Are the Media Trying to Incite a Battle Over Miers
Recent press accounts suggest earlier calls for a unifying nominee were a red herring.The past few months have been a target-rich environment for America’s press. Between the president’s declining poll numbers, increased hostilities in Iraq, two devastating hurricanes, exploding energy prices, some high-profile political scandals, and a couple of Supreme Court vacancies, the media certainly have…
Unbelievable Media Hypocrisy
The double-standards in today’s news coverage defy belief.For most of September, Americans were bombarded almost 24 hours a day with declarations by media representatives and Democratic leaders as to the incompetence of President Bush. During this time, we watched our president and members of his administration such as Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff and former Federal Emergency…
Clinton Didn’t Want to Criticize Bush, So CNN Did It For Him
CNN’s Kelly Wallace interviewed former president Bill Clinton for an “American Morning” segment today while he was visiting Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Although the intention was to discuss the money that Clinton and former president Bush have raised for hurricane relief, as well as how they plan on spending this money, CNN couldn’t help but include a few digs for the current president.The first…
New Orleans: A Tale of Two Cities...and Parties
The following two reports from CNN (videos to follow) give us an amazing contrast between the efficiency of business in America, and the inefficiency of government. Today, the city of New Orleans announced that it is laying off 3,000 government employees, or 40 percent of the city's payroll, due to budget constraints. By contrast, in the same city hit by the same hurricanes, small and large…
CNN Brings Rev. Sharpton on to Discuss Bill Bennett’s Remarks
As NewsBuster Dave Pierre reported here, the media are in a bit of a tizzy over remarks that former Education secretary Bill Bennett recently said on his radio talkshow about abortion and crime. On CNN’s “Live Today,” commentator Daryn Kagan invited Rev. Al Sharpton to offer his views of Bennett’s comments:SHARPTON: I think they're blatantly racist. I think that even after he had said to kill…
Media Mimic DNC Chairman Dean’s Talking Points About DeLay Indictmen
Shortly after yesterday’s announcement of Rep. Tom DeLay’s (R-Tex) indictment for alleged campaign finance violations, the mainstream media began doing reports on the subject with largely similar content. A memo written by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean posted at the Democratic Party’s website almost immediately after the announcement was made contained virtually the same “…
CNN: DeLay is a Cross Between a Concierge and a Mafia Don
On this afternoon’s “Live From...”, CNN’s Candy Crowley did a not-so flattering report on the newly indicted House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay (R-Tex). Crowley interviewed a variety of Democratic foes in the report who have some pretty damning words for the embattled Congressman from Texas. Yet, some of the harshest criticisms came from Crowley herself:“Someone once called him a cross between a…
CNN Downplays Significance of Death of #2 Al Qaeda Member in Iraq
On CNN's “American Morning” today, host Miles O’Brien and correspondent Aneesh Raman downplayed the significance of the announcement that the number 2 al Qaeda operative in Iraq was killed on Sunday by a joint Iraq/U.S. maneuver. In fact, their exchange suggested that even if the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was killed or captured, things still wouldn’t improve in that country…
