WashPost Front-Pages Mugabe Violence Yet Doesn't Call Him a Dictator
On the one hand, I have to give the Washington Post credit for frontpaging today's story on longtime Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe's campaign of police thuggery against opposition leaders.Yet when...
View ArticleSky-High Gas Prices? Try 3,700 Percent Inflation
As gas prices are on a springtime upswing and the summer driving season is upon us, NewsBusters and the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute have documented the media's persistent...
View ArticleLiveBlog: Bush Press Conference on the Economy
President Bush is holding a press conference on the U.S. economy. I'll be blogging the questions to the president below. Video of Bush/Raddatz clash here (audio available here).Video of Stolberg and...
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CBS’s Couric: Zimbabwe Dictator Departed From Marxist ‘Hope and Promise’
On Tuesday’s CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric reported on Zimbabwe’s opposition leader dropping out of an election against the nation’s socialist dictator, Robert Mugabe, and lamented how: "The...
View ArticleNYT Recites Litany of Excuses in Report on Mbeki and Mugabe
Robert Mugabe continues to take Zimbabwe into utter ruin. A former breadbasket when it was colonial Rhodesia, it is now a starving, rotting basket case.The latest development in the ongoing nightmare:...
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Nick Kristof: Chop Off Body Parts = 'Torment'; Interrogation = 'Torture'
You would be hard-pressed to find a "better" example of a walking, talking, typing Old Media double standard-bearer than New York Times columnist and International Herald Tribune (IHT) contributor...
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For Zimbabweans, A Cow Dung Christmas; AP Still Partially Deflects Blame from...
I held this item for a couple of days after I found it because I didn't want to spoil Christmas. Readers can fairly criticize me for waiting.It is truly astonishing how little attention this two...
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WaPo Blog Compares Black Conservatives to Genocidal Dictators
It's hardly news that black conservatives are reviled among much of the left. There seems to be a sense among much of the liberal media that they have betrayed their own interests through their...
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Pentagon Rescinds Franklin Graham’s Invitation, Al Sharpton is Welcome at...
The Pentagon rescinded the invitation of evangelist Franklin Graham to speak at its May 6 National Day of Prayer event because of complaints about his previous comments about Islam. The Military...
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Treating Dictator with Kid Gloves, AP Downplays Hugo Chavez's Latest Land Grab
In an unbylined item Sunday evening, the Associated Press informed readers that Venezuelan ruler Hugo Chavez, continuing a six-year campaign of agricultural land seizures, has ordered the...
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CNN's Amanpour Tweets Birthday Wish to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe; Compares...
Update (15:50 EST, Feb. 22): Twitchy reports Amanpour deleted the tweet and subsequently insisted her birthday wish was ironic. "[W]hat do you get for the serial human rights abuser who has...
View ArticleAP Reporter: It's 'Media's Job' to Act As CNBC Panel Did in GOP Debate
Wednesday night, an Associated Press reporter told us that it's the press's job to ask "tough, impertinent" questions like the ones moderators at Wednesday night's CNBC-hosted Republican debate were...
View ArticleNot News: Obama-Clinton Emails Render His Related Kroft Interview Statements...
A Friday evening story at the New York Times covered the Obama administration's decision to "try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State...
View ArticleAP Tweet: Appeals Court Invalidates Obama Move to 'Protect' Millions from...
Earlier this evening, a federal appeals court affirmed a district judge's prerogative to block President Obama's executive order deferring action on the deportation of some illegal immigrants. When...
View ArticleChad Henderson Walls Off Twitter Account After NewsBusters Criticizes His...
We'll have to live without Chad Henderson's tweets for the time being. Once again, Henderson, as he did in 2013, has taken his Twitter account private, limiting it to "confirmed followers." This time...
View ArticleTwo Paris Terrorists Lived in Supposedly Mythical 'No-Go Zone' Neighborhood...
Shortly after the Charlie Hebdo Islamic terrorist murders in Paris in January, the establishment press attacked those who dared to state something quite obvious about "no-go zones" in parts of Europe,...
View ArticleCruz Pushes Back Against Politifact 'Fact-Checker'; Democratic Party IS...
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz pushed back against a "ridiculous" Politifact post which labeled his true claim that the Democratic Party is shrinking as...
View ArticleMark Ruffalo Tweets Out The Nation: 2nd Amendment's Not for Individuals
In response to the San Bernardino shootings on Friday, leftist actor Mark Ruffalo, best known for playing the Hulk in The Avengers movies, tweeted “Begin again…The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter Co-Founder and BLM Movement Hearts Venezuela's Maduro
For those who still believe that Black Lives Matter is legitimate grass-roots movement which came out of nowhere in response to events in Ferguson, Missouri over a year ago, consider BLM co-founder...
View Article'Objective' Reporters Wildly Cheer As 'Climate Change' Agreement Announced
Apparently a generation of "journalists" has been raised to believe that the matter of human-caused global warming is "settled science," and that anyone who doubts the agenda-driven, redistributionist...
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