Oprah Redefines Normal Once Again

“Unconventional and Unforgettable Dads” was the title of Oprah’s April 13 broadcast in which she shamelessly promoted gay adoption, featuring a touching story about a famous author and his “unconventional family.” Gregory Maguire and Andy Newman fell in love in the 90s, and soon after expanded their “family” by adopting two young boys from Cambodia and a girl from Guatemala. They got married in…
Erin R. Brown
April 14th, 2009 4:38 PM

Bozell Column: The End of Newsweek

Brent Bozell
April 14th, 2009 4:23 PM

CBS Slams Exxon for Not Drilling More

In stunning turn around, CBS laments the fact ExxonMobil is not putting up more oil rigs in scenic Alaska and the Gulf Coast.
Edward Schatz
April 14th, 2009 4:23 PM

Too Good To Be True? Obama Iraq Troop Greeting Allegedly Staged

So says MacsMind (via Flopping Aces via Minority Report via Jeff Emanuel at RedState). MacsMind's post is in response to an all-too-predictable gusher delivered by Democratic operative disguised as Associated Press reporter Jennifer Loven on April 7 (bold is mine): Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it was time for…
Tom Blumer
April 14th, 2009 4:12 PM

CBS's Harry Smith Snarks to O'Reilly, 'Couldn't Hold a Job at Any Othe

CBS anchor Harry Smith and Bill O’Reilly traded light blows with each other on Tuesday’s Early Show, as the Fox News Channel host marked his 100th consecutive month at the top of cable news ratings. Smith jabbed his guest about his 12 years on the same network: “Couldn’t hold a job at any other place?...Is this the longest continuous employment you have ever had?” O’Reilly didn’t take it lying…
Matthew Balan
April 14th, 2009 3:59 PM

CCP & Red State Blow Up Bill Press's Lame Arguments for Radio 'Fairnes

Sean D. Parnell, the President of the Center for Competitive Politics - a Free Speech Alliance member - today at Red State does a magnificent job dismantling serially failed liberal radio talk show host Bill Press's woefully lame arguments for equal time for Leftists on the airwaves.  Though Press swears no one is calling for the Censorship Doctrine, also mis-known as the "Fairness" Doctrine…
Seton Motley
April 14th, 2009 3:56 PM

WaPo Photo Caption Bias in Cuba Embargo Story

Opting to include a photo to supplement the reporting by Michael Shear and Cecilia Kang in their April 14 front-pager "Obama Lifts Broad Set of Sanctions Against Cuba", Washington Post editors made a caption choice that served to skew the story presentation in a way favorable to those who argue for lifting the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba."The president's new policies lift limits on Americans…
Ken Shepherd
April 14th, 2009 2:09 PM

NYT: 'Surgical' GM Bankruptcy Would Leave $70 Billion or more in Taxpa

Here's a Tea Party Wednesday engine-starter, so to speak. This past week, while much the world focused on the terrorists in training euphemistically known as "pirates," and the more religious among us attended Holy Week services and celebrated the Resurrection, bean counters and government bureaucrats were trying to figure out just how much a bankruptcy at General Motors could cost the treasury…
Tom Blumer
April 14th, 2009 1:11 PM

Sebelius Lied, Unborn Babies Died

Ken Shepherd
April 14th, 2009 12:43 PM

Goldberg Warns The Right: Avoid Obama Derangement Syndrome

Former CBSer and current media critic Bernie Goldberg issued a strong warning to conservatives on Monday: don't behave like the left did when Bush was president -- avoid Obama Derangement Syndrome.Following in David Horowitz's footsteps, Goldberg told Fox News's Sean Hannity:You remember when liberals wouldn't give George Bush credit for anything? If he came up with a cure for cancer, they wouldn…
Noel Sheppard
April 14th, 2009 12:27 PM

Matt Lauer 'Worried' Government Won't Be Able to Dictate to Business A

The announcement that Goldman-Sachs may be able to pay back its bailout loan, sooner rather than later, was met with a grim assessment by NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's "Today" show as the co-anchor fretted to the Obama administration's Christina Romer: "I'm worried if you think if that's a good thing. Are they doing this because of financial stability or might they be talking about that, simply…
Geoffrey Dickens
April 14th, 2009 12:04 PM

ABC Pushes ‘Normal’ With Transgendered Mayor

With a rich history of giving unprecedented coverage to alternative sexualities and gender identities, it’s no surprise that ABCnews.com features 1,100 + word article about a small town transgendered mayor.Stu Rasmussen is the mayor of Silverton, Oregon. He made national headlines as the first transgendered mayor in the nation after he won his November 2008 election. Rasmussen, who is sixty, has…
Erin R. Brown
April 14th, 2009 11:59 AM

NY Times' Ignorance of Catholic Liturgy Leads to "Mass" Corrections

And they say journalists don't know enough about religion. Whatever gives people that idea? Three corrections from the New York Times:Correction Appended: April 14, 2009 -- "An article on Monday about the final Easter Mass celebrated by Cardinal Edward M. Egan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, referred incorrectly to the service he presided over on Good Friday. It was a liturgical…
Clay Waters
April 14th, 2009 11:58 AM

AP Writers Seem Sympathetic to 'Pirates' in Latest Dispatch

In a report this morning  on the situation off the coast on Somalia, Associated Press reporters Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Paul Jelinek seemed oddly sympathetic to the cause of the terrorists in training the world insists on calling "pirates," almost to the point of grudging admiration. Check out some of the words the AP pair used in their 9:15 a.m. dispatch (saved at host for fair use and…
Tom Blumer
April 14th, 2009 10:33 AM