MSNBC's Brewer Marks Good Friday by Highlighting Pastor Who Won't Sign

April 22nd, 2011 3:06 PM
Towards the Good Friday edition of the 12 p.m. hour of programming she anchors, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer highlighted a Louisville Disciples of Christ minister who refuses to sign off on marriage licenses until same-sex marriage is legal in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Brewer, the daughter of a Baptist minister, is an advocate for same-sex marriage. As you can see from the video embedded…

NY Times: Republican Budget Cuts Threaten 'Life-Affirming' Public Radi

April 12th, 2011 4:36 PM
New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye is the latest Times reporter to defend government spending, this time on a tiny but "life-affirming" radio station threatened by the Republican budget ax - public radio station WMMT in Whitesburg, Kentucky: “A Regional Radio Voice Threatened From Afar.” The story was accompanied by a cutesy sidebar, “88.7 on Appalachia’s Dial,” describing such original…

Rachel Maddow Smears Jim Bunning With 'Mental Fitness' Question, Ignor

March 4th, 2010 6:14 PM
Could Sen. Jim Bunning's desire to pay for extended unemployment benefits with stimulus funds be the result of a serious mental disorder? So suggested Rachel Maddow during her show last night. Maddow based her report on unfouded allegations from a liberal newspaper, and neglected to mention the numerous unstable congressional Democrats that have come unhinged from time to time.Maddow noted that "…

GM Indefinitely Lays Off More Workers Barely a Week After It Said It W

December 23rd, 2009 3:32 PM
On December 8, Susan Gustafson at MLive.com proclaimed that "GM's announcement of no more layoffs is good news after years of hemorrhaging jobs": General Motors' announcement this morning that it plans no further layoffs in the immediate future is huge news for both the automaker and Michigan as a whole after years of steady erosion in the ranks of hourly and salaried workers..... the company…

NY Times Says GOP Senator Bunning 'Bit of a Screwball,' May Be Mentall

March 6th, 2009 6:00 PM
New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich specializes in spunky profiles of politicians -- hostile profiles of conservatives, flattering ones of liberals. His latest, on controversial Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, "Republicans Looking for a Reliever in Kentucky," fell safely into the former category, crammed with personal attacks ("questions about his mental fitness") and colorful insults (Bunning's…

Paper: I Know, Let's Compromise Our Rights Away

May 28th, 2008 9:44 PM
Columnist Tom Eblen of the Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader has proven to the world that he doesn't know what a "right" is. He thinks it is something that you can "compromise" over. He thinks it is something that can be endlessly tinkered with. He seems not to realize that a "right" is something that is supposed to be insoluble, unchangeable, permanent. Worse, he has equated an American right to the…

NY Times: Drop Out Hillary, You're Winning Too Many Votes

May 21st, 2008 4:25 PM
Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama by a 2-1 margin in Kentucky's primary on Tuesday (Obama won easily in Oregon), but the paper's lead headline didn't even reference it. While an article inside the paper did state Hillary's case for staying in despite trailing in delegates late in the game, it also forwarded bizarre suggestions that she should quit because she is...getting too many votes from…

Media Snoozes While Obama's 'Altered States' Gaffes Continue

May 19th, 2008 1:50 PM
Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters posted Saturday on Barack Obama's tirade against Fox News. The underlying report by Ryan Alessi of McClatchy's Lexington Herald-Leader also contained this nugget (HT National Review' Online's Media Blog), showing that the candidate's basic geography challenges continue: Obama conceded that he has a steep challenge to get his message and background to voters in…

CBS Blames Gas Prices for Swimming Pool Crisis in Louisville

May 16th, 2008 4:24 PM
Just when you thought every possible gas price angle had been explored by the media, they found another fresh angle - gas prices are forcing cutbacks within the Louisville, Ky. municipal government, including swimming pools that little girls will be deprived of. "When we arrived in Louisville [Ky.], we headed straight for the Breslin Park pool," CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes said on the May…

HuffPo Slams NBC for Not Sensationalizing Eight Belles' Derby Death

May 5th, 2008 3:18 PM
On the heels of accusations that the media exploited the death of 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, now there are cries that NBC didn't spend enough time on Eight Belles' death. After her second-place finish in Saturday's Derby, the three-year-old filly snapped both ankles and was euthanized by a vet on the track. Ruth Hochberger is one of the voices criticizing NBC for their “abysmal” coverage…

NYT Invites John 'Two Americas' Edwards to Take a Bow in Life Expectan

April 28th, 2008 1:23 PM

S-CHIP: Dems, Media Mount Another 'Smear' Campaign

October 19th, 2007 11:19 AM
Despite, or perhaps because of the S-CHIP stalemate in Washington, liberal media outlets including the New York Times, Think Progress and now the Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky continue to somewhat sinisterly flame one aspect of the S-CHIP story at the urging of Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) staffer Matt Miller, even though the narrative they've woven isn't at all…

Charlie Gibson Recycles Joke About Amateurish Bloggers As 'Citizen Sur

July 13th, 2007 8:48 AM

Parallels Between Nazis Party and Ba'ath Party

December 23rd, 2005 8:26 PM