Latest Blogs
Pornographer Larry Flynt Exhibits Higher Journalistic Standards than C
CNN’s Don Lemon hosted pornographer Larry Flynt on Sunday’s Newsroom, ostensibly to talk about an upcoming Supreme Court case in which the 1988 case of Hustler Magazine v. Falwell is being cited as a precedent. But Lemon quickly turned to politics, asking the Hustler publisher to regurgitate tawdry details of Republican Senator David Vitter’s prostitution scandal (as if CNN wasn’t in the…
New CBS Talk Show Promo: Julie Chen 'Very Smart;' Despite Thinking Haw
During Monday's CBS Early Show, a promo ran for the network's new daytime show, The Talk, based on ABC's The View. The show features former Early Show co-host Julie Chen and five other well-known women chattering about topics of the day.
At one point in the ad, fellow host and actress Leah Remini declares of Chen: "Julie, very smart. Makes me feel stupid." On the May 22, 2008 Early Show, Chen…
Kathleen Parker Lectures: Spitzer's So Smart, People Must Banish Thoug
Just how low will Kathleen Parker go to earn her high-six-figure salary at CNN? In an interview with Alex Weprin posted Monday at TVNewser, she lectures her potential TV audience to just forget Spitzer's sordid past with high-priced hookers, since he has such a swelling, itching brain that it shatters glass with its enormous breadth: "Outside of New York most people don't know Eliot, they kind of…
CBS: Carter Claims High Approval Rating During 'Very Successful
Appearing on Monday's CBS Early Show, former President Jimmy Carter came up with his own version of history while remarking on Democratic chances in this year's midterm elections: "...when I was in office at this time, I had a 66% favorable rating and we had a very successful midterm election." In reality, Carter's approval stood at 49% in late October of 1978 and the Democrats lost seats in…
Today Show Turns to Walter Mondale to Advise Obama
Former Vice President Walter Mondale appeared on Monday's Today show to plug his new book, The Good Fight, and NBC's Amy Robach asked the failed 1984 presidential candidate if he had any advice for Barack Obama, as the midterms approach, as she asked: "A lot has been compared to President Jimmy Carter's presidency to President Obama's" and recalling Mondale's run against Ronald Reagan: "Do you…
Times Watch: Justice Kagan's Ascent Proved Once Again the Liberal Bias
As Justice Elena Kagan takes the bench on her first "first Monday in October," the new Special Report by Clay Waters of TimesWatch strongly underlines the media favoritism offered by the New York Times. The report, Supremely Slanted, offers a pile of bias tidbits like these: Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg gushed over Kagan on a June 28 podcast at nytimes.com, on the eve of the hearings, in…
ABC's Jon Karl Highlights 'Admission' That Tea Party Candidate Opposes
Good Morning America on Monday highlighted the "admission" by Tea Party backed candidate Joe Miller that he opposes the federal minimum wage. Reporter Jon Karl breathlessly related, "In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Alaska's Joe Miller talked about rolling back the power of the federal government further than Republicans have talked about for more than 70 years." An ABC graphic appeared…
Falsely Prim Rachel Maddow Slimes Bill O'Reilly as 'Race-Baiting F**k
This from MSNBC's resident Victorian Gent who can barely get through a story that includes naughty words without acting like she's blushing.The latest evidence that Bill O'Reilly remains a pathological obsession on the left comes from a cover story in the current issue of New York magazine about "the loud, cartoonish blood sport" between Fox News and MSNBC with CNN's ratings suffering collateral…
Rick Sanchez: His Legacy of Liberal Bias on CNN
Rick Sanchez, who was fired from his Rick's List program on CNN on Friday, certainly racked up a record of liberal bias, specifically bias against conservatives, during his tenure at the network. Sanchez also revealed a propensity for making on-air gaffes which made him a targets of comedians like Jon Stewart. It was the former anchor's animosity toward Stewart which directly led to his firing.…
NY Daily News: 'Hooker-plagued' Spitzer 'Should Not Be Advising Americ
What makes Eliot Spitzer less qualified as a legitimate commentator on current events: his shameful exit from the New York governorship, or his sorry performance as governor?In a column today, Kenneth Lovett, Albany Bureau Chief for the New York Daily News, argues for the latter. Spitzer, the headline states, "should not be advising America." The former governor is co-host, with Kathleen Parker,…
NY Times Finds 'Tens of Thousands' at Lefty Rally in D.C., but Avoided
On Sunday, New York Times labor-beat reporter Steven Greenhouse attended the left-wing “One Nation” rally for “Liberal Groups rally in Washington, Offering a Challenge to the Tea Party.” Unusually, Greenhouse led off with a specific (and rather generous) crowd estimate of “tens of thousands,” something the paper was unwilling to do for larger rallies held in D.C. by the Tea Party and talk show…
Palm Beach Post Misses Own Charlie Crist 'Pinocchio Moment' Scoop
Updated with correction below.How embarrassing is it when a senatorial candidate sits down with your own editorial board and issues a statement so absurdly mendacious that the video clip of the "Pinocchio moment" becomes a big hit in the blogosphere yet your own story about the interview completely misses it? Such was the case with the Palm Beach Post. Charlie Crist sat down for an hour long…