Outlets Twist Good News on Iraq Into Bad, Except ABC & LA Times

Viewers of ABC's World News on Tuesday night learned of good news in the Pentagon's latest quarterly report on conditions in Iraq, but the positive developments went unnoted on CBS while NBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, AP and McClatchy all stressed the negatives in the status report. ABC anchor Charles Gibson pointed out that “in the past, these reports have offered a…
Brent Baker

WaPo Columnist Compares Christians to KKK, Says They Love 'Torture

After catching Harold Meyerson's latest Washington Post hatemongering against religion in general, Christians in particular, and Republicans especially, all I could say was just WOW! This thing is nearly unhinged and if you took the word Christian out and replaced it with any of the favored, protected minorities that the MSM guards like mother hens, it would be indistinguishable from the kind of…
Warner Todd Huston

Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant – What About the Father

Media ignores the fact that it takes two to create a baby, not just a girl.
Kristen Fyfe

Rich Pay More Taxes Since Bush Elected Contrary to Media Meme

You know all that nonsense the media have been spewing that the Bush tax cuts caused the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer? Well, the Internal Revenue Service and the Congressional Budget Office have published tax and income numbers for 2005, and the press couldn't be any more wrong. In fact, it's almost as if the media get their data from Democrat presidential candidates, and…
Noel Sheppard

"A Nightmare on 'Hardball

Quoth Wes Craven: NevermoreMessage for Chris Matthews: Hollywood 1984 called, and it wants its sweater back.On location today in Hanover, New Hampshire, Matthews climbed out of the Wardrobe Wayback Machine - Slasher Flick Edition sporting a Halloween-shaded version of Freddy Krueger's trademark "A Nightmare on Elm Street" pull-over.
Seton Motley

CBS’s Smith Gushes Over Obama: ‘A Candidate for Change, Particular

In an especially glowing interview with Barack Obama on Tuesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith lobbed softball after softball at the Illinois Senator, including this question about the successful troop surge in Iraq: "Obama is positioning himself as a candidate for change, particularly on the war. Were you a fan of the surge?" Obama’s response was not surprising, but did defy all logic:…
Kyle Drennen

Old Media Ran Seven Bogus Slaughter Stories in Seven Weeks

The mainstream media remains perfect-- 7 bogus reports in 7 weeks. Another exaggerated slaughter story made the news this weekend just like the bogus al-Kawwaz family "slaughter" made headlines last month.There was another gruesome report from Diyala Province in Iraq this weekend. Reportedly, Al-Qaeda and local villagers suffered dozens of casualties in a massive attack.Up to 51 Iraqis were…
Jim Hoft

Christmas
Clashes 2007: Christmas Spirit Spreading, but Grinches Gett

Theres good news and bad news this Christmas. Americans are successfully putting the Christmas back into the holiday, but the Grinches are pettier than ever.
Kristen Fyfe

Shepard Smith Explodes Over Plan to Tax Soda Pop

Ken Shepherd

'Safe Trade' Needed To Guard Against 9/11 Scenarios Overlooked in Medi

Kevin Mooney

CNN’s Gupta: SanFran ‘Sugary Drink Tax’ Needed to Offset Corn Su

The market is good for corn farmers right now. Corn prices are reaching highs because of the increased demand for food and as of late, the increased demand for corn-based ethanol. The price of corn is at an 11-year high. Its $4.38-a-bushel price tag is fueling food inflation, according to the December 17 "CBS Evening News." However, that's contrary to what CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr…
Jeff Poor

Women Attracted to Men in Sports Cars Cause Global Warming

In the 1995 blockbuster film "Batman Forever," the lead character, marvelously played by Val Kilmer, quipped to Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman), "It's the car, right? Chicks dig the car!" Well, according to Great Britain's chief scientist, this fascination women have with guys who drive sports cars is causing global warming. I kid you not. As reported by the British Telegraph Monday (…
Noel Sheppard

CNN's Gupta: 'Cheap' Corn Should Be Taxed to Fight Obesity

Medical correspondent presents tax on products with corn syrup as a convoluted solution to obesity and to 'offset' price of corn, ignoring that the price is already at an 11-year high.
Jeff Poor

Vilsack Croons Hillary's 'Change' Chorus

As noted here, Chris Matthews yesterday named former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack a member of Hillary's "eunuchs chorus," people he derided for "saying whatever the Clinton people told them to say." Today, Matthews might be claiming vindication. In an MSNBC interview with Andrea Mitchell, Vilsack parroted Hillary's word-'o-the-week--"change"--no fewer than eight times. View the edited video clip of…
Mark Finkelstein