Sam Elliott Blames Catholic Church for Shelving 'Golden Compass' Seque

Actor says religious pressure, not quality or audience, did in series.
Carolyn Plocher
December 16th, 2009 12:00 AM

Bozell Column: Preferring Liberals in Both Parties

Brent Bozell
December 15th, 2009 10:54 PM

Larry King: Put the Bankers in Straitjackets

CNN’s Larry King equated efforts against further regulation of the banking industry to letting the mentally ill run their psych wards on his program on Monday. King pressed conservative columnist S. E. Cupp: “Banks are lobbying against a bill to tighten regulatory controls. Are you going to let the inmates run the asylum? You don’t think we should regulate banks?” [audio clips from the segment…
Matthew Balan
December 15th, 2009 5:57 PM

Gore Reads Poem, Harry Smith Swoons: 'Wow...I’m Happy to Hear it in

In an interview to be aired on the CBS "Early Show" Wednesday, Nobel Laureate Al Gore read his global warming poem to Harry Smith.Even worse, the 23-year CBS veteran journalist, almost like a teenybopper swooning as she approaches a rock star for an autograph, actually asked the former Vice President to read it to him.When the Global Warmingist-in-Chief was done, Smith said breathlessly, "Wow. I'…
Noel Sheppard
December 15th, 2009 5:22 PM

NY Times Calls Joe Lieberman 'Capitol Hill's Master Infuriator' for Ob

The New York Times cherishes moderate Republicans who make trouble for their party, like John McCain pre-campaign 2008. But the paper takes quite a different tone with Democrats (or ex-Democrats who caucus with the Democrats) who thwart liberal wishes. The Times was clearly peeved with Sen. Joe Lieberman in Tuesday's front-page story about the tense health-care debate in the Senate, “Lieberman…
Clay Waters
December 15th, 2009 5:07 PM

Poll Shows Support for Cap and Trade, Until Consequences are Considere

The Associated Press today reported on an AP-GfK poll showing that a majority of Americans believe, in the words of the AP headline "action on climate will heat up economy, jobs." The headline was misleading, however, in that it gave readers the impression that the public is firmly behind the creation of what the Obama administration has dubbed the "green economy."When asked what effect they…
Lachlan Markay
December 15th, 2009 4:52 PM

ABC’s Martin Bashir Attacks ‘Brutal Regime’ of Sheriff Joe Arpai

On Monday’s Nightline, co-host Martin Bashir conducted a one-sided, hostile profile of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s "brutal regime" and attacked his crackdown on illegal immigration as "racial profiling." The 11 minute investigation of the Maricopa County law enforcement official was almost totally negative. [Audio available here.] After the Arizona sheriff asserted that his critics don’t like him…
Scott Whitlock
December 15th, 2009 4:29 PM

Focus on the Family Hits Media 'Gossip' On Tiger Woods

Focus on the Family President Jim Daly blasted salacious coverage of the Tiger Woods scandal in the mainstream media, offering assurances that he would refrain from the kind of commentary that often turned into "exploitation." In a column published last Monday called simply "Tiger Woods," Daly encouraged readers to look in the mirror before judging and "pray for those, like Woods, who are…
Candance Moore
December 15th, 2009 3:51 PM

Weak: Keith Olbermann, Jon Stewart Attack Inhofe's Climate Skepticism

The exposure of ClimateGate and the impending failure of the Copenhagen climate summit have the global warming community on the ropes. And to add insult to their injury, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., has taken his one-man truth squad to Copenhagen, to continue to underscore just how absurd the idea of anthropogenic global warming is. That has drawn the ire of the left, which knows it's losing…
Jeff Poor
December 15th, 2009 3:18 PM

Journalists Freeze Waiting To Get Into Global Warming Conference

A group of journalists stood for many hours in near-freezing temperatures Monday waiting to get into the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen.Marvelously among them was Associated Press science writer Seth Borenstein who regularly reports on the dire consequences of -- wait for it! -- global warming.Ironically, his articles are so filled with inflammatory hyperbole concerning…
Noel Sheppard
December 15th, 2009 3:14 PM

Former CNN Reporter Threatens Suit After Bloggers Accuse Him of 'Fake

A former war correspondent for CNN is threatening legal action against bloggers who suggest that video of him reporting the first Gulf War from a television studio is "fake news." The video shows Charles Jaco and another correspondent dramatically recounting events from the Persian Gulf, and later shows Jaco and the camera crew joking around in what appears to be a television studio (video…
Lachlan Markay
December 15th, 2009 3:03 PM

Does Bill Press Understand Difference Between News and Opinion

Former "Crossfire" host Bill Press apparently cannot distinguish between news and opinion. He is furious that his application for press credentials with the congressional press corps was denied due to content on his website urging readers to tell Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., to vote for health care legislation in the Senate. He cites numerous examples of CPC members that host opinion content, but…
Lachlan Markay
December 15th, 2009 2:43 PM

Just What the Country Needs: Professor 'Shining a Marxist Light' on Fi

At last, something relevant is being taught in college: "Sidney Plotkin, a professor of political science at Vassar College...began a new section of the course by exploring the housing bubble and Bernard L. Madoff, consumer borrowing and federal bailouts - and shining a Marxist light on the whole morass."
Clay Waters
December 15th, 2009 2:30 PM

CNN's Gergen Likens President Obama to Damsel in Distress

CNN’s David Gergen played up the difficulties that President Obama has faced on Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360, underscored the importance of the coming week for the executive, and compared him to an iconic movie damsel in distress: “For a president who’s had more trials than anybody I can remember in a long time, sort of ‘The Perils of Pauline’ all year, this has become a climactic week for his…
Matthew Balan
December 15th, 2009 1:57 PM