Fake But Accurate? Dan Rather-Style Journalism Excused for Animal Docu

It seems that Dan Rather-style journalism, putting forth fake information to promote the supposed greater good, extends to animal documentaries as well. On Tuesday's Nightline, reporter John Donvan exposed this dishonesty in a lengthy segment. But he also partially defended the practice of   falsifying scenes of animals in the wild in order to promote conservation. He even featured a participant…
Scott Whitlock

Ed Schultz Tells One Nation Rally 'Conservatives Are Holding You Down

Ed Schultz told the One Nation rally in Washington, D.C., Saturday that conservatives are holding the American people down and want discrimination. "The conservative voices of America, they are holding you down," said Schultz. "They don't believe in your freedom. They want the concentration of wealth. They've shipped your job overseas...They suppress your vote." Not sounding at all like a uniting…
Noel Sheppard

NYT's Blow: Republicans Better Informed Than Blacks and Hispanics

Here's something you wouldn't expect to read in the New York Times: Republicans are better informed about political issues than blacks, Hispanics, and young people."Big-city liberals and their blogging buddies love to paint Tea Partiers as yokels with incoherent candidates and language-mauling signs," began Charles Blow's column Saturday."The unpleasant fact that these liberals rarely mention,…
Noel Sheppard

Greta Van Susteren Smacks Down 'Delusional' Allred: It's 'Unthinkable

Greta Van Susteren on Friday absolutely skewered Gloria Allred, the attorney representing California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's former housekeeper.In a fiery nine minute discussion on Fox's "On the Record," the host accused her guest of being "unthinkable" and "rotten" by bringing this issue to light, especially right before an election.  "You're getting your client deported…
Noel Sheppard

DNC $1 Mil Fundraiser Held at Former ABC Reporter's Home

The arrangement described here is so journalistically incestuous I was considering hanging an NC-17 (or worse) rating on this post. You see, the husband of a former longtime ABC reporter held a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the couple's home Thursday night at which President Barack Obama appeared for 15 minutes. The reporter's husband was on the Obama campaign's national finance…
Tom Blumer

Bill Maher Calls Republicans 'A Deadly Enemy

After telling his audience that his job isn't to "carry water for this or any administration," Bill Maher on Friday closed his show with a campaign speech begging viewers to support Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. "When it comes to voting, when we only have two choices, you got to grow up and realize there's a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy," said…
Noel Sheppard

Krauthammer Takes on Entire 'Inside Washington' Panel -- Again, Over A

Think President Barack Obama has thin skin? How could one not, after the attacks on media personalities like Rush Limbaugh or his on-the-record comments about the liberal blogs and Fox News? On PBS’s Oct. 2 broadcast of “Inside Washington,” NPR’s Nina Totenberg pointed out the left-wing blogosphere has been critical of Obama, yet she chalked it up as just being “whiny.” “Inside Washington”…
Jeff Poor

Saturday Sports Open Thread

Between the Ryder Cup, the end of baseball's regular season, and some great college football match-ups, this is a sports fan's dream Saturday!
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Open Thread: Gore Called A Fraud At Dem Rally In Florida

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'Serious Insider' Tells CNBC's Kudlow NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Next

'The Call' co-host says Rouse replacing Rahm a signal White House 'not reaching out to business,' 'nothing going to change.'
Jeff Poor

Bozell Column: Shame on Family Films

Don’t read Newsweek magazine while drinking a beverage. A spit take is the obvious first reaction to a column by Julia Baird headlined “The Shame of Family Films.” On the Internet, this article is coded as “Why family films are so sexist.” Baird's denunciation of Hollywood's fraction of decent entertainment began: “They have all been smash hits: ‘Finding Nemo,’ ‘Madagascar,’ ‘Ice Age,’ ‘Toy Story…
Brent Bozell

Psst! Ford Cuts GM's Lead in Half in Sept.; GM Completes Acquisition o

Government/General Motors saw its total vehicle sales fall in September to 173,031 from 185,105 in August. At the same time, Ford's sales increased from to 157,327 to 160,375. Thus, what was an almost 28,000-vehicle lead for GM in August shrank by more than half to less than 13,000 in September. No one has a crystal ball, of course, but if GM falls and Ford surges by similar amounts in October,…
Tom Blumer

Kathleen Parker: I'm 'Slightly to the Right of Center;' Fan of Obama

On Thursday's Larry King Live, future anchor Kathleen Parker verified her tenuous conservative credentials, as she identified herself as a "conservative," but added, "a pox on everybody's house, as far as I'm concerned." She later confessed that she "would put myself...slightly to the right of center," and that she was "a big fan of Barack Obama as he came into office...I didn't want him to fail…
Matthew Balan

Open Thread: CNN Fires Rick Sanchez

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