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Leftwing Media 'Group Think' Not Just in America
Andrew Bolt has a fine takedown of The Age newspaper in Australia's Herald Sun today, April 17. It details quite nicely that not just the U.S. media is wallowing in leftwing "group think." His is headlined "Picture is kiss of death for George Bush prejudice" and lays out the complete lack of historical research of even recent events perpetrated by The Age newspaper in its unthinking assumptions…
April 17th, 2009 7:17 AM
'D.N.C.'s A.T.M.' Steven Rattner Allegedly Under SEC Scrutiny in Kickb
Update below: Wall Street Journal Removes 'Probe' From Headline, edits article text. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the man lovingly referred to as the "D.N.C.'s A.T.M.," by the New York Times is under scrutiny by the SEC in an alleged kickback scheme involving New York state's pension fund. The pay to play scheme has already resulted in the arrest of a top political fundraiser in a "…
April 17th, 2009 1:12 AM
Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President
During last year's election campaign, liberal media members treated Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with a hatred most Americans had never witnessed from the press.On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt.Garofalo actually called Party-goers…
April 16th, 2009 11:56 PM
Surprise Video: Colbert Defends Bible and Christ's Divinity, Slams 'Ha
Here's a rare sight: A host of a major television show forcefully defending the Bible and central tenets of Christianity. It happened recently on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, when host Stephen Colbert - in his own inimitable way - rebutted the assertions of Bart Ehrman, a self-described "happy agnostic" who has written a number of books attempting to discredit the Bible and the central…
April 16th, 2009 10:45 PM
Avoiding Criticism: CNN Shuts Down Anti-Tea Party Reporter's Email Add
So, we are all well aware of the so-called reporter from CNN, Susan Roesgen whose on-air haranguing of those she was ostensibly reporting on made obvious her anti-Republican bias. Well, for the past day Americans have been emailing her to let her know how they feel about her unprofessional attitude. Apparently, CNN does not appreciate hearing from its viewers, though, because all of a sudden…
April 16th, 2009 9:28 PM
ABC Upset 'Chilling' Memos Reveal Zubaydah 'Tortured with an Insect
ABC's Charles Gibson, Jan Crawford Greenburg and George Stephanopoulos all stressed Thursday night how, Bush administration Justice Department memos clarifying what techniques interrogators could use with suspected terrorists, included what Stephanopoulos described as “torture with an insect” -- a method ABC failed to note was not ever employed. “Tonight, secret memos,” anchor Charles Gibson…
April 16th, 2009 8:48 PM
Thursday Funnies: 9-year-old Has Better News Skills Than Roesgen
CNN correspondent Susan Roesgen showed America Wednesday exactly how journalists shouldn't behave when interviewing regular citizens; she should take some tips from this endearing nine-year-old who masterfully covered yesterday's Tea Party in Santa Clarita Valley, California (presented with Daddy's permission):
April 16th, 2009 7:24 PM
CNN Questions 'Rationality' of Tea Parties, Hints They're 'Out of Step
On Wednesday’s Anderson Cooper 360 program, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and Jeffrey Toobin voiced their skepticism about the hundreds of Tea Party protests across the U.S., with Toobin stating how it was “disturbing” that there was a “edge of anger at the government” at the rallies. He continued, “There is a real -- a real hostility that is not just politics as usual among some of these people....I…
April 16th, 2009 5:15 PM
Joe Scarborough Takes on MSNBC? Attacks Reporters Who Mock Tea Parties
Has "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough had enough of MSNBC's mocking, sexually-laced taunts about "teabagging?" Several anchors on the liberal cable network, including David Shuster and Rachel Maddow, have used crude references and language to deride the tax day protests that occurred on Wednesday. On Thursday, Scarborough complained, "You look at these huge rallies, and I'm not going to mention…
April 16th, 2009 4:55 PM
Seattle P-I Greets Visitors with Criticism of Tea Parties
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which since mid-March has been published solely online, greeted visitors to its Web page today with links to opinion pieces or cartoons critical of the April 15 Tea Parties (see screencap at right).In the upper right-hand corner, under a picture of Seattleites at a tea party protest, were links to a liberal opinion piece by P-I cartoonist David Horseya photo…
April 16th, 2009 4:40 PM
Palin 'Media Malpractice' Documentarian Thrown Off USC Campus
"Media Malpractice" documentarian John Ziegler was thrown off the USC campus in southern California Wednesday by security guards.Ziegler was attempting to interview people attending The Annenberg Norman Lear Center's excellence in journalism awards ceremony at which CBS's Katie Couric was to be honored for her "Evening News" segments with Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.…
April 16th, 2009 4:38 PM
'Nation's Newspaper' USA Today Devotes Just Nine Paragraphs to Tea Par
USA Today, which touts itself as the "The Nation's Newspaper," devoted just nine paragraphs on page 3A of the April 16 paper to the roughly 800 Tea Parties held nationwide yesterday.By contrast, on Tax Day morning, readers of April 15 USA Today, some of whom probably reading USA Today over breakfast, were greeted with a front page story that was six times longer and insisted that "Most Americans…
April 16th, 2009 4:11 PM
CBS ‘Early Show’ Congratulates Couric On Award For Palin Interview
On Thursday’s CBS Early Show fill-in co-host Priya David offered a news brief congratulating CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on a recent award for the broadcast: "And we at CBS News are pleased to report that our own Katie Couric has received the coveted Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in television political journalism. At a ceremony last night, Katie was cited for her coverage of the…
April 16th, 2009 4:09 PM