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It’s All Over: Liberals Officially Take Over "24" -- Liberals make and promote and distribute and champion films about assassinating Bush, sex with animals, and sympathizing with child molesters, but it’s torture to save American lives which most offends them. How so very revealing. |
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Sixth Poll In A Year Finds Public Recognizes Liberal Tilt To News Media -- For the sixth time in a year, a national survey has found many more Americans see a media bias to the left than to the right, and the latest poll released earlier this month by the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute, discovered "significantly declining percentages of Americans saying they believe all or most of media news reporting," with MSNBC (at a piddling four percent) and PBS (three percent) the least trusted for accurate reporting. Fox News, at 27 percent, was the most trusted, way ahead of second-best CNN at 14.6 percent. |
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The Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States: The 2007 Edition |
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How Do Liberals Hate Bill Kristol? Let Them Count the Ways -- Over at City Journal, writer Harry Stein underlined just how infuriated liberals are that the New York Times has hired William Kristol as a columnist. "For conservatives, long accustomed to self-serving liberal pieties about tolerance, the orgy of outrage at having to face an alien point of view was wonderful to behold...Here is just a tiny, tiny sample of the reaction on the Huffington Post to the announcement that William Kristol will be writing a weekly column in the New York Times. |
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ABC's Cuomo Again Frets About Racist American Voters -- For the second time in less than a month, "Good Morning America" co-host Chris Cuomo asked a Democratic presidential candidate to speculate about the inherent racism of American voters. Talking with John Edwards on Wednesday's edition of the program, the ABC journalist wondered about Thursday's Iowa caucus. He inquired, "When you think people get into the room, do you think race or gender may play an unspoken role in the caucus voting?" |
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Liberal Plans to Subvert the U.S. Constitution -- The liberals really don't like our constitutional process of electing Presidents by the Electoral College, and every few years they come up with a new plan to abolish, change or bypass it, sometimes by unconstitutional means. One such plan has been launched by three losers who were defeated in the 1980 Reagan landslide: John Anderson, Birch Bayh and John Buchanan. |
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LA Times Wrongly Smears Swift Boat Vets -- With less than a year to go until the November elections, it seems a metaphysical certitude any media outlet addressing the campaign efforts of a Republican candidate is going to figure out a way to reference the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. |
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Videotape Shows Sharpton Cutting a Deal -- With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly. Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win a multimillion-dollar business deal, if White helped him raise $50,000 for politics. White offered $25,000. "If you bring my guys up on this hedge fund, and I have the right conversation," White said, "I'll give you what you need." "Cool," Sharpton said.
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Surveillance Photos Released In Bus Attack -- Patrick Green and Robert Rothe told WBAL TV 11 News that they were antagonized and attacked after boarding the No. 64 bus late Monday night in south Baltimore. The men, who are white, said the attackers yelled racial slurs and that no one on board, including the driver, stepped in to stop the attack. |
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Here's More Proof That "Disarmed" and "Victim" Are Synonymous -- The 40 states (including Maine) where concealed-carry permits are readily available to law-abiding people report on average a 22 percent lower violent crime rate, a 30 percent lower murder rate, a 46 percent lower robbery rate and a 12 percent lower aggravated assault rate than the 10 states where the possession of firearms by honest citizens is greatly restricted. |
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Iraq Troop Deaths Down for Several Months; So Where Are the Stories? -- Monthly US troop deaths have dropped into the realm of the lowest on record. Only six other months in the past 4-1/2 years (June 2003, August 2003, September 2003, February 2004, March 2005, and March 2006) had fewer fatalities. Though it's very early, it's possible that December's figure could be the lowest ever. |
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Yet Another Faked Hate Crime -- A firefighter who reportedly found a rope and a threatening note with a drawing of a noose in a Baltimore station house last month admitted to placing the items there himself. Donald Maynard, a firefighter and paramedic in-training, who is African American, confessed to police. |
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CNN: Corrupt News Network -- The most recent debacle masquerading as a presidential debate raises serious questions about whether CNN is ethically or professionally suitable to play the political role the Democratic and Republican parties recently have conceded it.
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Helen Thomas Smacked Down by Press Secretary Perino -- "Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position, bestowed upon you by your colleagues, to make such statements. This is a -- it is an honor and a privilege to be in the briefing room, and to suggest that we, at the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive." |
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Erin Burnett Calls Bush AND Angela Merkel a "Monkey" -- On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," back on Monday, Erin Burnett let loose with her real feelings and laid it on the line right on the air, calling President Bush a "monkey" during a business news piece about the Nicolas Sarkozy visit to China.
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Denver Diversity Training Tape: Blame Whitey -- The city of Denver is showing its employees a diversity training video that portrays a white man as a narrow-minded buffoon - triggering allegations of "institutional racism" against Anglos. "Right now, their diversity program is racially motivated against white males," said Dennis Supple, a heating, ventilating and air-conditioning mechanic who has worked for the city 1 1/2 years.
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Voter ID Fraud Doesn’t Exist Says ACORN -- ACORN, a group with a track record of submitting fraudulent voter registration forms, says it is unjust to enact voter identification laws until it is proven that “voter impersonation fraud” is happening. |
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NPR Loves Bad Cinema -- If It's 'Laudable Agitprop' Against the Troops. |
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Former NYT Bureau Chief: I Won't Pay Taxes If U.S. Battles Iran -- Considering how many hyperventilating media leftists broke their promises to leave the country if George W. Bush won reelection in 2004, I'm not exactly holding out hope we'll see the IRS arrest former New York Times bigwig Chris Hedges (file photo at right) anytime soon. |
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NPR Highlights Author Comparing Bush to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini -- The casual assumption that state-funded broadcasting in America would be devoted to adoration of the head of state would be exactly wrong, at least during Republican presidencies. Instead, on Monday, National Public Radio’s program Day to Day (co-produced with the liberal website Slate) awarded five minutes to leftist author Naomi Wolf and her thesis that the Bush administration is orchestrating "the end of America," and President Bush is comparable to Adolf Hitler. The headline was very frank on the NPR web site: "Naomi Wolf Likens Bush to Hitler."
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Juan Williams Slams Markos Moulitsas -- All you've got to do is shout, say something on the blog that offends and attacks the other side, and suddenly, you have the credentials, and you're said to be a journalist. I think it's a great lie. |
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Inferiority Complex Prevents Blacks From Supporting Obama -- According to Mrs. Obama, her husband isn't polling better among African-Americans because in the back of their minds, many blacks think "others" are better. |
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What Is ITVS? And Why Is It Funding Bush-Bashing Flicks? -- The Independent Television Service (ITVS) is a left-wing "independent" film-makers collective funded through our tax dollars (the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to be exact). "Independent" isn’t really the right word. These filmmakers may be outside a corporate or studio system, but any glance of the ITVS grants shows there are no conservative filmmakers in America today making anti-Michael Moore films that celebrate capitalism or anti-abortion films or films against illegal immigration with government subsidies provided by IT
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Manufacturing the News -- ABC News hires actors to engage in homosexual PDA, provoke reaction -- |
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Shocker: Media Heavily Biased -- Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — hardly a bastion of conservative orthodoxy — found that in covering the current presidential race, the media are sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans. |
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Twice NBC's Andrea Mitchell Confuses Iraq With Vietnam -- In a great illustration of how many mainstream media journalists view the war in Iraq through the prism of the war in Vietnam, twice on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News veteran foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell said "Vietnam" when she meant to say "Iraq." |
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60 Minutes: U.S. Military as Bad as Taliban -- In a segment on Sunday’s "60 Minutes," anchor Scott Pelley described how "The enemy has killed hundreds of civilians this year, but surprisingly, almost the same number of civilians have been killed by American and allied forces." |
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Smash the Nanny State! -- My radical days are far behind me, but it still feels good to say "smash the state" now and then, especially when we're talking about the nanny state. As we did a couple of Saturdays ago with David Harsanyi, author of Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. |
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Liberal Elites Guard Their Kingpins -- Sociology professors Solon Simmons, from George Mason University, and Neil Gross, from Harvard University, recently conducted a study of the ideological beliefs of more than 1,400 full-time instructors at 927 colleges. Not surprisingly it found that most college professors were liberals. (or worse) |
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Audiences Reject Iraq War at Box Office -- It doesn't matter how many Oscar winners are in front of or behind the camera — audiences are proving to be conscientious objectors when it comes to this fall's surge of antiwar and anti-Bush films. |
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Scott Beauchamp Document Dump -- Here are the internal documents from the investigation of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” Scott Thomas Beauchamp, linked at Drudge Report this morning and subsequently removed. I have it on very good authority that these are completely genuine, no forgery involved. |
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Arnold Grabs ABC's Shipman, Demands: Stop Spinning Fire Coverage -- Reporter Claire Shipman did her level best to get California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to admit that the efforts to combat the state's wild fires were going poorly. |
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Curry Crack Up: Shouted Questions, Breaking Voice in Bhutto Interview -- Veering from the accusatory to the adoring, there was only one constant in Ann Curry's interview of Benazir Bhutto aired on this morning's "Today": an over-the-top emotionalism that had the show's news anchor lurching from shouted accusations to the verge of tears. |
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ABC Tries To Credit Democrats for Rush's $2 Million Ebay Letter! -- On an ABC News Blog called the Political Radar, ABC reports on Rush Limbaugh's $2 million condemnation letter and throughout the piece continually links "Democrats" to the charity donation that Limbaugh and the ebay bidder for the letter are giving the money to. After reading this ABC blog report, one gets the sneaking suspicion that ABC thinks that Harry Reid and the Democrats are the ones that should be hailed as the good guys responsible for raising this monumental sum for charity. It is clear that ABC did their level best to play down Limbaugh's part in the story and play up the supposed positive contribution of Democrats. |
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BBC Unions Prepare to Strike over Job Cuts -- Unions representing BBC workers have warned that a strike within weeks is inevitable if Mark Thompson, the director general, presses ahead with plans for the largest number of compulsory redundancies in the corporation's history. |
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Back To Sleep: "Only" 158 "Terrorism-Related" Cases Prosecuted in U.S. Since 9/11 -- Is the glass half full, or half empty? Are 158 prosecutions a lot, or not that many? This study from NYU takes the latter position, and takes a critical stance on more urgent assessments of the threat. But those numbers aside, the study also does not appear to take into account the threat posed by individuals or groups in the U.S. who may not personally plot and carry out attacks, but who may sympathize with the prospective attackers, and enable them to function either actively, through providing funds and engaging in legal intimidation and coercion, or passively, through covering over and refusing to engage the ideology that drives the jihad. |
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Morgan Stanley Sells Entire New York Times Stake (Update3) -- Morgan Stanley, the second-biggest shareholder in New York Times Co., sold its entire 7.3 percent stake today, according to a person briefed on the transaction, sending the stock to its lowest in more than 10 years. |
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Craven CNN Moment of the Day -- In their report on Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist whose drawing of Mohammed as a dog has drawn death threats from the Religion of Peace™, CNN says Vilks should have known better. |
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Gen. Sanchez Hits Biased, Agenda-Driven Coverage of Iraq War -- The former top U.S. military commander in Iraq, Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, addressed the annual conference of Military Reporters and Editors on October 12. |
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BBC Set to Shed 12% of Workforce -- The BBC is poised to cut at least 12 per cent of its workforce, with the brunt of more than 2,000 redundancies falling on factual programming, senior staff have been told. The final tally of job losses, which will have to be approved by the BBC Trust, could approach 2,800, according to one person familiar with the situation.
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CNN's Dobbs Blasts Couric and Moyers Over Patriotism -- On Monday’s "Lou Dobbs Tonight," host Lou Dobbs took aim at Katie Couric and Bill Moyers for "silly public statements" they’ve made regarding the practice of wearing an American flag lapel pin. "CBS's Katie Couric, of all people, taking exception to an American journalist saying 'we,' when referring to the United States.... I'm sorry, Katie Couric, but who could possibly be offended by acknowledging those troops who have sacrificed so much for us and ours?... PBS's Bill Moyers says the flag's been hijacked and turned into a logo, the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism. Oh, please, Bill Moyers, you're too smart for this kind of babble." |
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Media Dishonesty Matters -- We are being fed false and misleading information, in matters big and small. It has come from trusted sources such as established newspapers, experienced journalists, Pulitzer Prize winners and Nobel Peace Prize winners. It has been going on for a long time, sometimes by carelessness and sometimes by deliberate lying. I have compiled a list of 101 such incidents. |
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Danny Bonaduce and Jonny Fairplay Brawl at Really Awards -- Jonny Fairplay gets tossed by Danny Bonaduce and lands face first on stage, knocking out his teeth and putting Jonny in the hospital. |
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Blackwater Remains in CBS’s Doghouse Despite Heroic Rescue -- "Blackwater has a perfect record when it comes to protecting American diplomats," CBS correspondent David Martin said. "But private security firms, not just Blackwater – but other contractors seen here firing on Iraqi vehicles for no apparent reason – often undermine the larger mission of the American military – protecting the population and winning hearts and minds." |
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How Liberals Lie; One Example -- There is an incredibly lame left-wing site called "Media Matters," which is funded, I believe, by George Soros. It serves a far-left agenda, and most recently has launched an attack on Rush Limbaugh for ostensibly describing all soldiers who don't agree with our Iraq policy as "phony soldiers." This "Media Matters" chestnut has been cited by Democrats in the House and Senate and was swallowed whole by in-the-tank-for-the-left MSNBC, but, not surprisingly given "Media Matters'" track record, it is entirely false. |
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O’Reilly and Bruce Discuss New "Gestapo" in America Smearing Conservatives -- In the wake of the recent media-created scandal concerning statements made by Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on his radio show, a rather enlightening discussion has ensued regarding the existence of a well-organized campaign to demonize every television and radio personality whose political opinions don't march in lock-step with the left. |
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Michael Kinsley Defends MoveOn’s "Betray Us" Ad -- On the eve of the Senate voting overwhelmingly to condemn MoveOn's recent "General Betray Us" ad, Michael Kinsley chose to defend the actions of this far-left group while poking fun at conservatives for being so outraged. |
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The Unconsciousness of a Liberal -- Krugman has decided that his column isn't enough to contain his wisdom, and that he will henceforth be inflicting his blog on us. He entitles it "The Conscience of a Liberal," which as he notes is also the title of his recent book.
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Frank Rich Paints Petraeus as Coward -- General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker could grab an hour of prime television time only by slinking into the safe foxhole of Fox News, where Brit Hume chaperoned them on a gloomy, bunkerlike set before an audience of merely 1.5 million true believers. |
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MRC/NB’s Graham on O'Reilly Factor Re "Huffington's House of Horrors" -- Graham, Director of Media Analysis for the Media Research Center and Senior Editor of the MRC's NewsBusters, appeared Friday night on the Fox News Channel’s "The O’Reilly Factor" to discuss the MRC's Special Report, "Huffington’s House of Horrors: A Compendium of Far-Left Flame-Throwing, Name-Calling, and Attack-Dogging." |
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Turn Out the Lights at the New Republic -- "The editors" of the New Republic have managed to turn an embarassment -- the publication of an egregiously false and defamatory column by its Baghdad Fabulist -- into an institutional debacle. "The editors" have destroyed their own credibility with by their faux investigative efforts and long silence. As Bob Owens has demonstrated, their purported re-reporting of the Scott Thomas Beauchamp "Shock troops" column is a pretense if not a joke. "The editors" have never addressed the fact that the one "correction" they have posted to the article belies its theme. Yet, so far as we know, "the editors" are still in the midst of their investigation. |
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Ex-ACLU Chief Gets Seven Years For Child Porn -- They say Rust-Tierney had video showing, among other things, the sexual torture of infants and toddlers. The judge said she’d never heard of child pornography that vile and said because of that, Rust-Tierney would stay behind bars until his trial. Rust-Tierney is a father himself and also a coach of Arlington-area youth little league and soccer teams. In court, dozens of his friends and family members voiced support for him. They say they have never suspected him of improper contact with kids. |
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Jodie Foster: Cheering in Her Payback Movie 'Shameful' and No One Should Own Guns -- In an Entertainment Weekly interview, Jodie Foster explained her views on guns, "I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being." She also said it is "shameful that the unsophisticated people who see a sophisticated movie" will cheer when she goes after the bad guys who kill her fiance in her new vigilante movie "The Brave One."
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This Is How Liberals Think -- You're a liberal. You've identified a problem -- the massive loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States; a net loss of 4.6 million jobs over the last 20 years. You've even done a decent job of identifying the causes of the problem: "Companies lose market share to foreign low-cost producers . . . or move their operations overseas in search of lower wages . . . or apply production techniques that require fewer workers." So, what's your solution? Measures like reducing taxes and regulation to make U.S. manufacturers more competitive, perhaps? Of course not! Remember, you're a liberal. No, your solution is what you yourself describe as a "massive" new welfare program for affected workers and communities that will contribute to making U.S. manufacturers even less competitive and destroy even more jobs!
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Jane Fonda Slammed for Not Paying Female Employees -- Veteran actress and feminist Jane Fonda has been slammed for not paying her female employees working in the actress' radio network Green Stone Media. The twice Oscar winner and the radio network's co-founder Gloria Steinem have been accused of "putting their own reputations above their female employees' finances." |
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NYT Mistakes "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" as Constitutional Right -- You know, if you saw this at some small time newspaper, or a blog without multiple levels of editors, you'd be quite forgiving. But when the supposedly most respected newspaper on the face of the planet, with a large office building filled with writers, editors, and staffers, mistakes a key phrase from the Declaration of Independence as a "constitutional right," one has to wonder what's going on with the Old Gray Lady. |
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Liberals' Desire To Be Loved Is Their Achilles' Heel -- I have spent a good part of my life trying to understand people I disagree with, whether on the right or the left, whether members of my own religion or of other religions or of no religion.
In particular, I have wanted to understand people who hold leftist positions. Many people who hold them are personally decent, some very much so -- yet they hold positions that I believe increase cruelty (e.g., advocating withdrawal from Iraq); increase criminality (e.g., more lenient attitudes toward punishing criminals); hasten the decline of Western society (e.g., pushing multiculturalism); and undermine liberty (e.g., expanding government, passing more and more laws, taking away ever larger percentages of citizens' money).
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Multiculturalism's War on Education -- Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of "diversity." Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence that "enriches" the curriculum. But is it? |
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The Liberals’ War Against Liberalism: What Is So Scary about Free Thought? -- One thing I have learned by writing columns on global warming the past two weeks is that liberals are less interested in free expression of ideas than in total compliance with their ideas, less interested in critical thinking than in being critical, and less interested in the truth than in their truth. |
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Bill Moyers Claims White House Misleading Americans About Surge -- Has Bill Moyers become PBS's Jack Cafferty, Bill Maher, Rosie O'Donnell, and Keith Olbermann all rolled into one crusading, Bush-hating, anti-war propagandist funded by American tax dollars? After all, on Friday, he followed up last week's disgraceful rant about Karl Rove with an eight-minute segment on how "The Bush White House has launched a massive new P.R. campaign with the message: the surge in Iraq is working. Let's stay the course!" |
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The Most Contemptible Man in American Public Life… -- ...is what I called Bill Moyers, here. The context was Moyers's unhinged attack on Karl Rove, the centerpiece of which was Moyers's claim that Rove is an "agnostic" who has cynically manipulated the Christian right for political gain. You can see Moyers's tirade by clicking on the graphic below. |
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Nets Declare Bush's Vietnam Lesson Hypocritical and Invalid, Only ABC Shows Skulls -- The broadcast network evening news shows on Wednesday night pounced on President Bush's reminder that the U.S. pullout from Vietnam led to millions being killed, as all three shows featured historians to discredit Bush's parallel to what may happen if the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, and NBC portrayed Bush as hypocritical for raising Vietnam after earlier rejecting comparisons to Iraq as a Vietnam-like quagmire. Only ABC, leading into Bush recalling “killing fields,” showed a picture of stacks of skulls and ABC also uniquely featured two Vietnam vets who backed Bush's case. |
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Internet Use Could Kill Off Local Newspapers, Study Finds -- News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a new study Wednesday. |
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Top Seattle Times Editor Admits Majority of Newsroom Votes "Blue," Driven by "Activism" --Seattle Times Executive Editor Dave Boardman, who in a Tuesday e-mail to his staff had scolded them for cheering Karl Rove's resignation (Ken Shepherd's NewsBusters item), wrote a follow-up e-mail on Wednesday in which he conceded the political display matched the “blue” perspective of the majority in his newsroom where, like most of journalism, reporters are driven by “activism.” Boardman acknowledged. |
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BBC IP Edits Bush Wikipedia Entry -- As an example that the media can't learn from the mistakes of others, a BBC IP address has been tracked down to a recent Wikipedia edit that changed the name of George Walker Bush to George Wanker Bush. |
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UPDATE: Seattle Editor Declares, Keep Political Views to Yourself -- Then Responds to Reaction. |
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Promoting Jihad, Targeting Free Speech -- Remember when we heard that if only our leaders had known how to "connect the dots," the September 11 attacks could have been prevented? After nearly six years without a similar attack, the government has learned much about detecting the outlines of jihadist terror plots before they take shape. As a result, and after all the aggravations and humiliations of what I still hope are temporary safety procedures, our security has remained essentially intact. But can we say the same thing about our freedoms? |
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Stephen Glass Goes to War -- For a month, the veracity of The New Republic’s Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the Army private who has been sending dispatches from the front in Iraq, has been in dispute. His latest “Baghdad Diarist” (July 13) recounted three incidents of American soldiers engaged in acts of unusual callousness. The stories were meant to shock. And they did. |
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Ski Resort's "Impeach Bush" Vote Backfires -- "Hundreds" cancel trips, homeowner threatens to move out. Some of the ski fans who have patronized Telluride, Colo., now are calling the ritzy resort "the land of radical liberals." |
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Honey, They Shrunk The ....Times? Smaller New York Times Coming on Monday -- Over the years, The New York Times has tended to think big, but tomorrow it will have to adapt to a new smaller-is- beautiful era.
In a front page note to readers this morning, the paper stated that the print edition they will hold tomorrow will be decidedly more compact. Beginning Monday, the Times "will reduce the width of its pages by an inch and a half," to a 12-inch standard, the paper declared. |
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Elite Media Fears Giuliani as GOP Nominee -- Rudy Giuliani's quest for the presidency isn't one I embrace, but the vitriol (perhaps born of fear that he could win in 2008) leveled against him by the elite media and left wing magazines is surely disproportionate. |
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Shocking New York Times Op-ed: Iraq Is "A War We Just Might Win" -- an op-ed was published in the New York Times claiming that "We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, "morale is high," and, as a result, this is "a war we just might win." Adding to the shock is that this piece was written by two members of the Brookings Institution, which even Wikipedia acknowledges is "widely regarded as being politically liberal." The authors - Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack - described themselves as "two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq." |
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"A War We Just Might Win" -- That's the title of an opinion piece by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution in today's New York Times. They have returned from a visit to Iraq, and report that conditions there are much improved. |
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Liberals Go After Fox News Advertisers -- Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos. |
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Liberalism Dangerously Defined -- Sorensen delivers a definition of unabashed liberalism, which, if echoed by the actual Democratic nominee, could guarantee victory for the GOP: "Nor will I shrink from calling myself a liberal in the same sense that Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt, John and Robert Kennedy, and Harry Truman were liberals – liberals who proved that government is not a necessary evil, bur rather the best means of creating a healthier, more educated, more prosperous America." |
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Giuliani: "Loose Constructionist" Judges Imperil Democracy -- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that judges who are not so-called "strict constructionists" threaten American democracy. Giuliani, answering a question at a news conference about his support for abortion rights, veered into a broad criticism of the federal judiciary. He repeated his pledge to appoint strict constructionists to the federal bench. |
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Quick, Someone Get Me A Pulitzer! -- The article led with quotes from "staunch Republican" Jim Ronca, who, despite his staunchness, was so deeply impressed with the Democratic candidates, and so annoyed with his own party, that he intends to support a Democrat for President next year. Even more newsworthy was Ronca's assurance to Hunter that, "I'm not only going to vote Democratic, I'm going to financially support the Democrats."
The defection of this "staunch Republican" was so significant in Hunter's eyes that she devoted the first four paragraphs of her column to it. Only one problem, though: it turned out that Ronca wasn't so staunch after all. In fact, as we said in our original post, he is a member of one of the world's smallest clubs: Staunch Republicans for Ted Kennedy. Far from being a supporter of Republican candidates, the large majority of Ronca's contributions over the years have gone to Democrats, including Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Bob Casey. |
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A Grim Assessment By the Associated Press -- The Associated Press reported this morning on current operations in Iraq, describing a number of successes in which insurgents were captured or killed. But at the AP, good news never comes unalloyed. The AP adds this commentary: U.S. military officials also have been signaling for weeks that improvements in Iraqi security forces had not lived up to expectations—especially in the national police, which is widely believed to be infiltrated by Shiite militiamen. |
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Saturday Funnies: BBC Admits Faking Audience Phone Calls -- In a not so stunning revelation, the BBC admitted to allowing employees to call in to shows either asking for audience involvement, or offering prizes, when the network wasn't receiving enough real feedback. |
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NYT's Baghdad Bureau Chief: U.S. in Iraq "Very Important Inhibitor Against Violence" -- As Congress debates an expeditious and possibly capricious withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, with sickeningly predictable cheerleading for such an eventuality from the media, the Baghdad bureau chief for the New York Times claimed Tuesday that this would lead to "all-out civil war" with "levels of violence [that] would eclipse by quite a long way the bloodshed we`ve seen to date." |
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Oprah Aims to Rescue Obama -- The TV talk-show queen kick-started Obama’s campaign with an October appearance on her show, in which she told her audience: "My guest today is a shining example of what is possible if you live your life with fierce hope." |
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Human Rights Group Now Supports Baby-Killing -- Amnesty International, a self-proclaimed “human rights” group, continues its downward spiral into the evil abyss of secular humanism by changing its stance on abortion from one of neutrality to support for baby-killing. |
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U.N. Chief Warns Abrupt U.S. Troop Withdrawal Could Deepen Iraq Crisis -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday that an abrupt U.S. troop pullout could deepen the crisis in Iraq, and he urged the United States to keep the Iraqi people in mind when making decisions on the increasingly unpopular war. Ban said both the United States and the international community have a responsibility not to abandon the Iraqi people. |
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ABC Devotes 64 Minutes to Dem White House Contenders; Zero For GOP -- On Monday’s "Good Morning America," ABC devoted 38 minutes of air time to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards in a town hall special. This is in addition to the over 26 minutes they provided fellow ‘08 contender Hillary Clinton back in March. That’s a grand total of 64 minutes of publicity for Democratic candidates and zero for Republicans. |
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On PBS, "Bill Moyers Journal" Devotes An Hour to Advocating Bush-Cheney Impeachment -- PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers devoted his entire hour-long Bill Moyers Journal on Friday night to the need to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney. The stacked hour had two guests, and both were aggressively pro-impeachment: John Nichols of The Nation magazine, author of the book "The Genius of Impeachment," and lawyer Bruce Fein, who Moyers labeled a "conservative," but he compared Bush to King George III, to Adolf Hitler, to the communist autocrats of the Gulag, and to, well, FDR, in suggesting the post 9-11 era could see a mistake like our interning of Japanese Americans. |
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Americans See Liberal Media Bias on TV News -- By a 39% to 20% margin, American adults believe that the three major broadcast networks deliver news with a bias in favor of liberals. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 25% believe that ABC, CBS, and NBC deliver the news without any bias. Similar results are found for CNN and National Public Radio (NPR). By a margin of 33% to 16%, Americans say that CNN has a liberal bias. The nation’s adults say the same about NPR by a 27% to 14% margin. |
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Stossel Responds to Kennedy's Attacks, Lists False Scares Environmentalists Pushed -- On Wednesday's Your World with Neil Cavuto, FNC's Cavuto hosted both ABC's John Stossel and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to discuss Kennedy's charge, from the stage of Saturday's "Live Earth" concert in New Jersey, that the ABC anchor, as well as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, have been "lying" about global warming and are "toadies" for corporations. |
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Studies Show: Felons Smarter Than Libs -- Just in time for the Fourth of July, John Lott, author of the groundbreaking 1998 book "More Guns, Less Crime," has released another amazing book: "Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't." This book provides studies and analysis proving that your every right-wing instinct is based on sound economic analysis. |
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Media Ignored Invention That Changes Plastic Bottles Into Oil -- A US company, Global Resource Corporation (GRC), invented a revolutionary high-frequency microwave which recycles anything with a hydrocarbon base like plastic, rubber or automobile "scrap" into 20% diesel oil and 80% combustible gas. The Hawk-10 should reduce the amount of trash in landfills and numbers of abandoned junk piles, as well as to a lessor extent, provide some oil -- all without producing (for those who care) greenhouse gasses. |
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MSM All But Ignores Dedication of Memorial to Victims of Communism -- A monument to the many millions of victims who died during the Cold War as a result of communist oppression was dedicated in Washington DC on June 12th? You would be excused if you didn't know anything about it if the coverage of the event by the MSM is any measure because they all but ignored the unveiling of this moving monument. |
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The List -- Journalists who wrote political checks. |
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Journalists Dole Out Cash to Politicians -- MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties. |
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Liberals Adopt Name for "Progress'"-- Don't call them liberals. They prefer the term "progressive" and think their brand of politics is where the country is headed. |
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Are there any grown-ups left in Seattle? -- A protest of military recruiting in Seattle Public Schools has shut down tonight’s School Board meeting. |
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BBC Report: Network’s Bias Due to "The Inherent Liberal Culture of its Staff" -- |
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Tim Russert Agrees Liberal Bloggers Are Pushing Democrats to the Left -- Something interesting is happening between the new and old media: the more Democrats move to the left to please liberal bloggers, the more mainstream press members express disdain. |
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The Three Waves of Liberalism -- … anyone seriously trying to understand American politics must reckon with what Charles Kesler has called "the three waves of liberalism," beginning with Woodrow Wilson. Kesler characterizes the three waves as political liberalism, economic liberalism, and cultural liberalism. He associated Franklin Roosevelt with the second wave and LBJ with the third wave. |
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Bill O'Reilly Blasts MSNBC, CNN for "Carnage du Jour" Iraq Coverage -- host Bill O'Reilly blasted his cable competitors for their "delight in showing Iraqi violence," a product of an editorial mindset at CNN and MSNBC that "want[s] Americans to think badly of President Bush." |
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Promoting Movie About Press Freedom, Jolie Bans Press from Interviews -- How do you spell hypocrite? Apparently it's J-O-L-I-E as the puff-lipped actress proves by banning Fox News from being permitted to interview her to promote her new role as the wife of martyred reporter Daniel Pearl in the upcoming movie "A Mighty Heart." As Jolie touts press freedom, her newest pet cause, she inexplicably put several restrictions on that very freedom of the press -- and not just against Fox News. |
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Cancel Rush Limbaugh Or Lose Contract -- Commissioner Stacy Ritter said she did not want the county to be linked to a station "that’s out of step with area politics,” the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. |
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