At Smith College, Maddow Whacks Bush's 'Super-Corrupt Criminal Governm

Following up on Brian Williams offering a Bush-bashing commencement address at Notre Dame, the liberal all-female Smith College naturally invited MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for her own Bush-bashing graduation speech on Sunday. Maddow, whose every profile seems to boast of her bartending talents, began her address by expressing horror at Carry Nation, the bar-smashing temperance activist of the…
Tim Graham

Treatment of Souder Resignation Illustrates AP and NYT's Double Standa

Today, the Associated Press generally did what is supposed to do when reporting on scandal-plagued politicians. Here are the first five paragraphs of the AP's brief report on Indiana Congressman Mark Souder's resignation announcement (link is dynamic and will probably be updated; "where's the worst one we can find?" picture of Souder at top right is via AP): Here's the opening of the coverage…
Tom Blumer

WaPo Worries DOJ Memo Could 'Complicate Challenge of Arizona Immigrati

"Memo from 2002 could complicate challenge of Arizona immigration law," lamented the Washington Post in a Web site headline today. Staffer Jerry Markon explained in his 11-paragraph story -- which ran on page A17 in the print edition* -- that the Obama/Holder Department of Justice (DOJ) has not rescinded a Bush administration memo that "concluded that state police officers have 'inherent power'…
Ken Shepherd

Did Rachel Maddow Know Non-Existent Offshore Oil Royalties Claim Was F

... Sure looks like it, based on what Maddow said on her MSNBC program during separate shows last week.Here's Maddow on May 12 talking about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, congressional hearings on the disaster, and "climate change legislation" --MADDOW: In the shadow of the BP oil disaster, jaw-dropping hearings, senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced climate change legislation in…
Jack Coleman

NBC's Vieira To Gingrich: Is A Strong Tea Party Good for GOP

NBC's Meredith Vieira, on Tuesday's Today show, in a segment breaking down today's primary races with Newt Gingrich, cited a possible Rand Paul win over Trey Grayson in the GOP Kentucky Senate primary fight as an example of the Tea Party's strength and actually wondered if that was a cause of concern for the GOP. Vieira pressed the former Speaker of the House: "If Rand Paul wins, that's good news…
Geoffrey Dickens

Texas Considering Giving State Funding to Anti-Arizona Immigration Fil

Taxpayers may be forced to foot a portion of the bill for a new movie that has become a stark -- and violent -- message against the recently passed Arizona immigration law. The liberal political stance is nothing new in the movie world. That the film is still being considered for indirect public funding, however, is quite striking.An online trailer for the film "Machete," released on Cinco de…
Lachlan Markay

Too Late: Polanski’s Chief Media Apologists Attempt to Backtrack

Editor's Note: The following was originally published yesterday at Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog.After news broke of fugitive child rapist Roman Polanski’s second accuser, the L.A. Times’  Patrick Goldstein wrote the following: As an admirer of his work, I’ve tried to see things from Polanski’s point of view in the past, but if these charges turn out to be true, it would be harder…
John Nolte

CBS Skips Any Mention of Dem Senate Candidate's Military Scandal, NBC

CBS's Early Show on Tuesday completely ignored the front page New York Times story on Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal and his claims to have "served in Vietnam," despite having never done so. NBC's Today mentioned the subject once in a news brief, but anchor Ann Curry described the Connecticut Democrat only as a "U.S. Senate candidate." On ABC's Good Morning America, co-host…
Scott Whitlock

Phoenix Mayor Gordon Blames Lack of 'Fairness' Doctrine for Arizona Im

Editor's Note: Video and audio available below the fold. Los Locos Yet another liberal bemoans the unbridled free speech that resulted from President Ronald Reagan's 1987 call to no longer enforce the so-called "Fairness" Doctrine. This time it's Phoenix, Arizona Democratic Mayor Phil Gordon.  (He is not the Phil Gordon who plays…
Seton Motley

Hypocritical Behar Slams Gingrich: ‘Throws the Word (Nazi) Around

On Monday’s Joy Behar Show, HLN host Behar devoted a segment to chiding former Republican House Speaker New Gingrich’s over the top declaration in his latest book that the "secular-socialist machine represents as great a threat to America as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union once did," as she charged that Gingrich "throws the word (Nazi) around like its nothing," and asked, "What is he, losing his…
Brad Wilmouth

Obama Refuses to Answer Question of CBS Reporter After Signing 'Press

On Monday, President Obama signed into law the "Press Freedom Act," but refused to answer a question from CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid at the conclusion of the signing ceremony. While Reid described the ironic incident on the CBSNews.com Political Hotsheet blog, neither Monday's Evening News nor Tuesday's Early Show mentioned the President's dodge.  On the CBS blog, Reid described the…
Kyle Drennen

Illegal Immigrant Protest Tactics 'Escalating' - From Four Protesters

After writing up a pro-amnesty protest involving a grand total of four student marchers in January, reporter Julia Preston followed up with "an escalation of protest tactics" at Sen. John McCain's office in Arizona. By "escalation," Preston evidently means "from four protesters to five."
Clay Waters

International Conference on Climate Change Totally Ignored By Media

Four days after Senate Democrats introduced a new bill to limit carbon emissions, an international conference discussing the scientific holes in the theory of man-made global warming began in Chicago.Despite the attendance of hundreds of scientists from across the globe, as well as polls finding Americans becoming less and less convinced that man has anything to do with the warming trend the…
Noel Sheppard

U.K. Journalist and ClimateGate Vanguard: Global Warming Debate as 'Im

If you asked people what the two key events in the 20th century were, most would likely point to World Wars I and II because they transformed civilization. However, can something like the debate over climate change be as equally transformative?  James Delingpole, author of "Welcome to Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future And It Doesn't Work," spoke at the Heartland Institute's International…
Jeff Poor