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CNN Fires the Associated Press
CNN has announced that it will cease using all content from the Associated Press effective June 30, and from all appearances will take a run at becoming a credible wire service competitor. Although it would be easy to dismiss this as the blind leaving the blind, this development seems like it has the potential to alter the news landscape and temper some of the worst excesses of press bias and…
Helen Thomas Called Al-Qaeda ‘So-Called Terrorists,’ ‘Some Peopl
Over the past couple of years, former Hearst columnist Helen Thomas had adopted a recurring habit of employing moral equivalency between al-Qaeda terrorists and the actions of the American military as, on at least three occasions, she referred to "so-called terrorists" or "so-called terrorism."In February 2009, after she used the term "so-called terrorists" in a White House briefing, she was…
Newsweek Blogger Claims Coverage of Tea Parties Not Harsh Enough
Adler misconstrues AP report in attack on grassroots conservatives
Media Ignore Arizona Critic's Previous Violent Video
Chuck D calls immigration law 'racist,' Gov. Brewer 'a Hitler,' but his previous song about state showed images of assassination.
Breaking: Nebraska Town Approves Ban on Hiring or Renting to Illegal I
Residents of Fremont, Nebraska, on Monday voted in favor of a measure that makes it illegal to harbor, hire, or rent property to an illegal immigrant.The Associated Press reported moments ago:The special election in Fremont on Monday was the latest proposal in a series of immigration regulations taken up by communities around the country. About 57 percent of voters supported the measure, which is…
CBS Poll Finds Tough Numbers for Obama on Oil Leak, But Couric Hides T
Katie Couric opened Monday's CBS Evening News by touting how “in a CBS News/New York Times poll out tonight, 43 percent of Americans approve of President Obama's handling of the spill. Only 13 percent approve of BP's efforts.” She offered no further details, such as how 47 percent disapprove of Obama's performance, and only those checking CBSNews.com would realize the selectivity in the…
Democratic Underground Administrator Posts Absurdly Detailed Rules to
The leftwing blogosphere has a big problem: dissent. Last week we saw Keith Olbermann leaving the Daily Kos because he was attacked there for mildly criticizing Barack Obama. And this week, the administrator of the Democratic Underground, David Allen aka Skinner, was forced to deal with a recent wave of purges (tombstoning). One reason was due to simple liberal crackup temper tantrums among the…
CNN Portray Their 'Gary and Tony' as Homosexual 'Role Models
CNN conducted two softball interviews with the subjects of their upcoming slanted documentary, "Gary and Tony Have a Baby," on Sunday and Monday. The network sympathized with the same-sex couple, hinting they were "role models" for the homosexual community, and made little effort to hide that they were advancing the agenda of homosexual activists.Anchor Don Lemon interviewed the two just before…
Fact Check Fail: Think Progress Cherry-Picks Evidence for Anti-Palin
Usually when you see something on the Center for American Progress' Think Progress blog, you ignore it (or at best take it with a grain of salt) because you know its fundamental objective is to score some inane point against conservatives or the Republican Party. But a June 21 post by Tanya Somanader, categorized as "Radical Right-Wing Agenda" was too hard to let go. In her post, "Fact Checking…
Think Progress Won't Let Facts Get in the Way of a Good Attack
Blogger argues validity of Emanuel attack on GOP since controversial comments by Joe Barton are 'evidenced' in a Republican Study Committee statement.
CBS Fawns Over Pay Czar Feinberg: He Speaks With 'Moral Authority' and
On the June 20th edition of Sunday Morning, CBS reporter Richard Schlesinger conducted a glowing interview with pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, lauding him as someone who speaks with "moral authority" and who has "become an expert assessor of the value of life itself." Feinberg, who will now be in charge of distributing the $20 billion BP has pledged for the oil spill, previously worked with President…
HuffPo Blogger: 'Eradicate' Fundamental Christianity
Author and blogger Frank Schaeffer really, really doesn't like what he calls "evangelical/fundamentalist" Christians. In the past, he's suggested that their "hatemongering" was responsible for the "continuing ugliness of the response to President Obama." And now, in a new blog on The Huffington Post, he's calling for the "eradication" of fundamentalist Christianity. "The next great task for the…