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Original caption:U.S. President George W. Bush speaks to the media in the Rose Garden of the White House, August 2, 2007, following a meeting with members of his cabinet.
WSJ Op-Ed's Look at Old Media Business Bias: Very Good Points, But Inc
At OpinionJournal.com on Thursday ("Fair but Unbalanced -- How the media promote false pessimism about the economy"), Brian Wesbury, who has written several times on the disconnect between the strong economy and the public's perception of it (previous references here, here, here, here, and here), had another generally stellar column about what is nonetheless a relatively small piece of the…
House Republicans Unanimously Sponsor Permanent Repeal of Fairness Doc
On Wednesday, all 202 Republican members of the House of Representatives cosponsored a bill that would permanently repeal the controversial Fairness Doctrine. Didn't hear about this? Well, how could you, for not one major media outlet bothered to report it. Not one. As announced by Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana):
Bill O’Reilly Claims Liberal Bloggers Are Blackmailing Democrats
So, have you heard that Fox News' Bill O'Reilly isn't fond of liberal bloggers? In case there was any confusion about this issue, the outspoken host made it quite clear on Thursday's "O'Reilly Factor" when he told political consultant Dick Morris: I think it's a danger to have blackmailers, which is what these bloggers are, active in the political process. Ouch. Yet, that might not have…
The NewsBusters Weekly Recap: August 4 to
Those Nutty ChristiansOn Tuesday’s "Nightline," co-anchor Martin Bashir filed a report on businessman Tom Monaghan, founder of a Catholic university in Florida and a community that will attempt to embrace traditional Christian values. Bashir regurgitated a two-year-old criticism that the town has "been described as a Catholic Jonestown, a kind of Catholic Iran, where individual rights and…
Beauchamp Chronicles Tell More of Leftist Dishonesty Than Anything Els
Charles Krauthammer has a great syndicated column (h/t: Protein Wisdom) out that sums up the New Republic Scott Thomas Beauchamp scandal quite well:For a month, the veracity of The New Republic’s Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the Army private who has been sending dispatches from the front in Iraq, has been in dispute. His latest “Baghdad Diarist” (July 13) recounted three incidents of American soldiers…
CBS Evening News Connects George H.W. Bush to Trapped Miners
Friday's CBS Evening News managed to link former President George H.W. Bush to the plight of the trapped miners in Utah as correspondent Nancy Cordes used archive video to show how Bush, when Vice President back in 1984, toured an Illinois mine with many safety violations that's owned by the same man who owns the Utah mine. Anchor Katie Couric introduced a story on how the mines owned by Bob…
'Time' Puts Horns on the Reverend Billy Graham
Just when you thought the MSM couldn't sink any lower . . . Could there possibly be an American who doesn't admire the Reverend Billy Graham? Apparently, yes. Have a look at the cover of this week's 'Time.' Of all the ways the editors might have positioned the logo, they managed to do so in a manner in which the 'M' in 'TIME' is transformed into horns protuding from the good reverend's head.…
UN Climate Panel Accused of Possible Research Fraud
At virtually the same time NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies was correcting historical climate data with the assistance of Climate Audit's Steve McIntyre, a British mathematician discovered serious flaws in papers used and cited by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its most recent Assessment Report. Douglas J. Keenan, a former Morgan Stanley arbitrageur and…