The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: November 11 to November

This past week saw The Washington Post ask a classically liberal question: Is America more racist or sexist? Following the lead of this major paper, ABC’s Diane Sawyer asked the same question, adding a surreptitious angle. She wondered, "Is the nation, secretly, I guess, more racist or more sexist?"The "Good Morning America" host wasn’t through, however. On Tuesday, she offered the query again.…
Scott Whitlock

'Moderate' Steny Hoyer? WashPost Ignored Voting Record

The man Democrats nominated for Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer, has a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of eight percent (zero percent in 2004, 12 percent in 2005). If you'd rather have the liberal rating, Americans for Democratic Action gave him a 100 in 2004, and a 95 in 2005. This should mean that any objective reporter would describe him as a "liberal." But here's the Friday…
Tim Graham

NRO Posts Audio of Leahy Suggesting Federal Probe of Ingraham

Tim Graham

Update: The Pelosi/Murtha/Hoyer Fight - Hoyer Wins, Pelosi Loses

Warner Todd Huston

Hysterical Global Warming Hypocrisy From ABC Regarding Heat Waves and

The global warming debate got even funnier on Thursday. When we last spoke, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration had released data indicating that 2006 likely wouldn’t be the warmest year on record, and no media outlets had yet covered the story. Well, much to my surprise, ABCNews.com did report this announcement, but did so by doing their darnedest to inform readers that this…
Noel Sheppard

Time Magazine Backtracks, Rumsfeld Probably Won’t Face Abuse Charges

In the past week, Time magazine has effectively demonstrated one of the methods of disseminating propaganda in this country. First, one makes a totally unsubstantiated claim about a high-ranking official that your media outlet doesn’t care for. Then, you backtrack, cover your bases, and much like Gilda Radner’s old character on “Saturday Night Live,” say, “Never mind.” The problem is that in many…
Noel Sheppard

Al Franken to Leave Air America

Matthew Sheffield

CNN's Velshi: Everybody Loves to Hate Wal-Mart

Ken Shepherd

CNN Cheerleads For Murtha; Dismisses Damning Video as ‘Old Allegatio

The Democrats may have selected Steny Hoyer to be Majority Leader, but CNN’s sympathy clearly went to Representative John Murtha. "American Morning" aired two reports on a 1980 bribery investigation that involved the Congressman and, despite a damning video in which Murtha indicates possible future interest in a bribe, both accounts gave him more than the benefit of the doubt. Andrea Koppel began…
Scott Whitlock

CBS Editorial: Midterm Election Losses A GOP Scheme To Elect Bush 41 I

Michael Rule

Al Jazeera, Meet the NY Times' Editorial Page

Clay Waters

CNN's Velshi Slams Wal-Mart As Store Everybody 'Loves to Hate

But reporter left out how voters think the company's practices aren't an issue for politicians to address.
Ken Shepherd

Democrats Vote Against Murtha, But He Won With the Liberal Media

Rich Noyes

ABC Ignores Wal-Mart $4 Drugs, Focuses on Seniors Griping about Medica

Ken Shepherd