Headline of the Weekend: Shark Attacks Blamed on Global Warming

Tim Graham

CW Blasphemes God (with a Wink and a Nod) in Ads for Teen Drama

Gossip Girl campaign uses text-message shorthand over racy photos and videos.
Kristen Fyfe

NYT's Friedman: Hard Work 'Asian Values,' No Longer American Values

I always find it amazing when writers in the mainstream press seem to have so little knowledge of America and its history. Of course, I suppose that being blissfully ignorant of US history does help paper over their betrayal, substituting the feeling that they can maintain allegiance to American "ideals" as they attempt to advocate for the sort of socialist/communist vision that they want America…
Warner Todd Huston

Sunday Funnies: Hillary Says Rush Limbaugh's 'Always Had a Crush on Me

For your evening entertainment pleasure, there really was a great moment on ABC's "This Week" Sunday that was absolutely must-see TV.Host George Stephanopoulos off-handedly mentioned "Operation Chaos" by telling guest Hillary Clinton: Rush Limbaugh is asking Republicans to come out and vote for you in order to divide the Party.Without skipping a beat, Clinton marvelously answered (video embedded…
Noel Sheppard

CBS: 'Unpatriotic' Works, Even Against Purple Heart-Earning Kerry

Demonstrating how the mainstream media will view criticism of Barack Obama through the prism of past attacks on Democrats they consider illegitimate, Dean Reynolds concluded a Sunday night CBS Evening News story on Barack Obama by suggesting Democrats are well-justified in fearing Republicans will succeed in portraying Obama as “out of the mainstream,'” which Reynolds described as “code for '…
Brent Baker

Wallace Asks Dean Why Democrats Are Suddenly Coming on Fox

Have you considered the delicious hypocrisy of Democrat presidential candidates that months ago refused to participate in debates sponsored by Fox News now practically lining up to appear on the cable news channel?Chris Wallace certainly has, and on the most recent installment of "Fox News Sunday," asked Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean about this sudden change of heart by folks…
Noel Sheppard

Media Ignore Serious Flaw in Clinton's Indiana Ad

Last Wednesday, ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" exposed a serious flaw in a television advertisement Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is running in Indiana (video embedded right, h/t Gateway Pundit).In fact, Indiana newspapers began pointing out the former first lady's mistake almost three weeks ago after she spoke at a school in that state.Yet, according to LexisNexis, no…
Noel Sheppard

Stumped: Hillary Can't Name One Economist Who Supports Her Gas-Tax Hol

My two cents say George Stephanopoulos gave Hillary a harder time than Tim Russert did Obama during their respective appearances on This Week and Meet the Press today. Russert never pinned Obama down on exactly what he knew of Rev. Wright's most controversial assertions and when he knew it.Over on ABC, Stephanopoulos twice challenged Hillary to name a single economist who supported her proposal…
Mark Finkelstein

Weather Channel Founder's Letter to Environmentalists Re: Global Warmi

Since calling global warming "the greatest scam in history," the founder of The Weather Channel John Coleman has been an outspoken advocate for climate realism.This weekend, Coleman posted at his KUSI-San Diego blog an "Open Letter to Environmentalists" challenging them to campaign for "environmental goals on the basis of their own merit" while urging alarmists to "[l]et go of the global warming…
Noel Sheppard

Salon Editor: Most Press Members ‘Hate Hillary Clinton’ (updated w

Here's something you don't see every day: a liberal, female editor of a leading liberal online magazine stating with cameras rolling that most press members "Hate, hate Hillary Clinton." Yet, that's exactly what occurred Sunday morning when Salon's editor-in-chief Joan Walsh spoke some truths about the media's love affair with Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama, as well as their…
Noel Sheppard

Tom Hanks Endorses Barack Obama for President

Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has officially endorsed Barack Obama for president with the following video first posted last evening at the former Bosom Buddy's My Space page:
Noel Sheppard

ABC Gives Airtime to Documentary-Maker With Dubious Rep Suggesting Res

Imagine that a "documentary" film-maker—whose most notable former credit was a work advancing the notion that extra-terrestrials did indeed visit Area 51—brought forth a new work suggesting that key elements of the Prophet Mohammed's story had been fabricated. What are the odds ABC would devote a segment of Good Morning America to a respectful interview of the filmmaker and discussion of his…
Mark Finkelstein

AP Reporter Selectively Notes Calls for Sex-Scandalized Ohio AG to Res

Why does it seem that, when a Democratic politician's career is on the line, Old Media reporters find a way to make it look like it's only Republicans who want to push him or her out the door? Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who for a while was seen as the Buckeye State's version of New York's now-disgraced former governor Eliot Spitzer, is fighting for his political life. In a Friday press…
Tom Blumer

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