Judas Iscariot was really, really torn about betraying Jesus and was just misunderstood, anyway. And Pontius Pilate? Well, he was just an honest, but beleaguered public servant who was just trying…
Long-time CNN foreign correspondent Christiane Amanpour still harbors some resentment toward the American media for the Iraq war.
In September 2003, Amanpour spoke out publicly and said…
NewsBusters posters have already given Old Media deserved grief about its reluctance to pin the Democratic Party label on Eliot Spitzer, who, as of this moment, is still governor of New York (…
By now, most people have seen or heard about Hillary Clinton’s 3:00 AM ad implying that the world would be safer if she rather than her opponent Barack Obama was to answer an emergency phone call…
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is Geraldine Ferraro right about Barack Obama (paragraph break removed):
Clinton campaign finance committee member, former vice…
The Reuters wire service has scoured the countryside of Iraq for opinions about who should be elected to the U.S. presidency. Apparently, either Iraq or the Reuters template offered only two…
Topics in this episode: Hillary Clinton gains back some much-needed momentum and also complains it's harder to run for president as a female than as a minority male. Barack Obama on the Sermon on…
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal has riveted the media since The New York Times broke the story around 2 p.m. on March 10. Every broadcast evening news program led with the…
It's only natural that a political sex scandal would be discussed during the “Hot Topics” segment of ABC's The View. But it's not natural that a woman would become an advocate for exploiting…
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has joined the rogue's gallery of adulterous politicians who appear before the press to confess their “failures” while using their wives as supportive props.
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Incredibly, in lead stories Monday night about New York Governor Eliot Spitzer being linked to a prostitution ring, neither ABC's World News nor the NBC Nightly News verbally identified Spitzer's…
On Sunday’s CBS "60 Minutes," anchor Scott Pelley interviewed Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, and the tone of the questions was this: "The United States is going to be in Iraq for…
In the 3 pm hour, in the first blush of the prostitution revelations against liberal Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York, MSNBC’s experts quickly described the scandal as a nothing-burger. Alan…
Global warming “solutions” covered by the mainstream media keep getting more and more radical. But this time, there’s much more involved than using a different type of light bulb, taking the…
Update (18:18 EDT): BBC has updated their article to note the Democratic party affiliation in the 3rd graf (link). Our tipster DB informs us that the BBC's North America editor Justin Webb replied…
A prostitution scandal strikes the Democrats? When Sen. David Vitter admitted he’d used the services of the "DC Madam," thanks to probing by ABC News, the major media saw harm for the entire…
Although the news that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was involved in a prostitution ring was greeted with shock in most circles, Wall Street had a different reaction.
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Later Says He’d 'Bank on a Socialist in Brazil' more than 'a Republican'
It wasn't exactly one of CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer's most jovial appearances, but it was certainly…
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith did a segment on the effectiveness of television ads in presidential campaigns, in which he gave credit to Ronald Reagan’s ‘optimistic’ "Morning…
"The View" co-hosts, typically very loose with the facts, demonstrated that again on the March 10 edition. Ironically accusing the Bush administration of lying to take America into war with Iraq,…
Update (16:50 EDT): Clay Waters of MRC's TimesWatch informs me the 3rd paragraph reference in a NYT article to Spitzer's Democratic Party affiliation has been removed. Only an oblique reference to…
On Monday’s Early Show on CBS, substitute news anchor Chris Wragge exaggerated Vice President Cheney’s business resume. Instead of merely being CEO of Halliburton (and its then-subsidiary Kellogg…