GMA Touts Environmentalist Who Boycotts Toilet Paper to Save the Plane

On Thursday’s "Good Morning America," the ABC program touted a liberal New Yorker who is so concerned about the environment that he refuses to use toilet paper. GMA devoted eight and a half minutes of the May 10 show to promoting the cause of Colin Beavan, a man who, in addition to his bathroom stance, refuses to buy anything in packaging, won’t use transportation, even elevators, and insists…
Scott Whitlock

'View's' Behar: Multiple Children 'Snort Up Oxygen

Justin McCarthy

CBS Blogger Fails (Again) to Push CBS Execs on Fired Producer's Name

CBS's "Public Eye" editor Brian Montopoli punted yet another golden opportunity to press a CBS News executive (Linda Mason pictured at right*) on why the network won't name the producer it fired in early April for plagiarizing a Wall Street Journal column. You will recall that the New York Sun reported on April 12 that Melissa McNamara, who also edited CBSNews.com's "Blogophile" blog, was fired…
Ken Shepherd

NYT Lets Sharpton Turn Tables on Romney Over His Bigoted Anti-Mormon R

Clay Waters

No Katrina For Clinton: CBS Excuses Feds of Blame on Levee Repairs In

While the liberal media tries to make over a Kansas tornado to resemble their perfect media bias storm over Hurricane Katrina, the floods in Missouri may be a more analogous comparison. But the CBS Evening News wasn't going to allow local residents to blame the federal government without a rebuttal -- if the president was Bill Clinton. On Wednesday night's newscast, CBS reporter Cynthia Bowers…
Tim Graham

Rush Limbaugh Billboard Defaced by Vandal

Liberal tolerance is a wonderful thing. Of course, with tolerance like this, I'd hate to see what an intolerant liberal looks like.Up in the Baltimore area where our friend Ian Schwartz of Hot Air lives, someone defaced a billboard of radio host Rush Limbaugh. Instead of condemning the act of vandalism, Robert Murrow, a spokesman for the city, said it "did my heart good."…
Matthew Sheffield

Jewish Daily Kos Member Quits Over Rampant 'Israel Bashing

It certainly should come as no great surprise that anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments are nothing rare at the ultra-liberal website Daily Kos.It is nonetheless fascinating to read the views of an Israeli member and contributor who has asked for his membership to be canceled due to “plain old Israel Bashing“ and the fact that people there are “advancing ideology that leads directly to Israel…
Noel Sheppard

Wedge Issues: Dems Rarely Face Challenges from Media

Wedge issues, those subjects on which basically everyone has an opinion and those opinions are hard and fast, are generally something most politicians try to avoid if at all possible. Usually, it's because their party base takes a very strong stand on a subject that most Americans disagree with in part or in whole. If used properly, wedge issues can be used to separate a politician from the…
Matthew Sheffield

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Minn. Editorial Page Editor: 'You Kind of Held Your Nose' with Conserv

Matthew Sheffield

Glenn Beck Tells How CNN Censored Reports on Mullah Mouse

  The big story of the week has been "Mullah Mouse," the hate-spewing Palestinian children's character whose show on Hamas television encouraged kids to kill non-Muslims to help establish world Islamic domination.You would think that CNN would have wanted to get in on some of that news. It's controversial. The visuals are great and it's eminently topical.The network did finally cover the…
Matthew Sheffield

Only Dem Voting Against War After 9/11: 'No Lefty Flame Thrower

Tim Graham

IndyStar: Why Did Dental Students Cheat on Exam? It's All Bush's Fault

Bush derangement syndrome strikes again, this time in Indianapolis, Indiana where the Indianapolis Star reports that students of the U of Indiana's Dentistry class have been caught in a massive cheating scandal. Naturally, it's all Bush's fault according to one of the so-called experts the paper interviewed for their article. Apparently 16 students were suspended because they hacked their school…
Warner Todd Huston

Time Abortion Story Shows Pope as Political Brinksman, Not Caring Past

Ken Shepherd