Globe Editorial: Unborn Children Better Dead Than Unwanted

The unborn children of teenage mothers who don't want them are better off dead. I don't see any other way to intepret the Boston Globe's editorial of this morning Pregnant and Frightened. The editorial was prompted by a recently-passed Senate bill prohibiting the transport of minors across state lines for purposes of an abortion in violation of parental consent or notification laws. In the…
Mark Finkelstein

David Letterman Slams Ann Coulter, Refers to Her as Evil and Crazy

As reported by NewsBusters, Ann Coulter recently made a rather controversial observation about former President Clinton. The writing crew of CBS’s “Late Night with David Letterman” decided to take issue with Coulter’s views on Thursday. As this is a bit delicate in nature, the potentially offensive section – along with the video link – will be placed on the “Read More” page.After joking with…
Noel Sheppard

Dean Snowed Under

Mark Finkelstein

Friday Night Fights III: Laura Ingraham Takes on Code Pink Co-Founder

After her stunning knockout of Fox News’s resident liberal Juan Williams last Friday night, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham was looking to defend her title this Friday against Medea Benjamin. For those unfamiliar, Benjamin is the co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink who heckled visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mouri al-Maliki during his address to Congress Wednesday (hat tip and video…
Noel Sheppard

Olbermann Denies Liberal Bias, Insists in Politics He's 'Neutral' and

During an appearance on Friday's Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann acknowledged accusations of liberal bias, but denied they were true, preferring to describe himself politically as "correct" and "neutral," without a "rooting interest" in who wins elections. Ignoring criticism from the MRC that, among other instances of bias during the 1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal…
Brad Wilmouth

Whoops! Larry King Forgets to Ask Landis 'Did You Cheat

Mark Finkelstein

CBS's Schieffer Forwards Idea Israel in Lebanon Just Like 'Mistake' U

Brent Baker

Weekend Captionfest: Journalists Protest Israel

Original Reuters caption: "Pakistani members of the Journalist Association chant slogans during a protest in Multan July 26, 2006 against Israel's air strikes on Lebanon and Gaza."
Matthew Sheffield

Kucinich's 100% Oil Profit Tax Idea Goes Unchallenged at CBS

Ken Shepherd

CBS's Storm Ignores Liberal Congressman's Call for 100-Percent Tax on

Reporter echoed Rep. Dennis Kucinich's rhetoric later in the interview.
Ken Shepherd

Walter Cronkite Created Fox News

Jeffrey Lord writes in the American Spectator that the extreme partisanship of CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite is what created Fox News. For decades, CBS led all the others in being the most actvist network, and the sheer brazenness of that activism is what spawned the Fox News Channel. Physicist Fritjof Capra, in his bestseller The Tao of Physics, writes that "by the very act of…
Greg Sheffield

Open Letter: TV Crix Owe FNC an Apology

Brent Bozell

Matthews to Coulter: 'Do You Have a Soul

Mark Finkelstein

NY Times: Sadly, U.S. Reverts to 'My-Way-Or-the-Highway Approach' on I

Clay Waters