'Thank You, Ma'am, May I Have Another
Michael Crowley’s New Republic piece on our masochistic press – how Hillary brutalizes them and they love her anyway – begins with how Team Clinton disliked a New York Times puff piece on Barack Obama playing hoops: "If grumbling about a basketball story seems excessive, it's also typical of the Clinton media machine. Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant campaign say that no detail or…