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NPR Discusses ‘Online Code of Conduct’ With Blogger That Received
As NewsBusters has reported here and here, Kathy Sierra is a programming instructor and blogger that received death threats from some of her readers back in March. On Wednesday, NPR’s Adam Davidson interviewed Sierra to get her take on the raging hostility on the Internet. Host Renee Montagne introduced the segment (audio available here, h/t Tim Graham): Two leading Internet figures say that…
Moderate Muslim: U.S. Media Enable Islamic Extremists
The American press is so encumbered by political correctness and ignorant of Islamic doctrine that it is allowing extremist Muslims in this country to mask a hard-core ideology in minority politics. So says M. Zuhdi Jasser, a moderate American Muslim leader (h/t: LGF).This pandering on the part of the American press (I would add international as well), is preventing the emergence of a pan-…
GMA’s Sawyer Slams the Appalling Consumption of Wasteful Americans
As part of ABC’s Earth Day "celebration," the Friday edition of "Good Morning America" featured another segment on just how wasteful Americans are. GMA anchor Diane Sawyer hosted a piece on the destruction Americans create simply by existing. The piece repeatedly hit the United States for producing so much trash. What follows is a sampling of some of Sawyer’s comments about her wasteful…
Open Thread Friday
A group of kindergartners were trying to become accustomed to the first
grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on
no baby talk.
"You need to use 'big people' words," she'd always remind them. She
asked Chris what he had done over the weekend. "I went to visit my
Nana."
"No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use big people words!" the teacher replied. She
then…
MSNBC's Grotesque Partial-Birth Analogy: Issues 'Sucked Life' Out of G
When Republican strategist Michelle Laxalt began to describe the clinical reality of partial-birth abortion on MSNBC this morning at about 10:55 AM EDT, MSNBC host Chris Jansing cut her off, saying she didn't want to get into an "emotional debate." Of course not. Better to focus on the antiseptic "right to choose" without letting the gruesome reality of the matter intrude.In partial birth…
Baldwin's Name Calling: It's a Family Affair
Another UPDATE at bottom of post.Alleged actor Alec Baldwin can be pretty vicious, at least verbally. He's called Vice President Dick Cheney "a lying, thieving Oil Whore." During the Clinton impeachment, he said: “If we were living in another country, what we, all of us together, would go down to Washington and stone (Republican Congressman) Henry Hyde to death, stone him to death, stone him to…
Global Warming Skeptic Rips Media Alarmists and 'Malevolent' Scientist
As a Canadian environmental consultant, Dr. Timothy F. Ball isn’t a household name in America...yet. However, his writings, speeches, and television appearances concerning the science and lack thereof surrounding anthropogenic global warming make him a distinguished member of the growing list of skeptics around the world desperately and passionately fighting to inject some facts into this…