From time to time, we receive suggestions about adding a link on articles to submit NB stories to the community bookmarking site Digg.com. It's something we've thought about, however, I've always been skeptical of the non-partisanship of Digg.

LGF and Ace have some interesting posts on how leftist readers of the site consistently vote stories with conservative messages off the front page.

IMO this is yet another example of the left better using technology than the right. <

It seems campy to say, “Only in Hollywood,” but CNN suggested Friday that Al Gore might announce his candidacy for president at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

During the 4PM EST installment of “The Situation Room,” Bill Schneider perfectly set up the ideal liberal fantasy (somewhat similar video available here):

It's Academy Awards night. Best documentary feature is up. And the Oscar is favored to go to "An Inconvenient Truth," starring Al Gore… Lawrence Bender and the film's other producers come up to accept the Oscar with Gore. The audience roars its approval. This is liberal Hollywood. Gore speaks.

The video then cut to Martin Kaplan, who is the director of the Norman Lear Center:

A preview of the political commentary we can expect at Sunday night's Academy Awards? As a presenter at Saturday's “Film Independent's Spirit Awards” carried live at 2pm PST/5pm EST on the Independent Film Channel (IFC), actress America Ferrera (IMDb page), the title role star of ABC's Ugly Betty, interjected a bit of political commentary suggesting the U.S. will not be “the land of the free” again until President Bush leaves office. Taking the stage inside a tent on the Santa Monica beach, Ferrera was joined by actor Zach Braff, a star on NBC's Scrubs, to present the award for the “Best First Feature.” In the scripted exchange, Braff asked: “So do you think that you have any traits in common with the country that is your namesake?” Ferrera replied: “I guess I'm a free-spirited person and America's supposedly the 'land of the free,' right?” She then added, to loud applause from the left coast film industry audience: “Or at least we will be in 2008.”

Video clip (30 seconds): Real (900 KB) or Windows Media (1 MB), plus MP3 audio (175 KB)

This is way too funny, and requires all fluids, combustibles, and sharp objects to be safely stowed.

NewsBusters readers should be familiar with an embarrassing and disgraceful Rosie O’Donnell moment from last December when she badly feigned a Chinese accent on ABC’s “The View."

In response, a Chinese-American poet named Beau Sia has created a marvelous video that he posted at YouTube Thursday (video available here, h/t Hot Air).

In what he called “An Open Letter to All The Rosie O’Donnells,” Sia first discredited Rosie’s claim that she was simply doing an accent:

A Trenton, New Jersey, meteorologist has just launched a new website to counter the constant stream of disinformation about anthropogenic global warming coming from a hysterical media.

As reported by ClimatePolice.com (emphasis mine throughout):

Joseph Conklin, a meteorologist with expertise in the analysis of surface weather observations, has launched a website to help promote alternative scientific views on climate change. He believes these views have been overshadowed and even wrongly criticized by sensationalist news stories.

The press release continued:

There’s a new national campaign called “First Amendment First” that is looking to eliminate the influence that religion and religious groups have in setting policy and impacting elections. On Friday, former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite endorsed their views.

As reported by MediaNews (emphasis mine throughout):

Alarmed by what they see as religious groups' growing influence on government policy, a consortium has launched a public awareness campaign to defend the First Amendment's vow that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

The article continued:

As NewsBuster Brent Baker reported Friday, CBS’s “60 Minutes” will be airing a piece this Sunday about a small number of American troops in Iraq that have signed a petition in favor of immediate withdrawal.

Fox News’s Sean Hannity is planning to present the opposite side of this issue on the March 4 installment of that network’s “Hannity’s America,” and spoke about it on Friday’s “Hannity & Colmes.”

As Hannity devotees would expect, Sean didn't pull any punches concerning his negative opinion of CBS (video available here):

For those looking for alternatives to Sunday’s Oscars -- and let's face it, who isn't? -- Fox News has added a special to its lineup that should interest all blogosphere denizens.

As reported by FoxNews.com:

This weekend, join hosts Kirsten Powers and Michelle Malkin as FOX News takes you inside the most explosive blogs on the Web!

The tagline caption reads:

The Associated Press reports that three journalists are being kicked out of Cuba for writing stories critical of the Communist regime: one BBC reporter, a Chicago Tribune reporter, and a correspondent for El Universal, a Mexican newspaper.

When I read this I recalled a study by MRC's Rich Noyes a few years back about CNN's Cuba coverage, which, by contrast, never incensed the Castro regime. In fact, Noyes found that stories filed from that bureau's chief Lucia Newman amounted to a "Megaphone for a Dictator."

Last year, Newman left CNN to join Al Jazeera International.

Here's just some of what Noyes found in his May 9, 2002, report:

If what Fox News reported Saturday is correct, conservatives all around the country might have been given a very early Christmas present by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

FNC’s Bill McCuddy announced the following from Hollywood during Saturday’s "Fox & Friends”:

The big story here out on the red carpet back to live action is that Mr., Mr. Al Gore who is going to walk this red carpet, still doesn’t have permission to go up to that podium if he in fact wins for “An Inconvenient Truth,” which sounds awfully inconvenient in and of itself. It’s something of a clerical error. This guy can not win or give an acceptance speech to save his life.

How delicious. McCuddy was asked to elaborate why that might be:

Ok, it may be low rent and seemingly self-congratulatory for me to link to my own post, but I'll do it anyway.

The last paragraph of my post above is something I want to discuss with the group. Does anyone else find it ironic that such and arrogant faction of American Society (MSM) has absolutely no problem being an absolute tool for a band of third-world thugs? If I was a journalist and had an iota of self respect, I wouldn't be a tool of anyone, even someone who hated George W. Bush as much as I did.

The only thing I can gather is that beating and disgracing this President is the most urgent task at hand for them, even if it means being used by our enemies.

Anyone else perplexed by this??

This is a tale of two editorials. The New York Times this morning applauds a New Jersey court ruling holding public schools liable when they fail to take measures to stop the taunting or bullying of gay students. Coincidentally, a Boston Globe editorial today applauds a Massachusetts court ruling upholding the right of the Lexington school district to expose elementary school students to children's books -- such as 'Who's in a Family?' and 'Molly's Family' -- that feature same-sex parents. This was done pursuant to a state law law that "requires that all public school districts develop curricula advancing respect for diversity, including for gays and lesbians."

In the Bay State case, parents had claimed that their constitutional rights to free exercise of religion were violated, as were their rights as parents to raise their children as they see fit. The court disagreed, ruling that "options remain for the parents, such as private school or home schooling, so their rights were not abridged." Not only did the Globe declare the judge's ruling "reasonable," it opined that "the earlier most students learn [to 'respect difference'], the better."

Friday, 23 February 2007...

SARASOTA, FL (NS/AP) -

It was billed as a 'Code Pink' demonstration that was being held outside Congressman Vern Buchanan's office on North Orange Avenue and Fruitville Road on Friday...

However the timing was idential to the Anti-War Democrats in the Senate announcing their intent to 'undeclare' the War in Iraq by attempting to limit the powers of the President given under the War Powers Act...

Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Cal) has introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate which would do exactly that. However this legislation faces many uncertainties because of the previous attempt to pass a non-binding Resolution last week that failed because it couldn't get the 60 votes in the Senate to pass it...

Removing the President's war-making authority has only been done once before and had little effect and accomplished nothing...