Journalist Moving from Paper to ACLU: A 'Continuation of Her Work

This isn't The Onion; it's for real (HT Hot Air; bold after title is mine):Sun, Jan. 13, 2008Burke named executive director of ACLU in TexasTerri Burke, former editor of the Abilene Reporter-News, has been named executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas.Burke, 56, will begin work at the ACLU of Texas on Tuesday. Her duties will include lobbying, fundraising, administering…
Tom Blumer

Hillary on Tyra Banks Show: White House Feels Like 'Prison

Tim Graham

Geist: Take Away the Charm and Huckabee's a Crackpot

See update at bottom: Scarborough nails Shuster on Huck/Obama double-standard.If a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, does Mike Huckabee's sweet way with a word make tolerable views that would be rejected as extreme in the mouths of others less verbally gifted?That's Willie Geist's view of the matter. The genius of the Morning Joe panelist normally resides in his ability to avoid the…
Mark Finkelstein

ABC Uniquely Notes Jindal Inauguration, Iraqi 'Political Breakthrough

ABC on Monday night, unlike the CBS and NBC evening newscasts, noted two political developments which conservatives cheer: Anchor Charles Gibson highlighted the inauguration in Baton Rouge of Republican Bobby Jindal as Governor of Louisiana, the first non-white Governor since Reconstruction in the state dominated by Democrats -- though Gibson didn't emphasize Jindal's party affiliation -- and “a…
Brent Baker

Olbermann Accuses Joint Chiefs of Faking 'Gulf of Tonkin' with Iran

Brad Wilmouth

Media Mania Over Chump Change

Most of us won't allow a hairstylist to change our do without an in-depth explanation. But a lot of us are buying into undefined promises of change from presidential contenders.
Jan LaRue, Esq.

MySpace Announces New Safety Measures to Protect Children from Online

NBC shows parental involvement is still needed.
Colleen Raezler

ABC Shock: Diane Keaton Drops F-Bomb on Good Morning America

If the networks would use a tape delay, they could catch those celebrity expletives.
Scott Whitlock

Huffington Horror: Maher Writer Mocks Death of Ann Coulter's Dad

Columnist Ann Coulter should probably not sign up to be a guest on Bill Maher’s HBO show anytime soon. Maher writer Chris Kelly took her column on the death and funeral of her father, John Vincent Coulter, and mocked her and the dead man relentlessly on The Huffington Post. He even compared her dead father to Hitler. Remember, in our Special Report, we recalled Arianna Huffington proclaimed her…
Tim Graham

Playboy Seeks Keith Olbermann Lover to Stem Tide of Hate Mail

TV Newser reports that reader reaction to the Playboy magazine interview in which MSNBC star Keith Olbermann wackily claimed that Fox News was more dangerous than al-Qaeda was so bad, Playboy went looking to recruit a positive letter-writer for balance. [A]n anonymous emailer directed TVNewser to BloggingOlbermann.com, a fan site of Olbermann's. Becky, who runs the site, tells the story of how…
Tim Graham

Picture Changed in ‘First Baghdad Snow in 100 Years’ Article

Just how far are media outlets willing to go to advance a liberal agenda? Well, consider if you will a major wire service changing the picture included in an article about rare snows in Baghdad, Iraq, several days after said article was published. For some background, on Friday, NewsBusters drew attention to an Agence France-Presse article concerning the first snow in Baghdad for at least 100…
Noel Sheppard

Barnes: Press 'Loathes Romney for Moving Right on Social Issues

Catching up with an article in last week's Weekly Standard (but with Mitt Romney making his last stand in Tuesday's Michigan primary it remains topical), veteran Washington journalist Fred Barnes, a regular panelist on FNC's Special Report, asserted that the press corps “loathes Romney for moving to the right on social issues.” In “The All-Too-Resistible Romney: He has everything going for him…
Brent Baker

Tucker Afraid To Accuse Michelle Obama of Pandering

When one of Tucker Carlson's guests this evening ventured into the racial minefield that our political landscape has become, the show host chose not to join him on the perilous journey . . . .Carlson began a segment by reading the recent statement by Michelle Obama displayed here. View video here.
Mark Finkelstein

AP Concludes Racism, Sexism ‘Alive and Well’ In Midst of Democrats

David Crary of the Associated Press, in an article asking if sexism or racism is more "taboo" in the context of the recent war of words between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, concluded that "both are alive and well." It appears, though, judging by the use of quotes from feminists including Gloria Steinem and Kim Gandy, it seems that Crary is taking the apparent sexism against Hillary Clinton…
Matthew Balan