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UN Cuts AIDS Estimates, Will Global Warming Projections Follow
As NewsBusters readers are aware, one of the positions of those not buying into the manmade global warming hysteria is that the United Nations -- whose Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a large part of the alarmism -- is an organization that has seen more than its share of malfeasance and corruption. The recent scandal surrounding the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program is one example, with…
Brokaw: Washington Post Print Paper 'Probably' Dead in 10 Years
Former NBC anchor told Washington audience newspaper would be digital by 2018.
WaPo Pats O'Malley, Dem Legislature on Back for 'Wins on Taxes
Facing a budget shortfall due in large part to overspending in years past, Gov. Martin O'Malley called a special session of the Maryland General Assembly to consider a package of tax hikes and a referendum on legalizing slot machines. Now that the freshman Democratic governor has proven successful in pushing through both, the Washington Post congratulated O'Malley with a front page article…
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Extraordinary stock market volatility the past five months... What does it all mean?
Who Emailed Mika Background for Nasty Question to Townsend
Update | 10:48 AM ET -- Mystery Solved: Morning Joe Executive Producer Chris Licht has emailed me to say: "Mika was reading research emailed from a segment producer to her Blackberry: specifically, the Bloomberg News article re: Townsend says election is potential terrorism target." Have a look at the screencap. It's Mika Brzezinski scrolling what looks to be her Blackberry as she poses a…
Iraq News Too Good for Even NYT To Ignore
The President's escalation strategy has failed. We need to stop refereeing this civil war, and start getting out now. -- Hillary Clinton, statement of August 23, 2007As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results. -- letter to Pres. Bush from Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, June 12, 2007That's not a cement mixer you hear. It's the collective Dem gnashing of teeth.…
NBC and CBS Jump to Showcase Rise in Army Desertions
Catching up with news from the end of last week, NBC and CBS on Friday night jumped to highlight an increase in Army desertions blamed on the Iraq war, but failed to note the rate has simply returned to its 2001 level or that the number of desertions by Marines, a service also heavily committed to Iraq, has fallen. Brian Williams led the NBC Nightly News with how “the number of desertions from…
Post Sugarcoats Thuggery Against Philadelphia Boy Scouts
The Post's description is a classic example of moral equivalence, in which aggressor and victim are co-belligerents.
Global Warming Hysteria Could Make Gore Richest VP in History
Is the press beginning to see through Al Gore's global warming scam? A brief article posted at Newsweek's website offers hope that the media might finally be recognizing the former Vice President could be this decade's Ken Lay. For those that have forgotten, Lay was the CEO of Enron (h/t NBer well99, emphasis added):
NPR Highlights Author Comparing Bush to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini
The casual assumption that state-funded broadcasting in America would be devoted to adoration of the head of state would be exactly wrong, at least during Republican presidencies. Instead, on Monday, National Public Radio’s program Day to Day (co-produced with the liberal website Slate) awarded five minutes to leftist author Naomi Wolf and her thesis that the Bush administration is orchestrating…