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ABC's Cokie Roberts: U.S. Discriminates Against Catholic Illegals
ABC correspondent Cokie Roberts appeared on Wednesday's "Good Morning America" to tout Pope Benedict's views on illegal immigration and rail against the illegals who are "discriminated" against. Roberts, who rode with President Bush as he drove to meet the Pope and kick off the pontiff's American tour, played up the Pope's supposed opposition to U.S. immigration policy. She asserted, "These, you…
ElectionWatch: NBC on McCain's Proposed Tax Cuts: It 'Doesn't Add Up
'Nightly News' finds everything wrong with the presumptive GOP nominee's economic plan and nothing right.
ABC Highlights Clergy Sex Abuse, Spins Pope’s Message on Immigration
All three broadcast networks on Tuesday led their evening news programs with Pope Benedict XVI’s arrival at Andrews Air Force Base to begin his visit to the U.S., as well as his comments during a press conference on the plane about the priest sex abuse scandal. ABC’s "World News" and CBS’ "Evening News" especially focused on the scandal. In addition to this, "World News" also highlighted what the…
Time to Play: 'Who Said It
What pundit uttered the following liberal canard that makes it sound like Republicans don't care about poor people?"He's [John McCain] a conservative. The way he breaks out of it, though, electorally, is to be Teddy Roosevelt, and this is gonna be the toughest thing for his campaign. He's got a group of people around him, and frankly a group, a party that doesn't want the government to do…
Sun-Times Notes 'Daley Cronies' Sent to Prison; Paper Locks Away (D) L
Four men that greased the wheels of the Daley machine in Chicago had their federal convictions upheld by an appeals judge, the Chicago Sun-Times noted in an April 16 article. Yet although Daley is a lifelong Democrat and the Democrats run Chicago lock, stock, and barrel, the Sun-Times failed to even casually mention either Daley's or Gov. Blagojevich's Democratic bona fides. The federal appellate…
Smokey the Gore: 'Only You Can Prevent Dumb Ideas From Catching Fire
A few weeks ago, the good folks at Citizen Link published a video mocking Nobel Laureate Al Gore's $300 million ad campaign "to change the way you think about global warming" (embedded at right, h/t Joe D'Aleo):To school-aged children all over the country, he'll shortly be as famous as that bear in the ranger hat who likes to put out forest fires.The video then marvelously pictured what future…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: How's that global warming thing treating you?Here in Northern California, it's 35 degrees this morning. On April 16! My pool is currently 55 degrees. Normally at this time of the year, it would be at least 70.In fact, this will be the latest in the year we'll be able to go into our pool since we moved into this home in 1999. This normally…
Scarborough: MSM Talks 'Litmus Test' Only Regarding Pro-Life Republica
During Morning Joe's opening segment today, Joe Scarborough, in an apparent allusion to the ambitions Chris Matthews has expressed, facetiously wondered whether the panel should start calling the Hardball host "Senator." But just a bit later, Scarborough seized on a question Matthews posed to John McCain yesterday to illustrate a classic bit of MSM bias: the way the liberal media only speak of a…
CNN's 'Compassion' Forum Needed Ben Stein
Why didn't Campbell Brown and Jon Meacham ask the tough questions?
CosmoGirl! as a Religious Guide? Hardly
Article discusses religion without a clear understanding of what religion really is.
