Meredith Quotes Hillary to Laura Bush on 'Fear Factor Presidency

Geoffrey Dickens
 

Distortion by Truncation

First there was "Dowdification," named after the NYT columnist's deliberate truncation of a speech by President Bush to falsely imply he had said al Qaeda was "no longer a problem. Now, Patterico (aka Patrick Frey) suggests a new term, "Isikoffed" for the Newsweek reporter who similarly truncated a memo by Alberto Gonzales to make the Bush admin look like it considers all the Geneva Conventions…
Matthew Sheffield
 

Will Liberal Who Admits 'Liberals Are Soft on Terrorism' Lunch in MSM

Mark Finkelstein
 

CBS Denies It Prevented Bill Maher from Discussing Religion

The plot thickens. After Bill Maher claimed on the Friday evening installment of HBO’s “Real Time” that CBS prevented him from discussing religion on the “freeSpeech” segment as reported by NewsBusters, the executive producer of the “Evening News” has now denied this. As reported by TVNewswer (hat tip to reader Tracheostomy):In an e-mail to TVNewser, CBS responds to Bill Maher:"Bill Maher was…
Noel Sheppard
 

'Path' Screenplay Writer Tells of Smear Campaign Against Him

Matthew Sheffield
 

Omission Watch: Media Ignore Menendez Probe, Even As He Poses In Court

Tim Graham
 

Bruce Willis: No Die-Hard for GOP

Mike Bates
 

WashPost Highlights 'Race, Gender' In Allen-Webb Debate, Omits Webb on

Tim Graham
 

Chris Matthews Panel: ‘Weak and Disorganized’ Democrats Don’t Co

Noel Sheppard
 

A New Low for Ted Rall

Robin Boyd
 

Bush Assassination Movie Wins Award at Toronto Film Festival

Reuters reported on Saturday (hat tip to Drudge) that the controversial British film about the assassination of President Bush actually won a critics’ choice award at the Toronto Film Festival. I imagine you’re all surprised:"Death of a President," which stirred controversy in the days ahead of the festival, took home the Fipresci prize, which is chosen by international critics. The film, a…
Noel Sheppard
 

Former Pink Floyd Guitarist Implores NYC Concertgoers to Impeach Bush

Drudge is reporting that at a recent Roger Waters concert at Madison Square Garden, the former guitarist of the famed rock band Pink Floyd advertised some anti-Bush sentiments on a floating pig. For those unfamiliar with the band, when they were touring many years ago to promote their album “Animals,” during the song entitled “Pigs,” a huge, floating, inflatable pig was part of the props.…
Noel Sheppard
 

Underreported Fact: Welfare Rolls are STILL Plunging

An underappreciated accomplishment of the past five years has been the continued reduction in the number of people on welfare.The welfare caseload, after declining dramatically in the first four years after Welfare Reform was enacted, might have been expected to level off, or even rise slightly with overall population growth, after the initial impact of the 1996 law wore off.After all, the…
Tom Blumer
 

Associated Press Changes Headline to Distort Results of its Own Poll

The Real Clear Politics blog reported Sunday an interesting headline switcheroo apparently purported by the Associated Press (hat tip to our friend at GOP Video). RCP linked to an AP article on Friday which originally had the headline “GOP Gains Ground in Battle for Congress.” However, according to an RCP reader, when he or she clicked on the hyperlink for the article, the headline read “Poll…
Noel Sheppard