Wandering Around the Spin Room
As I mentioned earlier, I was covering the Democrats' presidential debate this week. After it ended, I took off to "spin
alley" where the various candidates had little areas
underneath those vertical political convention signs, intent on seeing if I could find (or make) something interesting. The three top
candidates did not show, although Clinton and Obama managed to get
pretty good crowds…
Olbermann Blog Falsely Asserts Supreme Court Overturned Brown v. Board
The following was written for NewsBusters by Jason Aslinger, a private practice attorney from Greenville, Ohio. Portions in bold below reflect the editor's emphasis.The media’s contempt for the conservative U.S. Supreme Court reached new lows this week when it used a dishonest play on words to imply that the Court was against racial diversity in public schools.That distortion, however, paled in…
‘Instapundit’ Glenn Reynolds Discusses New Media’s Impact on Pol
One of the most well-known conservatives in the blogosphere is Glenn Reynolds, whose “Instapundit” website continually receives some of the highest traffic totals of all political venues on the Internet.Due to his expertise on such issues, the folks at the largely liberal Mother Jones published an interview with Reynolds last week wherein the topic of discussion was how the new media are…
ABC Edits Out Coulter Zingers in Debate With Edwards
On Wednesday’s "Good Morning America," co-anchor Chris Cuomo portrayed the previous day’s on-air debate between Elizabeth Edwards and Ann Coulter as a one sided lecture from the ‘08 contender’s wife. The ABC program edited out or didn’t play either of Coulter’s best verbal barbs.The conservative author’s zinger, that John Edwards’ use of her name to raise money is better "than giving $50,000…
‘Meet the Press’ Demonstrates How Terrible an Unbalanced Panel Can
On June 3, NBC’s “Meet the Press” marvelously demonstrated how wonderful a panel discussion can be when there are an equal number of liberal and conservative pundits present as reported by NewsBusters here.Three weeks later, host Tim Russert stocked his panel exclusively with liberals: David Broder of The Washington Post, John Harwood of The Wall Street Journal and CNBC, Gwen Ifill of PBS’…
FNC’s Kirsten Powers: ‘Here’s the Deal With Liberal Talk Radio
Most Fox News watchers are familiar with Kirsten Powers, the outspoken Democrat strategist and political analyst that is often a guest of Bill O’Reilly’s.On Friday, Powers sat in for Brian Kilmeade on Fox Radio’s “Brian and the Judge.” At issue was the just-released report from the Center for American Progress regarding conservative domination of AM radio. To say the least, Powers' take on this…
Liberal Radio Host Demonstrates Hypocrisy of Fairness Doctrine
An interesting debate over the recent Center for American Progress report concerning conservative dominance on the radio transpired on Thursday’s “Tucker” when the moderately conservative Michael Smerconish, acting as guest host, took on liberal radio’s Ed Schultz.The discussion ended up being a classic battle between a capitalist who believes that free market forces are determining programming…
Oops. Left-Wing Think Progress Misquotes Laura Bush
In a post on Wednesday (6/20/07), left-wing site Think Progress blared a headline, "Laura Bush Falsely Claims That 'Many' Iraqi Refugees Have Been Welcomed Into The U.S."The problem? Mrs. Bush didn't say that. Quite simply, an intern at the site (with a wishful ear, maybe?) misquoted the First Lady when she was discussing World Refugee Day in a segment on CNN. Here's what Think Progress says that…
Conservative Radio Dominance Not as Grave as Liberals Proclaim
Update (Ken Shepherd): Maloney tells me he'll be on the John Gibson radio program on Fox News radio shortly after 6:20 p.m. to discuss this.As NewsBusters reported here and here, liberals around the country are carping and whining about conservatives having too much control of AM radio.In fact, just yesterday, the Center for American Progress issued an outline as to what needs to be done to…
