ABC’s Avila Slimes Mother Whose Son Died from E Coli
ABC News senior correspondent Jim Avila has a new target for his “pink slime” crusade – a mother whose 6-year-old son died from E coli. Avila, whose coverage has targeted Beef Products, Inc., went after the company’s supporters at an Iowa press conference.
At the same time, one beef maker has had to file for bankruptcy protection as a result of the media assault. “AFA Foods, a company that…
April 2nd, 2012 3:52 PM
Meet the Press: Even Aborigines in New Zealand Say Romney's 'Not Authe
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman slammed Mitt Romney by suggesting even Aborigines tribes in New Zealand and Australia were mocking him: "I just came back from New Zealand, okay? I mean, you have people living in the outback of Australia who look at Mitt Romney and say, 'Ha, ha. Not authentic.' I mean, it's just so – it is just so obvious." [Listen…
April 2nd, 2012 3:33 PM
NYTimes Frets Over Reduced Visibility of 'Populist' Occupy Movement, T
New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt fretted about the loss of public attention on the "populist" (not left-wing?) Occupy Wall Street movement on Sunday: "For Occupy Movement, a Challenge to Recapture Momentum." (The Times didn't exactly treat the plight of the Tea Party with such sympathetic concern.)
April 2nd, 2012 2:12 PM
On CNN, Andrew Sullivan Attacks the Politics of Catholic Bishops
Sunday's Fareed Zakaria GPS saw a ridiculing of the Catholic bishops and Republicans for their stances against contraception and the HHS mandate. The liberal panel was quite hostile to conservative Christians when the discussion came to religion and contraception.
The Daily Beast's Andrew Sullivan ludicrously accused the Catholic bishops and other Christian leaders of using their opposition…
April 2nd, 2012 1:25 PM
MSNBC's Wagner Mischaracterizes 'Child Interstate Abortion Notificatio
As Politico's Dylan Byers reported on March 22, MSNBC insists that its programming from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern is straight news, rather than "point-of-view" programming. Clearly Alex Wagner of the 12 p.m. Eastern Now with Alex Wagner program hasn't gotten the memo.
Take today's program, for example, where Wagner mischaracterized a bill working through the U.S. House aimed at curtailing the…
April 2nd, 2012 1:05 PM
$4 Gas? Networks Fueled Outrage in ‘08 With Nearly 3 Times As Many R
High cost of gasoline was causing plenty of pain just a few years ago, today not as much.
April 2nd, 2012 1:00 PM
NYT Magazine: Van Jones, a 'Lefty Dreamboat
Van Jones, "Lefty Dreamboat"? The New York Times assures us that yes, he is. Jones was the Obama administration's Advisor for Green Jobs until he was booted in September 2009 when his name showed up on a list of people who had signed a 9-11 Truther petition, suggesting he thought there was a Bush administration coverup of what really happened on September 11. In his new book "Rebuild the Dream…
April 2nd, 2012 12:52 PM
Jake Tapper Tosses Softballs to Clinton, ABC Spikes Obama's Bad Week a
Good Morning America offered another typical softball session with Bill Clinton on Monday to promote his latest Global Initiative meeting, but since using George Stephanopoulos might seem too obvious, they sent normally aggressive Jake Tapper to lob the softballs. Oddly, the questions that might actually be defined as news were edited out of the ABC program and left to a much smaller audience…
April 2nd, 2012 12:40 PM
Open Thread: GOP Won't Take Back Senate
Today's starter topic: Will the GOP take the Senate this fall? National Review blogger Jim Geraghty thinks that prospect is not as certain as previously thought:
A Republican-controlled Senate in 2012 looks less likely than it did a few weeks ago, but the prospect for GOP gains is still quite solid.
April 2nd, 2012 11:12 AM
ABC's Bill Blakemore: 'America’s Prestige Damaged by Its Climate Den
One of ABC's chief global warming alarmists Bill Blakemore was at it again Sunday.
At the network's Nature and Environment website, Blakemore actually wrote, "America’s Prestige Damaged by Its Climate Denialism":
April 2nd, 2012 10:29 AM
Bobby Rush: 'Lynched' on the House Floor by Mississippi Republican
When Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie and sunglasses on the House floor as a stunt to publicize his opposition to the handling of Trayvon Martin's death in Florida, McClatchy News Service cooed, "For the 65-year-old former 1960s Black Panther Party activist, an act of civil disobedience never felt so good."
But Washington Post columnist Lisa Miller inflated the stunt way beyond its…
April 2nd, 2012 8:02 AM
Embarrassing Conduct by Schieffer: Cues Up Biden to Pontificate, But A
An embarrassing performance Sunday for CBS’s Bob Schieffer in the debut of the new hour-long format for Face the Nation. At least he should be embarrassed by the contrast in how he played sycophant to Vice President Joe Biden, treating him as an oracle of wisdom, while not being nearly so coddling with Newt Gingrich who he corrected and challenged. Schieffer cued up Biden to pontificate:…
April 2nd, 2012 4:00 AM
Walter Williams Column: Profiling and the Trayvon Martin Case
Right now, there isn't enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman's actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there's a larger issue that few people…
April 1st, 2012 10:08 PM
Study: Conservatives Lose Trust In Science
American conservatives have lost trust in science over the last 40 years while moderates and liberals have remained constant in the stock they put in the scientific community, a new study finds. The most educated conservatives have slipped the most, according to the research set to appear in the April issue of the journal American Sociological Review.
Gordon Gaulet, a postdoctoral researcher…
April 1st, 2012 8:49 PM