The Press, The Plumber And The Liberal Poster Boy

October 16th, 2008 8:29 PM
With 15 minutes of fame comes 15 hours of “gotcha” scrutiny -- especially if you’re a voter who has dared to criticize Barack Obama, the liberal media’s Chosen One for president.Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher has had his 15 minutes of fame, capping it off with an unplanned appearance as the poster boy of populist tax policy in last night’s presidential debate. So now it’s time for the press to…

WaPo Notes Frost Family Connection to Liberal Health Care Advocate

October 23rd, 2007 2:20 PM
Every time the media feature an ostensibly Average Joe to further a liberal Democratic talking point, my curiosity is piqued as to how that person was singled out by a news agency to flesh out the human dimension of a policy argument. Many times it turns out the poster child/family in question is delivered to the media on a silver platter courtesy of a professional liberal activist. The Frost…

Time's Klein Hated 'Cynical' 'Snowflake Babies', Now Bashes Frost Cyni

October 15th, 2007 3:01 PM
Time's Joe Klein (file photo at right) has a bit of a hypocrisy problem. After earlier saying he wanted to "throw up" after seeing President Bush showcase "snowflake babies," children adopted as frozen embryos, during a ceremony marking his veto of a bill to expand federally-funded destruction of embryos for medical research, Klein professes disdain not at Democratic partisans who used 12-year-…

NYT: In SCHIP Controversy, Conservative Bloggers 'Attacking a Family W

October 10th, 2007 3:36 PM

Baltimore Sun Smears Conservative Bloggers Over SCHIP Scrutiny

October 10th, 2007 2:33 PM
On September 29, 2007, Baltimore 12-year old Graeme Frost became the Democratic poster child, literally, for SCHIP. Frost read the Democratic Party's official response to the president's weekly radio address, attacking President Bush for his veto of a Democratic-sponsored bill to balloon federal spending on the 10-year old program. The Baltimore Sun ran a story that morning noting young Graeme…

Media Fail at Fact Checking on 12 Year Old Voice of SCHIP; Blogs Pick

October 7th, 2007 9:36 PM