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Is Michael Moore a 9-11 Truther
On Sunday, film director/producer Michael Moore gave a special sneak preview of his new schlockumentary “Sicko” at the Regal Theatre in Times Square, New York.After the screening, he was approached by two brothers who run a website called We Are Change, which appears to be largely another “9/11 Truth” organization.At first, Moore was trying to elude the pair, but finally answered a few of their…
Chavez-Brand Socialism -- Good for Business? Asks BusinessWeek
Dictator has seized private business assets, but magazine finds silver lining despite country's woes.
China Surpasses U.S. as World’s Leading CO2 Emitter, Will Media Noti
Well, sports fans, it happened before most analysts and scientists have been predicting: China has officially surpassed the United States in CO2 emissions.This, of course, was always a matter of when rather than if, but still raises a question as to when and if America’s media will share the news.Regardless of the answer, England’s Guardian Unlimited reported Tuesday (emphasis added throughout):
Chris Horner Identifies More Weather Station Problems
On Monday, NewsBusters exposed some serious problems at a number of temperature data-collection facilities around the country.On Tuesday, Christopher C. Horner, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of the New York Times bestseller “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism,” shared information with NewsBusters concerning two additional…
Howard Kurtz at Washington Post: ‘Hillary Clinton is Inevitable
We are more than seventeen months away from the 2008 elections, and the Washington Post actually published an article Tuesday by Howard Kurtz that began with the following sentence (emphasis added throughout, h/t Glenn Reynolds):Hillary Clinton is inevitable.Nice way to begin an article about a presidential race months before the first primary, dontcha think? Kind of like saying that the Yankees…
Islamists Gaming the Politically Correct Western Media
Writing at Beliefnet, Rod Dreher makes a good point (h/t Small Dead Animals) about how radical Muslims have learned how to manipulate the Western media's guilt complex:The US media, by and large, gives the leadership of the Muslim community in America largely uncritical treatment, and accepts their duplicitous words at face value. In "Islam vs. Islamists," we meet a French Muslim filmmaker…