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New Rap Song Advocates Killing Bill O'Reilly and Michelle Malkin

Although the hatred for conservative media members by leftists in this nation knows no bounds, a new "song" by the rap group East Coast Avengers represents a new low in vitriolic musical expression.Entitled "Kill Bill O'Reilly," the piece actually advocates the murder of "The Factor" host, as well as a similar fate for Michelle Malkin.Included in the number are recordings of media members such as…
Noel Sheppard

Ellen to Wed Portia; What about DOMA

The Hollywood same-sex nuptials give the media a tremendous opportunity to address the issue of same-sex 'marriage,' the Defense of Marriage Act and Democratic support of California's gay marriage ruling. Will they take it?
Kristen Fyfe

CBS's Expert: Obama's Site 'Clean,' McCain's 'Cluttered' w/ 'Chaos

For the fourth straight weekday as Barack Obama vacations, he received better coverage on the broadcast network evening shows than the non-vacationing John McCain. Without fresh video of Obama, the CBS Evening News came up with a new way to tout Obama's campaign as they compared the Web sites of the two candidates and declared Obama's far superior. Reporter Daniel Sieberg asserted “McCain's Web…
Brent Baker

CNBC Host to Obama Advisor: Ask Yourself – 'What Would Milton (Fried

It's not often someone in the media challenges the liberal point-of-view - especially on the issue of taxes when they become a means to redistribute income. CNBC "Squawk Box" fill-in co-host Michelle Caruso-Cabrera wasn't afraid to buck the trend and challenge Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's senior economic adviser Austan Goolsbee. Goolsbee appeared on the August 14 "Squawk…
Jeff Poor

CBS: Elizabeth Edwards Not Motivated By ‘Craven Ambition

On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez talked to People magazine correspondent Sandra Westfall, who recently interviewed friends and family of Elizabeth Edwards who: "...wanted to put out there that she wasn't this wind-up doll that went on stage and let the campaign continue out of some sort of craven ambition, but that she really was going through a lot of anguish." That despite…
Kyle Drennen

CNBC Anchor Ask Obama Advisor 'What Would Milton (Friedman) Do

Obama advisor who teaches where Friedman one taught attempts to defend raising taxes on 'Squawk Box.'
Jeff Poor

Shuster Freaked Out by 'Dishonest' Swift Boaters Attacking Obama

On Wednesday's "Hardball," substitute host David Shuster previewed a new book targeting Barack Obama by issuing the following warning to viewers at the top of the show: DAVID SHUSTER: It was right around this time four years ago that the dishonest and highly effective Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry began. Now the man who started it all, with a book about Kerry, has one out attacking Obama. Can…
Geoffrey Dickens

CNN’s Expert: McCain ‘Aligned With Far Right’ on Russia

CNN correspondent Tom Foreman omitted identifying a "foreign policy expert" as a former member of Bill Clinton’s National Security Council during a report on John McCain’s strong position towards Russia on Wednesday’s Election Center program. This expert, Charles Kupchan of the Council of Foreign Relations, accused McCain of becoming a belligerent position towards the country: "Well, over the…
Matthew Balan

Near Illiteracy of MI's Not College-Bound Ignored in AP Report on ACT

You would think that someone working for the self-described "Essential Global News Network" known as the Associated Press as an Education Writer might go beyond using the Copy and Paste commands in reporting on national college entrance exam test scores. From all appearances, you would be wrong. AP Education Writer Justin Pope's report on the 2008 ACT exam results appears to contain nothing that…
Tom Blumer

Newsweek's Dickey Blames Bush for Georgia Crisis

The crisis in Georgia is all Bush's fault, the Republicans offered America a soft-pedaled version of George Wallace's racism, and Obama-voting Southern Democrats are intelligent, defiant people living in occupied territory. I learned all that from just one Newsweek column.I may have to watch "The View" to earn back some I.Q. points.Yes, Christopher Dickey enlightened Newsweek readers on "The…
Ken Shepherd

WaPo Notes Religious Restrictions at Beijing Games, Uses Bland Headlin

While the Washington Post's Beijing-based Ariana Eunjung Cha should be commended for her reporting on Beijing's restrictions on the exercise of religion by Olympic team chaplains, the paper's headline editors clearly dropped the ball in titling her August 14 headline: "Some Olympians Dissatisfied With Religious Center."The casual reader might say, "so what," and breeze past the article. After all…
Ken Shepherd

Dems Rake In Cash Off Colbert's Faux-Conservative Show

Tim Graham

ABC's Gibson Attempts Guilt Trip on Exxon CEO

Maybe it was a stab by Charles Gibson to provide a national group therapy session for his 8 million viewers, but the ABC "World News" anchor aggressively questioned ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on the August 14 broadcast for "obscene" profits and asked him to "justify" the company's success. "As we said earlier, Rex Tillerson - who is the board chair and CEO of ExxonMobil, doesn't talk often to…
Jeff Poor