Democrat Superdelegate Accuses Clinton of Exploiting Racism, Media Mum
June 7th, 2008 3:25 PM
Now that Hillary Clinton has officially conceded the Democrat presidential nomination, will media be as interested in former supporters bashing her campaign tactics as they are former Bush administration officials that write negative tell-all books about the president?Given the media's almost total boycott of Friday's revelation from a New Jersey Democrat superdelegate who claims the Clinton…
Will Energy Prices or Republicans be Blamed for Global Warming Bill's
June 7th, 2008 12:13 PM
In case you hadn't heard yet, the big, bad global warming bill authored by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Virg.) was pulled for consideration Friday as sponsors were unable to drum up enough support for it to have any chance of passing.This presents an interesting opportunity for climate alarmists in the media to have to choose what they will blame the speedy demise of this…
Stunning Ignorance About 'Pink Slips' (Yet Again) from AP
June 7th, 2008 1:42 AM
The Associated Press's Jeannine Aversa started off her Friday evening report on the day's economic news showing, as she and her AP colleagues have for several months, that they either don't understand very basic concepts relating to the information they're attempting to digest and convey or are deliberately reporting it inaccurately: Pink slips piled up and jobs disappeared into thin air in May…
AP Frets Over John McCain’s New Slogan
June 6th, 2008 9:59 AM
The article is simply headlined “McCain alters Obama slogan to his own liking“. At first I had expected the report to be a complaint along the lines that John McCain was using Barack Obama’s own slogan against him in a critical manner. When I read the article however I learned that the AP is claiming that John McCain not only took Barack Obama’s slogan and transformed it into his own but that he…
AP: Obama Fundraiser Rezko Found Guilty of 16 Counts of Corruption
June 4th, 2008 5:48 PM
The Associated Press just reported that Antoin "Tony" Rezko was found guilty of 16 out of 24 counts in his corruption trial (picture courtesy AP).Truly shocking: the piece lead with the fact that Rezko was "a prominent political fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama."Will other media outlets do the same?While you ponder, here's the surprising first, second, and fourth paragraphs (emphasis added, h/t…
The Economy: 'Expectations' Are Taking Quite a Beating This Week
June 4th, 2008 5:12 PM
Don't miss the significant reporting errors noted at the end of this post. _______________________________________________ If this were a boxing match, with "The Economy" in one corner, and "Expectations" in the other, we'd be seeing a third-round knockout with "Expectations" taken away in an ambulance. But if you think the news this week has changed the tone of the Associated Press's business…
White House Responds to Media Claims It Hid Science About Global Warmi
June 3rd, 2008 5:55 PM
Last week, the Bush administration released a report warning of the potential dangers of global warming, except there wasn't anything new in it. However, the timing of the release was seen as an act done so begrudgingly - since the Bush administration has previously resisted efforts to propagate climate change alarmism. "For the first time, the Bush administration is conceding what most…
DenverPost.com Slow On Uptake with Headline 'Clinton Set to End Race
June 3rd, 2008 1:26 PM
Earlier this morning the Associated Press's Beth Fouhy reported that Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) is gearing up to concede the Democratic nomination contest to Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in a speech following primary election returns tonight.Not so fast, Clinton aides said, scrambling in short order to protest that Hillary is not going to throw in the towel tonight. Yet the Denver Post as of 1:10 p.…
The S-Word Appears Four Times in an AP Report from Iraq
June 1st, 2008 7:53 PM
Earlier today, NewsBusters' Matt Sheffield caught a Washington Post editorial which told us, "Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war." The editorial noted "a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks -- which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war." The Post also suggested that…
AP Highlights Bush Bashing 'Documentary
May 31st, 2008 2:54 PM
The AP gives us a story about some so-called documentary about what evil befell the poor folks of Crawford, Texas, after Governor George W. Bush bought his ranch property there.I'll start right out with the key section that pretty much describes what we're dealing with, a quote by the director of this film. "I wanted to do a film indicting Bush for this political stagecraft, using this town as a…
Spiked? Reports of UN Peacekeepers' Child Sexual Abuse
May 31st, 2008 7:52 AM
Rush Limbaugh highlighted this report the other day on child sexual abuse committed by United Nations peacekeepers from the charity Save the Childrren UK. He called it's the UN's "Abu Grab." This report came from Edith Lederer of the Associated Press:U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "deep concern" Tuesday after a leading children's charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread…
AP: Vatican 'Slamming the Door' on Female Priests
May 30th, 2008 1:08 PM
[Update (16:33 EDT): The AP has changed its lede to read "The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated." (h/t Damian G. of Conservathink).]According to the Associated Press, the Vatican is "slamming the door on attempts by women to…
'Nightly News': Increase in Spam Sales Indicates a Bad Economy
May 30th, 2008 10:52 AM
You've got to give the media credit for continuing to find new and innovative ways to make the U.S. economy look bad. This time an increase in Spam sales are being touted as a sign that people are suffering as they are being forced to trade in their fancy meats and poultries for something less expensive - a sign of "our times," according to "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams. "And in…