Moderate Sen. Lugar's Struggles With Tea Party Mark 'Identity Crisis

May 16th, 2011 3:23 PM
The New York Times’s biased Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike profiled Indiana’s veteran moderate Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, one of the Times’s favorite Republicans, on Sunday’s front page: "Running on Moderation in Immoderate Times." With Sen. John McCain making conservative noises on illegal immigration, Lugar may be the best bet for the Times to foster its dream of a moderate (i.e.…

MSNBC: Indiana Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding = 'Politics' Interfe

May 3rd, 2011 4:41 PM
During the 11AM ET hour on MSNBC on Tuesday, anchor Thomas Roberts decried Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels voicing support for legislation to de-fund the state chapter of Planned Parenthood as "a move that has many questioning if politics is playing too much of a role in women's health." Turning to Planned Parenthood of Indiana President Betty Cockrum, Roberts declared: "...here's the…

Activist 'Who Lighted the Fuse on the Health Care Debate' Still Gettin

March 12th, 2010 2:53 PM
Three years ago, Steve Skvara won the admiration of many in the mainstream media by basically calling for taxpayers to foot his wife’s health insurance. Now he's ba-a-ack!  No longer hailed by Chris Matthews or People's Weekly World, he still manages favorable, unquestioning coverage.  Today's nwi.com Web site, which bills itself as "the largest and most trusted media company in northern Indiana…

Bad Headline: 'Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage

November 20th, 2009 9:40 PM
Cam Edwards giggled as he shared his "Headline of the Week" with his audience Friday night at NRANews.com. It comes from Indianapolis: "Homeowner Holds Burglar Hostage."Understandably, while that headline remains on Google, WXIN (Fox 59) has changed the headline now to the more appropriate "Homeowner holds burglar until police arrive." The lesson is a gun owner beats a burglar with a screwdriver…

NY Times Sneers Some 'Angry' Pro-Life Obama Opponents 'Not Even Cathol

May 18th, 2009 1:07 PM
President Obama delivered the commencement address at Notre Dame on Sunday, amid protests that the nation's preeminent Catholic college shouldn't be honoring a pro-choice president who even supports the gruesome procedure of partial-birth abortion.Monday's front-page New York Times story, "At Notre Dame, Obama Calls for Civil Tone in Abortion Debate," by Peter Baker and Susan Saulny, began by…

Indy Star: Community Organizers Suddenly 'Cool' Because of Obama

May 1st, 2009 6:07 AM
In keeping with the Old Media's penchant to lionize The One, the Indianapolis Star is pouring on the saccharine to celebrate the Obammessiah once again in a piece that praises the fact the Obama has made community organizers "cool" at long last. But, a closer reading shows that this new craze for community organizing isn't all the IndyStar tries to make it out to be. The Star starts out with the…

False 'Moderation' from NY Times Legal Reporter Neil Lewis

March 17th, 2009 3:16 PM
Liberally slanted legal reporter Neil Lewis has a scoop-let on President Obama's anticipated first court appointment, the "moderate" Judge David Hamilton, to the federal appeals court in Chicago ("Moderate Is Said to Be Pick for Court"). Lewis saw this upcoming move as a "signal" Obama's future appointees would be "moderate" as well. But how truly moderate is David Hamilton, federal trial court…

Indiana Profs Oddly Claim ABC, CBS, and NBC Slanted Toward GOP in Pres

February 24th, 2009 12:44 PM

Time's Scherer Brings Back Inaccurate 'Disenfranchised' Nun Story

October 27th, 2008 12:19 PM
Update at bottom of post.In a story on "Potential Problems at the Polls," Time's Michael Scherer passed along to readers a misleading anecdote about some nuns from South Bend who were "turned away" from the polls in Indiana's May presidential primary. The scary tale of sweet elderly nuns being robbed of their right to vote was how he introduced Time readers to potential problem #6, "New…

MSNBC's 'Rachel Maddow Show' Can't Find Indiana on the Map

October 14th, 2008 10:30 AM
If you're going base an entire TV show on taking potshots at conservatives and Republicans for anything and everything, you might try to get at least the simple things right - things like grade-school U.S. geography. MSNBC's Oct. 13 "Rachel Maddow Show" must not have read that memo. After launching into a Keith Olbermann-esque tirade criticizing Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain's…

Indiana: More Registered to Vote Than Eligible, Media Misses Story

October 9th, 2008 6:24 AM
If Barack Obama wins this election, there will be absolutely no doubt whatsoever that one of the things that will help push him over the top is massive Democrat vote fraud. It'll make the Democrats that stole the 1960 JFK/Nixon election for Kennedy look like pikers. One example of this massive vote fraud is in the amazing fact that there are now more registered voters in Indianapolis than are…

'Dateline NBC' Alumna Jane Pauley Again Stumps for Obama: 40 People Sh

October 5th, 2008 6:54 PM

'Dateline NBC' Alumna Jane Pauley Stumps for Obama: 8 People Show Up

September 23rd, 2008 4:55 PM
There's a heartwarming story in today's Times of Northwest Indiana. Jane Pauley, one-time co-host of NBC's Today and Dateline NBC programs, made an appearance yesterday for Barack Obama. Joining her was Steve Skvara, the retired steelworker who in August of last year tearfully asked Democratic presidential candidates at a debate, "What's wrong with America? And what will you do to change it?"…

Media Misreport Nun Voter ID Story

May 6th, 2008 10:16 PM
If you have been watching the primary election coverage tonight you've probably seen at least one story about elderly nuns from South Bend, Indiana, who were "denied the right to vote" for lack of a photo ID.It's a shame when the mainstream media, bear false witness. Even more so when they exploit the nun angle to carry water for left-wing groups that opposed the law all the way up to the U.S.…