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Ex-NYT Man's Book: 'American Fascists -- The Christian Right and the W

Christopher Hedges, the former NY Times reporter infamously booed off a college commencement stage in the middle of an anti-war rant in May 2003 , has a new book out with the hauntingly ambivalent title, "American Fascists -- The Christian Right and the War on America." Contributor Rick Perlstein reviews it in the Times' Sunday book section and finds it unconvincing (although Perlstein seems to…
Clay Waters

Flip-Flop: After a Few Liberals Whine, NBC Blames Odd Weather On Globa

Responding to a handful of liberal complainers, Monday’s NBC Nightly News basically repudiated a Friday evening story in which a NOAA meteorologist blamed the recent warmer-than-normal weather in the Northeast on an El Nino, an area of warmer than normal water in the Pacific Ocean that forms every five years or so. After some mean-spirited comments on NBC’s “Daily Nightly” blog site, where…
Rich Noyes

Former WashPost-L.A. Times Man Scorns AP For 'Partisanship' In Iraq

Tim Graham

'Once and For All' Lasts Just 72 Hours

NBC does about-face on global warming after scientist tells anchor it's not responsible for balmy Northeast.
Ken Shepherd

ABC Editor Laments College Coach's Salary, Wishes Alabama Could Be Mor

Tim Graham

Stem Cell Research: The Usual Polling Bias, the Usual Biased Reporting

Tom Blumer

Geraldo Rivera Threatens to Beat Up Keith Olbermann

Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera was recently being interviewed on a radio station in Florida, and, according to an article at the Orlando Sentinel’s blog on Monday, he harbors some ill feelings towards MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. This goes back to Rivera being kicked out of Iraq for divulging too much information about American troop movements. For whatever reason, Rivera feels that Olbermann was…
Noel Sheppard

Sad: Scarborough Scampers to Defend NBC's Anti-Surge Bias [Video

Mark Finkelstein

Is Rosie O’Donnell Wearing Out Her Welcome on ‘The View

Virtually every time the ultra-liberal Rosie O’Donnell makes an offensive and/or politically insensitive remark on “The View,” right-thinking Americans across the fruited plain question how long host Barbara Walters and/or ABC executives are going to tolerate her extraordinary behavior. If a New York Post “Page Six” column Tuesday is accurate, the answer might be “Not much longer”:THE tension…
Noel Sheppard

'Today' Suggests Iraq 'Lost Cause,' Meredith Manifests Moxie With Kenn

Mark Finkelstein

Couric Blog: Proud of Pelosi, Ashamed of Virginia

Tim Graham

CBS Describes Bush Plan as 'Escalation,' Ignores Near Even Split In It

Brent Baker

Carlson Raps O'Reilly for Condemning Keith: Except He Didn't [Video

As we noted here, when Andrea Mitchell appeared on The Factor last week, Bill O'Reilly confronted her over NBC's leftward tilt. Andrea not only denied any NBC bias, she also vouched for CBS' and ABC's fairness. For good measure, Mitchell claimed that Chris Matthews is no liberal.Tucker Carlson fired back on his MSNBC show this afternoon. The gist of his argument: that in attacking Keith…
Mark Finkelstein