Matthews's Synonym for Bigotry: 'Culturally Conservative' on Race

In Chris Matthews's mind, a bigot is someone who's "culturally conservative" on race. Matthews equated the two on this evening's Hardball in attempting to explain exit polling from yesterday's PA primary showing that 38% of white Catholic Democrats wouldn't vote for Obama in the general election.CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well, somebody who doesn't like that group of voters might call them Archie Bunkers.…
Mark Finkelstein

Matthews Sees Racism in Anti-Obama Ads, Liberal Panel Disagrees

On Wednesday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews thought he saw racism in two ads targeted against Barack Obama, but when his media panel full of liberal journalists disagreed he back-pedaled a bit. First up Matthews ran a clip of what he called a "nasty," ad by the North Carolina Republican Party. The Politico's Roger Simon agreed with Matthews that it was "nasty" but said, he wasn’t sure it was…
Geoffrey Dickens

NASA's Hansen Rails Against Coal At Fringe Left-Wing Event

'Climate Super Rally' strays from global warming into leftist anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war and anti-corporation event.
Jeff Poor

Film Director: Jesus Was Son of a Roman Rapist

According to The Hollywood Reporter, film director Paul Verhoeven is soon to release a book that is claimed to be a new "biography" of Jesus Christ. In this new publication, Verhoeven feels that he successfully proves that Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, was raped by a Roman soldier during the Jewish uprising in Galilee and the boy Jesus was the result of that attack. No virgin birth for Christ…
Warner Todd Huston

CBS ‘Early Show’ Highlights Environmentalist ‘Scuppies

At the end of Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show" co-host Harry Smith introduced a segment on a new group of environmentally-friendly young professionals: "Earth Day, of course, was yesterday, but for many Earth Day is every day, especially for a growing number of Americans of means." Correspondent Priya David went on define this new demographic: "Scuppies, so interesting, that's what the people in this…
Kyle Drennen

Pot and Kettle: Huff-Po Asks Dan Rather If Bushies Are Dishonest

Rachel Sklar of The Huffington Post interviewed Dan Rather, which is not a real surprise, since she’s been supportive of his vengeful lawsuit against CBS News (and his partner in fraud Mary Mapes is a Huff-Poster). But why would she ask Rather to decry the dishonesty of the Bush administration, considering his own wallowing in falsehoods? Does the Huffington Post need to share Rather’s apparent…
Tim Graham

'Fox and Friends' Again Puffs Hillary Clinton -- As 'Rocky

Is this the network all of the Democrats were afraid of just months ago? Glowing from her victory in Pennsylvania, Senator Hillary Clinton braved the April 23 edition of FNC’s "Fox and Friends" to face a barrage of...softball questions. This is not new for the Fox News morning show as they've already given Senator Clinton two other easy interviews.Co-host Gretchen Carlson started the segment…
Justin McCarthy

Whoopi and Joy Rooting for McCain

Justin McCarthy

RFK Jr.: Quitting Carbon Use Like 'Abolishing' Slavery

Environmentalist's 'manifesto' in Vanity Fair issues call to 'decarbonize' entirely.
Julia A. Seymour

Voters Don't Care about Global Warming - but They Should

In what's become Earth Month, the media press on as though it's Public Issue No. 1.
Amy Menefee

Gingrich Explains Why He Did Global Warming Ad With Pelosi

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently did a global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi that was sponsored by Nobel Laureate Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection (embedded right).Obviously, he has taken a lot of heat -- no pun intended -- from conservatives for not only staking out a seemingly unconservative position on this controversial issue, but doing so in such a high-profile way…
Noel Sheppard

ABC's Ross Blames U.S. Gun Industry for Mexican Drug Violence

'World News' goes undercover in gun stores on U.S. side of the Mexican border to bash Second Amendment.
Jeff Poor

Village Voice Sneers, Snipes at Righty Blogs

Last week's issue of the Village Voice featured Roy Edroso's review of "10 conservative Web scribblers," described therein as "buffoons" and in the article's subhead as "a confederacy of dunces." (Actually, Edroso names twelve bloggers, arriving at his figure of ten by counting the Power Line trio as one person.) Lefty snark aside, the piece is problematic in part because at least two of the…
Tom Johnson

Networks Ignore Government's Role in Ethanol-Driven Food Crisis

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