AFP News: Many of America’s Problems Predated Obama
A news article written by a reporter at AFP and reproduced at such news sites as Google, Yahoo, NPR, the Dallas Morning News, and others, might qualify as an example of what happens when one allows opinion to seep into reporting. Despite a mission statement involving claims that AFP coverage is balanced, accurate, and includes the other side of the story, this piece makes no secret of where…
April 5th, 2011 12:43 AM

Sanders: Rich 'Have Not Contributed One Nickel To Deficit Reduction
Bernie, put down the bong!
On Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show this evening, Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who caucuses with the Dems, claimed that rich Americans "have not contributed one nickel to deficit reduction."
Cenk of course failed to challenge Sander's certifiably silly assertion.
View video after the jump.
April 4th, 2011 9:32 PM
ATF Whistleblower Website Leads the Way in Project Gunrunner Scandal R
"Word is that curios George Gillett the Phoenix ASAC stepped on it again. Allegedly he has approved more than 500 AR-15 type rifles from Tucson and Phoenix cases to be �walked� to Mexico. Appears that ATF may be one of the largest suppliers of assault rifles to the Mexican cartels! One of these rifles is rumored to have been linked to the recent killing of a Border Patrol Officer in Nogales, AZ…
April 4th, 2011 9:26 PM

NPR Highlights 'McCarthyism' Charge Against Wisconsin GOP
On Monday's Morning Edition, NPR's David Schaper slanted towards a professor and his allies in academia who object to a recent open records request into his e-mails from the Wisconsin GOP, playing five sound bites from them versus only two from a non-Republican source who thought their concerns were overblown. One of the professor's allies labeled the request a "contemporary version of…
April 4th, 2011 6:54 PM

Chris Matthews Links Murder and Violence in Afghanistan to GOP 'Zealot
Chris Matthews on Monday linked the "zealots" in Afghanistan who encouraged and participated in the murders of United Nations workers to Republican "fanatics" and "zealots at home" who "attack the President's basic beliefs, accusing him of thinking like a Muslim from Kenya."
Making his connection clear, the Hardball host opined, "Is this what's come to the wars in the Islamic world? We've…
April 4th, 2011 6:21 PM

Joe Klein Reserves Spot in Hell for Koran-burning Pastor Who's As 'Mur
Burning a copy of the Koran is morally equivalent to flying a plane into the World Trade Center and equally eternally damnable.
That's essentially the fatwa of Time magazine's Joe Klein in an April 1 blog post at the magazine's Swampland blog.
Klein was condemning Florida pastor Terry Jones's "trial" and subsequent burning of a Koran which allegedly have sparked a murderous rampage against…
April 4th, 2011 6:09 PM

No Squeamish Urban Liberals Here: NY Times Readers Up in Arms About Wo
If the New York Times isn’t a liberal newspaper, then why do so many humorless liberals complain when it makes a lighthearted detour off the P.C. reservation?
The retooled letters-to-the-editor page contains an amusing revelation of the delicate liberal sensitivities of the paper’s readership.
The Times flagged a variety of complaints about a feature in the previous issue, showing nine…
April 4th, 2011 4:26 PM

George Stephanopoulos Hosts 9/11 Truther Jesse Ventura to Rant About
For the second time in less than six months, Good Morning America offered 9/11 truther Jesse Ventura a platform to hype his conspiracy theories and smear the U.S. government as "Nazi." This occurred on the same day that GMA reporter Bianna Golodryga hit Republicans for having connections to birthers and wondered when the President will "fight back" against such charges.
In contrast, although…
April 4th, 2011 4:20 PM
Time Blogger Condemns CEO for Shooting Elephant That Destroyed African
The great thing about being a enviro-evangelist blogger in the United States is the moral high ground it gives you from which to condemn people who fall short of your ecological credentials.
Take Bryan Walsh, the blogger behind Time magazine's Ecocentric blog. Walsh took GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons for hunting down an elephant in Zimbabwe that was a threat to a village's crops.
In an April…
April 4th, 2011 3:58 PM

Katie Couric Leaving the CBS Evening News; Look Back at Her Worst Bias
AP’s Dave Bauder reported this morning that CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric would be leaving that post. An exact departure date was not announced, but Couric’s contract with CBS News is set to expire on June 4, 2011, although Bauder suggested that if Couric strikes a deal with CBS for a syndicated daytime talk show, she might stay on temporarily if there was “an extended search for her…
April 4th, 2011 3:50 PM

New York Times Buries Muslim Brotherhood Connection to Hamas
On April 2nd, The New York Times published a piece by Ethan Bronner titled, "In Israel, Time for Peace Offer May Run Out." In the piece, Bronner discussed various aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including statehood, violence, peace talks, religion, the West Bank, Gaza, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
But while Bronner spent many paragraphs detailing the difficulties in establishing…
April 4th, 2011 2:38 PM
As With Death-Threat Arrest, AP Treats Wis. Union Intimidation of Busi
Once again, despite almost two months of national coverage Wisconsin's collective bargaining law and the protests and bad behavior which have accompanied it, the Associated Press is deciding that the nation's news consumers outside of the Badger State don't need to read, hear, or see news relating to unions and leftists acting illegally.
In a post on Saturday (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I…
April 4th, 2011 2:30 PM

NYT Leads With Optimism Based on 8.8% Joblessness: 'A Lift for Obama
Michael Powell’s New York Times story on the latest job figures made the lead slot in Saturday’s Times, with a headline portraying a revitalized Obama and a defensive G.O.P. “U.S. Posts A Gain Of 216,000 Jobs, A Lift For Obama -- Private Sector On Rise -- As Jobless Rate Falls to 8.8%, White House Warns G.O.P.”
One might not think an 8.8% unemployment rate would be cause for swagger and…
April 4th, 2011 2:19 PM