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David Frum: Joe Klein's Kind of Conservative
Time's Joe Klein took to his magazine's Swampland blog yesterday evening to defend former AEI scholar David Frum.In doing so, Klein [pictured in file photo at right] contrasted Frum with "extreme" conservatives who were "pretty close to Jonestown" by "drinking their own kool-aid." Not only is the former Bush speechwriter a friend whose thinking he respects "even when we disagree," Klein argued…
Chicago Tribune Underplays Incidents Targeting Republican Officials
In both its print and Web editions today, the Chicago Tribune headlines "Republicans walk the line over healthcare outrage." It begins:In the days surrounding passage of healthcare overhaul legislation, Republican lawmakers have been left to strike a fine balance between harnessing voter outrage and fueling it.Examples of raw anger have piled up. A call to New York Democrat Louise M. Slaughter…
CBS's Rodriguez: Dems 'Rescued' ObamaCare From 'Death's Door
Introducing a report on passage of the ObamaCare reconciliation bill on Friday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez referred to a couple upcoming rescue stories on the show and cheerfully remarked: "And speaking of rescues, the Democrats have rescued health care reform, once on death's door, after putting the final touches, finally, on the sweeping legislation yesterday." At the top of the…
ABC's David Wright Warns: Sarah Palin's 'Tactics' 'May Backfire,' Skip
Good Morning America's David Wright on Friday ominously warned that Sarah Palin's "tactics," which include encouraging conservatives to politically "reload" and putting cross-hairs over Democrats she wishes to see defeated, "may backfire." Wright vaguely explained that this was "after several congressmen received death threats this week." However, Wright didn't specifically mention that…
National Geographic Warns Global Warming Leads to Increased Violence
On March 24, Ker Than argued in National Geographic that "Global warming could make the world a more violent place, because higher temperatures increase human aggression and create volatile situations."Reporting on the findings of a new study released last week, Than repeated the study authors' estimate of increase in violence as temperatures climb: "[I]f the average temperature in the U.S.…
National Geographic Warns Global Warming Could Lead to Genocide
Magazine claims 'higher temperatures increase human aggression.'
Red Eye's Robot Theater Rips James Cameron
The folks at Fox News's late night hit "Red Eye" used Robot Theater on Thursday to rip director James Cameron for his recent attacks on Glenn Beck and global warming skeptics.As NewsBusters reported Wednesday, Cameron during the previous day's press conference called the Fox News host "a f**king a**hole" while also stating, "Anybody that is a global warming denier at this point in time has got…
WaPo Feminist Sizes Up Hillary and Nancy as Heroic Statues
Washington Post reporter Ann Gerhart composed a treacly tribute for Friday's paper headlined "Celebrating history, and making it: Pelosi, Clinton savor their roles in week's achievements." Gerhart began the valentine by noting "There are 35 statues of very important people in Statuary Hall of the Capitol. Thirty-four of them are of men." Then came the glory-building: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
Mika Kicks Joe Into Submission, Reads White House ObamaCare Talking Po
Don't blame Mika—she was just obeying White House orders . . . When Joe Scarborough tried this morning to comment on Pres. Obama's latest ObamaCare oration, Mika Brzezinski unleashed a series of seemingly serious kicks at his ankles. Having successfully silenced her sidekick, Mika proceeded to read off her Blackberry a statement extolling the glories of what PBO has vouchsafed onto a grateful…
The Ignorant Seattle Times and the Rep. Driehaus Office Rock-Throw (UP
(March 26, 8:30 p.m. -- SEE THE UPDATE at the end of this post.)People in Cincinnati who follow politics reasonably closely will be scratching their heads wondering what's gotten into the people assembling news stories at the Seattle Times once they learn of what the Times reported in an item that originally went up Wednesday evening and was modified Thursday morning: A rock was thrown through…
Forbes: Is a Chavez-Style Media Crackdown Coming to America
"Many of [Hugo] Chavez’s most ardent supporters here in the U.S. come out of the 'media reform' movement, which believes that our corporate media has been thoroughly co-opted by capitalists bent on destroying the benevolent leadership of the likes of Chavez. They think that our capitalist-plagued media world is in dire need of reform."So ominously wrote Steve Forbes Wednesday in an article…
Nets Not So Excited About Violence and Threats Aimed at ObamaCare Oppo
An evening after all three broadcast network newscasts led by advancing the Democratic narrative of violent ObamaCare critics, a storyline intended to discredit conservatives as all gratuitously named Sarah Palin as a culprit, on Thursday night the same programs weren't so interested and only stumbled into the suddenly “bipartisan” victims – despite fresh revelations of threats and violence aimed…
CNN's Ali Velshi Gushes Over 'Charming' Pro-ObamaCare Child Activist
CNN anchor Ali Velshi enthusiastically interviewed self-proclaimed child health care activist Mercelas Owens on Thursday's Newsroom, complimenting him for his "snappy dressing" and labeled him a "handsome, charming, self-assured young man."Velshi brought on Owens 50 minutes into the 2 pm Eastern hour. At the beginning of the segment, a graphic on-screen read, "The Little Boy That Could." The…