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For general discussion and debate. Possible discussion point: Chelsea Clinton gets asked about Monica Lewinsky...again (video embedded right which, due to resizing, might need some horizontal and vertical bar scrolling to properly center).Has this gotten out of control? Should she be asked such questions? Regardless of her age, should she have to answer for her father's behavior? Or, as she's…
Soldiers 'Experiencing God' a Problem for Newsweek
The Beliefwatch column suggests we can't have thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reading a Christian devotional book, lest people think the government favors a certain religion.
Expelled Encounters Liberal Media Hostility
Documentary exposes the academy's emotional and ideological commitment to evolution, and its anti-scientific refusal to consider evidence for intelligent design.
Will Media Give Story About Hillary's Unethical Past the Legs It Deser
I hope the media gives this the legs it deserves. It may be early in Hillary's career, but it gives a clear picture to the roots of her character and its quite disturbing stuff.Jerry Zeifman, the man who served as chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate hearings, comes out calling Hillary a career liar and says she wanted to deny Nixon the basic right to counsel!
Hillary Supporter Ed Rendell: Fox Has Done Fairest Job Covering Campai
Here's something you never hear from a Democrat: of all the cable networks, Fox News is doing the fairest job covering an issue.Yet, that's exactly what Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Penn.), an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, said on "Fox & Friends" Monday.I kid you not. Speaking with host Steve Doocy, Rendell said the following (h/t TVNewser via NBer Thomas Stewart):
ABCNews.com Trumpets Dow Rally, Other Network Websites Downplay It
Wall Street saw a 391-point rally on the Dow today, the first day of the second quarter. ABCNews.com saw the development worthy of a "Breaking News" tag towards the top of its Web page and put the story in the top headlines rotation.But it appears that ABCNews.com was alone among its competitors in trumpeting the news. I checked numerous Web sites shortly after 5:30 and found ABC's to be the only…
Blumenthal Claims Inside Knowledge that McCain Flirted with Leaving GO
Clinton campaign adviser points to presumptive GOP nominee's positions on torture, taxes, global warming, tobacco and health care as evidence.
[UPDATED 4/3 with Reaction from Document Expert] Forged Docs About Bus
Update: Reaction from document examiner Emily Will added at bottom of post (April 3 | 13:02 EDT) Mary Mapes (file photo at right), the former CBS producer behind the Bush National Guard memo scandal that eventually felled Dan Rather's career has a post up at the liberal Nation magazine's Web site insisting that comparisons between Memogate and the L.A. Times falling for fake documents about Tupac…
Network Morning Shows Bash Oil Companies on 'April Fuel’s Day
About once a year, Congress brings in oil executives, with the media piling on, and blames oil company profits for high gas prices. Across the dial, all three network morning shows on April 1 - ABC's "Good Morning America," NBC's "Today," and CBS's "The Early Show" - characterized "big oil" as the culprit behind an increase in gas prices. On ABC's April 1 "Good Morning America," which…
ABC's David Wright Again Touts Obama; Bashes Hillary
ABC reporter David Wright used a segment on Monday's "Nightline" to once again fawn over Barack Obama and also take a swipe at Hillary Clinton. Discussing the New York senator's fund-raising woes, Wright mentioned Clinton's unpaid campaign debts and snidely observed that they included "a debt of $292,000 for health insurance premiums for her campaign staff. Ironic for a candidate promising health…
'Today' Promotes Phil Donahue's Anti-Iraq War Doc
Phil Donahue looked across the film landscape littered with numerous anti-Iraq war box-office failures and decided he needed to add one more to the list and the "Today" show was more than happy to help him promote it. The liberal talk show host appeared on Tuesday's "Today" show with anti-Iraq war veteran/activist Tomas Young to plug what NBC's Ann Curry hailed as "a documentary that Sean Penn…
Business Press Spinsanity Over March's ISM Manufacturing Index
The Institute for Supply Management issued its March Manufacturing Report on Business today: PMI at 48.6% Economic activity in the manufacturing sector failed to grow in March, while the overall economy grew for the 77th consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Norbert J. Ore, C.P.M., chair of the…
Media Still Decry 'Anti-Communist Witch Hunt' in Hollywood Obits
Tuesday's New York Times obituary on the life and work of American director Jules Dassin, "filmaker on blacklist," shows that anti-anti-Communism will never die. Times writer Richard Severo unfurls the usual flag in paragraph nine: By the time he wrote and directed "Never on Sunday," a comedy about a good-hearted prostitute (Ms. Mercouri), the anti-Communist witch hunt in the United States had…
