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Global Warming Causes Drop in Supply of Bulgarian Prostitutes
There appears to now be a double-secret, international competition to figure out new planetary ills that can somehow be tied - regardless of the seeming inanity - to manmade global warming. This announcement out of Toronto could be the best yet: a warmer climate is causing stray cats - no, not Brian Setzer and the boys - to mate more frequently thereby resulting in an explosion in furry, feral…
NYT's Giuliani, Ailes Attack Falls Flat
Will the fear and loathing among the liberal press for all things Fox never cease? In the latest installment of the media's Fox Derangement Syndrome, the New York Times, the self-styled paper of record, has spent hundreds of hours researching and trying to dig up dirt on the friendship between Rudy Giuliani and Fox News Channel head Roger Ailes. This article was all they could come up with, a…
Open Thread
Discuss amongst yourselves.Incidentally, we've thrown out the old NB search engine and replaced it with a Google-powered search engine that is much more accurate. Click here to try it out (must have Javascript enabled).
Katie Couric Denounces Hillary-Cleavage News as 'Disgraceful', a 'New
In one of her one-minute "Katie Couric’s Notebook" speeches on her Katie & Co. blog, CBS anchor Katie Couric came lecturing to Hillary Clinton’s defense on August 1 over Robin Givhan’s Washington Post fashion review of her cleavage on C-SPAN2, but she never mentioned the Post, just how the story "dominated cable news for days, and it’s disgraceful." She sounded the feminist alarm: "By…
CBS News Analyst Dreams of Liberal Legal Nirvana
In his recent blog ("Making Headlines: The Law, Summer 2007"), CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen describes his midsummer night's dream of legal headlines he would "like to see, but probably won't." In the tradition of another more-famous CBS employee, Cohen lists his "top ten" legal headlines - a wish list with an obvious liberal slant.Here are some of Cohen's headlines, along with the…
NBC Nightly News Blames the Schism Between Liberal and Conservative Ep
The network obscures the broader conflict within a church whose American leadership has repudiated traditional Christian beliefs about God and Scripture.
Big Media Ignore the Devils in the SCHIP Bill's Details
The House version of the children's 'health' bill attacks abstinence education and promotes abortion.
Reuters Avoided Comparing Iraq to Vietnam in Pol Pot Genocide Story--H
The media love comparing Iraq to the Vietnam War. So why didn't Reuters relate Iraq to this July 31 story about a joint Cambodian-UN tribunal that charged one of Pol Pot's top henchmen with crimes against humanity related to the deaths of 1.7 million people in that country's “Killing Fields?” They also like to link America's actions to unpleasant world events. So why not even mention how the US…
CBS Hails 'Landmark' and 'Historic' Efforts to Expand Federal Control
Wednesday's CBS Evening News trumpeted two liberal efforts to expand government power, leading by heralding “landmark legislation” to have the FDA regulate cigarettes followed by a story slanted in favor of, as reporter Thalia Assuras described it, an “historic expansion of health care coverage for children” of the “working poor.” Assuras, however, ignored such inconvenient facts as how a family…
McCain's Last Hope
Arizona senator John McCain is certainly one of the best-known Republican presidential candidates but that notoriety hasn't helped him much when it comes to winning over the conservative base. He hasn't been helped by his support for the recent immigration bill debacle but I think McCain's overall problem has been that he is perceived as a sellout to the left, particularly the media left.With his…