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 It is amazing how a phrase can emerge seemingly out of nowhere to become the statement du jour ? used, overused, and ultimately abused. Last year there was "low hanging fruit" everywhere. Today everyone?s being "thrown under the bus."
Sometimes, it?s just one word.
"As a writer, you?re [...]
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You could call it progress in media bias. For years, liberal journalists have blamed Team Bush for the death of hundreds in Hurricane Katrina. The major media found that theme of fatal incompetence simply irresistible. Time?s Michael Grunwald, who has written in-depth articles and a book about the Army Corps of Engineers, [...]
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Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual"? Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The Washington Post [...]
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You've got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]
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 Cam Edwards giggled as he shared his "Headline of the Week" with his audience Friday night at NRANews.com. It comes from Indianapolis: "Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage."
Understandably, while that headline remains on Google, WXIN (Fox 59) has changed the headline now to the more appropriate "Homeowner holds burglar [...]
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 Let us give New York Times environmental writer Andrew Revkin credit. He is one of the few in the mainstream media reporting on the hacked global warming e-mails story which has gone viral in the blogosphere and was covered in-depth by NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard. If you [...]
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 On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips went after the kids who supposedly bully a 10-year-old boy who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because homosexual marriage isn't widely accepted. Some of his classmates allegedly call him names. Phillips's weapon of choice was name calling:
And [...]
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It's an issue that libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-proclaimed socialist agree on: Congress should have the authority to call for the Federal Reserve to be audited. But it is also something that some in the financial media are reluctant to support, especially [...]
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Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow.
Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her criticisms of Sarah Palin's new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." Maddow [...]
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At the top of Friday?s Hardball on MSNBC, host Chris Matthews discovered the reason for President Obama?s political difficulties in recent months: ?President Obama has his chin out on just about every hot issue out there....He?s exposed and vulnerable. His poll numbers are dropping. Is he just too darned intellectual? [...]
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Friday?s front-page ?news analysis? by New York Times health care reporter Kevin Sack, ?Culture Clash in Medicine,? dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for breast cancer and cervical cancer. The recommendations have caused some outcry as a possible prelude to Obama-care rationing, concerns Sack [...]
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Talk show host Dick Cavett, whose TV show went off the air in 1982, appeared on MSNBC, Friday, to trash Sarah Palin as a "know nothing" and someone who has "no first language." Mostly, however, he seemed interested only in talking about himself, prompting News Live host Norah O?Donnell to [...]
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 On Nov. 18, Foreign Policy's Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson wrote an article titled "The Real Shock of Fort Hood." If you thought that the shock of Fort Hood was that an Army Major fired over 100 rounds into a crowded processing center on a military base [...]
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 An unsigned CNN.com article on Friday noted that the Senate Ethics Committee had reproved Senator Roland Burris ?for actions and statements reflecting unfavorably upon the Senate,? but did not directly mention the Illinois senator?s affiliation with the Democratic [...]
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As if we needed more proof that Christians are the only group left in America that it?s safe to make fun of. A popular YouTube video purports to be an ad for a Wii-like game system called ?Mass: We Pray,? which will be available at Easter 2010. In reality, [...]
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E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages. Those involved allegedly include: James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Michael Mann, famous for Mann's "Hockey [...]
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In what could easily be labeled the understatement of the week and probably of the entire month of November, the Washington Post today headlined a page A22 story today "GAO warns stimulus jobs data could contain inaccuracies."
The print story is accompanied by a screenshot of Recovery.gov, which the caption [...]
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Citing a Democratic congressman who recently proposed a no whining day, on Friday?s Morning Meeting on MSNBC, host Dylan Ratigan asked: ?...unemployment, health care, a couple of wars, Americans got plenty to be frustrated about these days...But some people say stop the whining....Is ?shut up and deal? the new American [...]
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 The scandal surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has provided a number of case studies in liberal media bias. The initial silence of the vast majority of media outlets on the story, the attempts by leftist commentators to excuse ACORN and discredit the group's critics, [...]
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 MSNBC publicized Ebony magazine's ?Power 150? picks by bringing aboard two left-wing honorees, Al Sharpton and Michael Eric Dyson, during Friday's 11 AM EST hour.
?To be on any list with Al Sharpton,? Dyson, an author and sociology professor at Georgetown University glowed, ?is extraordinarily beautiful.? [...]
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 CBS?s Early Show on Friday completely ignored the grilling Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner received on Capitol Hill on Thursday and the calls for his resignation by members of Congress. ABC?s Good Morning America and NBC?s Today both covered the contentious exchanges.
ABC?s Good Morning America provided the most [...]
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 At first glance it appeared that NBC's Meredith Vieira and David Gregory, on Friday's Today show, did a decent job of recounting all of the struggles the Obama administration is dealing with from unemployment to foreign policy, but ultimately the pair concluded, in every instance, they weren't actual [...]
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After introducing Lopez on her CNN Headline News program last night, Behar played a clip of Lopez's HBO special in which he said, "There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe me. She's got all the signs. [...]
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 The Associated Press "fact check" of Sarah Palin's new book wasn't enough. Now the left is just coming out and claiming Palin is a flat out liar. That was the argument made by Bella DePaulo in a Psychology Today blog entitled "Sarah Palin's Lies."
DePaulo, who [...]
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Want to know how the left really feels about free speech? Look no further than Huffington Post editor and co-founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington appeared on MSNBC's Nov. 19 "Countdown" to discuss a report by the Anti-Defamation League that alleges Fox News host Glenn Beck is "the most important mainstream [...]
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 Now that former CNN host Lou Dobbs has been freed of his duties with his former network, he has been making the rounds on other networks - Fox News "The O'Reilly Factor," Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and now with his long-time rival's show [...]
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As reported on NewsBusters recently, the kill-joy food police are here just in time for the holidays. On Nov. 19 ABC's "Good Morning America" aired a recycled study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a liberal activist group that, if it were given the power, [...]
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Unemployment is higher among Dems and unaligned voters than among Republicans.
Data from Rasmussen Reports national telephone surveys shows that 15.0% of Democrats in the workforce are currently unemployed and looking for a job. Among adults not affiliated with either major [...]
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A funny thing happened on the road to global warming. Mother Nature is simply not cooperating. Germany's Der Spiegel noted this "problem" for global warming alarmists yesterday:
Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the [...]
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 On Friday, The Washington Post explored the guilt of the millionaire liberal in a story on the front of the Metro section headlined: "Grappling with a wealth of guilt: Young heirs seek moral balance between inherited windfalls, social responsibilities."
But one subject in Ian Shapira?s story of "moral [...]
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 Last year, Sally Quinn of the Washington Post found it "devastating" on PBS that Barack Obama would abandon his sulfurous religious mentor Jeremiah Wright, a man "lionized by some of the great white theologians in this country." Quinn questioned how Wright?s allegedly racist opponents can call themselves [...]
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Really, who knew?
In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call "the good war" (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the general [...]
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 GQ Magazine is telling a tale of two leaders. On the one side you have Barack Obama, champion of the left, leader of the mainstream media; GQ's Leader of the Year. On the other side you have Sarah Palin, pariah of the right, dangerous and poisonous to [...]
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One year ago tonight, Thursday, November 20 -- like today, the Thursday one week before Thanksgiving -- MSNBC ridiculously plastered ?BREAKING NEWS? on-screen for video of Sarah Palin at a turkey farm just after pardoning one, running more than three minutes of video of some turkeys being slaughtered by a [...]
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Chris Matthews, on Thursday's Hardball, took GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx to task for claiming that Republicans "passed civil rights bills in the sixties" as he accused her of having a bad memory, going as far as to compare her to one of the androids from the science fiction classic Blade [...]
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As Noel Sheppard pointed out in an earlier post at Newsbusters, Chris Matthews once again accuses the Tea Party goers of being too white: "This is a largely white -- almost no minorities in this crowd," reported MSNBC's O'Donnell live from the scene.
Matthews reiterated, "Well, they look [...]
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 Multi-Directional Censorship ( photo courtesy of) The Wall Street Journal's intrepid and very good Amy Schatz has a piece today updating us on the progress of the Federal Communications Commission [...]
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 Two CNN programs ran news briefs on a new study on movie popcorn from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, but omitted its left-wing affiliation. Anchor John Roberts mentioned the group by name on Wednesday?s CNN Tonight, but didn?t mention [...]
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UPDATE: Jackie's Blog Catches Norah In Fib H/t MRC's Jeff Poor. I urge people to read the blog entry that Jackie Seals, the impressive young lady that O'Donnell confronted, has written about her experience. Not only does it provide fascinating background material about just what a set-up O'Donnell devised, it [...]
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 Megan Fox has a real distaste for "Middle America". Those darned hillbillies in fly-over country just don't seem to go for blockbuster lesbian slash ?em up soft-core porn flicks. What gives?
Fox is blaming Middle America for her potentially career-breaking flop of a horror movie "Jennifer's Body." Asked [...]
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 U.S. News and World Report's Bonnie Erbe claimed in her latest blog post that the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, which bans federal funding of elective abortion in the recently passed House health care reform bill, is "a privacy invasion of massive proportions" because it "would allow government [...]
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 UPDATE AT END OF POST: Gore prominently quotes Deuteronomy, "I?m offering you the choice of life or death."
The cover of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's new book "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" was intentionally doctored to exaggerate the appearance of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere [...]
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Further your indoctrin...I mean education -- with the New York Times!
Professor Scott Stein recently received an email offer from the Times: Require his students to read the Times, and get a free subscription.
Excerpt from the email (hat tip American Spectator):
All faculty at [Name of university] [...]
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 If a prominent white man said all white men in Congress should vote for or against a pending piece of legislation, what do you think the media firestorm would be like?
As you ponder, consider that Jesse Jackson on Wednesday told a reception held by the Congressional Black Caucus, [...]
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On Nov. 19, Dan Gainor, Vice President of Business & Culture for the Media Research Center, appeared on FNC's "America's Newsroom" to debate with Julia Piscitelli, a Democratic Media Consultant, about how the media has treated Sarah Palin's new book. FNC's Alisyn Camerota focused specifically on the Associated Press's decision [...]
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As part of an ongoing retrospective of the the first decade of the 21st century, Newsweek has ginned up a boatload of top 10 lists and assigned some Hollywood celebrities and Washington politicians to pen brief blurbs to accompany some of the entries. One such list, the top 10 "History-Altering [...]
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 On Thursday?s CBS Early Show, after Rudy Giuliani suggested the Obama administration was trying to ?satisfy left-wing critics? by trying 9/11 terrorists in civilian court, incredulous co-host Harry Smith saw no such connection: ?But Hang on. So it?s ? so the [...]
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 Today on its Web site and in its printed version, the Chicago Tribune reported on the large crowds greeting former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on her book tour. More than a thousand enthusiastic admirers greeted her Wednesday in Grand Rapids. Another thousand were already in line [...]
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 ABC?s Robin Roberts on Thursday pressed a government official on rationing and a new recommendation that women under the age of 50 shouldn?t get regular mammograms. Talking to one of report's authors, she chided, "Dr. [Thomas] Wilt, you know many are feeling that this is trying to save money, that this [...]
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Leave it to ABC and its obsession with alternate sexuality to characterize being a male or a female as a "difficult decision." Introducing an interview featuring Chastity (now Chaz) Bono on Nov. 19, "Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer said, "There can be no decision that you make that is more [...]
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 Members of the self-proclaimed fastest-growing union in North America have started fights at town hall meetings, share office space with ACORN and spent over $60 million to elect President Barack Obama.
The left-wing, 2.1 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its president, Andy Stern, spent much [...]
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 The Washington Post's Anne Kornblut (saved here in case her report is modified or disappears) captured a comment Obama made to U.S troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea while heading back to Washington after his Asian trip.
I believe that the comment (bolded) [...]
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 The attacks on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took an interesting turn Wednesday when MSNBC's Chris Matthews suggested that racism is at the heart of her support.
Much like mainstream media coverage of this year's Tea Parties, Matthews and "Hardball" guests Norah O'Donnell and Salon's Joan Walsh made an [...]
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The $1,000 bill has President Grover Cleveland?s face on it. The $100,000 bill has the dour image of President Woodrow Wilson.
We?ve already seen President Barack Obama attach his name and face to the $787 billion stimulus bill. And if the left has its way, the face on the $6 trillion [...]
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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: European lefties are slowly realizing that Obama is, well, American.
Barack Obama cast himself as a "citizen of the world" when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed [...]
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 Here is more proof there is a vast chasm between Fox News and Fox Entertainment in Hollywood. In Wednesday night?s episode of Glee, a heartless Christian dad character is ? of course ? a big Glenn Beck watcher. The biggest liberal joke on the series is the pregnant [...]
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 NBC's Chuck Todd and CBS's Chip Reid both concluded their interviews with President Obama conducted in Beijing by worrying about the ?stress? of his job. ?He laughed off the speculation about his reported weight loss,? Todd relayed on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, ?but admitted the burden of the [...]
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"This week's abortion conversation is about politics. Let's not pretend it's about anything else," Newsweek's Lisa Miller huffed in a November 18 Newsweek.com post, complaining about how the moral issues surrounding abortion are taking on a life of their own in the health care debate.
We suffer, this week, from [...]
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 Tuesday?s World News with Charles Gibson showed clips of an interview between Barbara Walters and Sarah Palin which will air on Friday?s 20/20. At one point, Walters seemed to allude to the fact that there is a misconception that Palin once claimed that ?I can see Russia from [...]
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 Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller, contributing to her magazine?s ?20/10? list of top 10 cultural moments of the past decade, revisited the ?furor surrounding...[the] alleged anti-Semitism? of Mel Gibson?s movie The Passion of the Christ, and concluded ?the film is, [...]
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 During Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stumped Attorney General Eric Holder on what should have been a fairly routine question for America's top law enforcement official.
Maybe more surprisingly, NPR reported it at its website. As NPR's Frank James noted, [...]
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 There?s liberal hypocrisy on the part of New York Times economics columnist and left-wing blog-follower Paul Krugman in his Monday nytimes.com blog post, "Proposed extensions of Godwin?s Law."
Leading into a discussion of how he thinks people should discuss inflation and interest rates, Krugman said:
Godwin?s Law [...]
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 Newsweek's effort to take a stab at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the heels of her book tour appears to be backfiring - at least from a legal standpoint.
Recently, the latest cover of Newsweek took an image of Palin that originally appeared in Runner's World [...]
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 The Left and the media may hate her, but Sarah Palin is a ratings sensation.
Such appears to be the case given the announcement that Monday's episode of "Oprah" was the most watched for the daytime talk queen in two years. Palin even drew more viewers than pop singer Whitney [...]
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Take a look at some extra video footage from the latest episode of NewsBusters? Notable Quotables comedy show. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric interviewing former Vice President Al Gore provided us with so much joke material we couldn?t fit it all in. To see current and [...]
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Three days ago, I argued that the Washington Post was ginning up a new campaign to discredit Republican governor-elect Bob McDonnell, having failed to sink his candidacy by its continual harping about his culturally conservative graduate's thesis at Pat Robertson's Regent University.
Today the Post confirmed my suspicions as [...]
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MSNBC?s Dr. Nancy Snyderman appeared on Wednesday?s Morning Joe and justified reducing the number of women in their 40s who get mammograms. "No, it is rationing. Let's be clear," she admitted. Confusing private actions by American citizens and the government, the Dr. Nancy host compared, "But, you ration what food [...]
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 Last week, NPR president Vivian Schiller took questions briefly on washingtonpost.com about the taxpayer-funded radio network. When the liberal-bias question came up, she claimed "NPR tilts left! NPR tilts right! Frankly, we hear it equally from both sides -- or should I say from ALL since most [...]
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 Citing an interview the President gave to White House correspondent Chip Reid, at the top of Wednesday?s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith declared: ?An outraged President Obama says heads may roll when he returns from Asia, telling CBS News he?s [...]
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NBC's Matt Lauer invited on Newsweek managing editor Dan Klaidman, on Wednesday's Today, to answer Sarah Palin's charge that the magazine's recent cover photo of her, in a jogging outfit, was "sexist," but Klaidman denied the accusation as he claimed: "Well, what it really represented was what the story was [...]
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Fox News' Bill O'Reilly stated last night that "the left is now peddling Sarah Palin as a shallow demagogue who would lead us to tragic circumstances" during a "Talking Points" segment about the former Alaskan governor's continued assault from the left. He cited CMI's 2008 study, "How the TV Networks [...]
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 I haven?t seen ?The Blind Side? yet, so I won?t say anything about the quality of the film. But based on the trailer and the true story, my wife and I are as excited about this as any film in a long time. It tells the true story [...]
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We did it! Thanks to your generous donations, we have now met our fund-raising goal for server improvements and expenses. In less than 2 weeks we managed to raise over $30,000. Congratulations! Thanks to everyone who chipped in! [...]
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Headline wording choice can set the tone for liberal bias, and a November 18 Washington Post Style front-pager is a classic example.
Profiling Pentecostal preacher Bishop Harry Jackson, the Post titled staffer Wil Haygood's story "Seeking to put asunder," an obvious allusion to Jesus's declaration about the holy nature of [...]
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Some vindication for Sarah Palin in the midst of non-stop media hostility. On Monday night's Late Show with David Letterman, guest Seth Myers, the head writer for Saturday Night Live who also anchors the comedy show's 'Weekend Update' fake newscast, noted how in her new book she asserts that during [...]
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