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ABC Touts Meghan McCain as Moderate GOP Voice on Gay Marriage
"Good Morning America" on Tuesday highlighted a controversy involving gay marriage and a beauty contest and touted Meghan McCain as an example of a moderate Republican. Reporter David Wright referenced the daughter of Senator John McCain in a piece on the developing story over the Miss USA pageant and whether or not an answer on gay marriage caused the contestant from California to lose the title…
April 21st, 2009 11:48 AM
'Media Malpractice' Documentarian: 'The Truth About My Arrest
As NewsBusters previously reported, "Media Malpractice" documentarian John Ziegler was thrown off the USC campus in southern California last Wednesday while attempting to interview people attending The Annenberg Norman Lear Center's excellence in journalism awards ceremony.CBS's Katie Couric was to be honored at the event for her "Evening News" segments which many believe submarined the campaign…
April 21st, 2009 11:43 AM
Shocker: Journalists on OUR Side For a Change
The folks at The Hill alerted me to the fact that the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has decided to oppose any reinstitution of the inaptly named Fairness Doctrine. I know, imagine that... as lefty a group as the SPJ actually agreeing with conservatives that the Fairness Doctrine is an abomination of our Constitutional right to free political speech! You can knock me over with a…
April 21st, 2009 11:00 AM
CBS Commiserates Over Higher Bank Credit Card Fees; Ignores Gov't Take
It was either an effort to avoid blaming individuals for ill-advised borrowing or an effort to vilify the banking system, but a segment on the April 20 "CBS Evening News" took a very one-sided view of credit-card lending. On a day bank stocks struggled and dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) down nearly 300 points, "Evening News" scrutinized the current state of the banking system's…
April 21st, 2009 10:57 AM
E! News Anchor Rancic Blasts Miss California: 'She Makes Me Sick to M
"...i know i'm a journalist, and i should be objective...but she is an ignorant discrace and she makes me sick to my stomach," E! News anchor and managing editor Giuliana Rancic wrote on her Twitter page at 10:01 a.m. EDT today. Rancic of course was referring to Carrie Prejean, who in the interview portion of the Miss USA contest on Sunday evening gave a defense of traditional marriage that riled…
April 21st, 2009 10:39 AM
'Pec-tacular': DC Mag to Feature Shirtless Obama on Cover
The gushing and fawning over our new president will reach new heights -- or new lows depending on your point of view!!! -- when the May issue of Washingtonian magazine is released with a picture of a shirtless Obama on the cover.Even more disgraceful, the headline will read:26 Reasons To Love Living HereReason #2: Our New Neighbor Is HotNow that's respect for the office, dontcha think?ABC's Jake…
April 21st, 2009 10:03 AM
Larry King Gives Perez Hilton Pass on Vitriolic Attacks on Miss Califo
Want to appear as a champion of a cause without being held to account for the hateful name-calling you did in the name of your cause? Appear on CNN's "Larry King Live." Perez Hilton, author of the celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com, who advocates that gay marriage should be legal, got to do just that. Hilton, coming off his appearance as a judge for the Miss USA pageant on April 19, appeared…
April 21st, 2009 9:26 AM
More Useful Idiots: Cleese Hates Bush, Slams Marines, Chan Kicks Democ
Proving the old adage that instead of sitting quietly letting everyone think you are an idiot one should speak up and prove it, funnyman John Cleese and Kung Fu action star Jackie Chan recently did some talking that they should probably have avoided. Apparently unaware that they've left office, Cleese unloaded on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and seemed to say U.S. Marines weren't very…
April 21st, 2009 5:32 AM
Obama Welcomes America-Bashing
Defending the United States takes a back seat to proving he is non-ideological.
April 21st, 2009 12:00 AM
Gay Marriage Activist Perez Hilton Invites Miss California for Coffee
Gossip blogger gets a pass from Larry King on his vitriolic reaction.
April 21st, 2009 12:00 AM
Ted Nugent Blasts Gun Free Zones As 'Forced Victimization
Gun control policies wrought by the likes of liberal Sens. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Schumer (D-N.Y.) amount to "cruel indecency and forced victimization" argues rocker Ted Nugent in an April 20, 2009 column in U.S. News & World Report. With the election of Barack Obama, the 10th anniversary of Columbine, the second anniversary of Virginia Tech, and the media's ongoing fixation on a faulty "90…
April 20th, 2009 11:45 PM