AP Orders Staff: 'Stop Using the Phrase Ground Zero Mosque

News service issues memo to 'fact-check' Republicans who are 'demonizing' Islamic Center.
Alana Goodman

CBS's 'Good Wife' to Show 'First Oral Sex Scene on Network TV

Actress freaks out after reporter asks question about racy episode.
Alana Goodman

Crash! Inconvenient Facts Demolish Rachel Maddow's Premise on Rational

Rachel Maddow has nothing but contempt for the so-called Southern strategy by which Republicans have allegedly courted the votes of Southern white males through veiled or overt race-baiting.Which makes it all the more peculiar for Maddow to engage in a Southwestern strategy of slandering Republicans as racist toward Latinos in order for her to garner votes for Democrats.Here is the most recent…
Jack Coleman

CNN's Velshi: Ban Catholic Churches From Oklahoma City Because of McVe

CNN's Ali Velshi engaged in moral relativism on Wednesday's Newsroom as he editorialized on the controversial planned mosque near Ground Zero. Velshi worried about the precedent that might be set if a government "assisted" in moving its site: "Timothy McVeigh was raised Catholic. Do we then entertain petitions of moving Catholic churches away from the Oklahoma bombing site?"The anchor, a Canadian…
Matthew Balan

Andrea Mitchell: I Thought Al Gore Settled Global Warming Debate

MSNBC host bewildered that Republican candidates would use threat of higher energy taxes supported by Democrats as campaign fodder.
Jeff Poor

NY Daily News Reporter Touts Online Poll That 70% of New Yorkers Think

Appearing in the 2:00PM ET hour on MSNBC, New York Daily News reporter Samuel Goldsmith cited a poll featured on the paper's website, about opposition to the Ground Zero mosque: "[it] shows that 70% of New Yorkers say that they think the opposition is out of hatred and religious intolerance."Unfortunately, Goldsmith forgot to mention that it was a completely unscientific poll that only appeared…
Kyle Drennen

'Morning Joe' Panels Condescendingly Smear Opposition to Ground Zero M

For two days running, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" seemed overwhelmingly in favor of allowing the Ground Zero mosque to be built, despite a poll showing Americans being opposed to the construction of the mosque. The panels included co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, and liberal columnist Mike Barnicle as well as MSNBC contributors Mark Halperin, Norah O'Donnell, and Pat Buchanan. Their…
Matt Hadro

Ariz. Sheriff to Obama: Give Me Half Hour, I'll Show You How to Secure

Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., is issuing an invitation to President Barack Obama: If the president will come and spend a half hour with Babeu in Arizona, the sheriff says, he will convince the president he can succeed in securing the border and thus make himself into a hero who transcends partisan politics. Babeu's southern Arizona county, while not contiguous with the border, has…
Terence P. Jeffrey

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Derides the 'Heated' and 'Ugly' Rhetoric from

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday complained about "ugly" comments arising from the debate over the Ground Zero mosque. She also spun the founder and chief proponent of the construction as a moderate, "despite some criticism of the Imam from the right." [MP3 audio here.]After fellow MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd asserted that the President felt like he had to speak out because "the debate was…
Scott Whitlock

Andrea Mitchell: I Thought Al Gore Settled the Global Warming Issue

One may think that someone as well connected as long-time Washington correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell might also connect the dots. After an unseasonably rough DC winter occurring right in the midst of the ClimateGate scandal, she would be aware of doubt being cast over the idea of manmade global warming. But if you want evidence her mind is made up regardless of any of this, you…
Jeff Poor

Sheryl Crow Bashes Sarah Palin: 'Someone Unplug Her Microphone

Pop-singer Sheryl Crow has always been outspoken about her own political views, but now she's telling former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to zip it. "I saw you ranting on TV today, I heard you tell me to reload. You got a lot of nerve to talk that way, someone unplug the microphone," sings Crow in her new anthem, "Say What You Want," which was released in late July. The angsty…
Alana Goodman

From Obama, Left Begs for Clinton, Gets Only Carter

Liberals bring back Big Dog and media recall fondly the man from Hope.
Dan Gainor

Roland Martin to Dems: 'Protect the Constitution' By Supporting Mosque

[Update, 8:10 pm EDT: The original version of this article identified Roland Martin as a "black talk radio host." He no longer has his own radio talk show. He is still a CNN contributor, columnist syndicated by Creators Syndicate, and analyst for for the Tom Joyner Morning Show, according to his own website.] On Tuesday's Anderson Cooper 360, CNN contributor Roland Martin strongly pushed for the…
Matthew Balan

The Economy is at Cliff's Edge

We're looking into an abyss the media won't talk about and Obama won't do anything about.
Dan Kennedy