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On this page you will find overflow material from The Editorial Page The Uncategorized News Items Page and The Media Bias Page. This page started out as an overflow area for my own use while editing other pages. These are the scraps and leftovers which are likely to be of interest to political junkies only. Moving these stale items to the overflow area will keep the other pages timely and succinct. In addition, the spillover from the Media Bias Page demonstrates that there is more than enough evidence to prove the existence of liberal bias in the news and entertainment media. ---------=-===---=---=-=-=-=-=---===-=-=--------- Overflow from the Editorial Page: Lessons from Terri Schiavo: Had Terri Schiavo been pregnant and wanted to abort, her husband would have no legal say in the matter, but he has ultimate power over her life and death. Isn't it legally inconsistent that courts may no longer sentence 17-year-old killers to death, but Terri Schiavo, who has injured no one, has been sentenced to death by the courts? The execution of Terri Schiavo: Terri Schiavo is dead. She did not die a natural death, unless you believe a court order to cut off food and water to a disabled woman until she dies of starvation and thirst is natural. No, Terri Schiavo was executed by the state of Florida. Her crime? She was so mentally disabled as to be unworthy of life in the judgment of Judge George Greer. Judicial supremacy kills. Florida Probate Judge George Greer has taken judicial supremacy to new abuses in ordering the starvation of an innocent woman against the will of her parents, her brother, her church, thousands of volunteers, and, as far as we know, herself. We wouldn't permit anyone to treat a dog this way. Exploiting a tragedy. When you look at the Left's rush to judgment against the Bush administration for not reacting precisely according to its expectations (demands) concerning the tsunami disaster, you just have to wonder what kind of psychological forces motivate this group. It's instructive that the very people who constantly call for a spirit of collegiality and bipartisanship have somehow managed to politicize the most apolitical of all events. Attacking Condi: Dr. Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser and now his secretary of state nominee, has been the subject of nasty, demeaning and disrespectful cartoons and commentary. Some of the worst has come from people like Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, who said on TV's "America's Black Forum" that he agreed with "The Boondocks" cartoonist Aaron McGruder's characterization of Dr. Rice as "a murderer." A lead article in Black Commentator said, "Condoleezza Rice is the purest expression of the race traitor. No polite description is possible." The Crusade to Kill Drug Development: America's pharmaceutical industry is the envy of the world, with 90 percent of all new drugs in the world each year researched and produced here. In the past two decades drug companies have launched a dazzling array of new products that allow us to live longer, healthier lives and reduce hospital stays. ... Today's drug prices really do finance tomorrow's miracles. Hot, Bubbling Oil. [There is] no doubt in my mind that oil is in a speculative bubble — very much like what happened to the NASDAQ in 1999 and 2000. Of heart pathology, and pathological narcissism: Consider this from the AP: "Doctors said Clinton's problems were not as sudden as had been portrayed. He had suffered shortness of breath and tightness in his chest for several months." (So there was precision timing involved after all!) Conservatives and Liberals: Apples and Orgies. Disagreeing with Liberal machinations inside or beyond the Beltway, within the Public School system, in Hollywood or The New York Times, with ABC News' Peter Jennings or The Today Show's Katie Couric will bring down upon you the full wrath of their blathering mouths and trendy Mont Blanc pens. Gay Marriage, Half-Time Bodice Rippers, and Other Paradoxes of Cultural Hypocrisy. Can morality be legislated? Well, you can try. But in the past, such attempts have frequently had an odd way of achieving just the opposite of the legislator's intentions. Take attempts to curb teen smoking and drinking, gun control, ban pornography, and the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. All achieved exactly what the laws didn't want. It's not Presidents' Day. It's Washington's birthday. The law establishing the holiday has never been changed. For all practical purposes, of course, his day has been forfeited to convenience. We celebrate it on the third Monday in February rather than on the actual day (Feb. 22), and we call it "Presidents' Day" so we can lump it in with Abraham Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12) and pay tribute to all presidents — good, bad and mediocre. America Needs a Leader Like George Washington. Once again facing a crisis, America searches for great leadership. Awash in a morass of moral compromise, poll-taking, and hesitation to offend world opinion, Americans desperately seize on any hint of strength, of moral certainty, of a refusal to swim with others in the swamp of compromise, empty rhetoric and threats that now passes for "leadership" in Washington, D.C. Kennedy's tax cuts: In the area of taxation, there is probably nothing that drives Democrats crazier than when they hear Republicans praise John F. Kennedy's tax cut and compare their tax cuts to his. Unfortunately, Democrats keep running up against Kennedy's own statements and actions, which show a clear parallel to Republican tax policies since 1980. Then (1942) and Now (2002): An opinion poll conducted by the League of Nations in the late 1930s found over 90 percent of the British people favored international disarmament. Hitler? Who's That? One would think that after all this time, Germans would be quite clear on the nature of Hitler. One would be wrong. Why I'm not a libertarian: Libertarians make a fundamental mistake about the nature of man. Man is not inherently good. Man can only learn to govern himself when he understands there is a higher accountability — a higher authority. Ideally, that higher authority is not the government, but God. Surprisingly, the same author earlier wrote, Why I'm not a conservative: I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Conservatives, from my experience, do not make good freedom fighters. He continues: Why I am not a liberal: This may prove to be the toughest challenge of all. For me, it is like explaining why I am not a communist, or why I am not a Nazi. Where does one begin? And there's more! Why I'm intolerant and proud: I'm for constitutionally limited government. I'm for freedom. I'm for individual rights. I'm for self-government. I'm for personal responsibility and accountability to God. Liberalism opposes all of that. That's why it's evil. That's why I am not a liberal. That's why I'm intolerant of liberalism. The Amazing Phyllis Schlafly: That Phyllis Schlafly is the mortal enemy of a movement that claims to promote women tells you all you need to know about the feminists. That most people know more about Madeleine Albright's brooch collection than Schlafly's achievements tells you all you need to know about the media. Ethics remain dead in America: Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain. We need more congressmen like Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.), who has announced his retirement because he believes there are things in life more important than a congressional career. Watts has been a model of personal and professional rectitude. Hate in America: The protesters, while unable to disrupt the Republican National Convention as intended, represented a disturbing new development in the nation's politics: hatred in the streets. The organized demonstrations were purely negative, attacking George W. Bush with scant expression of support for John Kerry. Individual marchers singled out any person they thought might be a convention delegate, firing off angry, often obscene, denunciations. [Many protesters were arrested in New York as a result of their violent and hate-filled criminal acts. Were any of them charged with hate crimes?] Bush and Kerry Need a Plan for World War III. It simply amazes me that Americans can get so worked up over John Kerry's Vietnam War posture, when the real issue is how the senator and President Bush will deal with World War III. The economy's important, but nothing compared to the danger that Islamic fascists pose to all of us. Al Qaeda and other Muslim fundamentalists are no different than the Nazis 70 years ago. Black like Obama: Republicans have cause to worry as Obama seeks a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. As if to prove all their own stereotypes true, they picked exactly the wrong man to counter Obama's candidacy — former U.N. ambassador and erstwhile presidential candidate Alan Keyes. Talk about getting religion! Rub your eyes. Did we just see a Democratic convention brimming with flag-waving patriotism, respect for the military, and references to God and values? Falwell Offers Political Seminar to Clergy. As always, those who don't object when Kerry, Edwards, Gore, Clinton, Jackson and Sharpton campaign in churches are pitching a fit. My platform: From time to time some kind readers suggest that I run for public office, including President of the United States. No need for those on the left to panic. It is not going to happen. Spain's Retreat After The Madrid Bombings Rewards Terrorism. Mounting evidence indicates that Al Qaeda may have been behind the March 11th bombings in Madrid. This is, unfortunately, a political triumph for radical Islamic terrorism and may well embolden Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to strike similarly in the future. The Richard Clarke Assembly Line: If this previously obscure Richard Clarke had come out with a book in March of 2000 arguing that the Clinton administration was soft on terrorism, would he have received a similar parade of encomiums (and soon, honorariums)? Would his remarks have been received as a refreshingly independent voice raising serious questions that must be seriously answered by a negligent President Clinton? Proof that We Don't Really Care about Terrorism: Nothing quite demolishes the fiction that we are today "at war with terrorism" better than the release and rehabilitation of the real and largely unrepentant terrorist Kathy Boudin. This country does not wage war on terrorists; it gives them parole and makes their children Rhodes Scholars. Quagmire seekers: Since stoning people to death is a tradition in parts of the Middle East, that might be the most appropriate way to execute Saddam Hussein. If each relative of someone murdered by Saddam were allowed to throw a stone, the line might stretch back for miles. Television pictures of that line, broadcast throughout the Arab world, could completely undermine any notion that this is just an American vendetta against Moslems. The Clintons' real legacy: Ironically, Bill Clinton benefited in a way from the myriad scandals that pervaded his tenure. Were it not for the diversion, the public might be better apprised of his many miserable policy failures. Vietnam and Iraq Have More Similarities than Differences: Despite the myriad voices in the press insisting, "Iraq is not a Vietnam!" the indisputable fact is that, if you consider the passions and principles applied there, it really IS another Vietnam. A Presidential Wannabe's Selective Amnesia: Former Vice President Al Gore says he is worried about our civil liberties. How quaint. Too bad he didn't evidence a similar concern when the administration of which he was a key member was routinely putting power before liberty. Why don't the rich serve their country? Of the 535 members of Congress, only one has a child or grandchild in the armed services. That lone exception being Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota. The lack of military service amongst our leader's children indicates the appalling level of insulation between the upper-middle-class elite and the military that has formed in the all-volunteer age. The Anti-capitalist Mentality: It is precisely thoughtlessness, want of reflection and a profound disrespect for the rights of others that seems to define the anti-capitalist mentality. In Defense of the Wealthiest One Percent: Our current system shifts the majority of income taxes away from poor and middle-class voters, preferring to confiscate the wealth and earnings of a small, politically defenseless minority. Gore is back, breathing fire and revising history: His fire — that Bush's economic policy is "catastrophic" and that his foreign policy goal is world domination — is harmless. His revisionism is not. U.S. War on Iraq is Morally Legitimate: As the U.S. military stands poised (finally) to wage war against the Iraqi regime — merely one spoke in the "Axis of Evil" — critics of the Bush Administration and apologists for terror regimes claim that there's been a "failure of diplomacy." The U.S., they assert, should have persisted in seeking yet another (18th) U.N. resolution on Iraq, to gain the approval of "world opinion." Daschle's lowest blow: Tom Daschle's attack on President Bush's Iraq policy on the eve of war and long after the Congress had voted to authorize the president to launch the war was shocking and without precedent. A hundred years from now, it will be remembered as an act of complete political selfishness and a low point in American politics. The November [2002] Elections: As author and columnist Marvin Olasky accurately noted, "Liberals are likely to become very angry as they analyze the election returns and see that the oft-reviled 'religious right' has made another comeback". The funeral for conservative Christian involvement in American politics is still a long way off. Millions of Bible-oriented voters did not listen to separatists who advised giving up on politics. "The conscience of the Senate"? If ever there was a body that needed a "conscience," it is the United States Congress — both houses. But was Wellstone really it? Happy Dependence Day: The sad truth is the American dream of independence has been betrayed. Americans are worse off today, in terms of individual freedom, than they were before the War of Independence. No Medals for Title IX: In February 1998, after an American team won the first Olympic gold medal ever awarded for women's hockey, there was a brief rainshower of patronizing media coverage, as is customary in such matters. A.J. Mleczko, the U.S. hockey squad's star defensewoman, thought all this attention was "wonderful," of course. But she also found the self-congratulatory spin everyone was putting on her team's triumph more than slightly weird. So far as Mleczko could tell, they'd come a long way, baby, pretty much entirely by themselves. The federal budget: How to get spending under control by Scott A. Hodge and Geoffrey Freeman Are There Spies in the Justice Department?: The FBI agent in charge of monitoring Chinese espionage efforts retired because the Justice Department was pressuring him to reveal his sources. That is so unusual that it may indicate there were people in Justice that were working for China. FBI Director Louis Freeh may have lied to Congress about this; he should have ordered a counterespionage investigation. It now appears there may have been collusion between those seeking the information and those working on the 'Chinagate' investigation. The Costs Of NAFTA Are Driving Home: State politicians and federal judges are going the limit to protect us all from the horrendous highway hazards of talking on cell phones and not wearing seat belts. How about manifesting an equal enthusiasm to protect us against an invasion of 4.5 million large trucks that have not passed U.S. safety inspections? Happy Birthday, Bastiat!: Two hundred years after his birth, it is nice to commemorate Frederic Bastiat, one of the great and most practical economic thinkers of all time. Perhaps more than any other economic commentator, Frederic Bastiat was able to reduce economic sophisms to their basic principles and follow them to their logical conclusions. This approach was very effective in educating people of the ill-effects of various proposals. We need more Bastiats today. Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department by David Limbaugh Clinton administration blamed for the loss of Vieques: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the decision on Vieques was essentially made when President Clinton agreed to submit the issue to referendum. Back to the top of the page ---------=-===---=---=-=-=-=-=---===-=-=--------- Overflow from the Uncategorized News Items Page: Private Firm to Provide Indiana Prison Meals. Indiana has hired a private company to serve meals to the state's prison inmates, a move Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said will save taxpayers about $11.5 million a year. Feedback on Women in Combat: This issue is getting governmental and public attention once again. ACLJ in Federal Court over Inaugural Prayer. Michael Newdow strikes again, trying to remove prayer from the Presidential inauguration. PC tax could replace TV license. The BBC license fee could eventually replaced by a tax on having a PC instead of owning a TV, according to a Green Paper (statement to Parliament) delivered this week. Arafat's Bowling Venture for Terror. Yasser Arafat was a secret investor in the city's hottest upscale bowling alley, according to a bombshell new report. The Arab "Palestinian" corrupt dictator three years ago pumped $1.3 million into Bowlmor Lanes, the popular Greenwich Village recreation center that has attracted a galaxy of stars, from Cameron Diaz to Rudy Giuliani. While his people suffered from poverty, billions of "humanitarian aid money" destined for clothing, education, food, and shelter went towards terrorism and his personal pocket. Website Details Ties Between Saddam Hussein and Terrorism. Links between former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and international terrorists — including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda — are documented on a new Internet website created by columnist Deroy Murdock, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network. Foreign Entities Monitoring U.S. Elections. International observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe arrived in Washington October 7 [2004] to prepare to monitor the U.S. presidential elections. The OSCE delegation, which was invited by the U.S. State Department, monitored the congressional elections in 2002. The initial request was made in a June 30 letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan by several Congressional Democrats. Duelfer: "A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria". Iraq Survey Group head does not rule out Saddam's transfer of WMD. Behind the troop movement: High-level Pentagon sources confide that worrying about base closing significantly influenced the decision to move troops. That seems like doing the right thing for the wrong reason. Wilson Was "Inaccurate, Unsubstantiated and Misleading". In the main body of its unanimous report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence made a startling statement about former Amb. Joe Wilson — whom the CIA sent on a brief trip to Niger in February 2002, and who accused President Bush of lying when the President said in his 2003 State of the Union address that British intelligence indicated Iraq had sought uranium in Africa. Thomas Called "Unworthy" of Giving Graduation Speech. A petition objecting to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as the University of Georgia Law School commencement speaker this month claims Thomas is "unworthy" because of his opinion in the court's December 2000 decision that ended the recount of Florida's votes in the last presidential election. Thumbs Down on Smallpox Vaccine Program: Health care professionals nationwide are refusing to be inoculated against smallpox, worried about the vaccine's side effects and not sure the threat of a chemical attack justifies the risk posed by vaccination. Clinton and North Korea: President Bill Clinton will be remembered by history for only one thing, which is a bit of a shame since his record is so thoroughly shabby and dishonorable that it deserves closer study. Ventura Accidentally Proclaims "Christian Heritage Week" in Minnesota: He didn't mean to do it, but Minnesota's Governor Jesse Ventura has proclaimed seven days in October "Christian Heritage Week." Henry Kissinger Says China is Not a Communist Country: "I don't think China is a communist country in the sense of Soviet communism," said Kissinger. Reveal Everything Just to Keep a Driver's License: Driving may obligate you to tell bureaucrats minute details of your health problems and other personal matters. Dean C. Eger of New Bern, N.C., was stunned when he received a 10-page questionnaire this month from the state Division of Motor Vehicles. Some of the 114 questions were to be answered by him, the others to be filled out by his physician. Failure to answer in 30 days "will result in cancellation or denial of your driving privilege." Back to the top of the page
Overflow from the Media Bias Page: Brent Bozell comments on the career of Bill Moyers. [According to Bill Moyers] there is no so-called "liberal media," only a meek and lowly collection of profit-obsessed corporate puppets, trumped daily by the much meaner forces of ultra-right white noise. Moyers is right in one sense. Most in the liberal media are mainstream when compared to Bill Moyers. Feeding the Media Beast: An Easy Recipe for Great Publicity. This book is for anyone who views the news, produces the news, wants to be in the news or has been burned by the news. The new media revolution. In my view, the blogosphere is to other media what 24-hour news was to the old, twice-a-day network version — faster, more accessible, and more efficient. Senator Clinton and the Fake News Scandal: It was an issue tailor-made for Senator Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, who had previously issued a statement declaring that the Bush administration's use of video news releases constituted illegal "covert propaganda." Clinton had declared, "It is critical to the credibility of an independent news media that covert government propaganda be rejected for use by news organizations." But it turns out that the Clinton administration had produced them as well. Great Gray Lady in spat with saloon hussy: The New York Times was in high dudgeon this week upon discovering that Fox News chairman Roger Ailes sent a letter to the Bush White House nine days after Sept. 11. As the corpses of thousands of his fellow Americans lay in smoldering heaps, Ailes evidently recommended getting rough with the terrorists. The truth about the cop-killing marine. The only elements missing in the bleeding-heart coverage of Raya's story were the soundtrack to "Platoon" and a bulk order of Kleenex. There's just one thing wrong with the sympathetic spin about the anti-war Marine. It's all dead wrong. … Contrary to the impression left by initial media reports, Raya had never seen combat. And he was not headed back to Iraq. The 2004 Admitting the Obvious Award for Acknowledging Liberal Bias. "Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards — I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox — but they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all. There's going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points." (--Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas) Dr. Dobson Takes on the Media over the "SpongeBob" Controversy. The Focus on the Family founder did not criticize a cartoon character, as has been widely reported, but was warning parents that the group behind a "diversity" video may put material in teachers' hands that could prompt them to teach kids that homosexuality is equivalent to heterosexuality. The Liberal Media's Reagan-Bashing Record. While reporters now praise Reagan's humor & optimism, they disdained his conservative policies. Thanks to Reagan, We Remember Inflation. One of the amusing things about the liberal media is their compulsion to always present an alternative perspective to conservative successes, even when it looks ridiculous doing so. Only liberal successes are allowed to be presented without some reporter saying, "On the other hand..." Michelle Malkin Axed for Views. My experience, both as a columnist and an observer of life, is that liberals consider any bold assertion of conservative political thought "mean-spirited." Indeed, the liberals' favorite charge against conservatives is that they are intrinsically mean, uncompassionate people. Election news from Iraq. The Western media in pre-election Iraq, Peter Jennings for example, are doing all they can to aid and abet Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's call for the Iraqi people to stay away from the polls on Sunday. Fortunately for Iraq and the world, there's not much either of them can do. New Myths on Reagan's Record: By the time Ronald Reagan's body arrived on Capitol Hill, after 100,000 people paid respects in California and just before another 100,000 people honored him in Washington, the news media were already feeling the urgent need to balance the outpouring of love and nostalgia with a screed or two from Americans who hated Reagan. Opportunities ahead. The American people spoke loud and clear on [Election Day], and the so-called mainstream media still haven't heard them. With nearly 60 million, President Bush received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history. The Legacy of Reed Irvine. The passing of Reed Irvine on November 16, 2004 comes at a time when his war against the Big Media has achieved some notable successes. In the 35 years since he founded Accuracy in Media*, the Big Media have lost much of their stature and do not seem so big anymore. Their loss of credibility is a testament to Reed's successful efforts to tell the truth about so much of what we see, read and hear. Reed was David against the media Goliath. Reed's stone was the pen. A Warrior has left us. The leftist media is on the defensive; its ratings are falling, its audiences dwindling, its credibility at an all-time low. For the first time in the modern history of American elections the leftist media has real conservative competition and has been beaten at its own game. And among the many who are responsible for this victory, and for the fact that their country is now better armed against its internal foes, none is more so than Reed Irvine. A narrow escape. The implications of [the 2004] election reach beyond the government. The election results demonstrate that the mainstream media has lost its power to control what the public will know and not know. If there were not alternative media like talk radio, Fox News and the Internet, the public would have heard nothing but pro-Kerry spin masquerading as news. Koppel Flaunts His Bias. The Washington Post reported, in a "Style" section piece, that Secretary of State Colin Powell was given a tribute at a U.S. Global Leadership Campaign dinner "by his old pal Ted Koppel." The audience included CNN's Wolf Blitzer. So what exactly is the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign? It turns out that the group is mainly preoccupied with spending more taxpayer dollars on foreign aid. And guess what? A corporate member of the group is Halliburton. That's not newsworthy or important because Halliburton, in this case, is doing something the liberals want. The Network Media Loses to Bush - America Wins! The exit polls were so far-fetched that I couldn't imagine what was going on. The media was determined to bring down the President and we could do nothing. USA Today ducks Ann Coulter's pulverizing right hook. A chill wind is blowing — from the mainstream media. Desperate to break President George W. Bush and the resurgence of American conservatism, the mainstream media has taken to obscuring truths, burying facts and overplaying accusations. The Fox-hater's upside-down world. Now that Fox News Channel is on the scene, dominating the cable news scene and showing America that TV news can be something different than the suffocating consensus of the liberal establishment, the Left is in a panic. Objectivity is needed! Democracy itself is in danger! Former FBI Agent Warns Swift Boat Vets. When you take on the establishment, be prepared to suffer serious assaults to your reputation, at least in the short run. Over time, you will be proven to be honest, as well as brave. Eventually, your reputations will be mostly restored, but nothing will ever be the same for you again. The mainstream media will work diligently to alter the population's perception of you in ways that you could not possibly imagine. Republicans and Race Revisited. I couldn't help but notice (and lament) the subtle digs the partisan media took at President Bush when he observed the 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on July 1. It's as if Bush, a Republican, is presumptively disqualified from celebrating civil rights. The Philadelphia Inquirer's Anti-Israel Bias: American media coverage of the Palestinian Arab war against Israel affects both American public opinion and U.S. government policy toward Israel and the Arabs. Consequently, those who support a good U.S.-Israel relationship have taken a particular interest in monitoring how the media portrays Israel. This study analyzes news coverage, choice and placement of photographs, headlines, editorials, op-eds, editorial cartoons, and letters to the editor concerning Israel and Palestinian Arabs that appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, from May 9, 2002 through August 20, 2002. Cable bias: There is a reason why very few writers will tackle the issue of which TV broadcast news organization is viewed most favorably the public — they know they may be blackballed from appearing as talking-head guests. But who cares? Let the chips fall where they may. NBC Trumps Rice With Anti-Bush Widows. Who are the most important judges of the 9—11 Commission's work? The media has appointed the families of 9—11 victims— but not all of them. The pro-Bush mourners were ignored as Condi Rice testified, while four anti-Bush widows received all the air time on NBC and MSNBC. The Sad Paradox of Religion News: Thanks to the historic box-office bonanza of Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" ($330 million and rising), the topic of religion is "hot" right now. Still, you get that sinking feeling that for the press, it's just another raging fad like the Tickle Me Elmo doll or the Atkins diet. Still Liberal, Still Biased: How Big Media Helped the Left and Hurt the Right in 2003. Not your basic even-handed, caring, centrist moderation. Samples from the Media Research Council's "Best Notable Quotables of 2003". Dean is all the rage. You know the mainstream media's power exceeds its sound judgment and responsible stewardship when it abuses its control of a presidential debate to further its own ends rather than that of the public it purports to serve. Republicans Join the Fight to Muzzle Rush Limbaugh: The reason listeners tune into the conservative broadcasters is because they want to hear something other than the leftist drivel they had been hearing for years thanks to the so-called Fairness Doctrine. Liberal Media Continues to Pounce on a Single Statement in Bush Speech but the press allowed Clinton lies to slide by. Moyers Tops "Dishonor" Awards. PBS commentator Bill Moyers scored big time with two of the Media Research Center's Dishonor Awards Thursday night [03/27/2003]. The annual ceremony highlights stupid or biased statements out of the mouths of the mainstream media news and entertainment stars. White Paper: Bias at Philadelphia Inquirer. The Philadelphia Inquirer is biased against Israel. There can be no other conclusion. This is not a new charge, as the Inquirer has demonstrated an anti-Israel bent for at least the last 20 years, though more recently, this behavior seems to have intensified. Dishonest Reporting "Award" for 2002: An annual award for the most skewed and biased reporting. Falwell Skewers Media for Downplaying Islamic Atrocities Against Christians: While Southern Baptists mourn the loss of three of their missionaries in [December's] terrorist attack in Yemen, a key player in the denomination is denouncing the way the national media covers these stories. CBS Could Show Augusta How To Really Discriminate: Stunningly, there is not a single person in any half-important job in the mainstream media who might have voted for Ronald Reagan. That can't be easy. There aren't that many people in the country who didn't vote for Reagan. In 1984, he won the largest electoral landslide in history. Rush and Roger Take Ridiculous Heat: Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes used to tweak the liberal media together in producing Rush's short-lived but much enjoyed weeknight television program. Now they're together again. They're both in the liberal media cross hairs, both under attack for mild or imaginary offenses. New vast, right-wing media plot: Al Gore says the reason he and his Democratic Party cronies are having a tough time lately is because of a vast, right-wing media conspiracy against them. The press shows its bias. Tom DeLay is in a heap of trouble — or so the media would have you believe. For weeks now, the front pages of the Washington Post and New York Times have hammered away at the House majority leader for a series of supposed transgressions. "Get Tom Delay!" — A New York Times crusade. For the old-fashioned, the definition of a "news story" is a story that is new — hence the name. But the newspeople at the newspapers the Washington Post and the New York Times have an updated definition — anything that hurts Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay on any given day. The New York Times joins the anti-DeLay campaign. This remarkable case of that august newspaper fishing for an op-ed piece makes it appear part of a calculated campaign to bring down the single most powerful Republican in Congress. Tom DeLay vs. media lite. From the vantage point of these [Old Media] news networks, it's unimportant to debate the substance of liberal attacks on DeLay. The charges don't even have to be explained. No, the only thing that's important is to build a vague impression of staggering momentum: DeLay has to go. The Media's Unhappy Texas Vacation: The real reason journalists are bashing Bush's vacation is that they don't want to spend three more Augusts in the sweltering heat of Crawford, Texas, pop. 671, where the food offends their haute cuisine palates and the nightlife is nonexistent. Kyoto = Kick the United States: The anti-Bush brigade in the United States and abroad has coalesced around the Kyoto Protocol, thinking it is a neat hammer with which to hit our President. They are bragging that his strong stand against this fraudulent treaty is the principal factor in his slight drop in the polls, which the media were glad to feature as front-page news. Children, Women, and Wimbledon: The Washington Post is now giving one-sided views to children. Everyday the paper publishes a page called the KidsPost, geared toward middle-school-aged children. It usually contains feature stories on animals, kids in science, and feel-good tidbits. Liberal media is worldwide: President George Bush was treated with official cordiality and unofficial slight by several European leaders. He was also savaged unmercifully by a sensationalist, gossipy European press, which presented the president of the United States as a Texas cowboy with stupid ideas about foreign affairs and global issues. This is to say, Bush was treated much the same way as he is treated by American liberals and the American "mainstream" media. Blame the Bush Girls: The daughters of President Bush drew a media storm for their troubles with the law regarding alcohol. Strange, but the antics of the Clinton-Gore offspring drew barely a murmur from the media. Nevertheless, they should have known better than to embarrass their father. Bozell: MTV at 20: Media Research Center President and CNSNews.com founder L. Brent Bozell III takes a retrospective look at MTV's 20 years of programming and finds that the cable network continues to cross the line of decency despite its young audience. Warning: Post helped kill obstruction probe: FBI agents say DOJ leaked info to paper to 'smear' a whistleblower and blunt criticism. Retired General Hints at Media Bias on Flag Desecration: A former U.S. Army general and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient suggested there's a media bias against efforts to outlaw desecration of the American flag. Propaganda for dollars: When the White House and the TV networks got together to put anti-drug messages in prime-time television, were they breaking the law? Timothy McVeigh and Due Process: It seems that some information providers are in the midst of a 180-degree turn in regard to the issue of the death penalty. Just compare the news coverage of execution-related cases in Texas during the Bush/Gore presidential campaign with the current saga. The media's role in the Cincinnati race riots: Could Cincinnati's race riots been averted? Perhaps — if the media had promptly and properly done their job. Instead of citing 15 police killings of blacks, the media could have emphasized that in 11 of those previous shootings, the police were fully justified; that in two, officers were killed or maimed by the person they shot. In only two were the police apparently mistaken. Coverage of Bush Tax Cut Draws Criticism: The tax cut proposed by President Bush has been receiving questionable news coverage by America's major television networks, and the impact may be reaching beyond claims of liberal media bias, according to a group of conservative analysts and pollsters. "All of the network evening newscasts, where most Americans get their news and information, have repeatedly misinformed and misled the public about Bush's tax cut," said Rich Noyes, director of the Free Market Project. CBS Continues Anti-Bush Bias: A conservative media watchdog group released a report Wednesday [April 11, 2001] detailing how the CBS Evening News "led the charge" against President Bush's tax cut. Fox Feud Brewing Over Tony Snow Column. No sign yet that network brass at CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN are equally concerned with the unmistakable left-wing bias of their own news anchors. News Chiefs Would Hire Clinton. "I'd hire him in a minute," says Fox News boss Roger Ailes. The Clintons and selective media outrage Tax Breaks, the ABA and Media Bias The Jefferson-Hemings Affair: If you thought it happened, think again. "Maybe Thomas Jefferson didn't have a fling with Sally Hemings after all. That's the conclusion of a blue-ribbon panel of professors who released an extensive report [April 12, 2001] on America's most famous case of miscegenation, and their language is actually quite strong: 'Our individual conclusions range from serious skepticism about the charge to a conviction that it is almost certainly false.'" Editor's note: The national news media was all over this story a couple of years ago, when it looked like Jefferson had a long-running tryst with a slave, resulting in illegitimate offspring, but you'll probably never hear about this rebuttal on television. In my opinion, the main reason the Jefferson story originally aired was to draw national attention away from Bill Clinton's impeachment and to make the public think that all past presidents were just like Bill Clinton. Update: New book disputes claim Jefferson fathered children of slave Hemings. In a book due out Thursday [9/1/2011], eminent scholars say it's unlikely that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings' children, disputing a decade's worth of conventional wisdom that the author of the Declaration of Independence sired offspring with one of his slaves. The debate has ensnared historians for years, and many thought the issue was settled when DNA testing in the late 1990s confirmed that a Jefferson male fathered Hemings' youngest son, Eston. But, with one lone dissenter, the panel of 13 scholars doubted the claim and said the evidence points instead to Jefferson's brother Randolph as the father. Historian David Barton Battles Revisionist History and Paints the True Story of Jefferson. Repetition can't turn slander into truth, and old lies remain false. [...] History books routinely teach that Jefferson was an anti-Christian secularist, rewriting the Bible to his liking, fathering a child with one of his slaves, and little more than another racist, bigoted colonist — but none of those claims are actually true. MTV's Lopsided Look at Hate Recently MTV aired "Anatomy of a Hate Crime," in partnership with the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network. Foul Play: Bill Clinton, the most corrupt President in American history, left a number of poison pills for the Bush Administration. Aided by a leftist media, Clinton's last minute orders are making it tough on Bush. If Clinton knew arsenic in our drinking water was harmful, he should have eliminated it. New Book says the TV Networks Cost Bush 10,000 Votes in Florida Election: In the first of a three-part series in the Times, Bill Sammon zeroed in on the networks' call on election night that erroneously gave the state to Gore -- even though the polls were still open and the votes uncounted in 10 of Florida's heavily pro-Bush counties in the state's Panhandle. |
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