CNN/YouTube Special Features Liberal Videos Disproportionately
On Monday night, CNN aired a special hour promoting the upcoming "CNN/YouTube" presidential debates. CNN is encouraging viewers to record their questions for the presidential candidates and post them on YouTube.com. In anticipation of this historic event, hosts John Roberts and Kiran Chetry shared just a few of the thousands of video submissions CNN has already received. Of the videos aired on…
Flying Pigs at 'Today': Booming Economy Benefits Many Americans
When Matt Lauer introduced a segment on the booming stock market by asking "is the rising tide lifting all boats?" I braced myself for another MSM excursion into class warfare. But surprise, surprise . . .
CNBC's Erin Burnett narrated the segment, and her opening also made me figure we were in for more bash-the-rich rhetoric. "Another day, another record on Wall Street . . . As stocks rise…
Comparing Growth in Income Inequality: Late 1990s Had More
The meme: Income inequality during the Bush Administration has widened, as the rich have gotten ever richer.
A sub-meme: Income inequality during the previous administration lessened, or at least didn’t get any worse.
But facts are stubborn things, as information obtained from the Census Bureau and viewable at the full post shows (scroll down at the link to get to inflation-adjusted data):
Law Firms Preparing to Sue Over Global Warming
And now for something completely insipid…As the media and their alarmists like soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore have shamefully convinced enough of the population that man can actually impact the climate, law firms around the nation are gearing up to sue possible offenders.I kid you not.As reported in Monday’s Dallas Morning News (h/t NBer alamojb, emphasis added throughout):
New Scientist: People Love to Pay Taxes? Absurd 'Study' Presented as F
If this isn't junk science, then nothing meets the requirement to be called such! A new, money wasting university "study" was written about by New Scientist Magazine (on their website newscientist.com) this month that was presented as a "surprising discovery" somehow "proving" that people secretly love to pay taxes. And people wonder why "science" can be so easily scoffed at these days... or why…
IBD Takes Look at Media Bias, Incompetence
Our friends at Investor's Business Daily are taking a seven-part look at the media's incompetence in reporting market:Media bias has been detected in other studies, but this series raises an additional possibility – media incompetence in analyzing and explaining how the economy and financial markets work.Installments will cover how the media report on subjects like tax cuts, deficits, trade and…
