LATimes: US Reaction to 9/11 Just a 'Massive Overreaction
Nearly 3,000 Americans killed in a series of attacks on one single day -- the most American civilians ever killed in a single day with coordinated attacks -- was no big deal as far as David Bell writing for the L.A. Times is concerned.
The attacks were a horrible act of mass murder, but history says we're overreacting.
See, they know this because Russia had a bad time of it during WWII.
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‘Fox and Friends’ Anchors Mock CNN's Anderson Cooper
The cable news war is certainly getting hotter. After a Fox News spokesperson was quoted last week by the New York Times as calling CNN’s Anderson Cooper “the Paris Hilton of television news,” the “Fox & Friends” morning crew took the baton and really ran with it.The following video posted Monday at YouTube shows “F&F” personalities having fun with a new Fox News print ad depicting Cooper…
The Most Connected Man in News Is Back
The dust-up
over where Anderson Cooper hangs his hat is heating up again with
ex-Fox News "whistleblower" Charlie Reina going back to the MSM gossip
boards to drop unverified bombs.
You've probably never heard of Charlie Reina. He made news by his report in a MSM forum claiming to have witnessed bias first-hand at Fox News. This was swallowed by all the usual
co-conspirators
and parroted…
NYTimes Reveals Distrust of 'Law Abiding' Citizens
The New York Times thinks you are a criminal if you own a gun. The editorial writers at the Times simply don't believe that you could possibly be a law abiding citizen if you are interested in self defense, their most recent anti-gun piece reveals.
Their January 30th piece, incongruously titled "A Day Without Guns ..." -- incongruous because the piece itself does not address any such subject as…
NBC’s ‘Crossing Jordan’ Attacks Ann Coulter With Mental Afflicti
Bill O’Reilly’s war on liberal bias at NBC took an interesting turn Sunday evening when one of the network’s hit dramas decided to attack Ann Coulter for no apparent reason (h/t Hot Air with video available here).As Dr. Nigel Townsend (Steve Valentine) attended to a whiny blonde woman, he asked, “So, how long have you suffered from “ACS”? When she gives him a blank stare, he responded: “Ann…
CBS Report Uses al Qaeda Propaganda Film, Claims It's 'CBS Obtained
So, here is a question: Why is CBS using propaganda film originally posted on an al Qaeda website and claiming it is merely "CBS obtained" with no mention of the actual source for Lara Logan's report on The "Battle of Haifa Street"? The anti-Iraq website called Iraqslogger posted a story about how CBS reporter Lara Logan is crying that CBS seems to have spiked her "Haifa Street" story. Logan has…
DKos’s Stark and NB’s Sheppard Debate Liberal Blog Protests of Con
As NewsBusters has been reporting for the past couple of weeks, a battle is being waged between liberal bloggers and a conservative radio station in San Francisco. Those that are unfamiliar with this issue should read articles covering both sides of the matter here and here.Two of the most outspoken voices on the Internet regarding this subject have been Mike Stark, who writes for Daily Kos and…
CBS News Radio: 'Nation Says No to War', Protests Exaggerated
On a long drive home from a Indianapolis this weekend, I had the dubious pleasure of listening to a CBS news break at the top of the hour on a talk station and in one of their reports on Saturday's anti-War protests the verbiage used to report the gatherings was so slanted that it was startling and was so obviously intended to make it seem much greater than it really was that it wasn't even funny…
George H. W. Bush Strikes Out at the Media
It’s always nice to have your father stick up for you, even when you’re 60 years old.Such was the case when former President George H. W. Bush spoke at a recent reception for a journalism scholarship. As reported by Reuters (emphasis mine throughout, h/t Drudge):President George W. Bush's father accused the news media of "personal animosity" toward his son and said he found the criticism so…
