Cindy Sheehan earned a live interview segments at the start of Monday's 7pm EDT Hardball on MSNBC, where she appeared from Texas with her sister, Deedee Miller, and then just past 7:30pm EDT Sheehan showed up live on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 with anti-war activist Pat Vogel. After Sheehan went on at length about how the U.S. is “building bases the size of Sacramento, California in Iraq.…
Brent Baker
NY Times Notes Bias...In Other Publications
Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Corner points out an interesting line in an article in the New York Times regarding Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. "The newspapers circulating in Ethiopia's capital have plenty of room for improvement. Typographical errors occur too frequently. Bias creeps into print regularly."It's nice to see the NY Times recognize bias, even if in someone else's paper.
Rick Moore
The Good News We're Missing in Iraq
Clay Waters
Social Securitys Retirement Date Long Passed
70th anniversary marked by media spin on reforming the system.
Dan Gainor
Associated Press acting as Sheehan's PR firm
Lyford Beverage
Katie Couric: I Need a Loan to Gas Up My Minivan
As Mark Finkelstein accurately noted earlier this morning, NBC’s Today gave big play to the supposed havoc that rising fuel prices are having on American society. But the hype reached ridiculous levels when Katie Couric insisted during Monday’s show opening that “I had to take out a loan to fill up my minivan. It’s crazy.”Couric makes at least $15 million a year co-hosting Today.Here’s how Couric…
Rich Noyes
Sheehan “Single-Handedly Bringing Iraq Debate to Bush's Doorstep
NBC Nightly News on Sunday devoted its “In Depth” segment to Bush-hater Cindy Sheehan’s impact, as anchor David Gregory touted how she “has become both a magnet and a source of controversy in the President's hometown, single-handedly bringing the Iraq debate to Mr. Bush's doorstep.” Reporter Kelly O'Donnell began with how “she's tiny Crawford's biggest draw. This woman said she drove 900 miles…
Brent Baker
AP running with skewed poll results
(As read on-air today by Rush Limbaugh. Click here to listen to introduction)The main political headline from the AP today is the results of an AP-Ipsos poll taken a week ago. Bush Approval a Low for Recent 2-Termers reports that President Bush's job approval is down to 42% with 55% disapproving. That certainly sounds disturbing, or at least it would if he were running for anything again. But…
Lyford Beverage
Today Show Serves Up Gloomy Triple-Header on Iraq, Energy Prices, Nati
Mark Finkelstein
Loopy Comparisons of America to Oppressive China
Byron York amazed folks this weekend with a Bush hater's comparison of Cindy Sheehan's "peace vigil" with the quashed Chinese democracy protests at Tiananmen Square. It makes me feel old to remember that back when the Tiananmen Square massacre happened in June 1989, liberal media people made bizarre American connections:
Tim Graham
Make Darn Sure You Put the Bad News on the Front Page
So, have you noticed that gas prices are heading higher?The San Francisco Chronicle certainly has. In fact, after reading this Sunday's front-page article on the subject, as well a business section cover story from the same issue, one gets the sense that the economy is about to crumble at any moment as a result. Of couse, that's if you only read the portion of these articles on the covers of…
Noel Sheppard
NBC Re-Runs Show that Tagged DeLay as Hero to White Supremacist Murder
Sunday night at 8pm EDT, 7pm CDT (to air at 8pm PDT), NBC re-ran the May 25 season finale of NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which portrayed House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a hero to white supremacist gun nuts suspected of murdering two judges, one of them black, and who had expressed the view that the white woman judge who was murdered was a "race traitor" who raised her family in…
Brent Baker
Postie finds country music at pro-troops rally "polarizing and bizarre