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CNN Getting Trounced in the Ratings ... By Headline News
On April 13, at a dog-and-pony show with advertisers, CNN's Jim Walton told participants: "We are the only credible, non partisan voice left, and that matters." True comedy gold. An accurate offer by Walton to the attending advertisers, in a variation on an old Soviet joke about the wonders of their communist system ("We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us"), might have gone likes this…
Larry King Goes on Attack for Homosexuality: Asks Pastor Why He Didn
Whatever your view on homosexuality might be as it pertains to Christianity, there's probably one place one wouldn't go to seek clarity on the issue - a Jewish TV host that's in his seventh marriage. However, CNN, the so-called most trusted name in news, had "Larry King Live" host Larry King tackle this issue on his April 23 program in a special broadcast entitled "Can You Be Christian and Gay…
Bozell Column: Hollywood's Powerful Interests vs. Ordinary Citizens
When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement, President Obama promised he would appoint someone like Stevens, who “knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.” In the world of politics, that phrase is self-explanatory. In the cultural arena, it’s more murky. When it comes to First Amendment cases on…
Limbaugh: 'Obama/Clinton/Media Left Comfortable With Unrest In Society
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published online Friday night that takes shots at President Obama, former President Clinton, and the media.Right from the start, Limbaugh refuted recent claims by the Left that the angst being expressed across America is stoking violence."The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration…
Al Sharpton Radio Show: Fox, Rush 'Setting Off a Lot of Crazy People
Rush Limbaugh's "war of words" with Bill Clinton over Clinton's bad rerun of blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on conservative talk shows caused a discussion of the ignorant racists who watch Fox News Channel on the Al Sharpton radio show. On Monday, the anniversary of the horrific act of domestic terrorism, Reverend Al asked for the counsel of his friend Dr. Boyce Watkins, a left-wing professor…
Will Feminists Attack Like 'Winged Monkeys' of Oz If Tom Shales Calls
Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales is still smarting from feminist protests (and knife-attack threats) over his dismissal of ABC's choice of Christiane Amanpour to take over This Week on Sunday mornings. In his Tuesday chat on the Post website, a questioner said he wouldn't watch if Larry King was eventually replaced on CNN by Katie Couric: You "can't stand" K-K-K-Katie? (that's not a…
Bill Maher: Barack Obama Is A Moderate Republican By '70s Standards
Bill Maher on Friday said Barack Obama is a moderate Republican by '70s standards.As the subject on the most recent installment of "Real Time" moved to the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the HBO host actually said that it was the Republican Party that has changed in the past thirty or forty years and not Stevens' view of the world. "You know what's ironic is that you know…
CNN's Malveaux Omits Pro-Illegal Immigration Stance of 'Legal Defender
On Friday's Situation Room, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux omitted the pro-illegal immigration activism of guest Isabel Garcia. Malveaux only referenced how her guest was "legal defender of Pima County, Arizona" and that she was "also co-chair of a Tucson-based human rights group." She also omitted how Garcia participated in the beating and decapitation of a pinata effigy of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.…
Media Pounces on Bizarre Study Claiming Only 67,000 in Tea Party
Is the Tea Party movement nothing but a mirage? That’s the impression left by an odd confluence of recent reports.First, the Christian Science Monitor’s Patchwork Nation blog reported that the entire Tea Party movement consists of just 67,000 members. PBS NewsHour cross-posted the story on its The Rundown blog the same day. The next day, CNN reported the findings on its Political Ticker blog and…
Jonathan Alter Lashes Out at McCain, Pushes for Non-partisan Primaries
That damned closed primary system and its penchant for drawing conservatives to the polls!Newsweek's Jonathan Alter fixed blame for John McCain's newfound conservative streak and abandonment of the "maverick" status that drove the media gaga back in 2000 -- when he was a challenger on George Bush's left on taxes and campaign finance reform -- on the strong Senate primary challenge the senator is…
Time Hails the Pill While Ignoring Negative Impact
Time's Nancy Gibbs celebrated the birth control pill's 50th anniversary in her May 3 cover story by hailing the greater employment opportunities for women that resulted from its wide-spread use. But she failed to explore the downsides of it. The Pill became widely available in 1960, first to married women who wanted to control their fertility and later, to single women. And though the…
FNC Relays Acquittal of Navy SEAL Accused in Prisoner Abuse Case
On Thursday's Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, correspondent Steve Centanni filed a report updating viewers on the case of one of the Navy SEALs facing charges in military court following accusations of prisoner abuse by the terrorist who planned the notorious murder of several American contractors in Fallujah in 2004.Centanni relayed the acquittal of one of the accused troops: "Julio…