Reporter: 'Context' Trumps Truth

Al Brown
 

Open Thread

Today's starters:Pearl Harbor Day is today. Arab countries are seeing the Iraq Study Group's report as proof President Bush has failed. Arab countries aren't the only ones cheering the report, though. The American press has been positively giddy about it, even though it's been ill-received by conservatives and liberals who actually study foreign policy.Australian women plan "bikini protest" of…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Imams on a Plane: NY Times' Neil MacFarquhar's Grossly Misleading Revi

Pro-Muslim New York Times reporter Neil MacFarquhar covers the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's attempt at a Muslim sitcom, "Little Mosque on the Prairie," and manages to get what he considers a sad example of life imitating art almost totally wrong."The handsome, clean-cut young man of evidently Pakistani or Indian origin is standing in an airport line, gesticulating emphatically as he says…
Clay Waters
 

CBS's Harry Smith Fearful Iraq Report Will Only Collect 'Dust Bunnies

Michael Rule
 

Iranian Ambassador Follows Democratic Lead to Blame Fox News

Justin McCarthy
 

Tuesday Night Fights: Hannity & Colmes Tag Team Racist Reverend

Regular viewers of Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” know that the two hosts rarely agree on anything, and that when they do, their guests better watch out, because they’re going to be blasted from both sides. Such was the case Tuesday evening when H&C invited the Reverend Paul Scott of the Messianic Afrikan Nation to discuss his bizarre views about race and Christmas (video available here…
Noel Sheppard
 

Huffington Hates On Hillary

I told you that watching the Dems' internecine battles was going to be fun. The slap the NY Times took at the Dem leadership today for backing away from its pledge to reform Congress as part of implementing the 9-11 panel recommendations was just an hors d'ouevre. In a column in today's Los Angeles Times, Arianna Huffington serves up a heaping main course, feasting on Hillary's foibles.All you…
Mark Finkelstein
 

Perle of Wisdom: Lauer Cites Neo-Con to Knock Iran Talks

Mark Finkelstein
 

NY Times Slaps Dems For Reneging On 9-11 Panel Recommendation

Mark Finkelstein
 

WashPost's Meyerson Pounds South, Still Soft on Slavery...with Wal-Mar

Warner Todd Huston
 

Olbermann: American Troops 'Paid Ultimate Price' for Bush's 'Execution

Brad Wilmouth
 

Olbermann's Latest Low: Will Cheney Christmas Card Mention Daughter Ma

Mark Finkelstein
 

Katie Couric: "So Many of Us Ask, 'Is There Any Way Out of This Nightm

Brent Baker
 

Senate Debates Global Warming, CNN Anchor Snoozes

O'Brien, during a more wakeful momentAs already noted here on NewsBusters, the Senate held a hearing today examining the role of the media in promoting climate alarmism. With others covering the newsmaking part of the discussion, I decided to drop by to observe things from a blogger's point of view.I went into the hearing expecting it would be more interesting than your typical congressional…
Matthew Sheffield