US President George W. Bush stated in a speech today that appeasement of Iran should be discouraged. Below is a comparison of the headline and lede sentence from some major US media outlets:
• Fox News: White House Denies Bush Targeted Obama in Speech to Israeli Knesset - “The White House denied Thursday that President Bush was focusing on Barack Obama when — during a speech to the Israeli parliament — he criticized politicians who would speak to terrorists and their backers.”
• CNN: Dems fire back at Bush on ‘appeasement’ - “Democrats on Thursday condemned President Bush’s insinuation that they would be appeasing terrorist states by holding talks, with one going so far as to call his remarks “bulls**t.”"
• USA Today: Obama: President Bush used ‘false political attack’ - “Barack Obama’s presidential campaign Thursday accused President Bush of using a speech in Israel to launch a “false political attack” involving the appeasement of terror threats — a claim the White House said was not true.”
• ABC News: Obama Takes Issue With Bush Foreign Policy Speech - “The Obama campaign is taking issue with a comment President Bush made while speaking to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel’s statehood.”
• CBS News: Bush Sparks Campaign Stir From Israel - “Barack Obama accused President Bush of “a false political attack” Thursday after Mr. Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists - early salvos in a general election campaign that’s already blazing even as the Democratic front-runner tries to sew up his party’s nomination. ”
• MSNBC: Obama blasts Bush over ‘Nazi’ comments - “Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a “false political attack” with a comment about appeasing terrorists and radicals.”
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The US House of Representatives voted down a bill to spend $163 billion on the Iraq and Afghanistan battles. Below is a comparison of the headline and lede sentence from some major US media outlets:
• Fox News: House Rejects $163B to Fund Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan - “The Democratic-led House on Thursday rejected more funds to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as many Republicans angry over the majority party’s tactics sat out the vote.”
• CNN: Republicans block Democrats’ war funding bill - “Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked a $163 billion war funding bill Thursday, dealing a surprising defeat to Democrats who had expected to pass the measure.”
• USA Today: House rejects $163 billion in troop funding - “The House has rejected a $163 billion bill to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next year.”
• ABC News: House Blocks Iraq War Money and Sets Pullout Plan - “The House of Representatives, in a surprise and largely symbolic move, defeated legislation on Thursday to fund the war in Iraq for another year.”
• CBS News - Nothing as of late afternoon Thursday 05/15/08.
• MSNBC: House rejects Iraq war funding bill - “The House on Thursday passed a Democratic plan sharply boosting education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans and awarding people whose unemployment benefits have expired with a 13-week extension.”
The state of California’s Supreme Court lifted the prohibition on same-sex marriages in that state. Below is a comparison of the headline and lede sentence from some major US media outlets:
• Fox News: California’s Top Court Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban - “The California Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage Thursday, calling such a prohibition unconstitutional and paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.”
• CNN: California ban on same-sex marriage struck down - “In a much-anticipated ruling issued Thursday, the California Supreme Court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.”
• USA Today: Court overturns Calif. gay marriage ban - “In a resounding victory for gay men and lesbians, the California Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a state ban on same-sex marriage.”
• ABC News: California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban - “The California Supreme Court has overturned a gay marriage ban in a ruling that would make the nation’s largest state the second one to allow gay and lesbian weddings.”
• CBS News: California Overturns Gay Marriage Ban - “The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. ”
• MSNBC: Calif. Supreme Court rejects gay marriage ban - “In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation’s biggest state to tie the knot.”
We all remember the uproar that the Mike Huckabee Christmas commercial made back in December within the liberal blog-o-sphere. In it Huckabee, is sitting in front of bookshelves that forms a white cross within it (because that is the way most bookshelves are built). While it was simply bookshelves, the left-wing radical bloggers over at DailyKos had more sinister thoughts in mind and screamed that the ad was “Overtly Religious” and called Huckabee out on it. I personally wouldn’t care if it had been an overtly religious ad, but watch it again and you can decide:
That’s not overt — it’s bookshelves! And I repeat, I would have no problem if it was overtly religious, but it simply is not overtly religious.
Well the latest flyer that the Obama campaign has released in Kentucky is certainly “overtly religious.” CBN has excellent coverage of it here. Personally, I don’t have a problem with the flyer. I’m fine with Obama discussing his personal relationship with Christ and how he came to his Savior. But my question now is, how will the left-wing bloggers over at DailyKos and The Huffington Post respond. If they remain silent they only amplify their hypocrisy.
Once again, please judge for yourself the content of Obama’s flyer and compare it to Huckabee’s ad above.
Now, I’d say that is overtly religious. Wouldn’t you? What do you think the DailyKos and Huffington Post will say about that friends?
Democrat AG of Ohio Marc Dann was forced to resigned once his sex scandal was made public. Below is a comparison of how some major network sites covered the resignation.
*Fox News - “Ohio’s attorney general has resigned amid the scandal of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair.” Democrat party affiliation mentioned in the third sentence.
*AP (used by both USA Today & ABC News) - “Ohio’s attorney general resigned Wednesday under threat of impeachment because of a sexual harassment investigation in his office and his extramarital affair.” Democrat party affiliation mentioned in the second sentence.
*MSNBC - No coverage of resignation announcement, last 2 stories were 4 days ago, but at least they have been covering the story.
*CBS News & CNN - searches returned no coverage whatsoever as of late Wednesday night (05/14/08).
I was scanning my radio on the way home last night and stumbled across an interview with Bill Moyers on the “progressive” radio show, Democracy Now!, hosted by Amy Goodman.
Bill Moyers is the poster boy for the type of liberal activist “journalist” that your hard earned tax money has been squandered on by Public Broadcasting. Appearing on the independent news program Democracy Now!, Bill Moyers had the following to say about Jeremiah Wright Moyers whom he interviewed before Wright forced Obama to denounce him with more inflammatory rhetoric before the NAACP and the National Press Club:
And it was a reasonable, interesting, revealing conversation. I’m not a very adversarial fellow. I’m not a gotcha kind of journalist. Mike Wallace can do that much better than I can. And it was a very reasonable interview. But I think that the pent-up frustration of how he was being treated in the mainstream media and the fact that he was being taken out of context—the remark about chickens come home to roost, he wasn’t saying that 9/11 was done because—as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson said, because God wanted it to happen, but that there are consequences to actions.
The remark about HIV, I didn’t get to ask him that on the show. We ran out of time. But, you know, in the black community, where I’ve reported, done documentaries on black churches, black community organizers, in the black community, they’re still haunted by the fact, what is a historical fact, that the United States government used black men at Tuskegee Institute who think they were being treated for syphilis, when they were being allowed to die for a scientific test. That anger has been building up. I understand that. It’s unfortunate it gets in the mainstream media and Obama has to do what he did.
Surprisingly and to Amy Goodman’s credit she pressed Moyers on criticism that he didn’t actually ask any tough questions or show any journalistic integrity by actually pressing Wright on the opinions that he was presenting on PBS:
AMY GOODMAN: On the interview, the PBS ombudsman commented about it. He wrote a column critical of your questioning. Michael Getler wrote, “There were not enough questions asked and some that were asked came across as too reserved and too soft, considering the volatility of the charges. […] Statements that Moyers himself laid out at the top of the program went largely unchallenged and those that did come up didn’t really get addressed until well into the hour-long program.” Your response to that?
To which Mr. Moyers just punted. He was just going to rely on others to actually practice journalism:
BILL MOYERS: Well, that’s true. I didn’t get to ask all the questions I wanted to ask. It was a forty-minute interview. And I was much more interested—I knew what was going to happen when he went to the National Press Club on Monday morning. I knew that they were going to be asking all of these questions. I leave that to those people whose job it is for the commercial media.
[Update #1: 5/8/2008]
I’m listening to Mark Levin’s show from yesterday online and he has great coverage of this. You can download the program from here.
I just learned that Chris “Obama gives me a thrill up my leg” Matthews has been chosen to deliver the commencement address at my alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis. Just think of the shame for those young graduates to know that Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton thinks so highly of their 4 years of hard work (, their parent’s money, and student debt) to reward them with hearing from this partisan hack.
At least, the student paper has been critical of the decision.
Side note, when I graduated in 1994, ex-Senator Bill Bradley gave the commencement address and he was actually quite good. It did amuse me to hear from my sister that Bill Bradley delivered the exact same speech a year or two later at her alma mater Rice University in Houston.
To add insult to injury, the Telegraph just named Matthews the second most influential political pundit in America.
Sadly, he is also receiving an honorary degree. Washington University is a great university that draws the brightest students from across the country, but regretfully it suffers from a liberal bias common in higher eduction that would make this selection acceptable.
