ABC Again Ignores Liberal Connections of Global Warming Alarmists

Sam Champion hyperventilated about the threat of extreme weather on Monday's "Good Morning America" and, once again, ignored the leftist connections of two cited experts. Scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Daniel Schrag, both of whom have vigorously slammed Republicans in the past, appeared in the segment to warn that global warming would only continue to cause unusual weather patterns as long as…
Scott Whitlock

Don't You Hate it When SUVs Kill People? The AP Sure Does

Here is the kind of lapse in logic that drives me crazy (no pun intended). The AP today has a story headline that just makes me cringe: "SUV plunges into canal, killing 7 people inside." Now here is the problem, HOW did an SUV go about killing these poor people? Did it unpark itself, drive across town, slam open its doors and gobble up some folks waiting at a bus stop and then drive them into a…
Warner Todd Huston

'Conservatives Have Long Opposed Black Progress

In the free-for-all that followed Tavis Smiley’s hostile GOP presidential debate in August, Michael Fauntroy was featured by Smiley’s show and several other liberal media outlets as an instant pundit on the subject, author of the book plainly titled Republicans and the Black Vote. But Sunday night on the Huffington Post, Fauntroy slammed a not-so-new documentary on blacks and the GOP as pathetic…
Tim Graham

WaPo Paints Boy Scouts Anti-Gay, But Not Philadelphia as Anti-Scout

Updated below.It would be logical to most Americans that having openly gay adults supervising impressionable young boys under the age of consent might be a bad idea, setting aside moral or religious considerations. It would also be logical to most Americans that private organizations reserve every right to set membership standards on moral and/or religious considerations. And to most lay persons…
Ken Shepherd

Malveaux: Audience Won Debate for Booing Edwards and Obama

If you had any questions about how much Thursday's Democrat presidential debate, sponsored by the Clinton News Network, was staged so that Hillary, who had an abysmal two weeks heading into the event, could mount a comeback, they were answered on Sunday's "Late Edition." During this installment of the CNN program hosted by Wolf Blitzer, White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux actually…
Noel Sheppard

NY Anchorman Resigns After Calling Live Show Under False Name

Gary Anthony Ramsay, an anchorman for NY1 News, has resigned this week over his efforts to damage Rudy Giuliani's bid for the White House by commenting on the Bernard Kerik situation under a false name on the air. It appears that Ramsay called into an episode of the station's call-in show "The Call" and claimed his name was "Dalton from the Upper East Side" before going off on his rant against…
Warner Todd Huston

Open Thread

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: How soon before someone in the media blames the cyclone in Bangladesh on global warming, the war in Iraq, President Bush, or all of the above?
NB Staff

Discredited 'Journalist' Jason Leopold Pesters Valerie Plame with Karl

What do you do when your heavily hyped book plummets from number 6 on the New York Times bestseller list to a mere 299 on Amazon.com in just a matter of a few weeks? If you're Valerie Plame, you turn to discredited "journalist" Jason Leopold for self-hype help as you can see in this video. Howard Kurtz has written of Leopold's dubious background in a March 9, 2005 Washington Post article:Jason…
P.J. Gladnick

Shuster: Many Say Novak Doesn't Have 'Any Credibility As a Journalist

David Shuster has hurled a hand grenade in the direction of one of Washington's most venerable political reporters. The MSNBC "correspondent" has alleged that many people don't believe Robert Novak has "any credibility as a journalist."View video here.Shuster sat in as a "Morning Joe" panelist today. His comment came in the context of a discussion regarding the Novak column from over the weekend…
Mark Finkelstein

Bush Fortunes Improving? Blame 'Absence of Bad News

In Monday’s Washington Post, reporter Peter Baker’s front-page political analysis on President Bush’s improving fortunes carries a strong whiff of Hate to Admit It:In many ways, the shifting political fortunes may owe as much to the absence of bad news as to any particular good news. No one lately has been indicted, botched a hurricane relief effort or shot someone in a hunting accident. Instead…
Tim Graham

LAT Caught in Blatant Anti-Fred Thompson Spin

Warner Todd Huston

Praying for Hollywood

ABC positively reports on a prayer network for celebrities but can't avoid the tabloid trap.
Colleen Raezler

Bella Does it Again

Thanks to grassroots efforts, the independent pro-life movie secures box office distribution for the biggest movie weekend of the year.
Kristen Fyfe

Is 'Gang' Becoming a Politically Incorrect Word in DC

In a report ("D.C. Poised to Exceed 2006 Homicide Totals"; HT Hot Air) on overall urban homicide, Allison Klein at the Washington Post used a word that I've never seen directly associated with criminal activity by groups of people, and she used it twice. Here's the first: The number of killings in the District this year already has reached the homicide count for all of last year, reversing a…
Tom Blumer