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CBS Looks for Hidden Agenda of GOP Contributors, Not Democrats
'Evening News' interrogates Giuliani 'bundler,' but skips over President Clinton's contribution-related appointments.
Ford's Sept. Sales: Reuters Errs, While the Rarely Reported AFA Boycot
Here's what Reuters said about Ford's September US performance, compared to what Ford's PR release actually said: Oops. Much more important, the saddest story almost never told by Old Media continues to play out.
ABC Sympathetically Spins ‘Withering’ Media Attacks on Anita Hill
On Tuesday’s "Good Morning America," ABC host Robin Roberts sympathetically interviewed Anita Hill and asserted that her 1991 testimony in front of the Senate resulted in the law professor enduring "withering scrutiny from the press." Roberts also pointedly noted that Hill "passed a polygraph test. Clarence Thomas refused to take one. You passed one." An ABC graphic defiantly observed, "Anita…
Laura Ingraham Smacks Down CNN's Toobin on Thomas's 'Rage
Update (NB Staff | Oct. 3, 14:55): Ingraham's producer was kind enough to send us an MP3 (14:03 long, 4.82 MB) of the exchange. On Monday’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin unspooled a wild, unsubstantiated theory that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is "furious all the time" and when Cooper asked if his "hatred of the media" started with the Anita Hill charges, Toobin…
The Media's Moment of Silence
From the no-news-is-good-news department (and Instapundit) comes news that the media have suddenly decided to start covering Iraq less. Investor's Business Daily explains:Ever since the Sept. 10 testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, we've heard less and less from the mainstream media about the war in Iraq. The old adage "no news is good news" has never been truer.That the media are no longer much…
Are Media Wisely Running Away From Bogus Rush ‘Phony Soldiers’ Sto
On Monday, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) stepped onto the floor of the Senate and strongly denounced talk radio host Rush Limbaugh for what have proven to be out of context statements made by the conservative personality on his program last Wednesday. Yet, with the exception of a CNN segment aired Monday, and articles by Fox News, USA Today's On Politics blog, The Hill, NewsMax, and the…
Left-wing Group Issues Classic Non-denial of Clinton Ties
Despite the fact that Hillary Clinton publicly boasted about creating Media Matters and that this information has been common knowledge inside the beltway, the far-left group has repeatedly issued false denials of these connections. But in true Clintonian fashion, these denials are hardly that at all. Here is the phrase that the group keeps falling back on:"Media Matters for America is a '…
NB Comedy: NewsBusted
It's Tuesday which means another episode of our political comedy show "NewsBusted" has arrived! Topics: OJ's arrest, rumors about Hillary Clinton, Kiefer Sutherland, and more. Click play on the video at the right to watch.Click here to see the show archive, you can also subscribe to "NewsBusted" to be automatically notified via email whenever we post new webcasts.
Scarborough: Media Matters Used 'Phony Story' to Go After Rush
As Brent Baker of MRC/NB has documented, MSNBC has been among the worst MSM offenders in propagating the falsehood that Rush Limbaugh had accused all anti-war military members of being "phony soldiers." A point of light at that same network this morning, however, as Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist combined to debunk the Media Matters allegation, accusing the organization of using a "phony…
ABC Highlights 'Guns Versus Butter' Poll that Matches Media's Agenda
Just over a week after ABC News exploited a crying mother to push an expansion of federal health insurance “for kids,” a story which matched the media's overall emotion over facts reporting on the topic, on Monday's World News anchor Charles Gibson highlighted how “a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds opposition to more money for Iraq and support for more money for children's health…