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Henican On Mosque: Pundits Shouldn't Be As 'Ignorant' As Other America
Talk about your teachable moments, the Ground Zero mosque controversy has taught us in just what contempt some in the liberal media hold their fellow Americans.As I noted here, last week on MSNBC, Cenk Uygur accused Americans who oppose the mosque of being "ignorant." Washington Post blogger Joel Achenbach upped the ante, calling Americans "numbskulls, dumb, ill-informed, paranoid, gullible and…
'So-called Gay Mafia' Adding Bias to the New York Times
The Times Business section Wednesday carried a press release of a story headlined "A Resort for Gays Rises in Manhattan: Similar Nightlife Complexes Are Springing Up in Several Cities." Reporter Beth Greenfield talked to no one in this story except the gay entrepreneurs behind the forthcoming "Out NYC Urban Resort." The text box was "Looking for 'a concentrated feeling of community.'" There's…
On Martha’s Vineyard, 'Miss Me Yet?' Bush T-Shirts Outselling 'I Vac
Picking up on a nugget (my tweet) surprisingly included in a Wednesday Boston Globe article, on Thursday night FNC’s Bret Baier reported in his “Grapevine” segment: “President Bush is apparently more popular than President Obama on Martha's Vineyard – at least when it comes to clothing.” Baier relayed the day the First Family arrived on the Massachusetts island:When the First Family vacationed…
Bozell Column: Sleazy Songs of Summer
Ever wonder what those teenagers are listening to while wearing those iPod earphones? Maybe you'd rather not know. You will be horrified.The Culture and Media Institute recently reviewed the top pop songs from May through July. To say that hedonism is in the air is an understatement. Of the 22 songs on the charts, a whopping 64 percent made at least one reference to sex, drugs or alcohol, or…
FNC Cites NB Item Noting NYT Buried Story of Tom DeLay Charges Being D
On Saturday’s Fox News Watch on FNC, substitute host Eric Shawn picked up on a NewsBusters item which recounted that, after the Justice Department dropped charges against former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay, the New York Times buried the news on page A-18 while the Washington Post, by contrast, made room for the story on its front page. Shawn: "The Justice Department has dropped its…
Rich Lowry Smacks Down Fox Lib: Media Stopped Covering Iraq When We St
Rich Lowry on Saturday had a fabulous exchange with one of Fox News's many liberal contributors over why the media stopped covering Iraq.As the discussion on "Fox News Watch" turned to this week's troop withdrawal, the National Review editor claimed wartime press reports are "extremely defeatist all through the prism of Vietnam and then if we succeed it kind of ends in a whimper."Newsday's Ellis…
NYT's Charles Blow: Obama Is Not Good For Jews
"Is President Obama good for the Jews?" asked New York Times columnist Charles Blow Saturday.His answer was quite surprising: "For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no." In his piece marvelously titled "Oy Vey, Obama," Blow referred to Thursday's Pew Research Center report finding "33% of Jewish voters identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, up from 20% in 2008." From…
Glenn Beck: 'Rick Sanchez Is The Dumbest Man Ever On Television
Glenn Beck on Thursday told his radio audience that CNN's Rick Sanchez is the dumbest man ever on television.As NewsBusters has been chronicling the bumblings and stumblings of Sanchez for quite some time, we're certainly not going to take the other side of this debate.Even if we tried, it would be difficult for the conservative talker highlighted many of this genius's missteps that we've…
Eight Years of Bias: The Liberal Media vs. the War in Iraq
The peaceful departure of the last U.S. combat forces from Iraq this week was another milestone towards the successful end of a war that many liberal journalists declared lost four years ago. Since early 2009, the war in Iraq has been a relatively low priority for the national press, which has focused on decrying the war in Afghanistan and cheerleading the Obama administration’s aggressive…
Olbermann Rips 'Racist' Nugent for Speaking at Beck Rally He's NOT Goi
Keith Olbermann on Friday evening once again stuck his foot in his mouth on national television when he bashed Ted Nugent for appearing at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally next Saturday.Problem is Nugent is booked at the Boise Knitting Factory Concert House that night, and won't be attending the Beck event.But this actually wasn't the only fact Olbermann got wrong on MSNBC's "Countdown," for…
Valerie Plame 'Fair Game' Movie Tosses Name Leaker Richard Armitage Do
The only way we even know the name of Valerie Plame (and fame seeking hubby Joe Wilson) is that that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage leaked her name as a CIA officer to columnist Robert Novak. That is what set in motion the long drawn out Plamegate affair in which only Scooter Libby was convicted of something other than leaking her name. So you would figure that the supposedly…
AP Praises Democrat Push To Abolish Filibuster
If you're a Democratic Senator floundering in the polls and about to lose a reliably blue seat, what's the best way to boost your image? Call up the Associated Press and spout clichés about reforming politics. It worked pretty well for one Michael Bennet, freshman Senator from Colorado. On Thursday, AP writer Jim Abrams interviewed him about a host of suggestions to change the rules in the…