‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Producer Laurie David Attacks CNBC's Joe K

Honestly, folks, no matter how hard you tried, and regardless of the effort or good intentions, you just can’t make this stuff up.Following her disgraceful performance during an interview with CNBC’s Joe Kernen on Tuesday, one of the producers of the schlockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” Laurie David, opted to further humiliate herself by publishing a “scathing rebuttal” at the Huffington Post…
Noel Sheppard

'View' Shocker: Co-Hosts Expose Sharpton's Extreme Remarks

Justin McCarthy

Bill Maher: ‘John McCain [Screwed] by the Republican Fantasy World

If you’re thinking an expletive was deleted in the headline, you would be correct, for the real title of Bill Maher’s most recent nonsensical rant at the Huffington Post actually used a word with a similar meaning as “screwed,” but beginning with an “F”.Nice headline, dontcha think?Yet, that was only the beginning of the vulgarity from a literary sense, for Maher went on a predictably vitriol-…
Noel Sheppard

NYT Owes Public an Explanation on Duke Lacrosse Case

Clay Waters

ABC's Moran Suggests Duke Lacrosse Team Had It Easier Than Rutgers B-b

Ken Shepherd

Bozell Column: The Incomplete Anti-Imus Lobby

Brent Bozell

Behar Calls Innocent Lacrosse Players Part of 'Little White Boy's Club

Justin McCarthy

Post Presents Radical Group Critical of Starbucks as Labor Union

Starbucks. Many Americans may think the Seattle-based coffee chain is generally well-liked by its employees and generally well-liked by liberals, but to some left-wing organizers, it's the new Wal-Mart. Sooner or later the Washington Post was going to notice. And so today's paper splashed its Style section cover page with a David Segal story about Daniel Gross, a "scruffy college grad" that…
Ken Shepherd

After Imus, CNN Now Targets Rush Limbaugh

Matthew Balan

NYT: Fight Global Warming with Your Clothesline

This first-person article by Kathleen Hughes needs nothing to make its idiocy apparent. Read the whole thing and you'll really see an almost religious fervor to the words. Except, of course, instead of the thing being promoted being an actual religion, it's a political philosophy being promoted by someone who is supposedly an objective observer of politics:As a child, I helped my mother hang…
Matthew Sheffield

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MSNBC Turns Over 14 Minutes of Imus Time Slot to Jackson and Sharpton

On the Thursday edition of what would be MSNBC’s "Imus in the Morning" simulcast, NBC reporter David Gregory spent almost 15 minutes of air time discussing the radio host's firing with the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Gregory, who quarreled with Sharpton on the April 10 "Hardball" over his role in the Tawana Brawley false rape charges, did not broach the subject again. He did, however…
Scott Whitlock

CNBC Anchor Challenges Sheryl Crow and Laurie David Over Global Warmin

Most people are probably not familiar with Joe Kernen, a morning anchor for the financial network CNBC. On Tuesday, he invited singer Sheryl Crow and “An Inconvenient Truth” schlockumentary producer Laurie David on to discuss their “Stop Global Warming College Tour.”As Kernen tried to present the skeptics’ side of this debate, the ladies clearly got uncomfortable and, to say the least, a bit…
Noel Sheppard

In Newsweek, Mrs. Imus Lectures Evangelicals On Their Racism and Globa

Tim Graham