ChiTrib's Eric Zorn Hails Earth Hour, Compares to Religious Fast
Chicago Tribune columnist/ blogger Eric Zorn is a liberal, but from what I'm familiar of his writing, he's not a cartoonishly goofy one. So at first I thought his post today -- Coming out of the dark on Earth Hour -- was a bit of an April Fool's joke. But reading and re-reading it, it became clear to me Zorn was being serious, even as he invoked quasi-religious language to describe his joy in…
[Updated: Williams Responds] | MSNBC.com Omits Jefferson's Democratic
Update at bottom of post: Williams responds (18:24 EDT) I have to hand it to the AP this time. They actually noted the political party affiliation of another Democrat in legal hot water. So did CNN.com and Reuters. But for some reason, MSNBC's Pete Williams left out the party affiliation of Louisiana's Rep. William Jefferson (D) in this March 31 item at the First Read blog:In something of a…
Hot Air's Morrissey Shows Negative Media Basra Narrative Is False
It is so easy to get sucked in by context-free negativity, isn't it?If you looked at the home page of the New York Times a couple of hours ago, these items you would have among those seen in the (appropriately) far-left column: In This Shiite Battle, a Marked Shift From the Past (article link)Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids (article link) Top-of-hour network radio reports…
Carbon Sense Coalition: 'Earth Hour' Should be Renamed 'Dark Hour
As previously reported by NewsBusters, there's an international climate change awareness promotion going on today called Earth Hour, and websearch giant Google is not only participating in it, but advocating its goals. Presenting the other side of this argument is an organization called The Carbon Sense Coalition.It wants "to restore balance and reason to the carbon debate, and to explain and…
Google Blacks Out Homepage During 'Earth Hour' to 'Combat Climate Chan
Want some more proof of Google's political leanings.Well, consider that the websearch giant is participating in Earth Hour, "a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live."Here's what Google displayed at its website moments ago (h/t NBer Wilbur747, emphasis added):
Keith Olbermann Sees McCain 'Buying More Depends
Leave it to liberals to pile on Sen. John McCain with cheap shots about his age, and we're not talking making jokes about him serving in the Civil War or what not. Mocking John McCain's age, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann imagined that the senator could easily segue from talking about foreign policy or the economy to talking about "buying more Depends or something like that." (h/t Conservative Punk)"You…
AP Ignores Fact Indicted Puerto Rico Gov an Obama Superdelegate
Color me unsurprised.The Associated Press, reporting the indictment of Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila (pictured at right via AFP/Getty Images file photo) failed to note Vila is a Democrat, let alone that he is an Obama superdelegate.But Vila's party affiliation is hardly a state secret. Indeed, ABC's Jake Tapper noted the Obama connection on his Political Punch blog this morning:
Soros-backed Blogger Mocks McCain for un-'Presidential' Teeth
(h/t Moe Lane/RedState)Liberal blogger Molly Priesmeyer may have bitten off a bit more than she can chew with a blog mocking Republican presidential candidate John McCain for his false teeth. Of course, commenters on her blog have noted that McCain's teeth were smashed out by North Vietnamese tormentors, but Priesmeyer's entry at Minnesota Monitor remains online although it obviously is in poor…
YouTube Pulls Anti-Gore Ad For Supposed Copyright Infringement
YouTube watchers have often marvelled at the video website's floating enforcement of copyright laws.Another such incident guaranteed to cause a lot of conservative heads to be scratched is this weekend's decision by YouTube to yank an advertisement created by the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- as reported by NewsBusters March 12 -- harshly critical of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's hypocritical…
ChiTrib Blogger: Fake Blood-splattering Protesters a 'Frustrated Facti
If you ask the average man on the street, regardless of his religion, he'd probably tell you that anyone who would disrupt an Easter Mass with a political protest -- complete with stage blood and attempted "die-in" -- is a jerk with little if any reverence for God or the sanctity of a church as a place of worship.But according to the Chicago Tribune's Manya Brachear the so-called Catholic…
Chicago Sun-Times: Obama's Church Preaches a 'Mainstream Christian The
The rantings of Barack Obama's pastor sound strange to most Americans, Christian or non-Christian, black or white. Yet to some in the media, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's preaching is in the "mainstream" of Christian doctrine.Take the Chicago Sun-Times's David Roeder, reporting on Trinity United Church of Christ's (TUCC) Easter Sunday service:Theirs is a mainstream Christian theology, but shaped by…
