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CBS’s Smith to Disgraced Pastor: ‘You Think God Hates Homosexuals
On Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith played the role of amateur theologian as he interviewed disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard, who had an affair with a gay prostitute, asking: "You believe that gays are sinners?...You think God hates homosexuals?" Haggard ultimately replied: "Jesus proved his faithfulness to me more than ever. You know, he said he came for the unrighteous, not…
Coulter Points Out Double Standard for Liberal Media Pundits on Stimul
Best-selling author remarks on backlash to conservative opposition to bill; Calls Olbermann a '57-year-old woman trapped in a man's body.'
Networks Skip (D) for Blagojevich as Scandal-Plagued Governor Ousted
Seven weeks after his arrest for allegedly attempting to peddle Barack Obama’s Senate seat, Rod Blagojevich was removed as governor of Illinois on Thursday. ABC, CBS and NBC all offered full reports last night and this morning, but none of the anchors or reporters provided any hint that Blagojevich was a Democrat.
Back on December 9, reporting on the then-governor’s arrest, NewsBusters noted…
BaltSun: Md. Gov 'Sets Leaner Course'; Yet O'Malley Anticipating Fed P
Reporting on his January 29 State of the State Address in which Maryland's liberal Democratic governor promised new government spending programs and the continuance of a costly state college tuition freeze, the Baltimore Sun headlined the story "O'Malley Sets a Leaner Course for Maryland."Yet as Sun reporters Laura Smitherman and Gadi Dechter made clear, O'Malley has made clear he hopes to avoid…
GDP Better Than Expected: Have Media Overhyped Depression Talk
The Gross Domestic Product declined by 3.8 percent in the final quarter of 2008.It was bad, but nowhere near as bad as expected.Is it possible that all the hysterical gloom and doom emanating from the media is way overdone, and that things are not close to as apocalyptic as we've been told the past five months?Consider the actual numbers reported Friday morning by MarketWatch:
Dear Wash. Times: Mile High Hypocrisy
There's something 'sick' about the President scolding Citigroup for private jets.
Network News Embraces Obama's Wall Street-Bashing
After years of agitation over what they saw as President George W. Bush's self-righteous moral certitude, journalists on Thursday night embraced President Barack Obama's vilification of those working for Wall Street firms who got a bonus last year. “Shameful,” NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams teased his newscast, “that's how President Obama labels those Wall Street types paying themselves…
Rachel Maddow Says Chris Matthews Isn't Liberal, 'He'd Get Torn Apart
Long-time CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewed radical MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for the website Wow-o-wow.com and Maddow demonstrated her ultraliberalism by denying Chris Matthews was a liberal (just a "Democrat"), and insisting "If Chris Matthews had an Air America radio show, he’d get torn apart by our listeners...I wouldn’t put Chris and my politics in the same canoe. " While Stahl…
A How-To Lesson For Left-Wing, Old Media Bias
**UPDATE**
Once in a while there is a short piece spewed forth by some Old Media outlet or another that is so perfect as a primer of left-wing bias 101 that I just have to share it. In this case we have the Telegraph writing on the story, covered here a few days ago, where Barack Obama found himself confused by an outside glass panel he mistook for a door at the White House. Michael M. Bates…
LAT Minimizes School Sex Scandals But Trumpets Flimsy Story on Cardina
When a veteran middle-school teacher in nearby Santa Monica pleaded guilty last month to "multiple counts of illegal sex acts" and molesting nine young girls, the Los Angeles Times didn't feel the story warranted their newspaper. Although the Times had reported the teacher's original arrest and some follow-up last May and June, the news of teacher's guilty plea only went as far as the paper's…
ABC7 News Chicago: 'Quinn Comes in With a Squeaky Clean Reputation
On its Web site this evening, ABC7 News Chicago reports on the new Illinois Democratic governor in "Who Is Pat Quinn?" General assignment reporter John Garcia tells readers about the man who replaced former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich :Quinn comes in with a squeaky clean reputation at a time when the past two governors have faced serious federal charges. An Illinois Democrat with a squeaky…
Rachel Maddow Cites Snow in Dubai as Example of 'Global Warming
Once again, inconvenient weather tosses a monkey wrench at enviro-hysteric claims of looming apocalypse, an alleged threat now entering its third decade. Most recent example: Rachel Maddow's reporting on her MSNBC show Monday night --Some big global warming news today. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named a special envoy today for climate change. His name is Todd Stern, he was the United…