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CBS ‘Early Show’: ‘Dispirited’ Christian Right May Bring ‘Re
On Friday’s "Early Show," co-host Julie Chen and reporter Chip Reid analyzed the Values Voters Conference in Washington this weekend and how conservative Evangelicals "are deeply frustrated because they can't find a Republican candidate they can coalesce around," according to Reid. He went on to exclaim that "There's one Republican candidate, though, who really has some Evangelicals dispirited.…
WaPo's Weisman Sneaks in Swipe at GOP in Pete Stark Article
Covering the flap over Rep. Pete Stark's (D-Calif.) assertion that President Bush likes to see American soldiers die for sport, Washington Post reporter Jonathan Weisman tossed in a swipe about Republicans of his own, characterizing a vote to uphold Bush's SCHIP veto as a vote to "deny children health care." [Video of Stark's comments available on YouTube via the NRCC here]Here's the relevant…
Couric Previews Valerie Plame Interview, No Mention of Leaker Armitage
Perhaps one of the most distorted stories in recent mainstream media history, the Valerie Plame CIA leak controversy, has become even more so with Plame’s upcoming "60 Minutes" interview with CBS Anchor, Katie Couric. On Friday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked with Couric about the interview and began by describing Plame as "...beautiful, smart, a covert agent." Smith then went on…
Environmental Hysteria Special on CNN Next Week: ‘Planet in Peril
It seems these days you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a major media special presaging imminent planetary doom at the hands of that awful species homo sapiens. Next on the docket leading you to commit seppuku is CNN's four-hour special appropriately named "Planet in Peril." Makes you want to hide in your cellar with a few Friedrich Nietzsche books and a pint of hemlock, doesn't it?…
ABC Medical Expert: Hillary Knows Health Care Better Than Anyone
Hillary Clinton is smart and clearly knows health care better than any other 2008 candidate. That's according to ABC's medical expert, Dr. Tim Johnson. On Friday's "Good Morning America," the network contributor gushed, "She certainly knows health care better, I think, than any other candidate....I'm very impressed with her knowledge base." Johnson lauded Clinton for "offering a wide range of…
S-CHIP: Dems, Media Mount Another 'Smear' Campaign
Despite, or perhaps because of the S-CHIP stalemate in Washington, liberal media outlets including the New York Times, Think Progress and now the Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky continue to somewhat sinisterly flame one aspect of the S-CHIP story at the urging of Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) staffer Matt Miller, even though the narrative they've woven isn't at all…
NewsBusted Comedy, Episode
It's Friday which means another episode of our political comedy show "NewsBusted" has arrived! Topics in this episode: Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Katie Couric, and the Oxygen Network. Click here to see the episode archive, you can also subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new webcasts.If you like the show, be sure to subscribe on YouTube which also…