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Over the years, former Time columnist Barbara Ehrenreich has made some truly preposterous assertions in her many books and articles.However, this piece might go down as her most insipid.Writing for The Nation on June 12, the mother of Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks stated the following (h/t NBer misterbill, emphasis added throughout):Undocumented workers shouldn't be fined; they should…

How many times have you read a quote from a major political figure that included words like “uh” or “um?”Not often, right? Typically, journalists omit such disfluent pauses when citing America’s leaders in order to not make them look foolish.After all, the vast majority of people commonly use such utterances to fill the silence as they assemble their thoughts. But, you rarely see them left in an…

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The Networks ‘Lame’ ArgumentOn June 12, all three morning shows parroted DNC talking points and declared President Bush a "lame duck." "Good Morning America" solemnly noted that the phrase would likely follow Bush throughout his trip to Capitol Hill. (Apparently this is the theory that if the networks say something enough, everyone will believe it.) Please Don’t Be MadSpeaking of "Good Morning…

Fred Thompson's latest ABC column comments on a situation that would be funny if it weren't so sad: ..... One of the strangest examples (of "political correctness has crept into the halls of academia") comes from Marquette University in Wisconsin -- where a Dave Barry quip was banned. Last fall, Ph.D. student Stuart Ditsler printed out a short blurb from one of Barry's humor columns and stuck…

Chris Matthews grew "verklempt," he said, on Wednesday night’s Hardball, as he pondered how a class reunion made plain for him that some people watch him every night, and trust him like people trusted Walter Cronkite. From there, Matthews and his guests took up the subject of objectivity in journalism: Ana Marie Cox, Time.com: "I also want to say that this idea about voice being very important to…

The mainstream media often obsess about the profit margins of "Big Oil" companies. We at NewsBusters and our friends at the MRC's Business & Media Institute have frequently documented how the media view the petroleum industry in a particularly fiendish manner at the very worst and a highly skeptical light at best. So surely the MSM will have just as much outrage when there's a corporation…