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Mika Defends Carter's Cheney-Bashing: 'A Responsibility to Say Somethi

Surprise! Mika Brzezinski, far from criticizing Jimmy Carter's excoriation of the Bush adminstration, applauds it . . .View video here. In a free-swinging democracy such as ours, rare are the restraints on political speech by our elected representatives. One exception are rules of decorum, such as those governing the House of Representatives that prohibit members from speaking in negative…
Mark Finkelstein

Jimmy Carter Derides Cheney and NBC's Brian Williams Jumps

Brent Baker

Tila Tequila: the Latest in MTV Sexploitation

Like all reality shows, this one suffers from noticeable scripting, which must have been done by drooling old men in raincoats.
Robert Knight

Banning Tango

The most challenged book on the American Library Association's Banned Books Week list, a pro-same sex marriage picture book targeting 4- to 8-year-olds called And Tango Makes Three, wasn't actually removed from a single library.
Robert Knight

Oops By ABC's Gibson: 'A Million and a Half Americans Were Killed by O

The MRC's Brad Wilmouth alerted me to a slip of the tongue Wednesday night by ABC anchor Charles Gibson, who didn't catch and correct his error -- at least in the 6:30pm EDT feed of World News. In a brief item on the congressional resolution labeling a 1915 massacre of Armenians as "genocide," Gibson inadvertently said "Americans" instead: Hard to believe, but there was a political fight in…
Brent Baker

Ann Coulter Refers to Tabloid Report of John Edwards Affair; Will MSM

Ann Coulter did her best to drop a bomb on the October 10 episode of "Tucker" on MSNBC. At the conclusion of her interview, Ann Coulter announced (video) that the National Enquirer was just reporting that John Edwards had an 18-month affair while on the campaign trail. You can read the story here.Before going any further, this allegation must be met with a healthy degree of skepticism. First of…
Jason Aslinger

GOP Debate Highlights Free Enterprise, Low Taxes

Candidate responses reflect strong free market traits on economic growth, taxes and government spending.
Jeff Poor

Some Like It Warmer As Networks Offer Conflicting Winter Reports

ABC, NBC, and CBS dish up three different illustrations of the looming winter months and whether warm or cold, all are bad.
Genevieve Ebel

CNN's Anderson Cooper Gives REM Political Platform, Album Plug

Ken Shepherd

Senate Could Vote Soon on Return of U.N. Sea Treaty Reagan Opposed

Law of the Sea Treaty still 'threatens U.S. sovereignty,' despite limited media attention.
Amy Menefee

NYT: In SCHIP Controversy, Conservative Bloggers 'Attacking a Family W

Clay Waters

Networks Play Goldilocks With Winter Weather Predictions

Warmer winter. No - colder winter. No. Warmer winter, definitely warmer winter. Last night's network news broadcasts made the Energy Department's most recent prediction for this year's winter climate, released yesterday, sound like a report from Dustin Hoffman's "Rain Man."On CBS's Evening News, Katie Couric stated that "the government predicted today that temperatures this winter will generally…
Dan Gainor

Baltimore Sun Smears Conservative Bloggers Over SCHIP Scrutiny

On September 29, 2007, Baltimore 12-year old Graeme Frost became the Democratic poster child, literally, for SCHIP. Frost read the Democratic Party's official response to the president's weekly radio address, attacking President Bush for his veto of a Democratic-sponsored bill to balloon federal spending on the 10-year old program. The Baltimore Sun ran a story that morning noting young Graeme…
Ken Shepherd