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Krugman's 'Conscience': Economic Woes Caused When 'Southern Whites Sta
N.Y. Times columnist's book 'The Conscience of a Liberal' urges a proactive government to define class structure and create a larger welfare state.
Are You Afraid of the News
Media treat viewers to terrifying stories about economic crisis, planetary 'peril' and bacterial 'monsters' and it's not even Halloween yet.
Ruffini Must-Read: Conservative 'Feeder Blogs' Needed to Counter Left
It might not be as sexy as an item about an MSM anchor exposing his liberal bias. But if there's one thing I'd encourage conservatives to read, consider and act on in the blogosphere today, it is the Patrick Ruffni column "Information Gaps on the Right" at Hugh Hewitt's blog.Ruffini's fundamental point is the need for professionalized, conservative "feeder blogs," sites that "tee up"…
CNN Predicts Possible 'Century of Fires' Due to Global Warming
Anderson Cooper and Tom Foreman warn that global warming may be to blame for Southern California fires.
Arnold Grabs ABC's Shipman, Demands: Stop Spinning Fire Coverage
Reporter Claire Shipman did her level best to get California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to say the efforts to combat the state's wild fires were going poorly. Shipman interviewed the governor on Wednesday's "Good Morning America" and wondered about "the comparison to Katrina that everybody's making in the back of their mind..." At one point, Governor Schwarzenegger cut off Shipman's pleas for…
CNN Searches for Climate Cause of Wildfires, Predicts ‘Century of Fi
The hills of Los Angeles are burning and the media keep finding reasons to blame global warming.CNN found a way to work global warming into its reporting on a national tragedy on October 23.During “Anderson Cooper 360: In the Line of Fire,” CNN’s Tom Foreman even looked into his crystal ball to predict the future by warning of a possible “century of fires, just like what we're seeing now” as a…
Glenn Beck Displays Why Global Warming Not to Blame for California Fir
Like clockwork, much of the mainstream media quickly jumped to blame the California wildfires on global warming. As CBS’s "60 Minutes" and "NBC Nightly News" jumped on the global warming bandwagon, Headline News’ Glenn Beck offered a different take: government forest mismanagement and environmental pressure groups forbidding California homeowners from clearing flammable brush around their land.…
Colbert Fake Campaign May Be Illegal
Stephen Colbert, the liberal comedian who portrays a conservative TV talk show host, recently launched a similarly fake presidential campaign. Trouble for him and his network, the fact that Colbert's PR stunt is funded by Viacom (Comedy Central) and Doritos may make it illegal:
With its snack-food sponsorship, Democratic and Republican affiliations , and Sen. Larry Craig as a possible running…
Local Journalist Claims Media Got The ‘Jena 6’ Story Totally Wrong
It's not every day you read an article in a major newspaper stating unequivocally that media radically misreported a current event that made national headlines, especially one with a racial component. However, that's exactly what happened Wednesday when the Christian Science Monitor published an article written by the assistant editor of the Jena Times about how press outlets "got most of the…
Global Warming Hysteria Drives States to Sue Bush Administration Over
For many months, NewsBusters has been warning readers that the hysteria being generated by the media and the Global Warmingist-in-Chief Al Gore concerning climate change would eventually begin to impact energy and economic policies. Following last Thursday's landmark decision in Kansas to not give an electricity producer a construction license for a coal-fired power plant due to global warming…
The Worst ‘Notable Quotables’ of the Past 20 Years: The Clintons
To commemorate the Media Research Center’s 20th anniversary this month, we’ve just published a special expanded edition of our ‘Notable Quotables’ newsletter with more than 100 of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes we’ve uncovered over the past 20 years. Earlier this week, I presented quotes showing the media’s sympathy towards totalitarian communism and hostility towards Ronald…
Plame Blows Kisses at CBS, NBC, Bloggers; Husband Hails Hillary
As Valerie Plame does the interview rounds – CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR – someone might miss the far-left, Bush-hating blog interviews. On Firedoglake, the most notable pro-Plame blog, Plame did a typewritten chat with her leftist admirers on Monday. She loved the leftist bloggers at FDL – even had them to her home for dinner -- and declared her interviews on CBS and NBC were fair.
Keith, Still Think Falwell Wrong on Tinky? Ask Musto
See update at foot -- ESPN teases football player for dressing like Tinky Winky.Like a youngster stubbornly unwilling to admit that the Tooth Fairy isn't real, Keith Olbermann seems unable to accept that Tinky Winky is gay. Perhaps the MSNBC host should check with some of his more sophisticated friends.On last night's show, Olbermann imagined he was having fun at this NewsBuster's expense,…