CBS: Obama Making History vs. McCain’s ‘Attacks’ & Lack of ‘En

On Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith began the show by declaring: "A place in history. Barack Obama claims the Democratic presidential nomination. The first African-American to do so." While Obama’s win was indeed historic, correspondent Dean Reynolds later reported on Obama’s "ecstatic" supporters and the Senator’s humility: "...despite the thunderous, indeed ecstatic, applause…
Kyle Drennen

Media Pave the Way for Next President to 'Cap' U.S. Energy Use

BMI Staff

McClellan's Bush-Bashing Book to be Made Into a Movie

Honestly, do Hollywoodans have no shame?If rumors swirling around Tinseltown about a movie being made about Scott McClellan's new Bush-bashing book "What Happened" are true, the answer to that question is a resounding "No."Yet, according to Jeffrey Ressner at Politico, this disgraceful idea is already being floated (emphasis added):
Noel Sheppard

BET Founder: Election of Obama ‘Greater Than the Emancipation Procla

BET founder Bob Johnson, despite his consistent support of Hillary Clinton, placed an unequivocal importance on Barack Obama’s election as President during a segment on Wednesday’s "American Morning." "I believe that if Senator Obama leads this country the way he ran the primary, it will become a historic event for African-Americans, probably greater than the Emancipation Proclamation, which was…
Matthew Balan

Boston Globe Uses Sarcastic Column to Attack McCain, Romney

In the midst of reports on the historic nature of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s candidacy and as speculation roils about whether he will ask his bitter rival Hillary Clinton to join the ticket, the Boston Globe also found time to take a few jabs at presumptive GOP nominee John McCain and former rival Mitt Romney. Local politics writer Yvonne Abraham, in a June 4…
Lyndsi Thomas

Hollywood Miscasting: Danny Glover as President of the U.S

In a movie role miscasting that would be akin to picking Michael Moore to portray George W. Bush, a new flick that is starting production soon will feature an unlikely actor as the president of the United States of America. Leftist activist, and virulent anti-American Danny Glover has been tapped to star as a U.S. president that will be confronted with a "global cataclysm" in the film "2012."…
Warner Todd Huston

How Will Media Report McCain's Town Hall Meetings Invitation to Obama

Hours after Barack Obama apparently locked up the Democrat presidential nomination, Republican nominee John McCain invited the junior senator from Illinois to join him in a series of nationwide town hall meetings to discuss the pressing issues facing America.Given the media's love affair with Obama, as well as their desire to be involved in televised debates, it's going to be very interesting to…
Noel Sheppard

Ex-Journalist Linda Douglass Returns to ABC to Shill for Obama

Former journalist Linda Douglass returned to ABC and appeared on "Good Morning America" Wednesday in her new role as a strategist and spokesperson for Barack Obama. Expressing no surprise or conflict that a longtime reporter would segue from recounting the news to representing a Democratic presidential candidate, GMA news anchor Chris Cuomo breezily introduced, "We're going to begin with someone…
Scott Whitlock

Time.com Asks Readers: 'Should Gas... Be Rationed

Ken Shepherd

Tyrrell: Todd Purdum's Plagiarizing My Latest Clinton Book

Tim Graham

Is That Tingling Matthew's Phantom Journalistic Objectivity

Last night, while covering the Democratic Presidential primaries in South Dakota and Montana, MSNBC's Chris Matthews takes a little detour down the road of tasteless smear to help Barack Obama. Matthews suggests a tour of Minneapolis for Republican National Convention delegatesThe opportunity of Republican conventioneers to arrive at the airport out there and immediately go to the Larry Craig…
Soren Dayton

Gore Invests In Carbon Credit Company, Will Media Care

For years, NewsBusters has contended that Nobel Laureate Al Gore is spreading global warming hysteria to benefit his own wallet.On Wednesday, despite claims by one of Gore's representatives two months ago, it was revealed that his Generation Investment Management private equity fund has taken a 9.5 percent stake in a company that has one of the largest carbon credit portfolios in the world.Yet,…
Noel Sheppard

CBS Blames Gas Prices In GM Closures, Disregards Expensive Union Labor

High gas prices strike again, says the "CBS Evening News." The June 3 "Evening News" blamed surging gas prices and General Motors reluctance to produce "more fuel-efficient vehicles" for closure of several plants, including one in Janesville, Wisc. "It's not just here and it's not just GM. Since 2005, the big three - GM, Ford and Chrysler - have had 70 plants and supplier shutdowns with a…
Jeff Poor

Open Thread

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