MSNBC Kicks Off Iraq Study Group Debate With Push Poll

The ink is barely dry on the Iraq Study Group's report and the mainstream media has already decided that the "bipartisan consensus" is gospel. Just in case any neanderthals who might question this august group haven't gotten the message, MSNBC has created a stunningly blatant online push poll to get them in line.
Al Brown

60 Billion Minutes

Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner weighs in on how the Associated Press can extricate themselves from the Jamil Hussein/burning men story in Iraq. Sound familiar? What AP appears not to grasp is that the most serious questions about its credibility are already in the minds of millions of people, thanks in part to the bloggers, but also to the few mainstream media organizations that have…
Bob Owens

NYT's Friedman on ABC: Iraq Insurgency 'Defeating the U.S. Military' f

Megan McCormack

Top 10 Media Myths of

BMI Staff

Matt Lauer Continues Today's Global Warming Crusade with Leonardo DiCa

Geoffrey Dickens

Bill O'Reilly Demands Dan Rather Prove Fox Gets White House 'Talking P

Referring to the last time Dan Rather made assertions without documentation, Bill O'Reilly said Dan Rather should produce proof after claiming that Fox News got "talking points" from the White House. Said Rather on HDnet: I think it's fair to say, Bill, in fact I know it is, that FOX News operates in at least a somewhat different way than every other news organization that I know, that they…
Matthew Sheffield

Emory Professor Resigns Fellowship Post over Carter Book

Professor, in So Many Words, Says That Jimmy Carter Deserves Another Prize: Best Fiction Writer in an Alleged Non-Fiction Book; Prediction is that Media Will Ignore_______________________ Great catch and follow-up comment by blogger Nasty Brutish & Short -- The Carter Center of Emory University has lost a Middle East Fellow, namely Professor Kenneth Stein, "solely as a result of Carter's new…
Tom Blumer

So Who Made The Media-Hyped Iraq Study Group? Congress

Tim Graham

Neil Cavuto Smacks Around Paul Krugman While Calling Him a Liar

This was just too delicious for words…but I’ll try. As many of you are aware, most conservatives who study the economy and the markets view the New York Times’ Paul Krugman as being one of the most disingenuous pols on the landscape. Krugman has regularly been shown to flat out lie about economic data in his articles to prove his specious points, and was accused by the Times’ former ombudsman…
Noel Sheppard

Matt Lauer Hosts Al Gore Infomercial [Full Transcript

Geoffrey Dickens

Weird Words of the Week: Rumsfeld, Ripe for Brookings

Tim Graham

Will Media Report the Real Civil War Risk of Iraq Withdrawal

On November 29, my NewsBusters op-ed considered the violent downside of withdrawing American troops from Iraq, and how it could lead to a real civil war between Sunni and Shia from all the Muslim nations in the region. It turns out that on the same day, an advisor to the Saudi government, Nawaf Obaid, wrote his own op-ed published by the Washington Post wherein he cautioned that if U.S. troops…
Noel Sheppard

ABC's Tapper: Coverage of Hillary, Obama Could Be A Little Less Starry

ABC reporter Jake Tapper offered a rebuttal of sorts to Kate Snow's report wishing Hillary to get that historic, landmark campaign going. (And what would he say to tea-sipping Cindy McFadden?) On his "Political Punch" blog, he wonders if reporters can manage to say something negative about the new cycle's Democratic stars:Is there nothing negative to say about the presidential aspirations of Sens…
Tim Graham

Lauer Implores Gore: Run for President, 'Save The Planet!' [Video

Mark Finkelstein