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How Will 'SNL' Mock Reverend Wright? A Clapping School

John Kass, a right-leaning columnist for the Chicago Tribune, asked the obvious question in a Wednesday column: Obama can't worry about Clinton's troubles. He's got a few of his own. And he'll be thinking what every one of us would be thinking, if we were running for president as Barack Obama: How the heck will "Saturday Night Live" ridicule me and Jeremiah Wright?Kass had a few ideas of how SNL…
Tim Graham

The Goo Is Over? ABC Pounds Hillary on Gas Taxes, Iran, Wright

Tim Graham

Dire NBC: Seniors Forced to Live in Van as Golden Years 'Tarnished

On the day the government reported a tenth of a point drop in the unemployment rate and two days after news of a second straight quarter of 0.6 percent GDP growth proved the nation is not in a recession, Friday's NBC Nightly News delivered a ridiculously shallow story, based on two anecdotes and a couple of advocates, to prove rising prices are forcing the elderly out of their homes and into vans…
Brent Baker

Chris Matthews the Most Powerful Commentator in the US

Rudy Takala

Media Downplay Hawaii Uprising, Back Hawaiian Apartheid Bill

A real-life secessionist movement seizes a historic American landmark and major media outlets treat the uprising as a curiosity of mere passing interest. Meanwhile, that same media gives a thumbs-up to a seditious, balkanizing plan for Aloha State apartheid.AP's Mark Niesse reported yesterday, "Native Hawaiian sovereignty advocates" who are members of the group known as the Hawaiian Kingdom…
Matthew Vadum

Astounding TV Commentary: 'End of the Ethanol Dream

In the past couple of weeks, NewsBusters has been noting that as food prices around the world have soared causing an international crisis, typically green press members have been surprisingly reporting a rather pessimistic view of ethanol.Without question, the most comprehensive and daring commentary I've seen on this subject to date comes from a program north of the border called The National.…
Noel Sheppard

Time Lets Cuomo Honor Tim Russert, But Omits Russert Was His Aide

Tim Graham

While WaPo Opts to Caricature Exxon, FinTimes Reports Biz Fundamental

Big bad oil company ExxonMobil is "on the defensive in the face of consumer ire and congressional indignation" as it raked in a "huge" first quarter profit, Washington Post's Steven Mufson informed readers of his front page May 2 article.Mufson later noted that "[d]espite Exxon's colossal profit, the company's stock fell yesterday." Mufson blamed investors "shift[ing] gears" to turn to other…
Ken Shepherd

Media Yawn as Gay Activists Silence Conservatives at Smith, APA Conven

At Smith College, it was a few dozen student activists screaming, chanting and banging pots and pans.  With the American Psychiatric Association, it was angry letters from adult activists and bitter stories in the homosexual press.  The bottom line is the same: far-left homosexuals successfully intimidated a few cowardly officials and silenced voices they don't want the public to hear.Not a bad…
Brian Fitzpatrick

CBS Reports Highest End of Food Costs to Emphasize Food Inflation

Grocery inflation is increasing at an annual rate of 5.3 percent, but 'Evening News' reports on food items that have increased as much as 36 percent.
Jeff Poor

'Evening News' Distorts Severity of Food Inflation by Reporting Only H

Although the economy is showing only a slow rate of growth, consumer spending actually showed an increase for the month of March. But, don't be fooled - that's a bad sign, according to "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric. "[T]he government reported today that consumer spending in March shot up twice as much as economists were expecting, and it's not because we're buying more - it's because…
Jeff Poor

WaPo Dusts Off McCain Citizenship Non-story

Stop me if you've heard this before: McCain, theoretically, might be ineligible for the presidency due to his being born on a naval installation in what was then the Panama Canal Zone. Oh, that's right, we have heard this. Back in February, as a matter of fact.No matter to the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs, who recycled the story a full 64 days later in the May 2 paper.Dobbs breathed new life…
Ken Shepherd

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