CNN’s ‘Truth Squad’ Obfuscates Obama Link to Terrorist Ayers

October 6th, 2008 5:05 PM
CNN’s so-called Truth Squad, in two reports on Sunday and Monday by two different correspondents, labeled Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin "false" for stating that Barack Obama "sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country." The Squad, in their "fact-checking" of the Alaska governor, who was making a reference to left-wing…

The MRC's Sweet-On-Obama Sixteen Media Bias Tournament

October 6th, 2008 1:12 PM
Update's Update: I have been assured by IT that we are FINALLY ready to go with this.The American people in poll after poll and in greater and growing numbers are railing against the egregious liberal bias of the press. And nowhere are the media more horrendously slanted than in their coverage of the presidential campaign of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. They are (to say the least) very, very…

'Stunning' News from NYT: Campbell Brown Shifts Towards Commentary

October 5th, 2008 9:24 PM
The New York Times has just shocked us with this news: the CNN anchor on Election Center, Campbell Brown, is shifting over to commentary. This is quite hard to believe since Brown conceals her own views so well that it is impossible to detect the slightest trace of bias on her part. The Times informs us of this most unusual transition:

CNN's O'Brien Skews Focus Group Poll With Bad Arithmetic

October 4th, 2008 10:07 PM
This is really way too funny. On Thursday evening, CNN's Soledad O'Brien ran a focus group at Ohio State University moments after Joe Biden and Sarah Palin finished their vice presidential debate (video embedded right).As she asked attendees who they felt won, she used a stunning form a new arithmetic to conclude that Biden had "by a significant margin" (as noticed by Creative Minority Report, h/…

CNN’s Kyra Phillips Goes Easy on Obama Adviser Douglass, Presses Lie

October 2nd, 2008 7:16 PM
On Thursday’s "Newsroom" program, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips treated senior Obama adviser/former ABC correspondent Linda Douglass more cordially than McCain supporter/Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, whom she pressed for an answer on the question of whether Sarah Palin is smarter than her opponent Joe Biden: "Is, is she deep enough? Is she smart enough? Is she experienced enough? Do you really…

Media Aired Dubious Anti-Israel Video, Not ‘Even-Handed’ to Expose

October 1st, 2008 2:46 PM
It was eight years ago this week that France 2 TV introduced the world to Mohammed al-Dura, the Palestinian boy who was allegedly shot and killed during a gunfight between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen, in a video whose authenticity has increasingly been called into question years after it inspired anti-Semitic violence around the world. The American news media not only highlighted the…

CNN’s Jack Cafferty’s Palin Derangement Syndrome Reaches New Heigh

September 30th, 2008 6:58 PM
CNN commentator Jack Cafferty, true to his form over the past several weeks, launched another attack on Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Tuesday’s The Situation Room. During his regular "Cafferty File" segment during the 4 pm Eastern hour of the CNN program,he played a clip from the latest interview the Alaska governor did with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, in which…

Chris Matthews's Ever Changing Views On 'Experience' Keep A Consistent

September 30th, 2008 4:36 PM
Mainstream media personalities are very much like politicians, as they can spout their views to a large audience and have an effect on public policy. However, unlike pols, media personalities are rarely called out on their own "flip-flops".  This video clip shows examples of MSNBC's Chris Matthews changing his views on the importance of foreign policy experience. In 1991 Matthews, like many…

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Mind-Reads Palin, Rips Her Qualifications

September 30th, 2008 1:59 PM
CNN world affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria, in a column published in the October 6 issue of Newsweek, condescended towards Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, labeled her "utterly unqualified to be vice president," and complimented Katie Couric for her "smart question" to the Alaska governor in a recent interview. He later asserted clairvoyantly that "she has never spent a day…

MSNBC Pulls Vicious McCain Cancer Ad

September 30th, 2008 12:44 PM

Dobbs: Biden Makes 'Many More Misstatements Than Sarah Palin

September 30th, 2008 10:26 AM
An astounding thing happened on CNN Monday evening: not only did Lou Dobbs say that Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden makes "many more misstatements than Sarah Palin," but he also chided Wolf Blitzer and the "Situation Room" crew for failing to point it out during their Bash Sarah session.In preparation for the upcoming vice presidential debate, Blitzer brought on CNN analysts Gloria…

Media Report Pelosi's Pre-Bailout Vote Attack on Bush and GOP

September 29th, 2008 8:50 PM
Before Monday's House vote on the largest government bailout in American history, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.), in potentially one of the most poorly-timed displays of partisanship in recent memory, blamed President Bush and Republicans for the turmoil in the financial services industry (video embedded right). Such ill-advised finger pointing seemed to surprise press members of all shapes and…

CNN Kills Two Biased Birds with One Stone

September 29th, 2008 12:03 PM
CNN’s Web site this morning tracked a developing story involving the stock market opening, by featuring a photo of an Iran anti-war protest. The photo, provided by our friends at the AP, was simply too perfect to pass up apparently. After all, any photo which includes a man brandishing a banner which reads ‘Jail Bush,’ is something that a biased news organization simply has to take.…

CNN Poll Vs. CNN Spin on Presidential Debate

September 27th, 2008 12:57 PM