'Early Show' Takes Jab at Oil Executives for Industry Profits

Segment later features oil expert that explains it isn't the oil company profits causing the spike.
Jeff Poor

WaPo Touts Senator Webb as a 'Bold Choice' for Obama's Veep

Tim Graham

Wash. Post on Obese Children: 'Parent' Never Mentioned

Article celebrates victories of anti-food advocates pressuring businesses.
Amy Menefee

Newsweek CW: 'Energy Conservation' the 'One Clear Winner' in Face of E

Ken Shepherd

CNN’s Carol Costello: Cindy McCain ‘Stepford Wife

Update below.CNN correspondent Carol Costello compared Cindy McCain to a "Stepford Wife" due to her "low key" role in her husband’s campaign so far, in a segment on Wednesday’s "The Situation Room." Costello, detailing Mrs. McCain’s recent photo spread in Vogue magazine, stated the feature "projects an image quite unlike the Cindy McCain we see on the trail," and a talking head described this "…
Matthew Balan

NY Times on Ted Kennedy's Big Spending: 'What the Government Is For

New York Times Congressional reporter Carl Hulse on Thursday paid tribute to Sen. Ted Kennedy, diagnosed earlier this week with an inoperable brain tumor, in "Kennedy: A Little Like Everyone, a Lot Like No One Else." But Hulse went beyond acknowledging Kennedy's influence as a legislator to push the famous Massachusetts' senator's big-government worldview: "And if some of his solutions cost the…
Clay Waters

CBS’s Chen Thinks Hawaii is In Atlantic Ocean

Kyle Drennen

Fox and Friends Nails MSNBC and Olbermann for Bias

I just wanted to provide a little follow-up to Brad Wilmouth's excellent coverage of Keith Olbermann's outrageous performance of telling the President to "shut the hell up". If you didn't hear about this you can find the transcript of his rant here. (See also video embedded below page break)I wanted to provide this follow-up because I thought the readers at NewsBusters would enjoy this video of…
John Stephenson

ABC's Brian Ross Adopts Left-Wing Attack on McCain

"Good Morning America" on Thursday picked up an attack on John McCain that has grown popular in left-wing media outlets and turned it into a Brian Ross investigation of the senator's "pastor problem." In a preview, co-host Diane Sawyer solemnly intoned, "This morning, John McCain's pastor problem. Is the preacher McCain calls a spiritual guide fueling the fire of Muslim hatred in America?"…
Scott Whitlock

Ellen DeGeneres To Sen. McCain: "There is an Old Way of Thinking That

Today Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) made an appearance on the daytime program "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," and the topic quickly turned to the issue of same-sex marriage. The issue arose after Ms. DeGeneres revealed on her show last Friday that she will be marrying her parter, Portia de Rossi. The marriage announcement came a day after the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage.…
Terry Ann Rendon

Newsweek's Alter Hypocritical on the Popular Vote

The popular vote should supercede statewide results for the presidential election in November, but Hillary Clinton's popular vote argument for why she should win the Democratic nomination is specious. Both points of view have been held forth by Newsweek's Jonathan Alter.In "Popular Vote Poison: How Hillary's latest math hurts the party," Jonathan Alter cranks up the "Wrap it Up!" box on the New…
Ken Shepherd

'Evening News' Hits Against Metal Bat Manufacturers

CBS blames aluminum bat maker for horrible accident, familys lawyer calls metal bats a "weapon."
Jeff Poor

Zbig's Moral Relativism, Spacey's Primary Confusion

Zbigniew Brzezinski says that since we talked to Likud, we should talk to Hamas. And Kevin Spacey, who has trouble keeping his disputed primary states straight, suggests that his "Recount" plays it straight, despite evidence to the contrary. All that and more on today's Morning Joe. In reverse order, let's begin with Zbig's appearance, and consider this statement.ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: I have…
Mark Finkelstein

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