Bill Maher Prevented From Discussing Religion on CBS’s ‘freeSpeech
Is CBS’s new “freeSpeech” segment on the “Evening News” really free? Maybe not, as TVNewser reported Saturday (hat tip to Drudge) that Bill Maher – who had been invited on to be one of the free speakers – was told that he couldn’t discuss religion:“On Friday's Real Time on HBO, Maher explained that CBS approached him to do a 'freeSpeech' segment on the new Evening News. He asked if he could talk…
HuffPo Analyst Says Pro-Lifers Are Just as Dangerous as Islamic Extrem
As hard as it might be to believe, the liberal defense of Rosie O’Donnell’s anti-theistic comments on Tuesday’s “The View” has become almost as absurd and offensive as the remarks themselves. First a media analyst on Wednesday night claimed that "Radical Christianity" is just as bad as radical Islam because abortion clinics in the past have been attacked as reported here. Then, on Thursday’s “…
'Shouting Religious Slogans
Another classic from Reuters:Four gunmen shouting religious slogans attacked the U.S. embassy in
Damascus on Tuesday, but failed to harm any American diplomats before
all four were killed, a Syrian official said.Of course, the news service would provide similar cover if these gunmen were Christian... (h/t Small Dead Animals)
LA Times Goes to Texas, Alaska Seeking Church Abuse Scandals
Is the Los Angeles Times "piling on" when it comes to covering sex abuse by Christians? Have they misled their readers again?In the front section of today's Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, September 5, 2006) is an article, "Sex Charges Shadow a Local Curiosity in Texas: Five monks at the Christ of the Hills Monastery are accused of abusing boys. Police also say the church's famous crying icon was 'a…
BBC Once Again Declines to Disclose Religious Background of Terrorist
First it was "asian men" behind the plot to blow up British airlines headed for America, now it seems "men under the age of 30"
were plotting terrorist attacks in Denmark, at least according to the
BBC where informing readers of the religious identity of fanatical
Muslims seems to be taboo.Danish police have arrested nine suspected terrorists, the country's security intelligence service says.The…
