Cindy Sheehan Resigns as ‘Face’ of the American Antiwar Movement

Well, sports fans, at roughly the same time I was putting together my article concerning the media ignoring Cindy Sheehan’s departure from the Democrat Party, the antiwar heroine was expressing similar sentiments at Daily Kos.In a piece entitled “Good Riddance Attention Whore,” Sheehan literally tore apart those who used to fawn over her so adoringly (h/t Charles at LGF).After a brief…
Noel Sheppard

Sheehan's Democrat Party Exit Ignored: Are Media Antiwar or Just Anti

It’s been a full 48 hours since antiwar icon Cindy Sheehan publicly announced that she was leaving the Democrat Party due to Thursday’s bipartisan agreement on an Iraq war funding bill.Yet, Google News and LexisNexis searches have identified that not one major media outlet has covered her announcement.Not one.Given the media’s fascination with this woman since she traveled to Crawford, Texas, in…
Noel Sheppard

Memorial Day Videos: 'Baseball Hero Saves the Flag' and 'America the B

Folks, last year at this time, I posted a number of commemorative videos to help you celebrate Memorial Day. “The True Meaning of Memorial Day” can be seen here, and Ray Charles marvelously singing “America the Beautiful” here. By far, the most popular was “Another Memorial Day Video: Baseball Hero Saves the American Flag.”In it, the uplifting story of Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday was told:
Noel Sheppard

Google Ignores Memorial Day…Again

Well, citizens, America’s leading search engine, and one of the most powerful forces on the Internet, has once again ignored Memorial Day.As NewsBusters reported last year: I’m sure most Googlers are extremely aware of how Google will dress up its logo at its web search or news pages in honor of holidays or special occasions…Yet, if you go to Google’s home page here, or its news page here, you…
Noel Sheppard

Blogs and Others Are Running Circles Around Old Media in Venezuela Cov

Hugo Chavez is simultaneously acting as Bull Connor (fire hoses/water cannons) and Gustav Husak (deploying tanks against his own people), yet what little Old Media coverage there is seems to want to avoid those elements of the story. At 11:00 a.m. Sunday, Gateway Pundit blogged on Venezuela's virtual dictator sending in tanks to intimidate opponents demonstrating against a government-planned…
Tom Blumer

Did Time's Joe Klein Have John Kerry 'Craving His Approval' As An Advi

Tim Graham

Memorial Day Tribute

Do any of your relatives have war stories from past U.S. conflicts? Is anyone you know currently serving overseas? Share these with us in our Memorial Day tribute.
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WashPost: Stephanopoulos Said Hillary Engaged In 'Jesuitical Lying' on

Tim Graham

Michael Moore as Dan Rather

Dan Gainor

A Palestinian Home Video American Media Will Never Air

There’s no way to properly prepare the reader for what follows, and droll remarks about stowing potables and such would be highly inappropriate.Critical Update at end of post!The following almost unbelievable video was posted at YouTube in April. As Charles Johnson described it at Little Green Footballs:It’s a home movie from hell, featuring a group of young girls dressed as suicide bombers and…
Noel Sheppard

DKos’ Moulitsas Crashes Into the Gate as Democrats Vote to Fund Iraq

Has Thursday’s capitulation by Congressional Democrats over funding the war in Iraq made Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas replace his youthful idealism with old-fashioned pragmatism?Such appears to be the case in Kos’ post published at his website Friday dealing with this interesting turn of events before the Memorial Day weekend.As his piece entitled “Moving Forward” began, one got the sense…
Noel Sheppard

Does the AP Monitor Powerline? MN DWI Story's Change Makes It Appear S

Tom Blumer

Rosie O’Donnell Warmed Up ‘View’ Audience With 9-11 Conspiracy T

Honestly, this item makes one wonder what the producers of ABC’s “The View” – including host Barbara Walters – must have been thinking with regard to keeping the program a source of entertainment versus a platform for political advocacy.On Friday, a video was posted at YouTube (h/t Allah at Hot Air) of Rosie O’Donnell talking to “The View” audience before a show began. In it, O’Donnell conveyed…
Noel Sheppard

The Left Eats Its Own: N.Y. Times Scorns Sexism, Racism of Sixties Art

There are articles about the hippy-dippy 1960s that seem designed to show how the left can eat its own. In Friday’s Weekend Arts section of the New York Times, the top of the page was dominated by an art review by Holland Cotter titled "Through Rose-Colored Granny Glasses." In between his personal notes on the "weird-sweet burn" of tear gas and displaying a knowing nod toward the effects of…
Tim Graham