Pulitzer Prize-Winning WaPo Cartoonist Mocks Newt Gingrich: Americans

Ever since Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made his historically accurate claim that Palestinians are an "invented people," the Israel-hating media have been predictably on the attack. Doing his part Tuesday was Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles who offered readers a strip mocking the former Speaker of the House calling Americans an invented people:
Noel Sheppard
December 13th, 2011 9:28 AM

Scarborough: Like Beck, I'd Consider Third-Party Ron Paul Over Gingric

Today's Morning Joe has been one long festival of Gingrich gouging.   Joe Scarborough set the tone early. During the opening segment Scarborough announced that, like Glenn Beck, if the choice comes down to Obama vs. Gingrich, and Ron Paul is running as a third-party candidate, "I'm going to give him a long look." Video after the jump.
Mark Finkelstein
December 13th, 2011 8:59 AM

In Report on November Deficit, AP's Crutsinger Miscasts Post-9/11 Econ

Uncle Sam's Monthly Treasury Statement for November came out yesterday. The results: Tax collections through two months of the fiscal year are up 4.4% over fiscal 2010; spending is down 5.5%, but only because about $31 billion in checks which would ordinarily have gone out on October 1 (a Saturday) were sent on September 30; and the deficit of $235 billion is $55 billion less than last year.…
Tom Blumer
December 13th, 2011 8:53 AM

NYTimes Inflates Gingrich's Israel Support to 'Damaging,' Distracting

New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel, covering the Gingrich campaign, inflated conventional pro-Israel, anti-"peace process" opinions delivered by Newt Gingrich into a diplomatic drama about Gingrich scrapping the two-state solution worthy of "damage control," in Saturday’s “Gingrich Suggests a Reversal of Mideast Policy.”
Clay Waters
December 13th, 2011 7:52 AM

Clooney Loves Leftist CBS: Plans New Smothers Brothers Movie

George Clooney just can't get over the glory days when CBS was a powerful disseminator of left-wing propaganda. First, he fictionalized the glories of stone-faced anchorman Edward R. Murrow fighting the red-baiters. Next up is glorifying the Smothers Brothers and their CBS comedy hour and how they "spoke truth to power" with communist musicians like Pete Seeger singing "Waist Deep in the Big…
Tim Graham
December 13th, 2011 7:16 AM

Time Magazine Pictures Rupert Murdoch As An Arab Dictator

In the December 19 edition of Time magazine, humor columnist Joel Stein pleased the liberals in his "Year of the Meltdown" review of 2011 by comparing Fox News-owning mogul Rupert Murdoch to murderous despots: "Throughout the year, leaders who for decades had ruthlessly wielded absolute power melted down: Zine al Abedine Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Gaddafi, Rupert Murdoch." Since it wasn'…
Tim Graham
December 13th, 2011 6:43 AM

Post Spins History to Attack Business

Reparations story calls slavery a crime and fails to remind readers that it really wasnt.
Dan Gainor
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

CBS Attacks Amgen for Not Distributing Drug

Dan Gainor
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

Why Not Global Warming

Plenty of experts have said theres no evidence global warming caused Katrina, but the media continue to ask the same question.
R. Warren Anderson
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

Scorn on the Bayou The Political Economics of Katrina

Noel Sheppard
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

A Flood of Incomplete Insurance Coverage

As the media point out that hurricane victims insurance coverage is lacking, news coverage also lacks some key points.
Amy Menefee
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

Lou Dobbs Lobbies for Unions to Bring Home the Bacon

CNN bashes big business with union spokesman, ignoring the truth about wages and workers in the Katrina reconstruction.
Charles Simpson
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

A Tough Pill to Swallow

Post spins new drug study to criticize drugmakers even though thats not what the researcher said.
Dan Gainor
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM

NBC Adds to Storm of Climate Change Stories

Network emphasized controversial new study without even a discouraging word.
Dan Gainor
December 12th, 2011 10:57 PM