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WaPo Letter to Editor: Bush Doesn't Deserve to Throw Out First Pitch
If you were editor of a major American newspaper, would you publish letters to your department tremendously disrespectful of the President?After all, you probably have hundreds nay thousands to choose from on a daily basis. Why bother with ones defaming the most powerful man on the planet?Sadly, such decency didn't seem present at the Washington Post Saturday which actually published the…
Carbon Sense Coalition: 'Earth Hour' Should be Renamed 'Dark Hour
As previously reported by NewsBusters, there's an international climate change awareness promotion going on today called Earth Hour, and websearch giant Google is not only participating in it, but advocating its goals. Presenting the other side of this argument is an organization called The Carbon Sense Coalition.It wants "to restore balance and reason to the carbon debate, and to explain and…
Google Blacks Out Homepage During 'Earth Hour' to 'Combat Climate Chan
Want some more proof of Google's political leanings.Well, consider that the websearch giant is participating in Earth Hour, "a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live."Here's what Google displayed at its website moments ago (h/t NBer Wilbur747, emphasis added):
Fox News: “Media ‘Talking Down’ the Economy to Get a Dem Elected
Just how obvious is it that the media's economic and business coverage is so negatively skewed that it has to be part of a political agenda in an election year? Obvious enough for the folks at Fox News to do an entire segment Saturday morning asking the extraordinary question: "Media ‘Talking Down' the Economy to Get a Dem Elected?" Despite my surprise seeing "Cavuto on Business" begin with…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: renewed violence in Iraq (paragraph break removed):Iraqi authorities say the death toll from five days of intense fighting between Iraqi forces and Shi'ite militias has surged to more than 200. Many of the casualties have occurred in Baghdad's Sadr City, a stronghold of militias loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. A spokesman for the…
D.Z. Jackson Plays Judas Card Against Hillary
Just when you thought the conflagration over James Carville's Judas analogy might be dying down, here comes Derrick Z. Jackson to pour gasoline on the flames with a return-fire Judas shot of his own.Readers will recall that when Bill Richardson endorsed Obama, Clinton fan Carville chose Good Friday to say:Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold…
Mississippi Judge Indicted: Yet Another 'Name That Party' Story
An Associated Press story by Chris Talbott on the indictment of Mississippi judge Bobby DeLaughter waited until the end of the second paragraph to even name him, and never identified his party: Miss. Justices Suspend Embattled Judge The Mississippi Supreme Court suspended a prominent judge Friday who is being investigated for his role in a dispute over fees involving attorney Richard "Dickie"…
Todd Bursts Matthews' Balloon on Casey's 'Spiritual' Endorsement of Ob
He calls it Hardball, but again tonight Chris Matthews showed he's a softy when it comes to Barack Obama. Chris was crestfallen when NBC News political director Chuck Todd laid out the case, chapter and verse, that political payback, even revenge, explained Sen. Bob Casey's endorsement of Obama as much or more than the "spiritual" reasons Chris so wanted to believe in.CHRIS MATTHEWS: Chuck, I…
CBS Faster to Identify Party of Republican Than of Democrats
On Monday night, the CBS Evening News failed to identify Kwame Kilpatrick as a Democrat in reporting criminal charges filed against the Detroit Mayor, but on Friday night the same anchor, Harry Smith, used the very first word, of his introduction to a story on another politician in criminal trouble, to name the party: Republican Congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona goes on trial next month, charged…
CNN: Republicans Become Dems in PA, But Not Due to Rush’s ‘Dark St
CNN’s Carol Costello highlighted Pennsylvania Republicans who became registered Democrats on Friday’s "The Situation Room," and brushed aside the possibility that Rush Limbaugh’s "Operation Chaos" strategy to meddle in the Democratic primaries might be a partial explanation for the change. Costello, featuring two former Republicans who are now voting for the Democrats, said of the couple, "[I]f…
NBC Puts Singulair Worries in Perspective While CBS Warns Viewers
'Early Show' warns of suicide risk for asthma/allergy drug; 'Today' stresses consumer caution.
ABC's Sam Champion Hypes Global Warming for Eight Minutes
"Good Morning America's" liberal meteorologist Sam Champion continued his crusade of turning the weather report into an environmental lecture on Friday. Champion, the man who once hosted a segment that warned "billions" could die from global warming, devoted over eight minutes of the program to climate change. Reporting live from Colorado, he promoted the Aspen Institute's conference on the…