While Toyota Is Barely Edging GM in Worldwide Unit Sales, AP Report 'F
In a Monday Associated Press dispatch, reporter Tom Krisher virtually celebrated the idea that Government/General Motors "may be Number 1 again," with happy talk of "dethroning" and "overtaking" Toyota.
Nowhere did Krisher mention the inconvenient fact that Toyota's revenues dwarf GM's to the point where comparing unit sales is an absurd waste of time. Specifically:
The Worst of the Worst: A Look Back at Keith Olbermann's Most Outrageo
MSNBC abruptly ended the run of Keith Olbermann on Friday, bringing to a close an era in which the left-wing host compared conservatives to Nazis, accused them of "murderous deceit," of "urinating on the Constitution" and told President George W. Bush to "shut the Hell up!"
Olbermann certainly became more vitriolic as the years went by, but back in 1998, he frothed about special prosecutor…
WaPo Devotes 880 Words to First Lady/Wal-Mart Partnership, Zilch to Af
Last Wednesday I wrote about a left-wing anti-Wal-Mart group in Washington, D.C. that published a flyer depicting a crosshairs on the Wal-Mart smiley face icon and called for a "march on the developer's house" in Northwest D.C. after dark on Thursday the 20th.
[That flyer has since been scrubbed from the WalMartFreeDC.org website, but you can see a screen capture of it below the page break…
AP Philly Abortion Clinic Story Gives Rendell a Pass, Misses Serious E
In an Associated Press report by Patrick Walters yesterday afternoon, the following two reasons were offered as to why the Philadelphia abortion "clinic" operated by Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who was arrested and charged earlier this week "with murdering seven babies and one woman who went to him for an abortion," had not been inspected since 1993:
Democratic former Governor Ed Rendell, who left…
Media Trumpet Flawed ObamaCare Cost Estimates, Bozell Sets Record Stra
Editor's Note: The initial post included an incorrect video embed. The correct video has now been inserted. We apologize for the error.
While mainstream media outlets repeatedly fail to question flawed health care cost estimates, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell exposed the biased coverage on the January 21 "Fox & Friends."
"This proves why they're not the mainstream media," asserted…
'Let's Pretend' Headline via Reuters: 'Accounting Tweak Could Save Fed
Trick? Or "tweak"?
On Friday, a Reuters report at CNBC noted the Federal Reserve's journey into the accounting and reporting twilight zone earlier this month. In doing so, it conducted a clinic in how to make unreality look acceptable and make a dangerous situation appear palatable.
In the el bizzarro world at Reuters and those the wire service interviewed for its article:
A change in…
New York Times Takes Money From Violent Video Game Maker, Puts Bullet
There I was this morning at the New York Times online op-ed page, the scene of so much self-righteous hand-wringing in recent weeks over the violence in our culture and rhetoric. I was deciding whether to subject myself first to Gail Collins or Charles Blow, when my eye was drawn to the ad you see here for something called "Project Blackout." A busty babe wields an assault rifle the Times…
Ed Schultz Brands Santorum's Comments as 'Psycho Talk
During his (in)famous "Psycho Talk" segment of his Thursday evening MSNBC show, host Ed Schultz played the clip of Rick Santorum's interview with Terry Jeffrey of CNSNews.com where Santorum challenged President Obama's plea of ignorance on the question of when a person receives the right to life. Schultz, himself a loud-mouth liberal radio talk show host prone to crazy talk branded Santorum'…
WaPo Hypes Concerns of 'Women's Advocates' Against Newly-authorized Ca
"Holy Cross gets nod for new MoCo hospital: Women's advocates concerned."
That's how the Washington Post's online "On Faith" feature teased a Metro section front-pager in the paper's January 21 print edition.
[see screen capture below page break]
AP Coverage of Govt. Union Membership Report 'Somehow' Omits Organized
I was reading Associated Press reporter Sam Hananel's coverage ("Unions see sharp membership declines again") of Uncle Sam's latest report on union membership, and I came to this paragraph about what happened with private-sector union representation in 2010:
Union membership in the private sector fell from 7.2 percent to 6.9 percent, a low point not seen since the infancy of the labor…
AP Insists '2010 Second-Worst for Home Construction'; Evidence Proves
At several points in 2010 (just one example: at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog; graphic), I pointed out that despite the federal government's continued insistence that its budget deficit for fiscal 2010 was on track to come in lower than fiscal 2009, the deficit based on real spending would be, and turned out to be, higher in fiscal 2010. That's important to know, as clever year-crossing accounting…
New Yorker Editor: Shriver 'Was a Magnificent Candidate
"Postscript: Sargent Shriver" appears on The New Yorker's Web site today. In it, senior editor Hendrik Hertzberg writes:
In 1972, when George McGovern’s original running mate, Senator Thomas Eagleton, had to withdraw, Shriver defied the family pecking order by taking Eagleton’s place on the ticket. The Democrats had their problems that year, but Shriver wasn’t one of them. He was a…
Media Question Whether Santorum's Comments In CNSNews.com Interview Ar
In an interview with CNSNews.com last week, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R) referenced President Obama's African-American heritage last week and "found it remarkable" that he could be pro-abortion. Santorum, later clarifying his comments under media scrutiny, said he meant he is dismayed that a President who "rightfully" fights for civil rights ignores the civil rights of the unborn…
Liberal Wisconsin Radio Host Mocks Female GOP Lt. Governor Who Survive
A liberal radio host who in 2004 referred to Condoleezza Rice as an "Aunt Jemima," is at it again with hateful rhetoric against a female Republican politician. [h/t e-mail tipster Gerald Harrison]
Just don't hold your breath for the guardians of civility in politics at MSNBC to make a federal case of it.
On Monday, WTDY radio host John "Sly" Sylvester mocked Wisconsin's new Lieutenant…
