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CAIR Photo for American Muslim Survey Uses Brunei Mosque Picture
Update/retraction (13:11): Missed the update on LGF. It is in fact an image of a mosque in Brunei. My apologies to CAIR and to NewsBusters readers. "Little Green Footballs" noticed yesterday that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), which is cheering the impending crimes prosecution of a Pace University student for putting a Koran in a toilet, depicted the US Capitol dome as though…
Genie Out of the Bottle: 'U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at Rich Cou
Climate change alarmism met the infamous Oil for Food scam at the United Nations Tuesday.As a result, if you had any questions regarding why the U.N. has been the point-man on driving global warming hysteria throughout America and around the world, they were all answered. In fact, the genie was let out of the proverbial bottle by this Reuters headline: "U.N. Climate Change Meeting Aims at…
Open Thread
Wonderful Wednesday.Something possibly to discuss: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said yesterday that the U.S. should be willing to attack al Qaeda inside Pakistan with or without Pakistan's permission. This from someone that wants an immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Any thoughts?
Seized in a Coup? Tabloid Headlines for Murdoch's Dow Jones Deal
Rival newspapers are not calmly reporting the news that Rupert Murdoch has sealed the deal to buy The Wall Street Journal for a royal sum. The Washington Post front page headline today makes Rupert sound like he came in with tanks, not just cash: "Murdoch Seizes Wall St. Journal In $5 Billion Coup." Liberals must really see this tycoon as some sort of press-baron version of Pinochet.In New York,…
Huffington: Hillary 'Swiftboated' Obama
Don't look for Arianna Huffington to be sitting down to a chummy luncheon with Hillary Clinton anytime soon. Huffington has been no fan of Clinton for some time, considering her insufficiently, and inauthentically, anti-war. But on today's "Morning Joe," Huffington took her animus to another level, accusing Hillary of an ultimate Dem sin: "swiftboating" an opponent, namely Barack Obama.…
LAT Highlights Republican 'Culture of Corruption' Ignores Dem Troubles
Well, the L.A.Times certainly followed the Democratic National Committee's stylebook for reporting the news with this one, it is obvious. In a story about the new "sweeping ethics bill" making its way through Congress this week, they mention all the Republican corruption they can dredge up, but somehow miss every single Democrat example of the same. They also misreport a Nancy Pelosi rules change…
LA Times Backs Away from Bias – But Not All the Way
A story on the House ethics bill paints Capitol Hill corruption as an exclusively Republican problem. The next day's revised version injects a little balance, but not enough.
A Radical Silence
Nets either ignore far left professor's dismissal, or mischaracterize him as a martyr.
Networks Fret Over Agenda Murdoch Will 'Impose' on Wall Street Journal
Though many journalists impose their views regularly in biased political coverage, and last year the New York Times publisher made clear his left-wing world view, on Tuesday night the broadcast networks framed Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the Wall Street Journal around what agenda the “controversial” Murdoch will “impose.” That matches the “fear” expressed in online journalism forums and media…