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Flashback 2008: CNN’s Roberts Declares ‘Rev. Wright-Free Zone’ D
In the wake of Tuesday's revelations concerning liberal media members trying to bury the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story in the spring of 2008, one has to wonder how many mainstream organizations played a hand.On May 5 of that year, at the beginning of an interview with Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama, CNN's John Roberts said (video available here courtesy Ed Driscoll, relevant section at…
Journolisters' Plot to Stifle 2008 Rev. Wright Coverage Not the First
Earlier this morning, NB's Tim Graham put up an excellent post on the Daily Caller's revelations that members of the Journolist listserv group "Plotted to Bury the Jeremiah Wright Story in 2008." Though perhaps more blatant, the Journolist effort is not the first example of acknowledged coordination on the part of key members of the establishment press. In fact, an arguably more influential…
Media Liberals on 'JournoList' Plotted to Bury the Jeremiah Wright Sto
The Daily Caller has another scoop on the leftist JournoList e-mails today, recalling when liberal scribes all wanted the Jeremiah Wright story to be dead and buried in the spring of 2008. Jonathan Strong explained "Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over…
Morning Joe Libs Sweep Sherrod, Voter Intimidation Under Carpet: Let's
It's pretty hard—even for media liberals—to defend a guy in paramilitary duds swinging a billy club outside a polling site, or a government official bragging about having declined to do everything in her power to help someone because of the white color of his skin. So on today's Morning Joe, Margaret Carlson, Norah O'Donnell and Mike Barnicle were obliged to engage in a modicum of hand-…
WaPo Obit Tones Down Climate Scientist's Recent Attack on 'Hitlerian L
The Washington Post obituary for liberal climate scientist Stephen Schneider, a media favorite over the years to promote the allegedly ironclad certainty of global warming, replayed a very recent jeremiad against "Hitlerian lies" by conservatives in the wake of Climategate. But the Post's version of his remarks toned him down and excised his attacks on "gun-toting rightwingers" who are Limbaugh…
Broadcast Networks Ignore Racist Comments At NAACP Meeting
Despite all the attention given to last week's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's resolution against the Tea Party, all three broadcast evening news programs completely ignored Monday's revelations of racist comments made at one of the civil rights organization's meetings in March.At 8:18 AM Monday, Big Government reported that on March 27, Shirley Sherrod, the USDA's…
NYT: WH Defending Health Ins. Penalties As 'Taxes' In Court Despite Ob
The truth comes out. Okay, it was always out there. It's just that the Barack Obama and the folks in his administration were denying it. The issue in question is whether the individual mandate and penalties for not purchasing health insurance in the statist health care legislation commonly known as ObamaCare should rightly be considered taxes, or if they are something else. In a report dated…
AP Promotes Playboy's 'Safe for Work' Sex Site
Report ignores dangers of pornography, lost time on non-work websites.
Lifetime Movie: Prostitution the Answer to Tough Economy
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt empathizes with women who have 'no choice' but to sell sex to make ends meet.
Book of Poetry, Cartoons Explains Conservative Views
Businessman's stories aimed at teaching kids conservative values through rhyme.
CNN Correspondent Touts Mangos as Tool to Fight Militants
Mango diplomacy, maybe. Mango defense, not so much.It would be much less disconcerting to say the above headline is a joke, ripped from the headlines of The Onion. But alas, it is frighteningly accurate.Hillary Clinton recently lauded the benefits of Pakistani mangos in a discussion of better trade cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan.As Reuters reports, "Hillary Clinton has lots to…
Daily Kos: Fox News the 'Only' Network To Inspire Cop-Shooters
San Francisco-area newspapers reported a heavily armed unemployed 45-year-old man in body armor named Byron Williams had a shootout with California Highway Police in Oakland, and apparently he was angry with left-wingers. Naturally, the Daily Kos blog was the first to see the would-be killer as inspired by...Fox News. So said blogger "Dem Beans" on Monday, who worried he might have targeted…
Matthews to Tea Party: Tear Down Those Racist Signs and Then I'll Beli
Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, actually reported on two different Tea Party organizations condemning Mark Williams, of Tea Party Express, for penning a racially charged satire, however Matthews wasn't impressed, as he questioned the sincerity of the Tea Party movement's commitment to fighting discrimination, and demanded that they do more to remove "racist signs at the next Tea Party rally…
CNN's Rick Sanchez: Nixon/Kennedy Debate Took Place in
Rick Sanchez stumbled again on-air on his CNN program on Monday, getting the year of the famous Kennedy-Nixon television debate wrong by a margin of two years. Sanchez, who was trying to describe South Carolina Democratic senatorial candidate Alvin Greene's first public speech as the "converse" of the debate, initially guessed 1962 as the year of the debate, but then broadened his answer to "…