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'No End in Sight' to ABCNews.com Inflating Price of Gasoline
When it comes to illustrating high gas prices, the liberal media sure love San Mateo, California. What with its gorgeous, sunny weather and consistently above-average gas prices, it makes for a shocking image of "pain at the pump."In the top headlines feature for ABCNews.com, editors included a tease for a story on oil prices heading towards $147-a-barrel, and chose a photo of a gas marquee…
Nick Kristof: Chop Off Body Parts = 'Torment'; Interrogation = 'Tortur
You would be hard-pressed to find a "better" example of a walking, talking, typing Old Media double standard-bearer than New York Times columnist and International Herald Tribune (IHT) contributor Nicholas Kristof.Keep in mind as you read this post that Kristof infamously wrote the following in a 2005 New York Times book review about the person who was "the worst monster in world history," China…
Media Celebrates Successful U.S. Military Recruitment Stats? Not Reall
The Armed Forces Press Service issued a press release on Thursday morning, July 10, in celebration of the fact that the U.S. military has had 13 consecutive months of meeting and/or exceeding recruitment goals. Sadly, the media stayed sullenly quite all day, taking no notice of the success of our military on OR off the field.
Regardless of the fact that the media ignored the good news, there is…
NewsBusted
It's Friday which means it's time for another episode of our latest NewsBusted! Please join me again in welcoming Al Sonja Schmidt!Topics in today's show: The good news keeps rolling in from Iraq, support for ANWR drilling continues to build, Hillary for pope, and fortunes for the dogs. If you like the show, help us spread the word! Embed today's episode on your blog, email your friends about it…
NBC's Today Promotes Nude Vacations
Co-anchor Kathie Lee Gifford offers a novel take on what constitutes a family vacation.
Catfighting 'Uber-Divas' Get a Reality Show
N Network's Queen Bees features mean girls in need of a personality makeover -- and makes poor character the focus of entertainment.
CNN Re-airs Two Year Old Glowing Look at Jackson, No Mention of ‘Hym
Thursday’s "Newsroom" program on CNN, in a report promoted to be about how "controversial comments are nothing new to Jesse Jackson," was actually a retrospective from two years ago that largely glowed about Jackson’s affiliation with Martin Luther King, Jr., and giving the man a platform to answer his critics. "Newsroom" co-anchor Don Lemon, who interviewed Jackson in the report, remarked of his…
ABC Admits Gramm Accurate on Economy, But Portrays It as Gaffe
Proving the old saw that a “gaffe” is when a politician stumbles into the truth, ABC's World News, which has showcased Americans whining about the inability to afford “joy rides” or breakfast, on Thursday night led with former Senator Phil Gramm's observation that “this is a mental recession”and “we've sort of become a nation of whiners.” In relaying the comments from the economic adviser to the…
Thursday Funnies: You Can't Say 'Nuts' on Television
George Carlin, the comedian who died a few weeks ago, became famous practically overnight due to his controversial routine about the seven words you can't say on television. Apparently, Carlin was wrong, because there's another word you can't say: NUTS.Of course, it goes without saying that if you're referring to food, or someone's sanity, this four-letter word is just fine.However, if you're…
Politico Notes Consternation Among Pro-choicers On Obama
Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is walking a "minefield" on the abortion issue with recent hints that he's taking baby steps to the right on the issue. By doing so, he's risking the alienation of the absolutist activists in the abortion rights movement, Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico reported today.But given Obama's much-reported efforts at courting evangelicals and other historic constituents of…