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ABC 'World News' Coverage of Hillarycare: Leaving Out Cost
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's plan for health care would cost $110 billion.
ABC’s Liberal Weatherman Touts Emotional Benefits of Carbon Offsets
On Friday’s "Good Morning America," liberal weatherman Sam Champion featured actor/activist Ed Begley Jr. to promote the concept of carbon offsets. The ABC meteorologist gushed over the emotional benefits of this environmental program. He exclaimed, "And you, kind of, pay into them and they fund projects that are doing good work. So you feel better about your energy use by helping create greener…
Is NASA’s Hansen Playing Enron Accounting Games With Climate Data
Since NASA's James Hansen finally released computer codes related to how climate data are collected and adjusted, anthropogenic global warming skeptics around the world have been waiting to see what a scientific examination of this information would produce. On Monday, Canada's Steve McIntyre, who himself debunked Michael Mann's ridiculous "Hockey Stick" theory as well as identified Hansen's Y2K…
The Stupidity of Sally Field’s No Wars If Moms Ruled the World Claim
Sure, it was just an acceptance speech at some silly awards ceremony. However, when Hollywoodans say ridiculous things on television that media applaud along with the Hollywoodans in attendance, someone's got to point out the inanity. As such, when Sally Field said at Sunday's Emmy awards ceremony as reported by the MRC's Tim Graham, "And, let's face it, if the mothers ruled the war, there would…
Alan Greenspan: I Never Said Iraq War Was About Oil
It's fitting that now that he's left his post as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan's words are being as closely scrutinized as they were back in his days at the Fed. Not carefully enough, though, it seems.Over the weekend, a media firestorm errupted after the Washington Post printed a news article claiming that in his memoirs, Greenspan said the ouster of the Saddam Hussein…
Kurtz Conveniently Ignores Hsu in List of Current Scandals
Mimicking NBC's Matt Lauer on "Today" with Tom DeLay a few weeks ago, the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz chose Monday to address a number of political scandals in America, all of them of course dealing with Republicans. Yet, there was a brewing campaign finance scandal conspicuously absent from Kurtz's list. Need a hint what it might be? Maybe Glenn Reynolds' comical quip will help: "Hsoot,…
Google, Chinese Internet Censor, Wants 'International Privacy Standard
Apparently, the world's largest Internet search business believes it has little to fear from those who object to its continued involvement with government censorship in communist China. Google agreed to censor its search-engine results in accordance with government wishes in January 2006. That control regime is still in place, as comparative searches on "Tiananmen" at Google.com and Google.cn…
After Gore Wins Emmy Media Falsely Claim He Also Won Oscar
See if you can spot the error in the following opening paragraph from the Associated Press concerning the exploits of soon-to-be-Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore: So he wasn't elected president. Big deal. How many other presidential candidates have an Emmy and an Oscar to brag about? Or this one from Reuters: