Time Magazine Cover Sparks Outrage from Iwo Jima Vets

The powers at Time magazine, who now approach reporting the issue of climate change with a holier than thou persona, as blogged yesterday by NewsBusters' Mark Finkelstein, have ruffled the feathers of a few Iwo Jima veterans. The Time cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green "the new red, white and blue." But Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, said this goes a little too far. He told the…
Jeff Poor

ABC, Brought to You by Honda, Says Don't Buy Stuff

Left wing environmentalist Sam Champion continued to push his eco-agenda on Friday's edition of "Good Morning America." The liberal weatherman enlisted the help of IdealBite.com, a web page devoted to "green living." One of the site's founders, Heather Stephenson, lectured a family interested in going green about the evils of buying new toys for their children. She explained, "'Cause the best…
Scott Whitlock

ABC's Artificial Turf Scare: 'Virtually a Hazardous Waste Dump

'World News' report claims artificial turf poses a chemical threat despite no cases of health problems ever reported.
Jeff Poor

BET Founder: 'Liberal Media' Want Obama to Win

The continuing left-wing furor over George Stephanopoulos's perfectly valid question about Barack Obama's associations with a known terrorist reminded me of something I wanted to blog earlier in the week before it erupted: an admission of a leftward bias on the part of the media from BET founder Bob Johnson.Interviewed by the Charlotte Observer Tuesday, Johnson said that the "liberal media" want…
Matthew Sheffield

WaPo's Howard Kurtz Writes 'Ostensibly Neutral' Analysts Bash ABC

Tim Graham

Hume Recites How 'ABC News Getting Hammered By Liberal Media

Reporting that “ABC News is getting hammered by the mainstream and liberal media,” as if they aren't the same, FNC's Brit Hume led his Thursday “Grapevine” segment with examples of the left-wing outrage over Barack Obama being pressed at Wednesday's debate on subjects the media consider off limits. Hume highlighted how “the left-leaning Washington Post TV writer Tom Shales said anchors, quote '…
Brent Baker

Bozell Column: Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

I confess that when the producers of Ben Stein’s new documentary "Expelled" called, offering me a private screening, I was less than excited.It is a reality of PC liberalism: There is only one credible side to an issue, and any dissent is not only rejected, it is scorned. Global warming. Gay "rights." Abortion "rights." On these and so many other issues there is enlightenment, and then there is…
Brent Bozell

Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover

Time editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change.'
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Democrat operative takes on McCain's age (paragraph break eliminated): Despite a recent promise from Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean not to make Sen. John McCain's age -- he turns 72 in August -- an issue in the presidential campaign, a senior Democratic operative has started a new website designed to draw attention…
NB Staff

NewsBusted

NB Staff

County Sheriff Runs Sex-Slave Operation from Jail -- Guess Which Party

Well, this time the AP has really done it. Dateline Custer County, Oklahoma: Sheriff Mike Burgess resigns after authorities charged him with running a sex-slave operation out of his jail using female inmates he bribed for the purpose. So, which party did the AP tell us our crafty entrepreneur was from? Well, they seem to have forgotten to mention it... shocking, I know. Oklahoma sheriff charged…
Warner Todd Huston

Iwo Jima Vets Blast TIME's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover

TIME editor tells MSNBC 'there needs to be a real effort along the lines of World War II to combat global warming and climate change.'
Jeff Poor

Character Questions

ABC was right to ask about Obama's judgment and patriotism, and Hillary's honesty.
Brian Fitzpatrick

Kossacks Plot Laughable Boycott of ABC and Disney

Recycle videos, buy used cars, eat non-Nabisco cookies, and drink microbrewery beer. These are among the highly laughable suggestions promoted at the Daily Kos as part of their proposed boycott of ABC and Disney because Barack Obama was finally asked some tough questions at Wednesday's Democrat debate in Philadelphia. It was only 23 minutes into the debate before the boycott thread was posted at…
P.J. Gladnick