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WaPo Ombudsman Scolds Own Paper for Spiking 'Where's Muhammad?' Cartoo
Wiley Miller's comic strip Non Sequitur is not a conservative strip. Right before the 2008 election, one of his characters was told that making up the news was illegal, and she replied "You don't see Rupert Murdoch in prison, do you?" But Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander reported Sunday that the Post censored Miller's "Where's Muhammad?" Sunday strip for October 3 -- even though there…
NPR's Totenberg Insists Retiring Liberal Justice Stevens Is an Open-Mi
Even when a liberal justice retires, National Public Radio is still athletically suggesting he's not a liberal. The exit interview is as biased as the confirmation process. A first-Monday-in-October story on Morning Edition by legal reporter Nina Totenberg carried the online headline "Justice Stevens: An Open Mind on a Changed Court." Totenberg and the liberal justice insisted the incoming "…
Taranto: N.Y. Times Overreaches In Comparing Today's Muslims to 19th C
James Taranto at the Wall Street Journal opinion page online has an eye for the absurd, as in the story of one reporter named Paul Vitello:
The New York Times finds echoes of history in the controversy over the Ground Zero mosque. It seems that in 1785, some New Yorkers opposed a plan to build a Catholic church in Manhattan:
Salon Reviewer Slams 'Secretariat' as Tea Party Fantasy 'Almost Worthy
At one point in the checkered writing career of your humble correspondent, he criticized children's cartoons for displaying fascistic attit
CBS Buries Jerry Brown Campaign’s ‘Whore’ Slur Against Meg Whitm
After ignoring on Friday morning the story of California Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman being called a "whore" by an aide for her opponent, Democrat Jerry Brown, CBS started to catch up on the story – but also buried it somewhat – on the same day’s CBS Evening News and a
Radical Cartoonist Ted Rall, Off the Deep End: New Book Calls for Viol
Some people don't think democracy works when their viewpoint isn't winning. Radical-left cartoonist Ted Rall recently made a stop in Washington at the fashionably radical Busboys and Poets restaurant to promote a brand-new book titled The Anti-American Manifesto. Mike Rhode of the Washington City Paper interviewed him, and it didn't take much prodding for Rall to reveal his book's message: he…
Daily Kos Already Lamenting How 'Corporate Media' Will Tell Obama to M
As you might expect, the bloggers at the Daily Kos are already rationalizing away about large liberal losses. This can only mean that true liberalism hasn't been tried, declared one Laurence Lewis, and the media are mean-spirited centrist elites:
No matter what happens this November, we know what will be at least one aspect of the corporate media's response: they will tell us that…
Bill Maher Says 'F--k You' To Guests Disagreeing With His Religious Vi
When conservative atheist S. E. Cupp and liberal atheist Bill Maher get together on the same stage, it's a metaphysical certitude they're going to fight about religion.
Following up on their last heated theological battle on the May 14 installment of HBO's "Real Time," Cupp and Maher went at it again on Friday this time over Glenn Beck's decision to become a Mormon after he got remarried.…
Krauthammer Smacks Down Inside Washington Panel Over GOP Campaign Cont
Charles Krauthammer on Friday called the entire panel of PBS's "Inside Washington" a bunch of whiners for complaining about anonymous campaign contributions Republicans are receiving this election cycle.
After host Gordon Peterson briefly explained the impact of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling earlier this year, NPR's Nina Totenberg called it a "scandal in the making...this is the…
AP, Smaller Paper Differ Sharply on Direct Strickland Job-Loss Quote D
UPDATE, 4:30 p.m.: An e-mailer relays a response from the Wooster Daily Record's Mr. Kovac -- "For the record, my quote was accurate, with the exception of leaving out the word 'Congressman.' I stand by my quote. AP had it wrong. I went back and watched that section of the debate to make sure." Your move, AP.
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This morning's question is for Marc Kovac of the Wooster (…
Bill Maher Applauds Osama Bin Laden for His Stance on Global Warming
If global warming is the modern secular religion, HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher has bought into it hook, line and sinker.
On the Oct. 8 broadcast of his program, immediately following a segment criticizing a congressional candidate that was a Nazis reenactor for exercising bad judgment, Maher ironically had some words of praise for the founder of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden, who is believed…
Our Ribald Times: Public Sex in UK Could Be Discouraged...But It Might
The New York Times knows how to grab web traffic. One of its most popular articles right now is a Sarah Lyall dispatch from Thursday on the popularity in Britain of "dogging" -- public sex, sometimes with an audience of admirers. Lyall takes a long time getting around to critics (paragraph 12), and then it sounds like this:
Britons are a tolerant bunch, and most probably would not care who…
Gainor Column: Why Did Media Ignore Threat of 'Flag of Islam' Flying O
Imagine the furor if a televangelist went on a major TV network and told viewers Christianity would conquer the world and that the flag of Christianity would fly over the White House.Network reporters, Hollywood celebrities and the pundit class likely would seize the moment as an example of the evils of America's supposed Christian theocracy. The story might be tied to the dangers of…
NBC Nightly News Airs Duplicitous Case Against Anti-Democratic Candida
Friday’s NBC Nightly News aired a story which went beyond standard liberal bias. It delivered a fabricated case against the peril of unfettered campaign ads as Brian Williams claimed those from “outside political groups...contain outright lies,” yet as proof Andrea Mitchell showed ads, not from “outside” entities, but from Republican party groups and candidates – apparently only Republicans are…