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ABC and NBC Describe Arizona Law as ‘Anti-Immigration’ and ‘Hars
Network anchors can’t resist misconstruing Arizona’s upcoming immigration enforcement law. The latest instances came Friday night when ABC and NBC caught up with news that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told an interviewer in Ecuador that the Obama administration will sue to block the law. Diane Sawyer erroneously described the anti-illegal immigration measure as “Arizona's controversial new…
AP Writers Criticize Foreign Oil Spill Aid Offers Because (Gasp!) They
A Friday report by reporters Matthew Lee and Eileen Sullivan indicates that there is a serious shortage of critical thinking skills over at the Associated Press, or a serious desire to run interference for the Obama administration no matter how ignorant doing so makes the wire service's reporters appear.Lee and Sullivan try to excuse the State Department's inaction on the vast majority of roughly…
Obama: Bond Forged At 'First Moments of Life' Is 'Sacred
Linking to Pres. Obama's Father's Day proclamation, Drudge focuses on the recognition PBO extends to two-father families.I'd say the message's very first sentence is even more noteworthy:"From the first moments of life, the bond forged between a father and a child is sacred."Surely Pres. Obama would agree that arcane arguments about viability notwithstanding, "the very first moments of life"…
Sunday Talk Shows All Start With BP Hayward's Yachting, Ignore Obama's
As NewsBusters previously reported, America's media on Saturday had a collective hissy fit over BP CEO Tony Hayward having the nerve to participate in a yacht race on his day off.At the same time, no such outrage was expressed concerning President Obama and Vice President Biden going golfing.This double standard continued Sunday as the three broadcast network political talk shows all began with…
Cynthia Tucker: Americans Are The Enemy Due To Oil 'Addiction
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker believes Americans are the enemy of the nation moving in a new energy direction because of what she called our addiction to oil.As the discussion on this weekend's "The Chris Matthews Show" moved to why President Obama hasn't attacked energy policy much like Eisenhower did the space program, Tucker said, "One of the differences between the '50's…
Howard Kurtz: Why Didn't Media Cover Etheridge Attack Like Allen's Mac
Howard Kurtz on Sunday said most mainstream media outlets "really blew it this week" in how they reported North Carolina Congressman Bob Etheridge's attack on students."Most treated it as intriguing footage or a good gossip item, but the guy went bonkers when approached by two young men with a video camera," Kurtz said near the end of CNN's "Reliable Sources."After playing the video of the…
NYer Editor: Media In 2008 Correctly Taken With Idea Of Electing Black
It's one thing for a so-called journalist to claim media members in 2008 were all taken with the historical notion of electing the country's first black President, but it's quite another to say they were right in doing so.Despite the seeming absurdity, this is exactly what the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of the New Yorker magazine told the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz Sunday.During the "…
NYT Defends Obama From Critics: Nobody Listens To Pundits Anymore
New York Times writer Adam Nagourney asked an interesting question Sunday: "Does It Matter if Obama Loses the Pundits?"The question was precipitated by the President's abysmal performance in his Tuesday Gulf Coast oil spill address and, in particular, how media members on both sides of the aisle gave him pretty poor grades.Finding this obviously inconvenient, Nagourney set out to defend Obama…
Oliver Stone Homage to Hugo Chavez Bombs in Venezuela
The Venezuelan people are forced to suffer through a marathon of Hugo Chavez appearances on their own television sets. Anything less than total adoration of the weekly host of "Aló Presidente" is severely punished. So with all this unwanted overexposure to the overbearing El Jefe, is it any wonder that Venezuelans are somewhat less than enthusiastic about shelling out their money to watch yet…
Open Thread: The History of Father's Day
Today is the 100th anniversary of America's official celebration of Father's Day.However, the tradition is much older than that with ties apparently going back as much as 4,000 years.With this in mind, to honor all the dads out there, what follows is a history of Father's Day courtesy our friends at The Holiday Spot:
In the Best of Hands (Not): Even AP's Borenstein Sees Problems With Ob
The presidential commission tasked with investigating the BP oil spill is so short on technical expertise and packed with left-leaning politicians and knee-jerk environmentalists that even the Associated Press's resident ClimateGate apologist Seth Borenstein is concerned. On December 12, 2009, over two weeks after the ClimateGate e-mails first appeared, Borenstein wrote that "the exchanges don't…