WaPo Recycles Myth of Reagan Inaction on AIDS

Tim Graham

Sun-Times: Obama's Senate Seat is a 'Black Senate Seat

Betcha didn't know that the elected office of Senator of the United States of America was a color coded position? Apparently, Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times thinks it is, anyway, because she is warning that Obama's "black Senate seat" will be lost because of this mess with Governor Rod Blagojevich getting arrested for trying to sell that "black seat" to the highest bidder. In hers…
Warner Todd Huston

CNN.com Touts Liberal List

In an article posted on CNN.com's Political Ticker associate producer Martina Stewart touted the top ten quote list from this year's edition of "Yale Book of Quotations". The only problem is the list is nothing more than one liberal editor's opinion on which quotes best humiliate Republicans. Here is an excerpt: With less than three weeks left in the year, the Yale Book of Quotations is out…
Stephen Gutowski

LA Times Compares Shoe Hurler To Joe Wurzelbacher

While the mainstream media whines that everyone should just "move on" from the Blagojevich scandal, they continue to harp on any conservative who was involved with McCain-Palin campaign. Los Angeles Times writer Tina Susman took a shot at Joe Wurzelbacher on Monday and compared him to Iraqi journalist and part-time shoe thrower Muntather Zaidi.(my emphasis throughout:)  In the few seconds it took…
Kerry Picket

ABC Hypes Cheney's 'Startling Admission' -- But Doesn't Say What It Wa

Brent Baker

Monday Funnies: Al Gore's '12 Days of Global Warming

From our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming, the wonderful group that gave us "If We Had Some Global Warming," just in time for the holidays -- and sub-zero temperatures across much of the fruited plain -- comes "The 12 Days of Global Warming":
Noel Sheppard

ABC and CBS Tout Shoe-Thrower as 'Celebrity' and 'Folk Hero

Usually rude protesters who disrupt events by throwing objects at state leaders don't earn media celebrations, but instead of being embarrassed by their Iraqi media colleague who, as he spewed venomous hatreds, dangerously threw his shoes at President Bush on Sunday in Baghdad, ABC and CBS on Monday night championed his popularity amongst Iraqis. ABC put “Folk Hero?” on screen as fill-in anchor…
Brent Baker

Top Time Editor Becomes Latest Journalist to Join Team Obama

At least he made it official.Time's Washington bureau chief Jay Carney is quitting his magazine post to take the fearsome task of managing the communications problems of incoming vice president Joe Biden.This hardly comes as a surprise. During his tenure at Time, Carney accrued a reputation for bashing Republicans. In March, he urged President Bush to give a speech on the economy and say that he…
Matthew Sheffield

CNN Cries for Japanese Recession 'Orphans

Orphan. The very word conjures images of dirty and destitute children living on the streets Oliver Twist-style, or in the abusive hands of Miss Hannigan in "Annie."It certainly doesn't bring to mind a cute, clean toddler whose mother stays at home with her while her father works.Yet that is exactly what CNN "Newsroom" meant on Dec. 15 as "Recession ‘Orphans'" was plastered to the screen.
Julia A. Seymour

MSNBC's Tamron Hall: President Bush 'Looked Unnerved

It's times like this that make me wonder whether I inhabit a universe different from that occupied by the MSM.  This morning, discussing Pres. Bush's reaction to the flying shoe incident, I wrote:Short of going full Ninja hero and snatching the shoes in mid-air, it's hard to see how Pres. Bush could have been any cooler in his handling of the Hush Puppy Hurler.But on MSNBC this afternoon, host…
Mark Finkelstein

'Mini Page' Pushes Left Wing 'Green' Agenda on Kids for the Holidays

The December 14 edition of the "Mini Page," a weekly children's print supplement that appears in newspapers across the country, relied on tips from the left-wing National Resources Defense Council [NRDC] for a story entitled "Going Green for the Holidays." The four page publication, written by Mini Page editor Betty Debnam, regularly includes innocuous connect-the-dots puzzles and other games for…
Scott Whitlock

UAW Gave $1 Million+ to Pro-Bailout Congressmen; Media Focus on Anti-B

The proposed automaker bailout has a big stamp on it that says "union-built," but the news media hasn't noticed. Over the past month, accusations have been flying against several Southern senators who oppose a $14 billion bailout for the beleaguered big three automakers and support the the alternative of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. These senators, critics say, are representing the interests of…
Jeff Poor

Mad Money Site Rebuts BMI's Criticism of Jim Cramer

Last week the Business & Media Institute released its annual Top 10 list of the worst economic myths the media spread in 2008. The list was broad, ranging from “killer tomatoes,” to the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to the death of capitalism.But it was myth number 2 “Welcome to 1929: Great Depression II” that touched a nerve with Cliff Mason, senior writer for Mad Money, because of…
Julia A. Seymour

Politico Starts Partnership with Bias-denying Reuters Wire

It's official. Politico.com, a favorite of political news junkies on the Web, is partnering up with a British news wire that in November professed that media bias was "largely unseen" in the presidential race.:Politico announced a new partnership with Reuters on Monday that will provide political, government and business news from both organizations to newspapers across the United States. In…
Ken Shepherd