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Schumer Floor Speech Slandering U.S. Troops Ignored by Old Media
Bloggers have caught a politician saying one thing in a speech, while carrying a very different rendering of a critical passage at a supposed "transcript" of that speech. The difference is significant. The transcript whitewashes a slander on the performance of US troops in Iraq delivered by a United States senator. Specifically, New York's Charles Schumer gave a made a speech on the floor of the…
Anti-Patriotism: the Press Undermines the Iraq War Effort UPDATED
Newspapers attacked military commander General Petraeus on the day he delivered his much-anticipated progress report on the war in Iraq.
Snarky Celebrity 'News' Show Premieres Tonight
Yet another television show draws attention to the antics of the rich and irresponsible. Whatever happened to programming that builds character?
Kurtz Omits Gore's Live Earth Connection to BBC Canceling Global Warmi
On the one hand, I was very pleased to see CNN's Howard Kurtz mention on Sunday's "Reliable Sources" the recent decision by the BBC to cancel "Planet Earth," a proposed daylong special to focus attention on anthropogenic global warming. On the other hand, I was surprised when Kurtz chose not to include one of the key reasons this project was scrapped, namely, the failure of Al Gore's Live Earth…
What Media Won’t Tell You About U.N. Climate Panel
For several years as the manmade global warming myth has taken center stage, the media have led people to believe that reports published by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were written by thousands of scientists around the world all sharing a consensus view regarding this controversial issue. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. On Thursday, climate…
New Osama Tape: Was It Fake
There has been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about Osama’s beard.Was it fake? Was it dyed?There has also been a lot of discussion about the politics in the video. Some suggesting they sound a lot like the American left.There are a lot of oddities that open up questions on the authenticity of the latest Al Qaeda propaganda. Michael Leeden, at the Corner, ponders whether this was really Osama…
Tom Hayden Laments Jack Kerouac Rejected Leftwing Political Agenda
Since it is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's ground-breaking book, "On The Road," many are using the occasion to reminisce about the author. However, Tom Hayden is using this anniversary as a way to lament in the Huffington Post over the fact that Kerouac was too much of an iconoclast to buy into his collectivist leftwing agenda:
Pulitzer Prize Winner Claims Ford’s Model T Responsible for Iraq War
Every now and then one has to read an article four or five times to actually believe someone could possibly write such nonsense. The following item, from Time magazine's special report "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time," has to qualify as one of the most absurd pieces of...journalism I've come across so far this year (h/t NB reader Paul Head). To set this up, it goes without saying that Ford's…
Salon Editor Bashes Katie Couric’s Reports From Iraq
"CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric couldn't possibly expect to be criticized by a fellow, female, liberal journalist when she went to Iraq last week to report firsthand what was going on in that embattled nation. Yet, on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh ripped the leading member of the media sisterhood for "lobbing kind of softball questions," and not "working…