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While Grilling Rice, GMA’s Sawyer Cites Ultra Left-Wing Guardian
On the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion, "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer interviewed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about Iraq's progress. Sawyer chose to cite the liberal, America-bashing British paper The Guardian as a source for a question and also indicated that it was the United States, not insurgents, that was responsible for Iraq’s declining electricity supply.…
Scientists Blame Hollywood for Global Warming Hysteria
March 2007 might go down in science history as the month the global warming skeptics struck back.From a British documentary debunking myths currently being advanced by the alarmists to Al Gore being challenged to a debate, scientists across the questionably warming globe have clearly thrown down the gauntlet.The most recent event transpired at a conference in Oxford today, where some noted…
USS Cole Mastermind Confesses; CNN's Website Ignores, FNC Sends Breaki
As I've mentioned before on NewsBusters, I subscribe to e-mailed "breaking news" alerts from both Fox News and CNN. Today I got this from Fox News, sent at 10:52 EDT Eastern:GUANTANAMO SUSPECT HAS CONFESSED TO PLANNING USS COLE ATTACK, U.S. EMBASSY BOMBINGS, PENTAGON SAYS**Watch FOX News Channel or go to http://foxnews.com for moreNo such update from CNN. I checked both CNN.com and FoxNews.com at…
LAT Explores Marital Ties of Reporters to Presidential Campaign Staffe
In Monday's Los Angeles Times, reporter James Rainey raised the issue of a conflict between political reporting and family ties: "Some of America's most prominent political journalists are, quite literally, wedded to the 2008 presidential race: Their spouses work for one of the candidates." Rainey made a short list of four of the conflicted:
Al Gore Challenged to International Global Warming Debate
It’s put up or shut up time for soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore who was formally challenged to defend his well-publicized global warming theories in a debate with a former advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.As reported by PR Newswire (emphasis added throughout):In a formal invitation sent to former Vice-President Al Gore's Tennessee address and released to the public, Lord Monckton has…
Imus: 'Unwatchable' Couric Can't Do 'Big Boy' Evening News
After his comments this morning, if Don Imus ever gets invited to a party on the terrace of Katie Couric's midtown apartment overlooking Central Park, he would be well advised not to get too close to the ledge. Chatting with Imus on MSNBC at 8:45 ET this morning about the travails of the CBS Evening News and the advent of Rick Kaplan as its executive producer, media maven Howard Kurtz observed…
Bill Maher Says George Bush Has Taken Away Your Civil Rights
Can Bill Maher do an entire episode of “Real Time” without attacking President Bush? For those that can actually bear watching his program on HBO, the answer would be a resounding, “NO!” Yet, in the March 16 installment, Maher came very close. Having seemingly suffered through more than 55 whole minutes without saying something disgraceful and offensive about the most powerful man on the planet…
Antiwar Media Ignore Israel Related Consequences of Iraq War Retreat
As NewsBusters reported about the March 11 installment of “Meet the Press,” former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel made some almost verboten observations concerning the dangers of a premature withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Amongst other things, Koppel claimed the battle between Sunnis and Shia currently taking place there would become a much larger religious conflict throughout the entire…
The Darfur Double Standard: Globe Calls for Intervention
Darfur today is not Iraq under Saddam. But there are sufficient parallels to render this morning's Boston Globe editorial deeply ironic. While the Globe has condemned the coalition intervention in Iraq, it clamors for aggressive international action in Darfur.Let's have a look at the Globe's Light on the Darfur Darkness and compare and contrast the situation there with pre-war Iraq.Darfur…