OAS Criticizes Arizona Immigration Enforcement Measure; Press Has Igno
A short Associated Press item tonight notes that the Organization for American States is not happy with the state of Arizona for passing an immigration law-enforcement measure: I don't expect AP to expand on OAS's statement any time soon, because in the process of doing so they might feel compelled to look at how some of the countries criticizing Arizona handle their own illegal immigrants.
Award-Winning Newscaster Suspended for Speaking at Tax Day Tea Party
A Rapid City, South Dakota, newscaster was suspended over a week ago for speaking at a tax day Tea Party.As reported by the Rapid City Journal Wednesday:KOTA TV newsman Shad Olson will be back on the air soon, following a disciplinary suspension from his news anchor duties in the Rapid City coverage area because of his speech at a tea party rally. Olson was taken off the air locally a few days…
CNN Co-Founder: CNN Is at Risk of Becoming a Bad Joke
Just how bad have things gotten at the low rated CNN? So bad that the CNN co-founder, Reese Schonfeld has written in his Huffington Post blog that it is at risk of becoming a bad joke:I think CNN is at risk of becoming a bad joke. Late night comics and cartoonists are already using them as a gag line. Newspapers are asking "experts" how to save them. It's time for a major change, before…
'Hide the Decline' Global Warming Video Creator Says Mann Backlash Eff
If you try to sweep your problems under the rug, they'll go away, right? Michael Mann, a Penn State professor and a central figure in the Climategate scandal and best known for his "hockey stick graph" hopes so. On Fox News Channel's April 28 broadcast of "Your World with Neil Cavuto," Elmer Beauregard of Minnesotans for Global Warming appeared to explain the reasoning behind a video that drew…
CNN Rolls Out Sob Stories From Latino Soldier, Businesses on Impact of
CNN and CNN.com highlighted opposition to Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law on Monday and Wednesday by focusing on sob stories from a soldier of Latino decent whose family entered the U.S. illegally when he was two, and from Latino businesses apparently "already feeling the effects" of the law. Correspondent Thelma Gutierrez's interview of Private First Class Jose Medina first aired…
Press Corps Increasingly Aggravated at Thin-skinned, Aggressive White
Is President Obama incapable of dealing with journalists who question his policies? The White House press corps is becoming increasingly agitated with an administration that reacts particularly strongly to criticism, and even skepticism.The White House has adopted a pugilistic attitude towards the press, lashing out at journalists who criticize the president, shutting others out, and adopting a…
MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Snickers Over Perry's Coyote Kill: Kind of Like
MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan on Wednesday chuckled over the assertion by Rick Perry that he killed a coyote while jogging, misrepresenting what happened. After explaining that the Texas Governor shot the creature for menacing his dog, Ratigan intoned, "For the record, the Texas Wildlife Commission does not allow laser sited guns to be used in hunting as it is seen as cowardly, too easy, with a laser…
WaPo Creates Good Polling News For Obama By Counting More Democrats
The lengths liberal media outlets will go to assist the politicians they support is oftentimes sick-making.Consider the following paragraphs in the Washington Post's "Poll Finds Americans in an Anti-incumbent Mood as Midterm Elections Near":Still, for President Obama and his party, there are some positive signs in the poll. The public trusts Democrats more than Republicans to handle the major…
NY Times Suggests Modern Conservative Movement Lacks Intellectual Soph
So what happens when you put the likes of David Frum, Bruce Bartlett and now apparently Jim Manzi - pseudo-conservatives with a penchant for criticizing Republicans and other conservatives all in the same place? You have the makings of a New York Times hit piece on conservatism. In the April 27 issue of the Times, a story in its Style section of all places by Patricia Cohen, singled out and…
GMA Reports Laura Bush's Criticism of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid
Former first Lady Laura Bush has some harsh words for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in her upcoming memoir "Spoken From The Heart."On Tuesday, ABC's "Good Morning America" logged a report featuring excerpts from the book recently published by the New York Times.Astonishingly, these included Mrs. Bush criticizing Pelosi and Reid for calling…
Today Warns About Ads Geared To Kids...Then Breaks for Ad Geared To Ki
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's Today show, previewed a segment about an FTC campaign to urge teachers to warn their tween-aged students about the evils of marketing, (something apparently parents are ill-equipped to do themselves) as he alerted viewers: "Plus the barrage of ads our kids see every day and what's being done to protect them from the urge to buy, buy, buy!" Amusingly that teaser,…
Irony Deficient: WaPo 'On Faith' Frets About Climate Change
“A warming planet is just the tip of the iceberg, the warning light on the dashboard,” according to the Washington Post’s On Faith Guest Voices, Katharine Hayhoe. In her April 27 article, “Not Red, Not Blue, Just Green,” Hayhoe fretted about supposed climate change and attempted to use religion as a means to take action against global warming. Hayhoe, a professor at Texas Tech and climate…
CBS Touts Democratic Strategy Labeling GOP 'Party of Wall Street
On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith lamented Republican opposition to the Democrats' financial reform legislation: "The Senate is expected to vote for a third time on financial reform. Republicans blocked the previous two attempts. President Obama says he can't understand why, and plans to make his case once again later today."In the report that followed, White House correspondent…
Chris Matthews: Sarah Palin Campaigning For Role As 'Professional Igno
Palin Derangement Syndrome was once again on full display at MSNBC Tuesday as Chris Matthews said the former Alaska governor is "campaigning almost for the role of a professional ignorant."Discussing New York Magazine's cover story published the previous day, the "Hardball" host said to guest Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "I really think, not that she`s unintelligent, but…
