Newsweek's Alter Relieved Obama's So Beyond 'Good Vs. Evil' Rhetoric

Tim Graham

ABC's Bill Weir Goes Easy on Religion-bashing 'Family Guy

ABC reporter Bill Weir didn't exactly grill "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane when he interviewed him for "Nightline's" ongoing "Seriously Funny" segment on Monday. The journalist failed to bring up some of the most egregious examples of MacFarlane's cartoon vulgarity, including a March 8 episode that featured bestiality jokes, a gay-hating Jesus Christ and an 11-way gay orgy. Instead, Weir…
Scott Whitlock

University of Maryland on Free Speech: Porn In, Prayer Out

The University of Maryland recently decided that prayer is not allowed during commencement addresses, but pornographic films are allowed on campus. University officials cited “academic free speech” as the reason to allow the film. Occurring nearly simultaneously, both incidents have garnered extensive media coverage. The question is, will the media question the University’s inconsistency in…
Erin R. Brown

Is The CBS/N.Y. Times Poll Believable -- or Too Tilted

Conservatives have debates over whether they should cite Rasmussen poll data because it is too divergent from other surveys. If that's the case, then why accept the new CBS/New York Times poll, which is out of step with other recent polls? Keep in mind, Rasmussen polls "likely voters," where CBS/NYT interviewed "adults." The distinction is critical. The latest CBS/NYT numbers show a very wide 42-…
Tim Graham

Americans Ready to Tea Party Like it's 1773. Where's the Media

BMI's Dan Gainor has the following column on Tax Day and Tea Parties up on the Fox Forum:When you want tea, you bring water to a boil. When you want genuine change, you do the same thing to the American public.Right now, that public is boiling mad and, with April 15 around the corner, the most important thing brewing is tax protest. For every state in the nation, this tea’s for you.Lucky for us,…
Matt Philbin

This April 15, let's tea party like it's

Americans grab the tea after taxes too hard to swallow
Dan Gainor

Obama Opposite Speak and NY's 'Millionaires' Tax

The talking heads rarely tell you the real news.
Dan Kennedy

ABC's Robin Roberts Hits Pelosi From Left on Guns

Interviewing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday, "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts challenged the Democratic politician from the left on guns. After bringing up the tragic shootings that occurred last week in New York and Pittsburgh, Roberts quizzed, "Under the Bush administration, you pretty much said the ball was in their court when it came to reinstating the [assault…
Scott Whitlock

Future of Journalism?: UMd. Paper Provides Link to Video of Porn Scree

The University of Maryland -- my alma mater, for full disclosure -- has made national headlines this week with a pirate-themed porn flick originally scheduled for a full-length screening last Saturday at the campus theater. Under pressure from state legislators, campus officials backed down, yet a student group stepped in the gap, pledging to screen the film in a lecture hall yesterday evening.…
Ken Shepherd

NY Times Finally Marks Anti-Spending Tea Party...With Merciless Mocker

Liberal double standards ahoy! The New York Times news pages have virtually ignored the grass-roots "tea party" protests held in various towns across the country opposing Obama's big-spending and supporting free markets. The paper has run not a single story on a protest, even when one happened in the paper's own backyard of Ridgefield, Conn.By contrast, a much smaller "bus tour" protest organized…
Clay Waters

Rapper Eminem Sings About Having Sex With Sarah Palin

Rapper Eminem just released a new song in which he graphically discusses having sex with a variety of women including Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.In the video published at YouTube moments ago, a scantily clad Palin look alike is sitting on a desk while a slighty-dressed Eminem makes sexual gyrations at her side.As this song is extremely vulgar and provocative, readers are cautioned before proceeding…
Noel Sheppard

NBC Brings Back Polar Bears and Penguins for Global Warming Alarmism

Between the very cold winter in many places and everyone including Vanity Fair focused on the economic downturn, many in the news media took a vacation from global warming alarmism. But on April 6, NBC brought the hype back with yet another story about the threat of melting ice caps. Anchor Brian Williams introduced an "Our Planet" segment by reminding viewers that the Obama administration was…
Jeff Poor

'Nightly News' Brings Alarmism Back

NBC chief environmental affairs correspondent alleges melting ice is 'a situation made worse by manmade global warming that now needs a manmade solution.'
Jeff Poor

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