'Today' Can't Find a Republican To Discuss McCain Announcement
March 1st, 2007 8:03 AM
A Democratic senator has just announced his presidential candidacy. On the next morning's "Fox & Friends," a Fox News reporter who recently denied that Fox has any conservative leanings or that Sean Hannity is a conservative narrates a segment on the announcement. To analyze the Democrat's candidacy, she plays clips of two reporters, one from the National Review and the other from the…
Globe Applauds Let 'em Eat Cake Court Ruling on Teaching Gay Rights
February 24th, 2007 9:03 AM
This is a tale of two editorials. The New York Times this morning applauds a New Jersey court ruling holding public schools liable when they fail to take measures to stop the taunting or bullying of gay students. Coincidentally, a Boston Globe editorial today applauds a Massachusetts court ruling upholding the right of the Lexington school district to expose elementary school students to…
Look Ma, Lefties Hate Me
February 22nd, 2007 7:11 PM
Ace makes a good point about the common practice of media folk thinking that receiving hate mail from leftist nutjobs is the equivalent about receiving a fairness complaint from a regular conservative or libertarian:Liberal media outfits do loves them their unhinged-leftist
hate-mail. Because they use it again and again as proof positive that
they must be reporting straight down the middle to…
NY Times Drags GOP into Story on Obama-Hillary Clash
February 22nd, 2007 7:33 AM
As I discussed here, yesterday's clash between Hillary and Barack Obama was perhaps the most bitter and open infighting between Dem presidential candidates in many an election cycle. Particularly given that it was comments by David Geffen quoted in a column by the New York Times' own Maureen Dowd that touched off the fracas, you would have thought the Times would have gone out of it way to…
Barack Attack on Hillary Obama's Way of Showing He's Tough Enough to b
February 21st, 2007 8:43 PM
NewsBusters' mission is that of exposing and combating liberal media bias, and that's what I spend the great majority of my time here doing. But I hope our readers -- and my editors -- will indulge me when I offer a bit of personal analysis here. The outbreak of nastiness between the Obama and Hillary camps -- initiated by comments made by Obama supporter David Geffen and quoted by Maureen…