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ABC Tells Story of Faith in Tragedy
Good Morning America explores how religious belief is helping the Steven Curtis Chapman family cope with the death of their daughter.
Gateway Pundit Escapes Truck Accident
Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft got in an car accident Tuesday when his vehicle was rear-ended by a semi truck in St. Louis, Missouri. Luckily he was not injured. That's pretty amazing when you see the damage to his car.Glad you're still out there, Jim!
Anderson Cooper, By the Numbers
Anderson Cooper’s “news” broadcast last night was among the more lopsided I have seen in some time. I decided to count the number of positive and negative statements and characterizations about Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama made during Cooper’s lead package, which was about Monday’s back-and-forth on energy. During the segment, which lasted roughly ten minutes, Cooper and his guests generated a net…
Nets Lend Credibility to 'Bombshell' Iraq Deception Allegations
CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN all jumped Tuesday to publicize the claims in a new book by a left-wing journalist, Ron Suskind, that President Bush knew before the war Iraq had no WMD and that to justify the war the administration forged a letter to prove a connection between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaeda. The journalists were unfazed by denials from former CIA Director George Tenet, which they…
Media Use Suspected Spies as Expert Sources
As if the media's coverage of Cuba isn't fawning enough, now they are using “expert” analysis from three professors that the US government has identified as spies.Babalu Blog reported that, according to Army counterintelligence officer Chris Simmons, the US government believes at least three of the media's academic authorities on Cuba are actually spies working for the Cuban government. The…
Barack Backer Dodges On Obama Vote for Bush Energy Bill
Forget Hardball. Dodgeball's more amusing . . . As we'll detail below, David Shuster literally laughed in the face of a senior Republican today, and earlier on MSNBC Andrea Mitchell blithely dismissed the McCain energy plan as unrealistic. But there was one point of light, you might say, during the network's afternoon coverage. When Shuster briefly held a Dem congresswoman's feet to the fire on…
NYT Suggests Illegal's Murder Caused by Failed Law in Nearby Town
New York Times reporter Sean Hamill filed "Mexican's Death Bares a Town's Ethnic Tension," about a killing in the town of Shenandoah, Pa. Four teenagers on the town's high school football team have been charged in the death of Luis Ramirez, an illegal immigrant, after he suffered a beating July 12. The boys have been charged, among other counts, with "ethnic intimidation." Motive? Hamill had the…
House GOP Invites McCain to Join Protest; Challenges Pelosi to Stop Th
Republican congressman says presidential candidate welcome to speak on floor and credits bloggers for getting the word out.
Matt Lauer from Beijing: Chinese Happier Than Americans
Update at bottom of post.In a pre-taped segment, delivered from the Forbidden City in Beijing, NBC's Matt Lauer pointed out a poll that showed the Chinese are happier than Americans and repeated his line that protestors could be seen as "party crashers," on Tuesday's "Today" show.During an interview with NBC News China analyst, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Lauer made the following observation: LAUER:…
Study: McCain Gets Press Coverage by Attacking Media Bias
Sports enthusiasts are well aware of the phrase "working the refs." This is when head coaches and athletes regularly complain about calls being made on the field or court in the hopes they'll get better ones later in the game.With this in mind, it appears the McCain campaign is successfully working this strategy, as their complaints concerning biased and excessive media coverage of the…
Chicago Tribune Reporter Bashes Pelosi's Oil Pretzel Logic
The bad reviews for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's abysmal performance on Sunday's "This Week" continue to pour in.Jumping on the "Is She Really This Divorced From Reality" bandwagon was the Chicago Tribune's Frank James.Writing at the Trib's "Swamp" blog, James lambasted Pelosi early and often (emphasis added):