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NY Times Tax Hike Advocacy: 'Calif. Voters Reject Measures to Keep Sta
Wow. Just wow. If this New York Times headline isn't an act of advocacy for higher taxes in California, what is? With its May 20 coverage of the vote for California's tax hiking ballot measures, the Times plainly scolds fed-up voters for rejecting them with a headline that pointedly says: "Calif. Voters Reject Measures to Keep State Solvent."Really? The Times thinks California's voters want a…
May 20th, 2009 4:58 AM
Medical Malarkey: ABC Gives Space to Doc Who Claims Common, Beneficial
Nortin Hadler, M.D. is a "professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an attending rheumatologist at University of North Carolina Hospitals."He also thinks that a number of procedures commonly thought of as beneficial have no or very minimal benefit.The fact that ABC is carrying Hadler's exhortations may be a clue that the network is…
May 20th, 2009 12:03 AM
'Today' Leaves Out the Violence of New Tarantino Film
'Inglorious Basterds' emphasizes a blood-spattered trailer, but Curry interview only hints at gore.
May 20th, 2009 12:00 AM
ABC Regrets California's 'Unwillingness to Raise Taxes
A Tuesday story on ABC's World News, which ignored soaring state spending, reflected frustration with California voters for the anticipated rejection of ballot initiatives to raise taxes as reporter Laura Marquez blamed the Golden State's budget deficit on an “unwillingness to raise taxes” stretching all the way back to 1978's Proposition 13. In fact, though personal income tax collections “…
May 19th, 2009 9:52 PM
Reuters Ignores Obama Link to Convicted Democrat Fundraiser
Today Reuters reported the story "Democrat fundraiser guilty of illegal donations." Author Christine Kearney begins:A former U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser whose 2007 arrest prompted Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in campaign contributions was found guilty on Tuesday of breaking federal campaign laws.Businessman Norman Hsu, 58, was convicted by a jury in federal court in New York of…
May 19th, 2009 7:48 PM
CNN's Sanchez and DMN's Slater Agree That Bush 'Presided Over a Reign
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and Dallas Morning News political writer Wayne Slater agreed on Tuesday’s Newsroom program that former President George W. Bush appeared to be “controlled by a bunch of bullies,” or that he was “presiding over a reign of bullies, with [Dick] Cheney and [Donald] Rumsfeld and Karl Rove pushing a partisan agenda.” Later, as President Obama was getting ready to speak at a…
May 19th, 2009 7:12 PM
'Obama as Christ' Painter Is Back...and Misses Press Bias Point
The painter who created the controversial "Obama as Christ" painting is back. Artist Michael D'Antuono, who apologized for offending people and withdrew his original painting, titled "The Truth," from a scheduled NYC showing on President Obama's 100th day in office, has just unveiled a new Obama painting (larger version below the fold). However, D'Antuono was a bit disingenuous in the explanation…
May 19th, 2009 6:50 PM
Citing 'Diversity,' Obama Admin Sides with Leftist Grievance Group and
The Upside Down Ratings World of NABOB On April 9 we wrote of an asinine assertion made about the new Arbitron radio ratings system by soon to be transferred Democratic Federal Communications Committee (FCC) Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. Well now President Barack Obama has put the imprimatur of his FCC and Administration on Adelstein's addled notion.…
May 19th, 2009 5:24 PM
MSNBC to GOP: Let Conservatives Get ‘Crushed’ By Obama
At the top of Tuesday’s 2:00PM EST hour on MSNBC, co-anchors Contessa Brewer and Melissa Francis spoke with Reuters correspondent Jon Decker about a speech by Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele on the future of the GOP, with Brewer citing Democratic reaction: "Here's the Democratic National Committee's response to Steele: ‘The test of the sincerity of the Chairman's words will be if he and…
May 19th, 2009 4:38 PM
CNN's Cooper Sorry about 'Teabagging' Comments from April 15 Show
Host tells audience at UCLA using the double entendre is something he 'regrets' and did not intend to disparage their right to protest.
May 19th, 2009 4:20 PM
Andrea Mitchell Features 'Good Republican' Chris Shays to Critique Ste
Who did MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell feature to respond to Michael Steele's Tuesday speech about the future of the Republican Party? Chris Shays, the liberal, former Republican congressman with a lifetime American Conservative Union score of 44, appeared on "Andrea Mitchell Reports" to critique the chairman of the Republican National Committee. After Shays insisted that Dick Cheney shouldn't be…
May 19th, 2009 4:15 PM
Bonnie Erbe Demands Pro-lifers Compromise, Insists the Left Has on Abo
PBS's Bonnie Erbe is annoyed with Barack Obama's rhetoric at Sunday's Notre Dame commencement ceremony. The "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News contributor slammed the president's appeal to find "common ground" between pro-life and pro-choice activists."The Left has made great concessions: abandoning any semblance of seeking abortion on demand, acceding to all sorts of limits on abortion rights…
May 19th, 2009 3:10 PM
Media Love Ignoring Bad News About Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton has certainly become one of the media's sacred cows of late, so much so that when bad news crosses his path, America is unlikely to hear about it.Take for example a rather embarrassing incident that happened to the former Democrat presidential candidate on Friday which went almost completely ignored by journalists from coast to coast. As Fox4KC.com reported, Sharpton's National Action…
May 19th, 2009 2:01 PM