WaPo Runs Entire Story of Leftist Praise for Suspected Wiki-Leaker 'He

On Saturday, The Washington Post devoted an entire article to left-wing praise and Facebook fan pages for Private Bradley Manning, suspected of the shocking leak of more than 90,000 documents on the war in Afghanistan. The headline was "Army analyst linked to WikiLeaks hailed as antiwar hero." Washington Post reporter Michael W. Savage (not that other Michael Savage) began: "For antiwar…
Tim Graham
August 15th, 2010 8:25 AM

CNN’s Blitzer Presses Crist on Party Preference, ‘You Just Can’t

During an interview on Saturday’s The Situation Room with independent Florida Senate candidate and Governor Charlie Crist, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer pressed the former Republican to announce which party he would choose to caucus with if he is elected to the Senate, and brought up his current associations with Democrats and flip-flops toward more liberal positions.As Crist repeatedly tried to evade…
Brad Wilmouth
August 15th, 2010 3:32 AM

Reader Scolds Washington Post: There Are No 'Liberals' on the Supreme

Crazies on the left allow journalists to see themselves as under siege from both sides of the spectrum, and thus must be playing it down the middle. To wit: Saturday’s Washington Post carried a letter from a reader upset the newspaper had reported the Supreme Court has “four firm liberals.” Robert B. McNeil Jr., of Alexandria, insisted “there hasn't been even a single ‘liberal’ on the court in…
Brent Baker
August 15th, 2010 2:34 AM

Fox News Watch: Jim Pinkerton Cites CMI Piece on Ground Zero Mosque

Jim Pinkerton on Saturday cited a Culture and Media Institute article about the hypocritical reporting of the proposed Ground Zero mosque.On Thursday, CMI's Alana Goodman noted in a piece cross-posted at sister site NewsBusters: Ground Zero mosque organizer Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has been described by the media as a "moderate" and a "bridge-builder." But not too long ago, the same news outlets…
NB Staff
August 14th, 2010 11:47 PM

Some Media Tag Serial Stabber as ‘Israeli National,’ Others See

When reporting on the nationality of a criminal from another country who has already been arrested, it normally would be considered unnecessary or even uncalled for to take the extra step of explicitly identifying the suspect’s ethnicity or religious affiliation as well. But, given that Israelis, the vast majority of whom are Jewish, often face sharp criticism and negative press reaction over…
Brad Wilmouth
August 14th, 2010 11:14 PM

After Rare Lapse Into Lucidity, Ed Schultz Reverts to Inane Conspiracy

Why does Ed Schultz think Wall Street and "big business" are sitting on $1 trillion in assets?Depends on what week you ask him.Here's what Schultz said about that during a contentious discussion on July 26 with publisher Mort Zuckerman on MSNBC's "The Ed Show," as rebroadcast the following day on Schultz's radio show (click here for audio) --
Jack Coleman
August 14th, 2010 10:36 PM

Daily Kos: Exposing Our Dumbest Quotes Ensures There's 'No Meaningful

It's bad enough that the Daily Kos posts outrageous claims like “the 9/11 attacks were horrific, but they were more about optics than actual harm.” When bizarre sentences like these are exposed, then the exposers are accused of being enemies of “meaningful dialogue.” What is meaningful in telling the families of the victims of 9/11 that their losses were more “optics” than “actual harm”? But that…
Tim Graham
August 14th, 2010 10:18 PM

Gallup Poll Finds Continuing Mistrust of Newspapers, Television News

Lymari Morales at Gallup reports that confidence in the news media remains low. Remember when they suggest high negatives for politicians, they are hardly popular, either. They're "on par with Americans' lackluster confidence in banks and slightly better than their dismal rating of Health Management Organizations and big business." The report began: Americans continue to express near-record-low…
Tim Graham
August 14th, 2010 8:37 PM

Juan Williams: Media Always Make Blacks the Victims and Whites the Per

Juan Williams on Saturday said when it comes to news stories about race, America's media always make black people the victims and white people the perpetrators. As the discussion on "Fox News Watch" turned to last week's murders at a Hartford, Connecticut, beer distributor, host Jon Scott read clippings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press all claiming the killer…
Noel Sheppard
August 14th, 2010 8:09 PM

Charles Krauthammer Smacks Down Mark Shields Over Rostenkowski's Legac

Syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer on Friday smacked down PBS's Mark Shields in a discussion about late Rep. Dan Rostenkowski's legacy.As the conversation on this week's "Inside Washington" turned to the passing of the former powerful Democrat, Shields swooned liked so many of his colleagues: Danny Rostenkowski was a throwback...he worked across the aisle. I mean, he was just phenomenal…
Noel Sheppard
August 14th, 2010 5:37 PM

USA Today Incorrectly Reports Reggie Bush Apologized to USC Athletic D

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush has caused a lot of problems for his alma mater, University of Southern California. While playing at USC, Bush accepted cash and gifts from a wannabee sports agent which later caused the NCAA to impose harsh sanctions upon USC including four years of probation and banishment from the 2010 and 2011 bowl games. Because of his actions, Bush apologized to…
P.J. Gladnick
August 14th, 2010 1:41 PM

NYT's Charles Blow Defends Sarah Palin from Democrat Death Wishes

New York Times columnist Charles Blow on Saturday actually defended former governor Sarah Palin from death wish attacks by two Democrat officials in New Hampshire.In case you missed it, on Tuesday Keith Halloran, a Democrat candidate for the New Hampshire House, posted in a Facebook thread about the plane crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, "Just wish Sarah and Levy [sic] were on…
Noel Sheppard
August 14th, 2010 1:18 PM

Time Mag’s Klein Goes from Bush Delivering ‘Coolest Presidential I

The August 16 Weekly Standard highlighted a striking change in views from Time’s Joe Klein, whose take seems to have changed to fit what’s fashionable. On August 2, in a “Swampland” blog post looking at President Obama’s speech touting the end of combat operations in Iraq, Klein fretted it “will not be remembered as vividly as George Bush's juvenile march across the deck of an aircraft carrier,…
Brent Baker
August 14th, 2010 1:07 PM

NYT's Herbert Rips Obama: He Should Have Exclusively Focused On Jobs

Are even the most liberal media members starting to realize the administration's "Recovery Summer" campaign was a complete joke?Such appears to be the case for New York Times columnist Bob Herbert who on Saturday published a piece absolutely excoriating President Obama for not exclusively focusing on jobs after his inauguration last year:The Obama administration seems to be feeling sorry for…
Noel Sheppard
August 14th, 2010 12:23 PM