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The Horror, the Horror: Eco-Carpetbagger Rachel Maddow Recoils From Sp
Do you live near wetlands? Worse still, in a subdivision near wetlands? If so, please hold your head in shame and make Rachel Maddow's day. Reporting on the BP spill from Louisiana last week, MSNBC's self-proclaimed geek spent considerable time talking about the importance of wetlands. "Land like this is life or death, not only for the wildlife that lives there, and boy howdy do they have some…
A New Reuters Anti-Israel Photography Scandal
During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the news agency Reuters admitted that one of its pictures of smoke and destruction caused by Israel's bombing of Beirut had been augmented in a Photoshop program by photographer Adnan Hajj. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz yesterday reported Reuters was under fire again yesterday for manipulating photographs in a bias against Israel, this time in the Gaza…
Eminem Wants to Change, But Still 'Not Afraid' to Swear
Rapper talks of taking fatherhood seriously while using his usual explicit language.
Network news programs still bashing Israel over flotilla incident
Media give more time top pro-Palestinian arguments, ignore 'activist' ties to terrorist organizations.
Salon.com Equates Helen Thomas to Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity
'Broadsheet' columnist Anna Clark blames White House press room fixture's downfall on ageism and sexism.
Media Promote Gay-Funded Study of Lesbian Parents
Time, U.S. News, others fail to mention report authored by lesbian, funded by advocacy groups
NBC Leads by Touting Obama Showing 'Anger' by Promising to 'Kick Ass
Insular liberal-media cycle: Liberal columnists demand that President Obama show “anger” over BP's oil leak, Obama promises NBC's Matt Lauer that he's determining “whose ass to kick” and so Brian Williams – trumpeting “this is just into us” -- leads the NBC Nightly News with how “the President showed some anger on the topic of his handling of this spill so far.”Williams announced Monday night: “…
MSNBC's Scarborough Slams Conservative Foreign Policy as 'Dangerous' a
In the May/June issue of “Cato Policy Report,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough lamented conservative foreign policy as overly dogmatic and ideological and questioned whether winning the war in Afghanistan is in America’s national security interest.“Dogma and rigid ideologies are the enemies of conservative foreign policy,” lectured Scarborough. “Those who are still arguing in 2010 that we can somehow…
HuffPo's Stein: 'Anti-War Voices Fret' Loss of Helen Thomas in Briefin
Well that didn't take long. The folks at the left-wing MoveOn.org are practically in mourning over Helen Thomas's "retirement."Just a few hours after news broke that Hearst columnist Helen Thomas is calling it quits after a viral video of her anti-Semitic comments led to widespead condemnation of the White House press corps dean.Sam Stein of the Huffington Post has the story:The abrupt retirement…
Joe Scarborough Lobbies: Elderly Helen Thomas Not Responsible, Shouldn
Hours before it was announced that she would retire on Monday, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough defended Helen Thomas, saying that the 89-year-old journalist shouldn't be held responsible for her comments that Jews should "go home" and "get the hell out of Palestine." The Morning Joe host pleaded, "I think you cut her slack at 89." With a rather condescending view of the elderly, Scarborough suggested, "…
Rove: W.H. Press Assoc. Credentialed 'Homeless' Reporter the Bush Admi
What is going on within the White House Correspondents' Association? While some can argue they allowed embattled former Hearst Newspapers' columnist Helen Thomas to hold a coveted position in the White House briefing room for far too long after she made some remarks to be considered anti-Semitic, there's some other bizarre stories surfacing. Former Bush administration Deputy Chief of Staff Karl…
After Ignoring Left's Attacks on Conservative Women, Newsweek Gets Ups
Sexism is a selective phenomenon for much of the media. It seems even satirical or light-hearted content, when produced by conservatives, has the amazing ability to acquire the label while even the most vitriolic and derogatory liberal writings can avoid it.RightWingNews, the popular conservative blog, surely knew it would garner some disdain from the left in publishing its 2010 edition of the "…
NYT's Nagourney Finds Yet More Reasons for GOP to Worry in 2010, This
Adam's alchemy: Former New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney has a gift for turning winning conservative issues into inconvenient political losers for Republicans. Nagourney is now based in California, but he packed his old biased habits, which were on display in Saturday's Times story "In California, Immigration Debate Defines the G.O.P. Race for Governor."Nagourney argued…