‘Planet in Peril’ Thanks to CNN Marketing Team

Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took CNN's marketing team to task, pointing out the hypocrisy of putting a "six foot square poster in each of the 2.3 million copies of today's the USA Today. That's 13.8 million square feet of ‘Planetary Peril.'" Planet in Peril a program airing next week on CNN. Colbert who could barely keep himself from laughing went on to say, "Now the…
Stuart James

Ann Curry Cites Climate Change as Cause of Tween Stress

Geoffrey Dickens

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: 'Al Gore Wins'; 'We Agree With Him

On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough declared, "Al Gore wins." Referencing a story in the New York Times on how global warming is dividing the 2008 GOP field, the former Republican congressman predicted that by the next election, all candidates would adopt Gore's agenda. He conceded, "Yeah. We called him an idiot in 1992, we Republicans, and about 16 years later,…
Scott Whitlock

Et Tu, Disney? Bleeping God from the Ten Commandments

Radio Disney is bleeping "God" from ad copy for the upcoming movie "The Ten Commandments."Seriously.The folks at Liberty Counsel sent out notices on Monday and Tuesday of this week letting people know about a copy of an email they had in which a Radio Disney representative was advising a media buyer to delete the words "chosen by God" in ad copy for the movie "The Ten Commandments" which opens on…
Kristen Fyfe

Couric to Congress, Bush: 'Get Out of the Sandbox', Pass SCHIP

Ken Shepherd

GMA: Sweaters Predict Coming Economic 'Crisis

ABC doom story warns viewers of red flags to 'watch out' for.
Paul Detrick

Vote to Kill 'Fairness Doctrine' Forever Could Come up Today

In an effort to kill it forever, Representative Mike Pence (R-Ind.) is attempting to force a vote on the floor of the House today over the future of the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." Yesterday, Pence secured House passage of the "Free Flow of Information Act" to protect the press and is now launching an effort to nix the ability of the executive branch from re-instituting the woefully unfair "…
Warner Todd Huston

Slate Columnist Advises Divorced Father of Evangelical Child to Discus

What is a divorced father with a devout Evangelical Christian daughter to do when his anti-religious beliefs come between his daughter and his visitation? If you are mainstream media advice columnist from Slate.com he should discuss his views about science and homosexuality; even though he never mentioned that he had such views. In addition to furthering her "open minded" views on religion and…
Terry Trippany

Get Ready for NBC’s Weeklong Global Warming Propaganda Blitzkrieg

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on an NBC-owned station, the network is getting ready to bombard citizens with a weeklong manmade global warming propaganda blitzkrieg that's destined to make Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his Norwegian sycophants smile like a polar bear that's just bagged a juicy seal.It appears the good folks at NBC didn't feel they lost enough money -- and good will…
Noel Sheppard

Media Worry About Another Black Monday

BMI Staff

Former ABC Anchor Carole Simpson Endorses Hillary

It took 15 years to become official, but Carole Simpson has now confirmed what we always suspected: she's a Clinton backer. Readers will recall that during the 1992 campaign, the then ABC News anchor moderated a presidential debate in which she made life uncomfortable for Bush 41, notably with her snide "who would like to begin, the 'education president?'" poke. According to this Boston…
Mark Finkelstein

'Today' Does the Dirty Work So Dems Don't Have to

Geoffrey Dickens

Update: Welfare Rolls Still Plunging After All These Years, and Still

OVERVIEW: An underappreciated accomplishment of the past six years has been the continued reduction in the number of people on welfare.The welfare caseload, after declining dramatically in the first four years after Welfare Reform was enacted, might have been expected to level off, or even rise slightly with overall population growth, after the initial impact of the 1996 law wore off. After all,…
Tom Blumer

ABC 'Sexual Educator' Won't Rule Out Birth Control for Grade School

"Good Morning America" co-host Diane Sawyer hosted a serious debate on Wednesday about whether Maine middle school students, children as young as 11, should have access to birth control pills. The ABC program engaged in a classic example of labeling bias with a graphic that identified talk show host Glenn Beck as a "conservative commentator." In contrast, Sawyer referred to the other guest, Logan…
Scott Whitlock