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Mark Cuban Backed De Palma's 'Redacted' to Promote New Movie Distribut
Why does a small-budget movie like Brian De Palma's “Redacted” matter? Because of the ripple effects. The media have reported the film as "a ferocious argument against the engagement in Iraq for what it is doing to everyone involved.” Meaning the media are taking these deeply anti-war, anti-military storylines as De Palma intended, as a serious discussion of the day-to-day “realities” of Iraq.…
ABC News Anchor Admits Media Irresponsibility, Bias on Duke Rape Case
Chris Cuomo: Be careful what you hear from the media.
Editor That Mocked Bush’s Segway Accident Crashes One Himself
It might not have been instant, but the bad karma a former British tabloid editor got calling President Bush "an idiot" for falling off a Segway in 2003 got him four years later as he broke three ribs when he accidentally hit a curb driving a - wait for it - Segway (h/t Say Anything via Glenn Reynolds). As reported by Access Hollywood on August 21 (emphasis added): Piers Morgan may be a great…
WaPo Reports Another Clinton Campaign Finance Fiasco Media Will Ignore
On Monday, the Washington Post broke the news of another major Hillary Clinton campaign finance fiasco that seems destined to be ignored or downplayed by media in much the same way previous instances of such behavior by the former First Lady avoided press scrutiny. After all, the media for seven years largely buried Hillary's involvement with convicted felon Peter F. Paul during her 2000…
Ben Stein: Larry Craig Railroaded from Power
Actor and commentator Ben Stein strongly defended Larry Craig on Friday's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," arguing that the police officer who arrested the Idaho Republican senator used "Gestapo tactics" to "browbeat" him into pleading guilty when, in fact, Craig had not committed any illegal act."He didn't do anything. He tapped his foot," Stein said. "And I don't like the idea that people are…
Brits Believe Government Using Global Warming Hysteria to Raise Taxes
If a survey found that the overwhelming majority of Americans believe lawmakers are using global warming hysteria to raise taxes, would the climate change obsessed media report it? Highly doubtful, wouldn't you agree? Well, Britain's Daily Mail published an article Monday that seems quite unlikely any major U.S. press outlet would dare cover for fear of contradicting the media meme of the…
Open Thread
Possible discussion point: Most of our national holidays have some special meaning to the citizenry. Other than the informal end of summer, and the beginning of the new school year, what does Labor Day mean to you?
Jodie Foster: Cheering in Her Payback Movie 'Shameful' and No One Shou
In an Entertainment Weekly interview, Jodie Foster explained her views on guns, “I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being.” She also said it is “shameful” that the “unsophisticated people who see a sophisticated movie” will cheer when she goes after the bad guys who kill her fiance in her new vigilante movie “The Brave One”(emphasis mine…
Katie Couric Says Gen. Petraeus Will Report Surge is Working
If CBS's Katie Couric is beginning to believe the surge is working, it seems that even the most liberal media member could be convinced. With that in mind, Couric was Bob Schieffer's guest on Sunday's "Face the Nation," and after spending some time touring Iraq with Gen. David Petraeus, felt the General will be quite optimistic when he reports to Congress next week. In fact, after Schieffer…