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Wash. Post Finds Negative News Coverage Affects Americans' View of Eco
Survey commissioned by the paper found more positive views of economy when respondents saw stories on job creation.
Entertainment Weekly Upgrades Al Gore's 'Cool' Status
Slapstick Politics has an excerpt from a recent Entertainment Weekly article on Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth." It turns out documentary films about global warming have a way of making people cool. This should be encouraging news for science club high schoolers around the country.
Minds are being changed, all right, and not just about global warming. Miraculously, over the past few…
International Federation of Journalists Condemns Israel’s Attack on
This one is truly delicious (grateful hat tip to Little Green Footballs): The International Federation of Journalists condemned Israel for attacking the headquarters of Lebanese broadcaster Al-Manar. For those that are unfamiliar, this is the television station and website run by Hezbollah, the terrorist group that started this recent conflagration against Israel. As reported by the Islamic…
Clift Raises Ire of Canadian Journalist When She Calls Bush 'Dictator
When, on the McLaughlin Group over the weekend, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift charged that President Bush is “a dictator who's ineffective,” an incensed Chrystia Freeland, a Canadian native who is the Managing Editor in the U.S. of London's Financial Times, scolded Clift for using the dictator label “so loosely” and inaccurately. Clift opined that of those attending the G-8 summit, Russian President…
LA Times Blames Zidane Head-Butt on Bush
In what has to be the biggest stretch of all time to personally attack the President, the LA Times tries to blame the bad behavior of a French frog on George W. Bush. NOW WE KNOW why France's team captain lost his cool in the World Cup finals and France lost the trophy to Italy. Terrorism.Zinedine Zidane, who is of French and Algerian ancestry, head-butted an Italian player who insulted him.…
Father of ABC Politics Chief Halperin: Bush 'Far Greater Threat' Than
President Bush is an even greater threat to our civil liberties than that bête noire of the left, Richard Nixon. That's Morton Halperin's conclusion in a Los Angeles Times op-ed of today, Bush: Worse Than Nixon.Halperin was once a name in the news. In 1969, then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger named Halperin to the NSA. But soon thereafter Kissinger suspected it was the dovish Halperin…