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More Liberal Media Figures Say 'Bravo to Them' For 40-Year 'Success' A
There were more examples this week of liberal Gore-friendly media outlets trying to smooth over Al and Tipper Gore's separation. In their "Conventional Wisdom" box Newsweek gave the Gores a sideways arrow: "Famous public smoochers calling it quits after 40 years. Still, they stayed classy."Time ran a big picture of the 2000 smooch, and underneath Belinda Luscombe wrote "In a leaked e-mail to…
Newsweek Takes Another Shot at Palin on Cover: 'Saint Sarah'; Palin Re
Not this again. There is obviously not enough going on in the world for Newsweek magazine this week because once again Sarah Palin is on the cover. Palin, the former governor of Alaska and the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee was also on the cover of Newsweek back in November 2009, in running shorts. This time she is featured as "Saint Sarah: What's Palin's appeal to conservative…
Bill Maher Compares Oil Industry To Child Pornography
Bill Maher on Friday compared Americans working for oil companies to the vermin creating and distributing child pornography.In the "New Rules" segment of his "Real Time" program, the HBO host concluded with a discussion about the "murderous, hateful" oil industry."You know, it's Washington gospel that jobs in the private sector are better than government jobs," said Maher."But oil jobs are…
Networks That Found Bad Omens at CPAC Skips Pelosi Facing Heckler Prot
For the last several years, TV news stars have found electric moments at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) worth predicting how Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives would soon be driving the Republican Party into an electoral ditch.So it was noteworthy that no network except Fox News found it worth a story that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got booed and heckled Tuesday afternoon…
MSNBC Trivializes Pope Benedict’s Apology for Clergy Scandal
MSNBC’s Savannah Guthrie thinks the Vatican has “minimized” the clergy abuse scandals for months, before Pope Benedict’s Friday apology. And MSNBC seemed to do their level best to “minimize” that, during the 9a.m. EDT news hour.Guthrie reported that the Vatican publicly apologized for the sex abuse scandals within the Catholic clergy Friday, “after months of minimizing” the scandals. “I have to…
CNBC's Cramer and Burnett: Could BP and Obama Have Handled Spill Bette
Reports are surfacing that BP is finally considering a suspension of its shareholder's dividend, but what could have been done differently to avert the public relations nightmare BP is facing? Two CNBC hosts had some ideas about that, and about what could have happened if BP chose not to play ball. Jim Cramer and Erin Burnett shared their thoughts on the "Stop Trading" segment of "Street…
CNBC's Cramer and Burnett Wonder if BP and Obama Could Have Handled Sp
'Mad Money' host says White House has other levers of power to use against BP; points out from exploration standpoint oil is 'greatest find of all time.'
MSNBC's Mitchell: Oil Spill An 'Opportunity' for Obama to Push Energy
Speaking to New York Magazine columnist John Heilemann on MSNBC Friday, anchor Andrea Mitchell wondered if the Gulf oil spill could be a political opportunity for President Obama: "Is there an opportunity now to do something real on energy?"Heilemann proclaimed the disaster was "a triggering action for us to try and get toward a greener future...break our addiction to oil..." The…
CNN Falsely Claims Pope Benedict XVI Hasn't Said He's Sorry, Reporter
CNN's Kyra Phillips completely got it wrong on Friday's Newsroom as she reported on Pope Benedict XVI's latest apology for the priestly sex abuse scandal. Even after she reported that Pope was "begging for forgiveness," Phillips repeatedly claimed that "there are two simple words we haven't heard: I'm sorry." The Pope has actually used those words and has made multiple apologies.The CNN anchor…
Time Says Oil Spill is Everyone's Fault But Big Government
The June 21 Time cover article told the sad stories of those affected by the BP oil spill and explored mistakes, mishaps and unfortunate events that have combined to compound the disaster. But in “The Gulf Disaster: Who’s Asses Need Kicking?” author Bryan Walsh went ultimately to spoiled American consumers both for refusing to grant government unlimited power over business, and for demanding…
Chuck Todd Rips 'Unreliable' Rasmussen, Doesn't Mind Liberal Polling F
Media bias often shows itself in which organizations journalists choose to cite or ignore. A very prevalent form of this bias is selective reporting on polling data--polls that show results friendly to the liberal position like are touted while those that show the opposite are buried.MSNBC's Chuck Todd, pictured right, is the latest reporter to demonstrate such a bias. He took Rasmussen Reports…