NYT: Trying Terrorists In NYC Will Repair 'Damage Wrought By Bush

The New York Times told readers Saturday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try five Guantanamo Bay terrorist detainees in New York City was "a bold and principled step...toward repairing the damage wrought by former President George W. Bush."Not surprisingly, while the Times editorial board cheered Friday's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others with suspected ties to the…
Noel Sheppard
 

My Interview with Carrie Prejean

Editor's Note: What follows is a portion of an interview between Big Hollywood's Lynn Vincent and former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean. The full interview can be found at Big Hollywood.Lynn Vincent:  Okay, let’s just get the “sex tape” elephant out of the room. When I read about this I thought, “You know what, this isn’t really a ‘sex tape’ as we’ve come to think of sex tapes when they break…
Lynn Vincent
 

Big Brother and PC In Holland: A Mileage Tax That Varies on Car Type a

In what is presented to readers of an Associated Press report as a done deal, the Netherlands will impose a mileage tax on drivers beginning in 2012. It goes beyond most if not all other government-imposed taxes in that it will charge more during so-called peak times or if a vehicle is considered a heavier polluter. The abolition of two other taxes is apparently the mechanism for enticing the…
Tom Blumer
 

Forty Years Ago, Spiro Agnew's Speech on the 'Meat-Axe' Liberal Media

Tim Graham
 

Bozell Column: Group Sex on 'Gossip Girl

Brent Bozell
 

Newsweek's 'Decade In Seven Minutes' Video Sums Up All The Recent Medi

Tim Graham
 

MSNBC’s 'Countdown' Plays Hurricane Katrina Card in Health Care Deba

Remember those free health care clinics MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow played up back in October after Olbermann's hour-long "Special Comment," about Republican opposition to ObamaCare and/or PelosiCare? Well, now it's time for their brand of AstroTurf to be put into action. On MSNBC's Nov. 13 "Countdown," fill-in host Lawrence O'Donnell raised the issue about the potential opposition…
Jeff Poor
 

Anita Dunn Praises Jon Stewart's 'Investigative Journalism', Contests

UPDATE AT END OF POST: Video of this interview now available.Outgoing White House communications director Anita Dunn on Friday praised the "fact-checking investigative journalism" skills of Comedy Central's Jon Stewart while she pushed back against any suggestion MSNBC was at all biased.For those that have forgotten, this is the same Administration official who a month ago said Fox "is not a news…
Noel Sheppard
 

Maddow Guest Jeff Sharlet Falsely Claims 'Majority' of Catholics in US

This sort of thing an actual journalist would have flagged as dubious, but not Rachel Maddow.On her MSNBC show this past Monday, Maddow and guest Jeff Sharlet, an author and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, were talking about the so-called Stupak amendment in the House health bill to prevent weakening of the ban on federal funding of abortion.Here's how the revelant portion of the…
Jack Coleman
 

Newsweek's Clift Laments Impact of Pro-life Democrats on Health Care B

The pesky thing about abortion for pro-choice stalwarts is that when it comes to the will of the people through their legislatures, they often lose more battles than when the voters in question are black-robed judges in a courtroom.Just ask Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, who is bummed about the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and its effect on the Democrats' hopes for a health care reform bill that puts in…
Ken Shepherd
 

CBS’s Smith: Is Ft. Hood Shooter ‘Competent To Stand Trial

Speaking to the defense attorney for Ft. Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith asked: “Do you think – and this is not from a scientific or even legal standpoint, but just as you’ve been able to speak with him, do you think he’s competent to stand trial?”In his first question to Hasan’s attorney, retired Army Colonel John Galligan, Smith wondered: “First…
Kyle Drennen
 

Report: Liberal Dem George Stephanopoulos Edging Out Liberal Dem Chris

The Daily Beast on Friday reported that former Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos has now pulled ahead of ex-Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo’s son, Chris Cuomo, in the race to become the new co-host of Good Morning America. Correspondent Rebecca Dana quoted an ABC source as saying, "It’s George’s now to lose." Dana added, "That both contenders are associated with prominent…
Scott Whitlock
 

NYT Columnists Who Blamed Conservatives for 'Right-Wing' Killings Igno

Back in June, liberal columnists at the New York Times lined up to link conservative talkers Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh to James von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum, and the murder by Scott Roeder of abortionist George Tiller.Columnists Paul Krugman and Judith Warner both weighed in on June 12.Krugman’s “The Big Hate” blamed Fox…
Clay Waters
 

Did Lou Dobbs's Conservative Views Cause Him to Leave CNN

Lou Dobbs left CNN after years of tensions between him and the network's brass, who consistently objected to his outspoken, often controversial reports. But the issues that seem to have annoyed CNN execs most were ones on which Dobbs took a conservative stance.The New York Times reported Wednesday that CNN President Jonathan Klein offered Dobbs an ultimatum a few months ago: "Mr. Dobbs could vent…
Lachlan Markay