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CBS’s Smith: Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to Blame for Ft. Hood Shootin
Interviewing Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith cited a cause of the shooting at Ft. Hood: “...the Iraq war, the escalation in number of cases of post traumatic stress disorder...the more people go back to these fields, these theaters of war, either in Iraq or Afghanistan, it multiplies the incidence of these kinds of things occurring.”Smith…
November 11th, 2009 12:32 PM
Fund-raising Update: Over 20k Still Need to Get Moving
Thanks to everyone's efforts, we are now over the $20,000 mark, just $10k more to go! Please help support our effort to upgrade NB's servers by helping put us over the finish line.
November 11th, 2009 11:20 AM
Name That Party: Baltimore Mayor Accused of Using Gift Cards Designate
It's time once again for our favorite media parlor game, "Name That Party!"The theft trial of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) began yesterday, but in covering the story, the Baltimore Sun failed to note Dixon's Democratic party affiliation. The Washington Post, syndicating the story, also failed to note Dixon's affiliation in their caption to an Associated Press photo of the mayor which reads, "…
November 11th, 2009 11:03 AM
PC News: Networks Downplay Terrorism, Muslim Connection in Ft. Hood At
Networks Decide Attack Wasn't Terror: 85 percent of the broadcast stories didn't mention the word "terror." ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news referenced terrorism connections to the Fort Hood attack just seven times in 48 reports. ABC, CBS, NBC Follow White House Line: Before Obama's Nov. 10 speech, 93 percent of the stories had ignored any terror connection. But after Obama hinted at what ABC…
November 11th, 2009 10:54 AM
Paglia on Lib Commentators: Partisan Ideology Desensitizes the Mind
Salon columnist Camille Paglia Wednesday called the recently passed healthcare bill a grotesquely expensive nightmare.Better still, in her most recent piece, Paglia said the "passive acquiescence of liberal commentators" to ignore how Medicare is being vandalized in order to provide healthcare for the currently uninsured "simply demonstrates how partisan ideology ultimately desensitizes the mind…
November 11th, 2009 10:48 AM
Glamour Flies Liberal Flag with ‘Women of the Year’ List
Women's magazines notoriously promote their ideal woman: thin, stylish, beautiful, sexually adventurous. And after seeing who Glamour named as its annual "Women of the Year," readers can now add "liberal" to the list of ideal qualities. The women featured in Glamour's 2009 list represent a cross-section of accomplished women from different industries - business, politics, sports,…
November 11th, 2009 9:58 AM
FNC Notes Evan Thomas's Fear Hasan 'Will Get the Right Wing Going
On Monday's The O'Reilly Factor, during the "Weekdays with Bernie" segment, host Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Analyst Bernard Goldberg discussed media coverage of the Fort Hood massacre and the political correctness of some who were hesitant about discussing the role Nidal Hasan's extreme Muslim beliefs played in his decision to attack fellow troops. Whilte ABC News was given credit for covering…
November 11th, 2009 5:15 AM
Dobbs Excoriates Obama for Double Standard: Compares President’s Pos
Some of the mainstream media intelligentsia following the Fort Hood, Texas massacre have cautioned people to reserve judgment about the suspect Major Nidal Malik Hasan and have bypassed many key details in order to live up to what could be construed as a politically correct standard. CNN's Lou Dobbs isn't one of them. Dobbs, on his Nov. 10 radio program, didn't reserve judgment and criticized…
November 11th, 2009 1:34 AM
CW's Teen Threesome Ho-Hum for Entertainment Weekly
Normalizing group sex as a rite of passage is 'pretty chaste.'
November 11th, 2009 12:00 AM
Glamour Flies Liberal Flag with Women of the Year List
Annual honor removes any doubt of the bias present in women's magazines.
November 11th, 2009 12:00 AM