Boston-area cable TV channel CN8 has an anchor named Barry Nolan. Nolan doesn't much like Fox News talker Bill O'Reilly. CN8’s Barry Nolan says Fox News bigfoot Bill O’Reilly is “a mental case,” and Nolan’s crazy mad that the local Emmy Awards will honor Mr. No Spin Zone at their 31st annual back-slapfest next month. […]
Dan Rather suffered a setback today when a judge threw out most of his lawsuit against CBS after his firing in the wake of the fraudulent documents used as the basis for a hit piece on President George W. Bush. Unfortunately, too much of the media either (wrongly) assumes that everyone remembers what all the […]
While going through all of the New York Times coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, I came across this column by Nicholas Kristof. I encourage you to compare and contrast that column that attempts to put the most benign color (excuse the pun) on Wright's Black Liberation "Theology" to this column that painted evangelicals […]
I'm working my way, rather quickly, through Bernard Goldberg's "Crazies to the left of me, Wimps to the righ," and came across a section on the New York Times and its refusal to print the infamous Muhammed cartoons. Goldberg describes an editorial that ran in the Times explaining how they chose not to print the […]
GQ of all places has an excellent interview with Bush confidante and adviser Karl Rove. I want to highlight two sections. First there's this on Rove's meeting with Barack Obama. Have you gotten to know Hillary or Barack to any degree? Yes, I have. What have been your dealings with them? Well, you know, I […]
Media mogul and nutjob Ted Turner has a ranch on which he raises animals which emit a lot of greenhouse gases. However, he does not propose to do away with his herds to save the planet. No, he predicts doom and gloom and humans resorting to cannibalism to survive once the Earth warms. Channeling my […]
Just for the record, this morning's political roundtable on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopolus" consisted of: George Stephanopolus -- Former Clinton adviser Donna Brazile -- Democratic strategist Robert Reich -- Former Clinton Labor Secretary Paul Krugman -- NYT columnist and left-wing economist George Will -- conservative Washington Post columnist Four against one. One wonders […]
Taos Turner over at The Argentine Post.com has made an excellent case that New York Times editor Denny Lee is a serial plagiarist. In all, Byrnes referred to or quoted 12 expats for his Newsweek story. Lee quoted or referred to not one or two of these sources, but to eight of them. These include […]