Spectacular Fib: How Horrid PBS Health Care Reporting Morphed Into an
Over the weekend, poor and biased media reporting, dysfunctional politics, blindly ambitious activism, and economic ignorance fed on each other to produce a phenomenally false narrative that went out to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. The result not only doesn't pass the smell test; it fails the stench test from a mile away. The first origins of the activist narrative burst…
Michael Moore: Capitalism Must Be Eliminated
The leftist U.K. Guardian newspaper is celebrating an economics lecture from mockumentary filmmaker Michael Moore. The headline: "Capitalism is evil...you have to eliminate it"Moore told the Guardian's Chris McGreal for their Saturday editions that America needs a radical new economic order: But what does it mean, to replace capitalism with democracy? He sighs and tries to explain. In the old…
Newsweek’s Meacham Scoffs ‘Tea Party Would Disagree if You Served
On Monday’s Charlie Rose show on PBS, during a discussion of how the Obama administration might change course after the Democratic party’s loss of the Massachusetts Senate race, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham argued that President Obama has so far pursued “centrist” policies, even claiming that the bailouts could be described as “center right.” After the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut argued that,…
PBS Gives One-Sided View of Giving Billions to Fund News
Want government to fund public media? Then PBS has a place for you. If you back giving news organizations tens of billions of dollars, that's good for nearly 25 minutes of air-time. That's how the PBS weekly newsmagazine "NOW" addressed a left-wing solution to the decline of the news industry. On Jan. 15, "NOW," welcomed the founders of the left-wing media think tank Free Press - John Nichols…
Reuters, PBS Noted Faith's Role in Fall of Berlin Wall
I believe in miracles. They happen everyday. Like Reuters, of all news outlets, acknowledging the role that religious faith played in the dissident movements in East Germany leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.Sarah Pulliam Bailey picked up on that in a November 9 post at Get Religion yesterday:With Bon Jovi, Angela Merkel and Mikhail Gorbachev likely to steal the spotlight at the…
Erbe: Dems Losing on Election Day Have Fizzled Bush Hatred to Blame
If Democrats get a spanking at the polls today, it's not because American voters are trending conservative or are frustrated with the direction liberal Democrats are leading the country, but because the electorate's disdain for the former Bush administration has abated.That according to liberal PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News contributing editor Bonnie Erbe.From her November 2 blog post…
White House Met Privately With Many Left-Wing Opinionistas
The White House has berated Fox News for days now for purportedly pushing an agenda and calling it news. So Americans may have been surprised when, as reported by Noel Sheppard, Obama invited two of MSNBC's most divisive liberal pundits--Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow--to the White House for an off-the-record briefing.As it turns out, Maddow and Olbermann were only two of the left's…
NYT’s Brooks: Obama Nobel Prize Award a 'Joke' and 'Travesty'; WaPo
Remember just a week ago when New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the likes Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck? Naturally, that led to the left-wing noise machine, and the media which uses that message for show prep, to suggest there was a split in the conservative movement and therefore attempt to marginalize the conservative message. However, will they be so eager to echo the sentiment of…
