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Media's April Fools Keep Slobbering Over Obama
The following was adapted from the Media Research Center's April Fools Day Media "Reality" Check. The quotes are all fabrications written by the imaginative News Analysts at the MRC.Panicked by the success of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" — urging conservatives to vote for Hillary Clinton in upcoming primaries to keep the Democrats in disarray — liberal reporters are becoming even more…
Richard Miniter: NYT Reporter in Basra Is Former Saddam Officer
This is not an April Fool's gag. Richard Miniter at Pajamas Media caught the jaw-dropping significance of these two paragraphs in a New York Times report by Qais Mizher out of Basra (HT Instapundit; bolds are mine): Early last week, when the assault started, I happened to be in Diwaniya, another southern city, as part of my work as a reporter and translator for The New York Times. Calling on my…
NewsBusted
Topics in this episode: Howard Dean wants Dems to not drag out the primaries, Jeremiah Wright's new mansion, the earth no longer warming, and Ashlee Simpson's admission. Click "play" on the video to the right to watch.
The Media Ignore Al Gore's Planned Global Warming Profiteering
By now you've probably read about how Al Gore and his Alliance for Climate Protection plan to drop $300 million on hard-hitting affective propaganda aimed at convincing the American viewing public to embrace the drastically reduced standard of living that carbon emission controls guarantee. The first ad from the campaign, narrated by Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy, shows footage of…
Wiki Wars and Mainstream Conservatism
You may not be aware of it but Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is a virtual war zone, one of which most conservatives are blissfully unaware. Over at the New Republic, Eve Fairbanks explores this in the presidential campaign where supporters and critics of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battle daily over their entries:Back when we got basic information from encyclopedias instead of…
Unreported Story: 5 Years of Hollywood Box Office Misery
The latest round of war-movie failures, explained and discussed in more detail by Mark at Weapons of Mass Discussion this past Saturday, is just another episode in a five-year horror story at the box office for the US movie business. Despite the growth of DVD sales during most of that time and the potential for gold in downloads, the ongoing dismal results at the box office have to be causing…
CBS Follows NYT, Warns More Going on Food Stamps Than Since '60s
Monday's New York Times hyped a dire congressional study, and CBS jumped hours later with a matching story full of anecdotes and relying on the expertise of a left-wing activist -- naturally, unlabeled. “The economic slowdown has left a lot of Americans struggling to pay their bills,” CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric asserted, highlighting how “a congressional report projects a record 28…
CBS 2 Chicago: 2007 Video of Obama and Wright Signing Books Together
**Video below the fold** On Feb 8, 2007 Channel 2 News Chicago had a little puff piece on Senator Barack Obama discussing his soon to be launched presidential campaign. It happened to air just before Barack's "60 Minutes" TV interview and it focused on Barack's attendance at the Trinity United Church of Christ. The interesting thing about this video is that Barack is seen sitting side by side…
Rendell: I'm Too Truthful To Be Veep Candidate
Ed Rendell is too truthful to be a good vice-presidential candidate. Just ask him. The Pennsylvania governor and Hillary supporter was a guest on this afternoon's Hardball. Wrapping up the interview, host Chris Matthews broached his availability as Veep.CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you think the Democrats have a shot at carrying Florida on the best of conditions this year? ED RENDELL: Oh, absolutely,…
Schumer Has Praise for Paulson's Regulatory Restructuring Plan
Democratic New York senator tells CNBC's Erin Burnett that Paulson's plan is 'a good foundation.'
CBS’s Pelley: Innocent Man Tortured In ‘America's Shadow Prison Sy
On Sunday’s "60 Minutes" on CBS, anchor Scott Pelley interviewed Murat Kurnaz, a german-born Muslim man who was released from Guantanamo Bay after five years, having been found innocent of terrorist activity, and as Pelley declared: "At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America's shadow prison system in the war on terror...The story Kurnaz told us is a rare look inside that clandestine…
'This Week': George Will vs. The World on Housing Bailout
Lone conservative, free-market voice George Will faces off against liberals Robert Reich, Donna Brazile and Paul Krugman.
The Incredible Shrinking Newsweek
Newsweek magazine is undergoing massive restructuring, buying out the contracts of over 100 employees and offering to buy out many more including its two liberal opinion-mongers Jonathan Alter and Howard Fineman:The staff of Newsweek will shrink dramatically, after 111 staffers on its news and business sides accepted a buyout last week. [...] More staffers than expected accepted the offer, so at…