Media's Gushing for Moore Enough to Make You 'Sicko

Julia A. Seymour
 

'Nightly News' Mows Over Hedge Fund Firms

Billion-dollar returns just aren’t good enough for NBC. On June 26, the “Nightly News” attacked wealthy hedge fund managers for making high-risk investments and for trying to do business with the “vulnerable” upper-middle class.Reporter Carl Quintanilla mentioned rich investors who want to become “hedge fund rich,” but then focused his segment negatively on such investment firms.“[T]he people who…
Julia A. Seymour
 

Big Tent Theory: Alter Defends Obama Outreach to Controversial Black A

Understanding fellow, that Jonathan Alter . . . On this afternoon's "Tucker Carlson" on MSNBC, the eponymous host mentioned that Barack Obama had travelled to NYC to seek the support of Charles Barron of Brooklyn. Carlson knows Barron well, the NYC Councilman being a frequent guest on Tucker's show. Carlson described Barron as a "pretty straightforward racist, pretty straightforward black…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Tangling with Coulter, Matthews Compares Conservatives to 'Deliverance

Matthew Sheffield
 

Pence Proposes ‘Broadcaster Freedom Act’ to Prohibit Return of

Noel Sheppard
 

'MSNBC Live' Sponsored by Michael Moore's 'SiCKO

Ken Shepherd
 

NBC Labels Hedge Fund Investing 'Dangerous

'Nightly News' attacks high-risk investors for seeking 'vulnerable' upper-middle class 'targets.'
Jeff Poor
 

MRC Press Release Concerning Elizabeth Edwards’ Attack on Ann Coulte

In response to Elizabeth Edwards’ attack on Ann Coulter Tuesday during an installment of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” the President of the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell, has issued the following statement:“Elizabeth Edwards should look close to home when it comes to ‘hatefulness and ugliness’ for it was her husband’s Democratic presidential campaign that hired two official bloggers who attacked ‘…
Noel Sheppard
 

Enough Gushing over Moore to Make You 'Sicko

BMI Staff
 

Network Morning Shows All Hype Lugar's Anti-Surge Remarks

Justin McCarthy
 

Bottled Water Ban Not Enough

CNN focuses on Greenpeace response to rule that cans bottles in name of global warming. [correction appended]
Jeff Poor
 

ABC Edits Out Coulter Zingers in Debate With Edwards

On Wednesday’s "Good Morning America," co-anchor Chris Cuomo portrayed the previous day’s on-air debate between Elizabeth Edwards and Ann Coulter as a one sided lecture from the ‘08 contender’s wife. The ABC program edited out or didn’t play either of Coulter’s best verbal barbs.The conservative author’s zinger, that John Edwards’ use of her name to raise money is better "than giving $50,000…
Scott Whitlock
 

Was Ann Coulter Set Up By Matthews and Edwards to Advance Fairness Doc

By now, most people in America have viewed the scene from Tuesday’s “Hardball” when Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, called in to dress down Chris Matthews’ guest, conservative writer Ann Coulter.In fact, the media are having a field day with this as reported by NewsBusters Tim Graham and Mark Finkelstein. After seeing the coverage of this matter Wednesday morning…
Noel Sheppard
 

Chris Matthews Takes Victory Lap After Ann Coulter Ambush

Geoffrey Dickens