Traditional Marriage Rallies Ignored by Media
June 15th, 2009 2:43 AM
On June 9 a rally that saw thousands of participants in support of traditional marriage assembled at Albany, New York, the state capitol. One month earlier, a similar rally was held in Midtown Manhattan that also saw thousands in attendance. And in neither case was there much by the way of media coverage. A Google search of the words marriage rally in New York June 9 turns up many hits on the…
Feminist Bonnie Erbe Hints Michelle Malkin Deserved to Be Target of Pl
June 3rd, 2009 12:52 PM
Updated belowIt was wrong of Playboy to publish a top ten list of conservative women its writer Guy Cimbalo would like to "hate-f***" but, c'mon, we all know Michelle Malkin had it coming. That's the gist of PBS "To the Contrary" host and U.S. News contributing editor Bonnie Erbe's June 3 blog post, "Playboy Mix of Sex, Hate, and Politics Demeans Conservative Women" (emphasis mine):Yesterday, I…
Journo Award Goes to... Arianna Huffington
June 3rd, 2009 1:50 AM
Well, I am just as shocked as Simon Dumenco over at AdvertisingAge.com is that the leading anti-journalist of our day, Arianna Huffington, was just awarded the Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award. I mean, Huffington a "journalist"? Come on, isn't that stretching things just a tad?Dumenco is flabbergasted that Huffington won this award even though she "thinks journalists should work for free…
Chicago Tribune Religion Reporter Wonders if Murder Is 'Inevitable' in
June 2nd, 2009 6:01 PM
"Has the non-negotiable stance and rhetoric against abortion rights strayed from the Scripture’s call to choose life and led to a grave disrespect for life even inside our houses of worship?"So asks Chicago Tribune religion reporter/blogger Manya Brachear in a June 1 The Seeker blog post, headlined "Is abortion inevitable consequence of abortion debate?" It followed in the wake of the May 31…
Liberals Blame O'Reilly for Tiller Murder, Silent on Military Recruite
June 2nd, 2009 9:21 AM
While the far left is blaming Bill O’Reilly and the pro-life movement for the death of George Tiller, another shooting has left military recruiter William Long dead at the hands of an anti-military Muslim convert. Mainstream liberals like Keith Olbermann and news sources like NBC have already blamed O'Reilly for Tiller's death, as have websites like Salon, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Kos.…
Liberal Blogs Quickly Link Doctor’s Murder to Limbaugh, Hannity, and
May 31st, 2009 11:44 PM
As if you couldn't see this coming...Fresh off the Daily Kos website is a posting entitled, A "Pro-Life" activist took the Life of a doctor who practices abortion today, which illogically takes two sentences to link the murderer to the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck (emphasis mine throughout). A so-called Pro-Life activist took, cowardly, the life of doctor George Tiller,…
Will Tucker Carlson's New Blog Succeed
May 29th, 2009 4:14 PM
With all the news aggregator style websites around-the Huffington Post, the Daily Beast, Stimulist, and True/Slant just to name a few-why does Tucker Carlson think he can have success with a new one?It's true that none of the news aggregator sites have a conservative slant to them, so this site may attract a crowd of conservatives, but it will require a lot of work on Carlson's part, time that he…
Tapper Thumper: Is Obama 'Preventing Actual Reporters' From Covering W
May 23rd, 2009 7:35 AM
On May 20, ABC's Jake Tapper asked a few salient questions about coverage of an April 27 incident at the White House basketball court, a sort of event after the event that the White House press corps was barred from covering. Tapper wondered then why the president barred the press but it later became clear that Team Obama was creating its own little media report "complete with cuts, interviews,…
NYT's Maureen Dowd Caught Plagiarizing Left-wing Blogger
May 17th, 2009 8:13 PM
UPDATE at end of post: Dowd's employing the famous "I heard it from a friend" defense.On a regular basis, NewsBusters has warned readers of the infiltration into traditional media outlets content written by left-wing bloggers.On Sunday, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd was accused of plagiarizing a piece posted a few days prior by Josh Marshall of the liberal website Talking Points Memo.Dowd…
Bonnie Erbe Slams Michelle Obama for Being Stay-at-Home Mom
May 11th, 2009 5:32 PM
Who does Michelle Obama think she is being a stay-at-home mom rather than a career woman? A Republican?!That's the sentiment U.S. News & World Report contributing editor Bonnie Erbe conveys to readers of the magazine's Thomas Jefferson Street blog in back-to-back May 11 posts. In the first, "Michelle Obama's Mom-In-Chief Image Is a Cave to Politics and Stereotypes," argues that (emphasis mine…
Politico Hit Piece on Sen. Sessions Uses Left-Wing Racial Talking Poin
May 6th, 2009 1:07 PM
Now that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. has been named the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, some on the far-left are gunning for Alabama's junior senator. The battle is happening as President Barack Obama is on the verge of naming an appointee to the Supreme Court to fill void of Justice David Souter.Some of the left-wing points that suggest Sessions has racist tendencies were…
