CNN's Chetry Worried Public is Taking Steps Backward on Global Warming

American Morning host interviews explorer attempting to draw attention to global warming and expresses concern over an increasingly skeptical public.
Jeff Poor
October 18th, 2010 5:37 PM

Cuckoos for Daily Kos: Now the GOP Is 'Openly and Militantly Totalitar

With the Democrats losing so badly in the polls, the bloggers of the Daily Kos are coming more unglued than usual. The diarist going by the name "Troubadour" predicted on Monday "This Could Get Ugly." In other words, the GOP are going to start killing liberals: The difficult thing about dealing with a frenzied totalitarian movement like today's Republican Party is not only do they not take "…
Tim Graham
October 18th, 2010 4:59 PM

CBS Story on 'Fighter' Alan Grayson Ignores False 'Taliban Dan' Ad

In a story on Florida Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson's bid for reelection on Sunday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Michelle Miller described the left-wing bomb thrower this way: "Freshman Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson considers himself a fighter....Whether taking on the foreclosure mess or the Republican Party." Miller briefly referred to Grayson's history of controversial…
Kyle Drennen
October 18th, 2010 4:43 PM

HuffPo Writer Gives Christians a Fair Hearing in Embryonic Stem Cell R

In a surprisingly balanced piece, Huffington Post columnist John Lundberg demonstrated sensitivity to Christians outraged by the sacrilege committed in a controversial poem written to promote stem cell awareness. Tyson Anderson wrote winning verse for the October 13 Stem Cell Awareness Day contest sponsored by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. “This is my body, which is…
Erin R. Brown
October 18th, 2010 4:14 PM

LA Times: 'Jim DeMint Relishes Life On the Republican Fringe

Conservative Republican Senator "Jim DeMint relishes life on the Republican fringe," a teaser headline on the website for the Los Angeles Times noted this afternoon (see screen capture below at right). "The South Carolina senator's refusal to compromise has made him a conservative hero. He showers cash on 'tea party' candidates like Sharron Angle and Rand Paul, but he's winning few friends in…
Ken Shepherd
October 18th, 2010 3:52 PM

In CNN's America, We're Heavily Black and Muslim

CNN, like many liberal media outlets, is very interested in diversity -- in race, creed, sexual preference, everything but ideology.  But check out this image today, as CNN launched a new marketing gimmick asking viewers to fill in the sentence "My America Is...." If we're going to get into bean-counting here, judging from the graphic behind anchorman Tony Harris today, America is majority-…
Tim Graham
October 18th, 2010 3:29 PM

GLAAD Rejects Comedic Actor Vince Vaughn's Defense of 'Gay' Joke

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation isn't backing down when it comes to bullying its way into protected-class status. The gay advocacy group has rejected actor Vince Vaughn’s defense of using the term “gay” to describe electric cars in his yet-to-be released movie, “The Dilemma.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, a post on the official GLAAD website rebutted, “Vince is right.…
Erin R. Brown
October 18th, 2010 2:12 PM

'Bald-Faced Lies' in Pennsylvania? Scranton Newspaper Distorts ObamaCa

The Scranton Times-Tribune on Thursday attacked a conservative organization's radio ad for supposedly spreading "bald-faced lies" about the sale of three Scranton-area Catholic hospitals, and labeled the organization "political hit-and-run artists who pervert the facts." The newspaper's attack-editorial actually glossed over what it had earlier reported on ObamaCare's effect on hospitals and…
Matthew Balan
October 18th, 2010 1:51 PM

Arianna Footing Bus Fare for 14,000 People - 250 Buses - to 'Restore S

Astroturfing when committed by conservatives -- as contemptible as it gets, according to liberals. Astroturfing when committed by liberals -- problem, what problem? In other words, do as we say, not as we do too.
Jack Coleman
October 18th, 2010 1:25 PM

In Alaska, It Could Be Miller Time

You know Lee Greenwood: He's the country-music star who hit patriotic pay dirt with his 1980s hit song "God Bless the U.S.A." Joe Miller, the Republican nominee for Senate in Alaska, looks much like Greenwood, to the point that he could easily be mistaken for the singer if he ever strolled through Nashville. And, listening to Miller speak, you hear echoes of Greenwood's famous tune. The tea…
Kathryn Jean Lopez
October 18th, 2010 1:18 PM

CBS Puffs Pelosi: 'One of the Most Effective Speakers in Congressional

On CBS's Sunday Morning, correspondent Rita Braver conducted a fawning interview with Nancy Pelosi, portraying the widely unpopular Speaker of the House as a strong leader taking on her opponents: "Nancy Pelosi is considered one of the most effective speakers in congressional history....Believe it or not, Republicans are out to fire Pelosi and Madam Speaker is firing back." Braver began the…

Kyle Drennen
October 18th, 2010 1:18 PM

Sneering MSNBC Slams GOP Candidates as 'American Freak Show

Sometimes the bias is extremely clear: A MSNBC graphic on Monday mocked GOP senatorial candidates with the headline, "American Freakshow [sic] Angle, Paul, O'Donnell: New Faces in Politics." American Freak Show is also the title of guest Willie Geist's new book on politics, but all the apparent "freaks" discussed in the piece were Republicans. Geist complained to Jansing and Co. host Chris…
Scott Whitlock
October 18th, 2010 12:42 PM

Barely News: RIP, Dr. Mildred Jefferson

Most readers are probably unaware that the first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School who was also the first female surgical intern at Boston City Hospital passed away this weekend. Though the wire service did file a brief local story, the Associated Press's national site has no coverage of Dr. Mildred Jefferson's death.  I would suggest that the coverage is so…
Tom Blumer
October 18th, 2010 11:59 AM

NBC's Lauer Wonders if 'Tag Team' of Barack and Michelle Can Recapture

     NBC's Matt Lauer, at the top of Monday's Today show, touted the arrival of Michelle Obama on the campaign trail, as he trumpeted: "Tag team, the President and First Lady campaign together for the first time since 2008" and added that the President "pulled out his not so secret weapon at a rally in Ohio...the First Lady." Lauer, seemingly looking for any signs of hope for the Democrats,…
Geoffrey Dickens
October 18th, 2010 11:47 AM