Limbaugh to Judge 2010 Miss America; Will the Perez Hilton Standard Be
October 9th, 2009 3:06 AM
In case you missed it, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh will be expanding his resume - long-time political commentator, potential NFL owner and now Miss America pageant judge. On the Oct. 8 broadcast of Fox News "On the Record," host Greta Van Sustren revealed that Limbaugh would be one of the national judges for the 2010 Miss America Pageant, scheduled to be held in Las Vegas on Jan. 30, 2010…
WaPo's Hockstader Hopes to Make 'Macaca' Moment of McDonnell Fundraise
October 8th, 2009 3:12 PM
In its never-ending quest to "macaca" Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, the Washington Post has ably illustrated it is far from being a "post-partisan" purveyor of news.Today in the paper's "Post Partisan" blog, staffer Lee Hockstader displayed once again the paper's determination to help down-in-the-polls liberal Democrat Creigh Deeds limp across the finish line. Never…
HuffPo Writers Produce ‘Big Gay Speech We Wish Obama Would Give
October 8th, 2009 1:30 PM
This Saturday, October 10, President Obama will be the keynote speaker at a Human Rights Campaign awards ceremony and fundraiser. He'll be the first president in history to participate in a gay activist campaign event outside of the White House. (In June 1999, President Clinton had invited HRC along with other gay activist groups to the White House to celebrate "Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.")…
Conservative Bible Project Draws Predictable Liberal Scorn
October 6th, 2009 6:56 PM
As NewsBusters' Ken Shepherd noted in an October 5 post, some conservatives have undertaken an online Conservative Bible Project to rid the Good Book of "translational bias" and correct the "lack of precision" in both original and translational language. As Shepherd also noted, Time Magazine's Amy Sullivan wasted no time heaping derision on the effort. Unsurprisingly, others on the left have…
Time's Sullivan Laments That Catholic Bishops Aren't Onboard ObamaCare
October 6th, 2009 4:24 PM
Time magazine senior editor and Harvard Divinity School alumna Amy Sullivan took to passive-aggressively chastising the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for "moving the goalposts" on support for ObamaCare in a blog post at the magazine's Swampland blog today:Last week the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to U.S. Senators about current health reform legislation. The…
Time: Conservative Bible Project 'Insane' but 'Green Bible' Evangelica
October 5th, 2009 3:54 PM
A year ago Time magazine's David Van Biema wrote up a short, favorable take on the so-called Green Bible, an edition based on the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) that placed "green references" in "a pleasant shade of forest green, much as red-letter editions of the Bible encrimson the words of Jesus." But wait, there's more, The Green Bible also includes "supplementary writings" several of…
Huffington Says Copenhagen Trip a Mistake: Obama Got 'His Clock Cleane
October 2nd, 2009 11:34 PM
It's not too often where both a prominent conservative and a prominent liberal would deviate from their ideological consensus on a particular issue. However, the news of the day - Chicago being beaten out by Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games is one such instance. MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, who identifies himself as a conservative, said he was glad President Barack…
Time's Sullivan: Abstinence Ed 'Not the End of the World' Under a De
October 2nd, 2009 12:40 PM
One sign your news magazine might be out of touch with average Americans is when you take a look at abstinence-only sex ed guidelines and declare that, in the Obama administration's hands, it's "not the end of the world." Time's Amy Sullivan, however, aims to reassure skittish liberals weary of the Bush administration's socially conservative tack on sex ed funding:
Dan Rather Lawsuit Tossed Out, Former 'Evening News' Anchor Vows Appea
September 29th, 2009 3:55 PM
From TVNewser:Breaking: The New York State Supreme Court's Appellate Division has thrown out Dan Rather's $70 million lawsuit against his former employer, CBS Corp. "We find the complaint must be dismissed in its entirety," reads the decision. The Appellate court found that the motion court "erred in denying the defendants' motion to dismiss the claims for breach of contract and breach of…
Malkin: Anne Applebaum Still Defending Lack of Disclosure
September 29th, 2009 11:26 AM
"How do you say 'FAIL' in Polish," Michelle Malkin quipped in a blog post this morning dealing with Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, who in a September 27 blog post decried the arrest of Roman Polanski in Zurich the day before.Applebaum, you may recall, failed to note in that blog post that her husband, Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski, is pleading for Polanski's release. Well,…
NYT Tries to Deflect Charges of Bias, Announces 'Opinion Media' Editor
September 27th, 2009 3:08 PM
The New York Times announced today that it would appoint an editor to monitor 'opinion media'. In an attempt to respond to criticism that it has been too slow to pick up on stories first reported by conservative blogs and talk show hosts, the Times acknowledged poor coverage, but denied a political agenda.The self-proclaimed 'paper of record' was extremely slow in picking up on two recent stories…
Conservative Blogosphere Wins Again, White House Issues New NEA Guidel
September 22nd, 2009 5:30 PM
As the Obama-loving media continue to abdicate their journalistic responsibilities in order to blindly support the President's agenda, the conservative blogosphere has for the third time in as many weeks uncovered dirty little secrets that have precipitated immediate action from the White House or entities close to it.In response to revelations published Monday by Big Hollywood, the Obama…
Couric Bubbly Over Soda Tax, Fails to Consider Idea Obnoxious to Avera
September 22nd, 2009 11:31 AM
"It's the most explosive moment for the soda industry since the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment," CBS's Katie Couric quipped of a proposed federal soda tax in her September 18 Notebook video on CBSNews.com (embedded at right).While careful not to explicitly endorse a proposed one-cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks, Couric hinted that taxing sodas could help curb obesity, because, after all, "…