Huffington Compares Media to 'Pontius Pilate' on Global Warming

Left-wing Web site founder blasts media for considering skeptical perspective on 'climate crisis.'
Jeff Poor

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Tapper: Clinton a Chameleon Playing Pro-Gun, Anti-Gas Tax Populist

“Senator Hillary Clinton is multimillionaire former First Lady with a solid liberal voting record,” ABC's Jake Tapper observed in a rare story applying an ideological label to a Democrat but, he pointed out Monday night, “you wouldn't necessarily know that from catching up with her on the campaign trail” where she plays a barbecue-eating populist on trade to the right of Barack Obama on guns and…
Brent Baker

NBC Showcases Heartthrob with a Message

Bella star Eduardo Verastegui appeared on Today to promote the movie's DVD release, but revealed how he found deeper meaning in life than fame and fortune.
Colleen Raezler

Taboo-Busting ABC Touts Sister-Brother Love

Good Morning America jolts viewers awake with a puff piece on incest.
Scott Whitlock

Newsweek Helps Obama Four Different Ways

Magazine spares no efforts to help Obama over the Wright hurdle.
Kristen Fyfe

Left Wing and Wright Brained

Liberal media pundits are trying to excuse Barack Obama's 20-year ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright by suggesting that Wright's ravings are no worse than a single comment by Jerry Falwell.
Robert Knight

E-mail Instructions: 'Hi, Noel—Stephen King Says to Shut Up and I Ag

You really can't make this stuff up!Early Monday morning, NewsBusters informed readers about a truly disgraceful comment made last month by famed horror author Stephen King concerning people that can't read having to enter the Army (video embedded right).Hours later, I mentioned in the comments section that I was receiving a lot of strange e-mail messages.Well, it turns out King wrote about my…
Noel Sheppard

GOP Again Challenging Dem Patriotism - But Where's the Times' Evidence

Robin Toner's still whining about Michael Dukakis: "[In 1988] the Republicans used the symbols of nationhood (notably, whether schoolchildren should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance) to bludgeon the Democrats, challenge their patriotism and utterly redefine their nominee, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts."
Clay Waters

CBS Slights Limbaugh Credit for 'Operation Chaos,' Airs Talk of Riots

It's amusing how far some people will go not to give someone credit for something they have done especially if that deserving someone happens to be an ostensible political enemy. In this case we find CBS discussing Republican crossover voters in these primaries, the network newser telling us how crossovers will "skew primary results," and then they tell us who is responsible for egging on these…
Warner Todd Huston

First Dukakis, Now Obama: NYT Accuses GOP of Questioning Dem Patriotis

Clay Waters

PBS and NY Times In House Watchdogs Bark at 'Soft' Wright Coverage

“Mainstream media coverage of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright has drawn a round of barking from some of their own in-house watchdogs,” FNC's Brit Hume noted in his Monday night “Grapevine” segment. Hume started by highlighting how PBS ombudsman Michael Getler criticized the soft approach of Bill Moyers in his interview with Wright: “Inflammatory, and inaccurate, statements that Moyers himself laid…
Brent Baker

ChiTrib's James: Whites Think Obama Unpatriotic Due to Race

Another journalist has gone on-the-record equating conservative concerns about the liberal Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with racism. In a May 5 blog post on the Chicago Tribune’s “The Swamp” blog, writer Frank James expressed his concern about racist white people. James wondered, “How much of Sen. Barack Obama's supposed patriotism deficit among voters has to do with his being African-American…
Lyndsi Thomas

Petition Against Gas Tax Holiday Pushed by Left-Wing Economists

The debate over a gas tax holiday has caught the attention of all three presidential candidates as well as the media. Last night, CBS "Evening News" said 150 economists had signed a petition against the cut and quoted one saying "it isn't sound economic policy."But that list includes several prominent liberal economists, some who have also opposed the Bush tax cuts and pushed for a higher minimum…
Dan Gainor