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'Today' Tags W's Warm Welcome in Eastern Europe 'Over the Top
Can you remember the last time you heard "Today" or other MSM outlets describe, in terms such as "over the top," rabid anti-Bush protests by the likes of the Cindy Sheehan crowd, the Code Pink girls, or the folks pictured below ? Neither can I. Conversely, when Bill Clinton receives enthusiastic receptions overseas, the MSM breaks out the "rock-star" analogies, with no sarcasm in sight.But let…
Media Dislike Pro-Life Messages in Mainstream Movies
Why is it when Hollywood decides to address the subject of complicated pregnancies, the liberal media have to carp if the directors opt not to promote abortion?
When the 'Press' Becomes the Star -- The New Republic Fawns Over David
I was wondering when the New Republic Magazine began to delve into comedy? I guess it's all the rage with the comedic stylings of Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and John Kerry, but I had always thought the New Republic fashioned itself a magazine of "serious" political commentary. After reading a fawning, nay slobberingly sycophantic, assessment of the career of David Gregory, NBC News' White…
The Nation Slams Global Warming Alarmists Again: ‘Dissidents Against
Alexander Cockburn is certainly on a mission, albeit one that is shocking the folks at The Nation are tolerating. After all, in his current article posted at both The Nation and Counterpunch, Cockburn indirectly castigated his own readers as he accused the left of having “been swept along, entranced by the allure of weather as revolutionary agent, naïvely conceiving of global warming as a crisis…
Lizzie Palmer’s Stirring ‘Remember Me’ Video as Seen on ‘Fox N
NewsBusters readers, meet our second fabulous fifteen-year-old, Miss Lizzie Palmer.For those that missed it, Chris Wallace aired an absolutely astounding military tribute video (available here) at the end of today’s “Fox News Sunday” that should be required viewing for all Americans.At its conclusion, Wallace stated the following:Lizzie Palmer said she put the video on YouTube as her way of…
'Sopranos' Open Thread
The last episode of "The Sopranos" is tonight. Please feel free to discuss your predictions and post facto thoughts.
Top British Scientist Says Biofuels Are Scam, Rainforests at Risk
Given the American media’s fascination with spreading global warming alarmism, how likely would it be to see the following headline in one of our papers:Top Scientist Says Biofuels Are Scam.Not very likely, right?Well, such was the headline in England’s Sunday Times today (emphasis added throughout, h/t Alister McFarquhar):
Katie Couric Contradicts College Commencement Address Four Days Later
Are you sick and tired of Paris Hilton and all the attention given to this wealthy debutant when there are so many more important issues facing the nation?Well, if so, you’re in good company, for in a commencement address at Williams College last Sunday, CBS “Evening News” anchor Katie Couric accurately stated that this “fluff…can rot your mind and distort your values.”Yet, just four days later,…
Rachel Carson: Debunked, but Still Lionized
It has become clear to anyone with eyes and an open mind that the worldwide ban on DDT that is just now in the process of too-slowly being lifted has caused massive loss of human life over a period of decades that could, and should, have been avoided.
So you would think that the person who began the DDT scare in the early 1960s would be discredited, or her work at least shunted to the background…