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Morning Joe: R-E-S-P-E-C-T Hillary
Hillary Clinton, Queen of Soul? Barack Obama, All-American teenaged girl? That's precisely the analogy that Joe Scarborough made this morning in trying to explain why many Hillary supporters haven't swung to Obama. Hillary was a guest on today's Morning Joe, and the interview offered a number of other interesting tidbits:Hillary dodged the question of whether Bill was telling the truth when he…
'World News' Cites Anti-Corporate Flicks in Banking Report
Segment includes populist angle bashing wealthy lifestyles, quotes 'Bonfire of the Vanities' and 'Wall Street.'
NewsBusted
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Another 'Non-Obama Voters are Racists' Story
The single most common current explanation for a possible Obama loss posited today by the left is that America is filled with racists. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review political reporter Selena Zito uses this charge to the hilt in a September 21 opinion piece on union members voting McCain. Naturally, the only reason Zito can come up with for this phenomenon is because these McCain supporting union…
Reagan's Rebuke of Carter Missing in Debate Commission's Transcript
Is it an editing error or a dose of political correctness?
SF Chronicle Glosses Over Reality in Listing for Folsom Street Fair
City's newspaper uses euphemism to sanitize a sadomasochistic, pornographic event.
Not the Catholic Church? (Part II): L.A. School Sex Abuse Scandal Cont
Let's ask again: Where is the national media? The sex abuse scandals at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) continue to grow. Just since May of this year:A high school athletic coach was charged with 12 felony counts of sexually assaulting an underage girl, including "five counts of sexual penetration with a foreign object while the victim was unconscious and one count of possession…
Sex Ed for 5 Year Olds a 'Hot Topic' on The View
Sex education for kindergartners is certainly a hot topic. It's also the subject of a McCain campaign ad that many in the media have called a "lie." In the Hot Topic segment of ABC's The View on Monday (Sept. 22), token conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck explained that the ad is NOT a lie and Barack Obama did in fact support legislation establishing sex education for kindergartners. There is an…
NYT Editors: Palin 'Petty,' McCain Guilty of 'Demonstrable Falsehoods
New York Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt evaluated two tough political stories in the Sunday Week in Review, one anti-McCain, the other anti-Palin. While he found the McCain piece fair, he faulted the anti-Palin piece. In both cases, Times reporters and editors rallied to the defense of the pieces, finding McCain guilty of "demonstrable falsehoods" and Palin of "sometimes petty, peremptory"…
Couric Has Cushy Chat with Biden, Will She Be as Warm with Palin
If Katie Couric is to be consistent and treat Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, whom Couric is scheduled to interview this week, as gently as she did Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden in her day with him Thursday in Ohio which became a story on the Monday night CBS Evening News, she will (Couric quotes from the Biden story in the parentheses):