'1/2 Hour News Hour': President Limbaugh Addresses Nation from Southwe
June 4th, 2007 12:16 PM
CRITICAL UPDATE: At end of post, Rush responds to NBers' concerns regarding his appearance with two women in bikinis. For those that missed Sunday's "1/2 Hour News Hour" on Fox News, as he promised a few weeks ago, President Limbaugh is on vacation (video available here courtesy of El Rushbo himself).Addressing the nation from the…
DNC Misrepresents ‘O’Reilly Factor’ Segment to Discredit Sen. Mc
May 31st, 2007 9:53 PM
Well, sports fans, the Democrats are afraid to debate on Fox News, but they sure aren’t above using segments from the network’s top show to discredit political opponents. To set this up, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) was Bill O’Reilly’s guest on “The Factor” Wednesday, and the two got into quite a discussion about the proposed immigration bill (video available here).Thursday morning, Michael Link…
MRC Press Release Concerning Media Boycott of Al Qaeda Torture Manual
May 31st, 2007 12:46 PM
On May 24, a NewsBusters’ headline asked, “Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib?”Now, a week later, a press release from the Media Research Center answered the question:To their credit, CNN and Fox News Channel ran stories on the declassified material. Yet nine days since the material was released, neither ABC, CBS, NBC, The New York Times nor The Washington Post…
NB-TV Alert: Clay Waters on NY Times' Hugo Chavez Reporting
May 29th, 2007 3:50 PM
Clay Waters, Editor of the MRC's TimesWatch site and a NewsBusters contributor was a guest this afternoon on the Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto," which airs weekdays at 4 p.m. EDT. The topic: New York Times coverage of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez.TimesWatch.org is dedicated to documenting and exposing the liberal political agenda of the New York Times.Video (3:39): Real (2.67 MB…
Media Totally Ignore Al Qaeda Torture Manual
May 25th, 2007 12:39 PM
Critical Update and Correction at End of PostA headline at NewsBusters Thursday asked, “Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib?”The answer: No!In fact, from what I can tell by looking at LexisNexis, Google News, and closed-captioning dumps, the only media outlet in the nation that covered this story was Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes.”This is despite the fact that…
AP Article on Edwards and ‘War on Terror’ Ignores Candidate’s Pa
May 23rd, 2007 6:09 PM
The Associated Press ran a story Wednesday entitled “Edwards Calls ‘War on Terror’ an Ideological Doctrine” (h/t LGF). Unfortunately, the author chose not to look into former Sen. John Edwards’ (D-North Carolina) past to see whether the presidential candidate had either referred to or supported this “ideological doctrine” himself.Had the AP done some homework, it would have found that not only…
Fox News Tears Apart Al Gore’s New Book ‘Assault on Reason
May 23rd, 2007 12:06 PM
It goes without saying that one of the great things about being a beloved liberal is that when you write a new book, no one in the media will challenge any of the obvious falsehoods you present as facts.Such has certainly been the case as newspapers, magazines, and television programs have gushed over former Vice President Al Gore and his new book “Assault on Reason.”Fortunately, feeling that it…
Media Ignore Congressman Murtha’s Potential Rules Violation
May 22nd, 2007 2:23 PM
Imagine for a moment that a high-ranking Republican was accused by a Democrat of violating House rules in order to get a $23 million earmark approved for his district. Would the media report it?Probably on front-pages all across the country, and on morning and evening network newscasts for days, right?Well, last Thursday evening, Politico reported (emphasis added throughout):
‘Reliable Sources’ Panel Gives Three Thumbs Up to Fox News’ GOP
May 20th, 2007 12:18 PM
Here’s something you don’t see every day: three media members – two from liberal press outlets – agreeing that Fox News actually did something right.Yet, that’s what happened on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday, as host Howard Kurtz and his guests discussed the Republican debates aired Tuesday.Kurtz began:Let’s face it, a lot of people expected Fox to go easy on the Republicans. Did that happen?…
College Students Forced to Watch Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth
May 18th, 2007 5:50 PM
Here’s a disturbingly inconvenient truth: Students at Roger Williams University in Briston, Rhode Island, were forced to watch Al Gore’s global warming schlockumentary if they wished to graduate.Think I’m kidding?As reported by Young America’s Foundation (h/t NBer Dahlia Travers. Also, please watch the following video of Fox News’ Neil Cavuto interviewing one of these students on the May 9 “Your…
FNC Breaks Informal Media Boycott of Christian-Newsom Murders
May 18th, 2007 3:36 PM
Thanks to the right blogosphere, the media's virtual embargo on the gruesome murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the young white Tennessee couple who were gangraped and killed by a group of black criminals, has finally begun to break. Fox News reported the story yesterday. Hot Air has the video.