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CNN Keeps Supporting Gun Control Advocates After Wisconsin Shooting
After forcing gun control into headlines only hours after the July 20 Aurora massacre, CNN gave a voice to anti-gun advocates on Monday and Tuesday in the wake of Sunday's Wisconsin shooting.
The network hosted three guests who pushed for gun control on-air, and correspondent Dan Lothian highlighted prominent gun control advocates like Mayor Bloomberg in his Tuesday morning report.
August 7th, 2012 4:08 PM
Bernie Goldberg: Journalists Are Obama's 'Most Loyal Base
Bill O'Reilly and commentator Bernard Goldberg on Monday night touted a new Media Research Center study that found 86 percent of stories on Mitt Romney's international trip emphasized "diplomatic blunders." Goldberg derided the soft coverage Barack Obama receives, asserting, "...Journalists are Barack Obama's most loyal base. They will not abandon him." [See video below.]
He added that…
August 7th, 2012 3:35 PM
New NYT 'Agenda' Section, Same Old Bias: John Broder Bashes 'Simplisti
New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane on July 29 introduced The Agenda, a special online campaign section that promises to put the "big issues" on the table and "outline potential solutions." Brisbane hoped the special online section would "elevate debate" on substantive issues, but so far it's functioning as an excuse for reporters to call for liberal solutions to imagined problems like…
August 7th, 2012 3:11 PM
AP's Ohlemacher Pretends That Social Security Has 'Funds,' When All It
The modern equivalent of a broken record, which used to be a common saying about someone who says the same thing over and over, is the "infinite loop" -- "a sequence of instructions in a computer program which loops (i.e., repeats) endlessly."
On Social Security, the establishment press has played a false infinite loop for decades, namely that its "trust fund" contains lots of real assets.…
August 7th, 2012 2:44 PM
Chick-fil-A Coverage Exposes Media's Anti-Christian Bias, Double Stand
More than 20 conservative leaders joined Media Research Center president Brent Bozell in raising their voices in support of religious freedom and our Constitutionally protected right to free speech as part of the Coalition Against Religious Bigotry (CARB).
The leaders said the controversy over Chick-fil-A exposed the rampant anti-Christian bias and First Amendment double standard…
August 7th, 2012 2:24 PM
Dirty Cartoons: Viewer Discretion Advised
If the recent past and present are any kind of guide, there won’t be much of anything in TV comedy for principled adults to look forward to. Each season sees a little more depravity and immaturity, to the point where juvenile sex humor is almost ubiquitous.
Comedy Central is prepping a new animated series for release this fall. Titled “Brickleberry”, it appears to have one purpose in mind --…
August 7th, 2012 2:15 PM
Time Columnist Compares Chick-fil-A to South African Apartheid
In the August 13 edition of Time magazine, "humor" columnist Joel Stein compared eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich to rock musicians playing at Sun City in South Africa during the apartheid era of racial segregation.
"As a guy who is very pro-gay rights, I desperately wished I'd eaten that chicken sandwich before it became symbolic," he wrote.
August 7th, 2012 2:14 PM
'Brickleberry' to Explore New Wilds of TV Tastlessness
Got an animated show, but you're tired of boring sex jokes? Try boring sex jokles with woodland creatures!
August 7th, 2012 1:32 PM
There He Goes Again: Brian Ross Highlights Shooter's Neo-Nazi Links as
ABC journalist Brian Ross, who on July 20 smeared the Tea Party as connected to a mass killing in Colorado, on Tuesday described the racist views of another shooter and his connection to Nazi, "right-wing" groups.
After explaining Wade Page's links to violent, bigoted groups, Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos wondered how this murderer could have purchased a gun, Ross…
August 7th, 2012 12:25 PM
Former NYT Editor in Chief Bill Keller Hits at Mitt, 'Far Right' Talki
In his Monday online column, "The Leak Police," former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller worked in a cheap shot against Mitt Romney while arguing that the Obama administration "without really setting out to do so, already surpassed all previous administrations in its prosecution of leakers, has begun new investigations into disclosures by The Times, Newsweek, The Associated Press and…
August 7th, 2012 12:19 PM
NBC Touts Obama Admin Plan to Avoid Iraq-Style 'Chaos' in Syria, Even
Introducing a report on the ongoing civil war in Syria on Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams made sure to promote PR from the White House: "...the State Department and the Pentagon are now working together on plans for Syria after Assad, hoping to avoid the chaos they believe broke out because of the lack of planning for a post-Saddam Iraq." [Listen to the audio or watch the video…
August 7th, 2012 12:13 PM
MSNBC's Joan Walsh Knocks 'Military' Catholic Bishops as 'an Unregiste
On Monday, Joan Walsh continued her crusade against conservatives when she authored an article entitled "Mitt's loathsome lie" for Salon.com. This piece, which was supposed to focus on the Department of Justice lawsuit in Ohio to block a law which extends early voting privileges to active-duty military members, evolves from criticism to a bizarre claim that Catholic bishops are part of a "…
August 7th, 2012 11:38 AM
Open Thread: ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Harming Other Democrats
Even though President Obama's remark that business entrepreneurs "didn't build" their own successes was made weeks ago, it is still continuing to harm him among voters. Now, it is also starting to harm other Democrats besides Obama:
August 7th, 2012 10:42 AM