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Angry Environmentalist Assaults Warming Skeptic in Copenhagen
Filmmaker and noted global warming skeptic Phelim McAleer yesterday experienced first hand the disdain for a free press some Copenhagen attendees exhibit during an interview with Fox Business Channel's Neil Cavuto. Dressed in a polar bear costume with a sign inquiring as to the whereabouts of controversial climate scientist Phil Jones, McAleer was forced to raise his voice above the shouting…
Network Shows Ignore Copenhagen's Warm Reception for Anti-Capitalist R
Earlier this week, NewsBusters Editor at Large Brent Baker noted how the broadcast networks seemed oblivious to communist protesters outside the Copenhagen global warming summit. But the Red-friendly red meat slogans are not just being tossed about by violent demonstrators outside the conference. Today NewsBusters sister site CNSNews.com noted how dissent-oppressing, private-land seizing…
ABC's George Stephanopoulos Can't Stop Giggling at Sarah Palin
New Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos and the rest of the morning show crew couldn’t help laughing at Sarah Palin on Thursday. News anchor Juju Chang highlighted a story broken by the tabloid TMZ that the former vice presidential candidate was seen at a Hawaii beach wearing a blacked out McCain visor. [Audio available here.] After Chang noted that Palin said she was simply…
'My Skis Recognize That Climate Change Is Happening
A number of the media's talking heads have tried to use cold temperatures as evidence of global warming. As strange as that seems, some may have decided on an even more ridiculous "proof" of global warming: poor skiing conditions in Pennsylvania (h/t Ed Driscoll).Apparently the new measure for global warming is how well one's skis slide across the snow. At least that's what the Times-Leader, a…
Tea Party Movement Tops Established Parties in NBC/WSJ Poll Despite Bi
Yesterday at NewsBusters, Geoffrey Dickens documented the furor of MSNBC's Chris Mathews over the results of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (PDF). Specifically, Mathews was irked that the Tea Party Movement (TPM) was viewed quite a bit more favorably than the two major political parties by those polled (VP=Very Positive; SP=Somewhat Positive; N=Neutral; SN=Somewhat Negative; VN=Very Negative;…
Is 'Avatar' A Multi-Million Dollar Ad For Global Warming
With the imminent release of the science fiction blockbuster "Avatar," some have characterized it as a multi-million dollar public service announcment for global warming.Popular Science reported Tuesday: Unlike [George] Lucas’ more playful science fiction epic ["Star Wars"], [James] Cameron reaches for a heavy environmental message. Avatar is every militant global warming supporter’s dream come…
CBS: Dems ‘Tantalizingly Close’ On Health Care; Republicans Use
At the top of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, correspondent Nancy Cordes excitedly proclaimed that Senate Democrats “are tantalizingly close” to passing a health care bill and derided Republicans for trying to “thwart” the legislation using “stall tactics.” Cordes reported on the urgency of Democratic efforts to get 60 votes in the Senate: “Leaders are trying to craft a compromise that everyone can…
Blogger Who Bashed Palin for Employing Ghostwriter Employs 'Ghostblogg
Remember all those blog posts from the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan bashing Sarah Palin for employing a ghostwriter? Well, it turns out many of those posts may have been written by...a ghostblogger! Apparently Sullivan's busy schedule prevented him from writing everything on his site, so, without informing his readers, he employed a few ghostbloggers to write in his name.Daily Dish readers were…
Behar Politicizes Rush Limbaugh Wedding to Make Gay Marriage Plea
UPDATE: Sources tell NewsBusters Limbaugh-Rogers wedding slated for June 2010, which was reported as July 4, 2010 by Behar. It's probably no surprise, but conservative talker Rush Limbaugh isn't going to get a break from the liberal cheap shot artists on cable television in the wake of the news he will be getting married to Kathryn Rogers on July 4, 2010. On HLN's Dec. 17 broadcast of "The Joy…
Rachel Maddow Falsely Claims Ex-Gay Author Gave 'Support and Encourage
It's one thing to justifiably criticize an author for dubious claims. It's quite another to assert that the same author supported something heinous he adamantly opposes. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow did both over the last two weeks.Maddow's regular viewers have recently learned a great deal about Ugandan politics, as nearly every broadcast of her show since late November has featured a segment on…
Latest Scientific Study Finds Santa’s a Public Health Menace
The war on Christmas rages on, and nowhere more intensely than on the "kill-joy front." You know it: the predictable but still brutal attacks from those who say your eggnog and candy canes, the tree near your fireplace and even your favorite myths, stories and carols hide secret dangers to emotional and physical wellbeing. But at least one public health expert is striking a blow for…
Michael Moore: Boycott Connecticut If Joe Lieberman Isn't Recalled
Liberal schlockumentarian Michael Moore Wednesday called for the boycott of Connecticut if its residents don't immediately start a recall effort to remove Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).Moore, like many liberals, is angered by Lieberman's off and on opposition to parts of the Senate's healthcare reform bill.As is so often the case, there's a problem with Moore's thinking: Connecticut doesn't allow…