WashPost's Express Tabloid Marks Flag Day With Illegal Immigrant Rally
June 14th, 2007 12:00 PM
The Washington Post publishes a weekday free commuter tabloid called Express, which is distributed throughout the Washington, D.C., area, particularly at Metrorail stations and bus shelters. Towards the back of each issue, there is a section called "Look Out," which has, among other things, horoscopes, comics, and a section called "Today in History."The "Today in History" section in the June 14…
USA Today: Did Sandy Berger 'Steal' Secret Docs? We're Debating That S
June 8th, 2007 10:24 AM
You know, it seems pretty cut-and-dried to me. Stuffing secret documents down your pants and removing them from a secure room in a federal facility, that constitutes stealing.USA Today's "On Deadline" blog isn't sure, though. (bold/italics are USA Today's):Sandy Berger, the national security adviser under former President Clinton, was disbarred yesterday in the District of Columbia.The…
N.Y.Observer: Attacks on Thompson Begin in Earnest
June 7th, 2007 5:43 AM
Well, it didn't take long for the MSM to start their attacks on Fred Thompson now that he is in the race. We are seeing more and more of them each day. Here on Newsbusters, Mark Finkelstein was curious what the line of attack would be and I found a few this week myself. Today, we find the next MSM attack line of the day being Thompson's supposed "lack of experience" for the office. Or in the…
Cato Blogger: Some Falsely Insisting Spelling Bee Champ NOT Home-Schoo
June 5th, 2007 5:59 PM
Here's a new T-W-I-S-T on the Spelling Bee story we blogged about here last Friday. You'll recall that the MRC Culture and Media Institute director Robert Knight noted that many news outlets ignored champion Evan O'Dorney's homeschooled status.Now, Andrew Coulson of Cato Institute informs us, Sara Mead, an education issues blogger at "The Quick and the ED" is suggesting characterizations of O'…
Gumbel Brags He Was ‘Correct’ to Call a Conservative a ‘F—ing
June 5th, 2007 12:56 PM
Former CBS host Bryant Gumbel, who was once infamously caught on camera calling a conservative activist a "f***ing idiot," defended and reaffirmed his comment while guest hosting on Tuesday’s "Live With Regis and Kelly." Discussing the possibility of inadvertently swearing on live television, Gumbel told co-host Kelly Ripa that he "was correct" when he used the F-word in reference to Robert…
AP Did Not Identify Indicted Congressman William Jefferson as a Democr
June 5th, 2007 7:10 AM
Update I & II at bottom:In this June 4 article, the AP worked hard to leave out something very important but very basic in an article about Democratic US Representative William Jefferson’s 16-count bribery indictment. What the AP left out was any identification of Jefferson’s party affiliation. In almost 30 paragraphs, no where is there any hint of what party Jefferson belongs to, not even a…
